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: 9781921394935
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
During the time Gregory the Great served as Pope of the Catholic Church, from 590-604 AD, he sent more than 850 letters to contacts throughout the known world – often using travellers as letter-bearers. However it was a time... .... 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: 9780199674091
Published by : Oxford University Press
Central medieval England saw a dramatic rise in the numbers and social influence of hermits and anchorites, those who ostensibly placed themselves outside of society for a life of prayer in the service of God. Tom Licence explores the factors b... .... 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