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A Carnival of Lies
The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, "We do not give reasons." This fictional autobiography of an undercover agent in …
Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by …
The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic
In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that …
Roman military community and personal identity: an ambivalent intention?
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, The University of Liverpool, course: Research Skills - Identity, language: English, abstract: …
The Medieval Python
(e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique …
Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and …
Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. While philosophical psychology is the main area in which perception is dealt with in contemporary philosophy, itis …
Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs
Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways …
Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period
Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "e;never from the begin- ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and …
The Many Roots of Medieval Logic
Medieval logic is usually divided into the branches that derived from Aristotle's organon - the 'logica vetus' and 'logica nova', and those invented in the Middle Ages, the 'logica …
The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great
Alfred is the only English King honoured with this name and is credited with various successes (the foundation of a navy, English education system and religious revival). The …
Medieval Women
Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book about women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she …