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Gender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century
Female Spirituality; Courtly Romance; Use of images; Fiction; Exegesis; Vernacular Literature; Chrétien de Troyes; Wolfram von Eschenbach
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- 9781641893787
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- XII, 419 p.
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- ARC - Medieval Media Cultures
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- 809.393581 POW g
Historical background of Wang Yang-ming’s philosophy of mind: from the pers…
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…
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- 9789811530364
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- 199 p.; 22 cm.
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- 909 DON h
Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship : an agenda for Europe
The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal with regulations governing savings, capital and finance, an…
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- 9783319550923
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- x, 102p. : ill.
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- 338.6 ELE i
The Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum …
Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal w…
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- 978386395189
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- 411 p.
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- 274.2 LEM o
The Arts and crafts of literacy. Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan A…
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy.However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purpo…
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- 9783110541441
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- x, 367 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; 12
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- 091.0967 ART a
The Novel map
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of …
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- 9780810128668
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- 263 p.; 22 cm.
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- 843.709384 BRA n
Colonial Australian fiction : characterTypes, social formationsand the coloni…
Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of types appeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the currency lass”, the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic c…
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- 9781743324615
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- 820.9994 GEL c
Medical humanity and inhumanity in the German-speaking world
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into…
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- 9781787357716
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- XI, 126 p
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- Fringe
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- 400 MED m
Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538-1681
This book situates witchcraft drama within its cultural and intellectual context, highlighting the centrality of scepticism and belief in witchcraft to the genre. It is argued that these categories are most fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the debate around witchcraft, but as rhetorical tools used within it. In drama, too, scepticism and belief are vit…
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- 9789198376876
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- IX, 244 p.
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- 822.209 PUD s
Science fiction in Argentina : technologies of the text in a material multiverse
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the present day and across a variety of media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and studies the…
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- 9780472121878
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- X, 235 p.
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- 860.935882 PAG s
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