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9780140150469: The Portable Medieval Reader (Portable Library)
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ISBN 10: 0140150463 ISBN 13: 9780140150469
Editorial: Penguin Publishing Group, 1977

Sinopsis

In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars—that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien.

All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window."

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Reseña del editor

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, PETER ABELARD, LEONARDO DA VINCI, ROGER BACON, AND DOZENS OF OTHERS. "A CROSS SECTION OFSOURCE HISTORY ANDLITERATURE ...AS RICH AND VARIEDAS A STAINED-GLASSWINDOW". COLUMBIA RECORD.

Biografía del autor

The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition.

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Editorial
Penguin Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1977
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140150463
ISBN 13 
9780140150469
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
704
Editor
Ross James Bruce, McLaughlin Mary Martin
Contacto del fabricante
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9780670465439: The Portable Medieval Reader (1949-09-16)

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ISBN 10:  0670465437 ISBN 13:  9780670465439
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