Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta John E. Keller
yhteensä 12 hakutulosta
The Cross Goes North
37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process. In Europe, the cross went north and east as the …
Aesop's Fables
In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the …
Nature, Truth, and Value
In Nature, Truth, and Value nineteen scholars writing from across the humanities and sciences challenge the reigning theoretical and philosophical enterprises of deconstruction and …
The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio
Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means …
Amadis of Gaul, Books I and II
In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is …
Pious Brief Narrative in Medieval Castilian and Galician Verse
"Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. They began with writings in Latin …
Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature
The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations …
Sacrality and Materiality
Christian theology traditionally regards the sacramental as the polar opposite of the profane. The polarity is a memorial of contemporary desacralisation, profanisation, and …
The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio
Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means …
The Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain
The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of …
Presentism
There is no time like the present. Is it also true that there is no time but the present? According to presentism, the present time is special in the most fundamental sense because …
Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252--84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century …