Author: Maguy Ly Publisher: ISBN: 9781741968200 Category : Amusements Languages : en Pages : 183
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For the fans of 'Enigma' and 'Enigma 2', here are over a hundred enigmas to solve, as well as logical puzzles, magic squares, brain teasers, riddles and more to wake up, perk up and bend your grey matter. Enigmas: Medieval Like a valiant knight in King Arthur's court, will you, cunning reader, be capable of foiling the traps of these tricky games and enigmas? There's no mount or sword to help you, rather an alert mind, a little reflection and a lot of cunning will be needed to conquer dragons and vials of poison.
Author: Richard Kay Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040233562 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 376
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Dante's Comedy is a puzzling poem because the author wanted to lead his readers to understanding by engaging their curiosity. While many obscure matters are clarified in the course of the poem itself, others have remained enigmas that have fascinated Dantists for centuries. Over the last thirty-five years, Richard Kay has proposed original solutions to many of these puzzles; these are collected in the present volume. Historical context frames Kay's readings, which relate the poem to such standard sources as the Bible, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Latin classics, but he also goes beyond these Scholastic sources to exploit Dante's use of less familiar aspects of Latin clerical culture, including physiognomy, Vitruvian proportions, and optics, and most especially astrology. Kay explores new ways to read the Comedy. For instance, he argues that Dante has embedded references to his authorities in a continuous series of acrostics formed by the initial letters of each tercet. Again, he shows how Dante returns to the theme of each infernal canto and develops it in the parallel cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso. Particularly worthy of note are four essays on the poem's finale in the Empyrean.
Author: Ágnes Kriza Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110779226 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of riddles in question-and-answer format are all subjects of this volume. Not only written, but also pictorial enigmas are examined, together with their relationships to texts suggesting novel methodologies for their deciphering. This kaleidoscopic survey of Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures by an international group of scholars demonstrates the historiographical challenges that medieval enigmatic thought poses for researchers and offers new approaches to the interpretation of medieval sources, both verbal and visual.
Author: Curtis A. Gruenler Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268101655 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 636
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In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
Author: Tim Dedopulos Publisher: ISBN: 9781743360699 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 288
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125 riddles and conundrums with full solutions and explanations. A fabulous range of puzzles, riddles, enigmas and conundrums that wil transport you back to the time of knghts, castles and sprawling empires. Challenge your perception and logic to a mental joust in a narrative that spans continents and centuries from the glory of Byzantium to the horror of the Black Death, from the Golden Age of Islam to the Viking invasions. Each puzzle is beautifully constructed with authentic medieval imagery.
Author: Emily Joan Ward Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009232541 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 255
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Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved.
Author: Tim Dedopulos Publisher: Carlton Books ISBN: 9781780975771 Category : Middle Ages Languages : en Pages : 0
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Be transported back to the time of knights, castles and maidens with this beautiful book of medieval-themed puzzles. Challenge your perception and logic to a mental joust in a narrative that spans continents and centuries from the glory of Byzantium to the horror of the Black Death, from the Golden Age of Islam to the Viking invasions. Featuring 75 puzzles, each illustrated with authentic medieval imagery, this fabulous collection will test your powers of logic, observation and lateral thinking.
Author: Maguy Ly
Author: Francis Adelbert Blackburn
Author: George Wilton
Author: Richard Kay
Author: Ágnes Kriza
Author: George Beech
Author: Curtis A. Gruenler
Author: Tim Dedopulos
Author: Emily Joan Ward
Author: Tim Dedopulos