Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781905981328
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Portugal is England’s oldest ally (by the Treaty of Windsor, 1386) but only three Portuguese authors are widely known in the English-speaking world: Luís de Camões, Eça de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa. Or... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781891271205
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieva... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781901992922
Published by : Museum of London Archaeology
Religious belief was central to the lives - and deaths - of all medieval Londoners. Religion was fully integrated into the social and political order, providing the population with an understanding of their place in the world and inspiring arti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975905
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 2
Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald’s major texts, from ‘After Nature’ to ‘Austerlitz’, Helen ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975363
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
French philosophical and scientific writers of the early modern period made various use of forms of narrative — language that aims to tell a story — in their texts. Equally, authors of fiction often sought to appropria... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975714
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 37
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact ext... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780879072469
Published by : Cistercian Publications
The conversi, or lay brothers formed a distinctive part of the Cistercian order, taking vows as monks, but working as agricultural labourers on the order's estates. This comprehensive study of the lay brothers explores the origins... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848689435
Published by : Amberley Publishing
Oxbow says: Since its original publication in 1981, this has been one of the best introductions to church archaeology available. Now completely revised, restructured and rewritten, taking into account recent research and discoveries, as well as... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781872501307
Published by : Brepols
Series: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France
Volume: 4
This publication is the second volume in a multi-part reference work which will survey, catalogue and illustrate French manuscript illumination from the 7th to the 16th century. The first volume, Romanesque Manuscripts: the Twelfth Century , by W... .... Learn More