Sērija : Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145558)
Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints because scienti...Lasīt vairāk
The German-Jewish nurse Resi Weglein miraculously survived three years in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. Later, having been allowed to return home, she wrote her memoirs. They were published in German in 1988, accompanied b...Lasīt vairāk
Since the invention of the printing press in ca. 1450, the early modern book market emerged, and so also the phenomenon of the bestseller. The sixteenth century witnessed especially the rise of Schwankbücher (books with jest narratives), and one of...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111387239)
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the s...Lasīt vairāk
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the M...Lasīt vairāk
The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion i...Lasīt vairāk
Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, via such accounts as, for example, Marco Polos...Lasīt vairāk
The Franciscan preacher and author Johannes Pauli published a highly influential collection of sermon narratives, Schimpf und Ernst, in 1522. This was a major bestseller well into the 17th and 18th centuries. These short prose narratives (the origin...Lasīt vairāk
Rolf J. Goebel, Sigrun Lehnert, Anna Bromley, Albrecht Classen, Christiane Heibach, Josephine Hoegaerts, Caroline A. Kita, Lutz Koepnick, James M. James H. Kopf, Lawrence Kramer...
Sērija : Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Oct-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640141223)
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound studies is a firmly established field of inquiry,...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Sep-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111189079)
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of inno...Lasīt vairāk
Angelica Duran, Ana Grinberg, Jo Ann Cavallo, Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E. F. Beck, David T. Bialock, Albrecht Classen, Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Thomas DuBois, Angelica Duran...
Sērija : Options for Teaching
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603296175)
Addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. The essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the ada...Lasīt vairāk
Angelica Duran, Ana Grinberg, Jo Ann Cavallo, Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E. F. Beck, David T. Bialock, Albrecht Classen, Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Thomas DuBois, Angelica Duran...
Sērija : Options for Teaching
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603296182)
A set of approaches and teaching ideas for college and high school instructors of ancient and medieval epics from Africa, China, Europe, Iraq, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and Turkey. Includes a list of resources--...Lasīt vairāk
Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail as an epistemological vehicle for the protagonists proves to b...Lasīt vairāk
Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduced here through the English translation of a selection of his best short stories....Lasīt vairāk
Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The Gemstone....Lasīt vairāk
The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Aug-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110776805)
Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religions, and cultures. Beyond that, as the contributors to this volume underscore, people have alw...Lasīt vairāk
