Language & Literature
-
Arabische Handschriften: Reihe B. Teil 10. Arabische Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek zu Muenchen. Band 3. Cod. arab. 2300-2552 [Hardback]
Kathrin Muller (Editor)
$135.00ISBN: 9783515097758
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 17B10
English summary: This catalog contains descriptions of 310 Arabic manuscripts with a total of 559 works. They were bought from Beirut by the Bavarian State Library in Munich in the 1970s. About one-sixth of the manuscripts are written in Ma... .... Learn More -
Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose [Hardback]
Sylvia Huot (Author)
$75.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781906540807
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 31
The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words. An examination of the intertextual density of the Rose , with its citations and adaptations ... .... Learn More -
Birmanische Handschriften: Teil 7: Die Katalognummern 1201-1375 [Hardback]
Anne Peters (Editor)
$114.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515097734
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 23.7
English summary: This seventh part of the series continues with the description of manuscripts in Burmese script from the archives of the Berlin State Library (SBB - Prussian Cultural Heritage). The 175 palm leaf manuscripts mainly contain ... .... Learn More -
Light to the Isles: Mission and Theology in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain [Paperback]
Douglas Dales (Author)
$41.50ISBN: 9780227173411
Published by : James Clarke & Co
In AD 597, St Augustine arrived at Canterbury to preach the gospel to the heathen English, and in 1997 the fourteen hundredth anniversary of his coming was celebrated by millions of English-speaking Christians around the world. The history of the ... .... Learn More -
Heilige - Liturgie - Raum [Paperback]
Dieter R Bauer (Editor); Klaus Herbers (Editor); Hedwig Rockelein (Editor); Felicitas Schmieder (Editor)
$64.00ISBN: 9783515096041
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Hagiographie
Volume: 8
English summary: Religion is essentially determined by Holiness. It manifests itself in the sacred space that is demarcated from the outer world, but occurs also at certain times in specific acts and in the most excellent human appearance. ... .... Learn More -
Mythes à la cour, mythes pour la cour: Actes du XIIe Congrès de la Société internationale de littérature courtoise [Paperback]
Alain Corbellari (Editor); Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (Editor); Jean-Claude Muehlethaler (Editor); Jean-Yves Tilliette (Editor)
$69.00ISBN: 9782600013925
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: PUBLICATIONS ROMANES ET FRANçAISES
Volume: 248
The twelfth congress of the International Courtly Literature Society offered an interdisciplinary and cross-national view of four principal themes concerning myths in medieval courtly literature: courtly mythology, depictions of power, exemplar... .... Learn More -
Indische Handschriften: Teil 17: Die Sarada-Handschriften der Sammlung Janert der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Hardback]
Gerhard Ehlers (Editor)
$97.00ISBN: 9783515097185
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 2.17
English summary: VOHD 2, 17, which follows VOHD 2, 16, encompasses the second part of the 1900 Kashmiri manuscripts from the estate of Klaus Ludwig Janert. The content of this publication is also thematically linked to the previous volume i... .... Learn More -
Gruendungsmythen fränkischer Klöster im Frueh- und Hochmittelalter [Paperback]
Christofer Zwanzig (Author)
$112.00ISBN: 9783515097314
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Hagiographie
Volume: 9
English summary: Foundational documents could provide monastic communities with answers to the question Who are we? even long after their founding. They are therefore to be understood as a historical reference source on two levels. On the o... .... Learn More -
I Signori dell'Appennino: Amori e battaglie nella Toscana del Duecento [Paperback]
Riccardo Bellandi (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9788856401011
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Biblioteca di Letteratura
Volume: 16
English summary: The adventures of the young Tano Ubaldino range from chivalric ideals, tormented love, ferocious battles and political intrigue. This accurate portrait of twelfth-century Tuscan society also shows how character of great hum... .... Learn More -
Der Königsegger Codex: Die Fechthandschrift des Hauses Königsegg [Hardback]
S.E. Johannes (Editor); Andre Schulze (Author); zu KonigseggAulendorf (Editor); Schulze (Editor)
$75.00ISBN: 9783805337533
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
In this lavishly illustrated manuscript, the famous Medieval Fencing Master, Hans Talhoffer, tells the story of one of his students, Squire Luthold of Königsegg. Talhoffer describes Luthold's fencing training which culminates in Luthold having ... .... Learn More

