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Author
Publisher
S. Sonnenschein & Co
Pub. Date
1895.
Language
English
Description
Domenico Comparetti (1835-1927) was a professor of French literature at the University of Florence. He ranks with Auerbach and Curtius as one of the great synthesizing scholars of classical literature and its survival in popular and learned traditions. Jan M. Ziolkowski is Professor of Medieval Latin and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's...
Author
Series
Bollingen ; 36
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Ernst Robert Curtius held the chair of romance literature and language at Bonn University from 1929 until his retirement in 1951. Colin Burrow is a fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Epic Romance: Homer to Milton.
Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the...
Author
Publisher
University Press
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
This landmark volume attempts to provide a social history of the Middle Ages and is indispensable to gaining an understanding of the period. Coulton looks at the effects of the Norman Conquest, Norman manners, food and drink, education, clothing, architecture, town life, medicine, justice, and more.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stimulating and masterly study examines the evolution of the great mass of fiction surrounding the Arthurian legend in Western literature - from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and the collection of Welsh tales known as The Mabinogion, to Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian stories, the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and such English masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d'Arthur. Painstakingly researched...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.
Author
Publisher
University Press
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
In The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as "the...
