Author: Jef Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789400604186
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Author: Kenny Louwen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789087283728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Five medieval German legends, freshly translated with accessible reading guides. This volume collects five medieval German legends--the story of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, Mary Magdalene, and the True Cross--in both the Middle High German original and modern English translation alongside unique guides to the relevant Germanic research and the principal themes of each text."--

Author: Heinrich (von Veldeke)
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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This book contains two principal vernacular texts concerning the life and deeds of St. Servatius. It offers an authoritative English translation to those readers not versed in medieval Germanic languages. Commentary has been provided to point out historical and Biblical references and to draw attention to significant parallels between the texts and Latin sources.

Author: Maurice O'Connell Walshe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198720829
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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M. O'C. Walshe, has now completely rewritten the work to meet the needs of the student whose prime concern is with the reading of Middle High German literature rather than with the language as such. Nevertheless the grammatical introduction, though recast, is still quite extensive, in order to show the often subtle and confusing differences from modern German.

Author: J. W. Thomas
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
ISBN: 9781469658490
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This anthology contains representative selections from the verse of Minnesingers, nuns, priests, goliards, Spielleute, middle-class singers, and noblemen from the twelfth to the fifteenth century together with historical background, biographical sketches, and comments on individual poems. At the time of its original publication it was the largest such collection in English.

Author:
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125986
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439141345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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A collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe, including "Beowulf," "The Sword in the Stone," "The Song of Roland," and "The Island of the Lost Children."

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1528

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An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archaeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.

Author: O. R. Dathorne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313033803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery. The study concludes by looking at European travel literature from the early journeys of St. Brendan, through the Viking voyages and up to Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville. In all these instances, the encounters seem to justify mythical belief. Dathorne's interest in the subject is both intellectual and passionate since, coming from Guyana, he was very much part of this malformed Weltschmerz.