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Autor:
John Eldevik
During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond the lands of Islam ruled by a devout emperor they called “Priest John,” or “Prester John.” Spurred by a forged letter that
Autor:
Laurie Atkinson
An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the'Renaissance', teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design.The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of p
Autor:
Alfred Thomas
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has ch
Autor:
Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck
In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars
Autor:
Ian Netton
The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets ou