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  • TRACING THE TRAILS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
    ALBRECHT CLASSEN
    Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological ...

    $1,160.00

  • TOLERATION AND TOLERANCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE
    ALBRECHT CLASSEN
    Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast to previous approaches, this volume identifies new methods of interpreting conventional classifications of toleration and tolerance through the emergence of multi-level voices in ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE BOOK AND THE MAGIC OF READING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    ALBRECHT CLASSEN
    The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The contributors to the volume The Bookand the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages exp...

    $1,420.00

  • VIOLENCE IN MEDIEVAL COURTLY LITERATURE
    ALBRECHT CLASSEN
    Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem, and marriage was often characterized by brutality. Albrecht Classen brings...

    $1,560.00

  • MEETING THE FOREIGN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    ALBRECHT CLASSEN
    This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the divers...

    $1,600.00