Language Arts
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Lexical Collocations in Bilingual Dictionaries [Paperback]
Barbara Berti(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9788869770531
Published by : Mimesis International
Elusive yet intuitive at the same time, the concept of collocation has attracted the attention of different branches of linguistics for many a year, owing to the proven pervasiveness of such combinations in languages. Although a universally accept... .... Learn More -
Listen with the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory [Hardback]
Maria S. Guarino(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781580469104
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
Volume: 7
Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in religious life. Benedictine monks gather for communal prayer upwards of five timesper day, every da... .... Learn More -
Romania during World War I: Observations of an American Journalist [Hardback]
John Reed(Author); Dr. A.K. Brackob(Editor); Louise Bryant(Afterword)
$39.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781592110063
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Romania during World War I faced a unique situation. Although ruled by a German king, it had strong cultural and historical ties to France and the West. The young nation also had territorial ambitions that it hoped to satisfy. As a result, the cou... .... Learn More -
Romania during World War I: Observations of an American Journalist [Paperback]
John Reed(Author); Dr. A.K. Brackob(Editor); Louise Bryant(Afterword)
$19.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781592110025
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Romania during World War I faced a unique situation. Although ruled by a German king, it had strong cultural and historical ties to France and the West. The young nation also had territorial ambitions that it hoped to satisfy. As a result, the cou... .... Learn More -
Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France [Hardback]
Leah Tether(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843844266
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Studies
Volume: 85
The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a fascination for this enigmatic object, as well as the various adventures and characters associated... .... Learn More -
The Dawn of Music Semiology: Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez [Hardback]
Jonathan Dunsby(Editor); Jonathan Goldman(Editor); Arnold Whittall(Contributor); Irène Deliège(Contributor); Jean Molino(Contributor)
$125.00ISBN: 9781580465625
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 137
The Dawn of Music Semiology showcases the work of nine leading musicologists, inspired by the work of Jean-Jacques Nattiez, the founding father of music semiology. Now entering its fifth decade as Nattiez enters his eighth,music semiology, ... .... Learn More -
Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England [Hardback]
Elizabeth Dearnley(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843844426
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
Volume: 4
The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels "wide yond thas leode" (far and wide across the land) to gather the French, Latin and English books he used as source material. The first Middle Englishwriter ... .... Learn More -
Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk [Hardback]
Leonard Neidorf(Editor); Rafael J. Pascual(Editor); Tom Shippey(Editor); Aaron Ecay(Contributor); Anatoly Liberman(Contributor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843844389
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 31
Robert D. Fulk is arguably the greatest Old English philologist to emerge during the twentieth century; his corpus of scholarship has fundamentally shaped contemporary understanding of many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary historyand English histor... .... Learn More -
Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems [Hardback]
Elise Louviot(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843844341
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 30
Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of defiance, etc. Yet Direct Speech, as a stylistic device, has remained la... .... Learn More -
The Vikings in Islay: The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History [Paperback]
Alan Macniven(Author)
$31.00ISBN: 9781906566623
Published by : John Donald
The Hebridean island of Islay is well-known for its whisky, its wildlife and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the hands of marauding Northmen during the Viking Age.... .... Learn More
