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  • The Poetic Edda

    by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    THERE is scarcely any literary work of great importance which has been less readily available for the general reader, or even for the serious student of literature, than the Poetic Edda. Translations have been far from numerous, and only in Germany has the complete work of translation been done in the full light of recent scholarship. In English the only versions were long the conspicuously ... Read more

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  • Historia Calamitatum - The Story of My Misfortunes

    Autobiography of Peter Abelard

    by Peter Abelard ...
    Translated by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    Historia Calamitatum (known in English as The Story of My Misfortunes or The History of My Calamities) is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard, a medieval French pioneer of scholastic philosophy. The work is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in the form of a letter (and, as such, is clearly influenced by Augustine's Confessions). The letter ... Read more

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  • Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes

    by Peter Abelard ...
    Translated by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    This edition includes a biographical sketch about the author. Historia Calamitatum (A history of my calamities), also known as Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France's most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholastic philosophy. It is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in ... Read more

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  • The Poetic Edda

    by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    The Poetic Eddatranslated by Henry Adams BellowsThis edition is a reprint of the 1923 Bellows translation of Scandinavian mythology.Table Of Contians....VoluspoHovamolVafthruthnismolGrimnismolSkirnismolHarbarthsljothHymiskvithaLokasennaThrymskvithaAlvissmolBaldrs DraumarRigsthulaHyndluljothSvipdagsmolVölundarkvitha<... ... Read more

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  • Historia Calamitatum and the Letters of Abelard and Heloise

    by Peter Abelard ...
    Translated by Henry Adams Bellows, John Hughes ...
    "The story of this philosophical soldier of fortune is a romance from beginning to end, a poignant human drama shot through with passion, adventure, pathos and tragedy. In a sense it is an epitome of the earlier Middle Ages and through it shines the bright light of an era of fervid living, of exciting adventure, of phenomenal intellectual force and of large and comprehensive liberty. As a single ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Nepotism

    by Adam Bellow ...
    A wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book that offers a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotism—from ancient Chinese clans to families like the Gores, Kennedys, and Bushes. • “Fascinating and well-researched.” —Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker and Steve JobsNepotism is one of those social habits we all claim ... Read more

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  • The Story Of My Misfortunes The Autobiography Of Peter Abelard

    by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    The Story of My Misfortunes The Autobiography of Peter Abelardtr. by Henry Adams Bellows"Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was one of the great intellectuals of the 12th century, with especial importance in the field of logic. His tendency to disputation is perhaps best demonstrated by his book Sic et Non, a list of 158 philosophical and theological questions about which there were divided opinions. This ... Read more

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  • The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems

    Series series Dover Literature: Poetry
    The vibrant Old Norse poems in this collection, which may have been brought together as early as the thirteenth century, authentically capture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. In addition, their images of a mythical world profoundly influenced latter-day storytellers as Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien.Known as the "Lays of the Gods," these mythological poems include the Voluspo, ... Read more

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  • The Story of My Misfortunes

    by Peter Abélard ...
    Translated by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in twelfth-century Paris, while also recounting the circumstances and consequences of one of history’s most famous love ... Read more

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  • The Poetic Edda

    The Heroic Poems

    by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Poetry
    Passed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods and heroes, great fires and floods, superhuman warriors and doomed lovers, these dramatic poems weave vivid portraits of powerful characters caught up in passion, ambition, and destiny. Filled with ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • The Prose Edda

    by Jesse Byock, Snorri Sturluson ...
    Translated by Jesse Byock ...
    The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda shows the gods' ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Roads to Rome

    A History of Imperial Expansion

    by Catherine Fletcher ...
    Inspired by original research and filled with color and drama, this is an exploration of two thousand years of history as seen through one the greatest imperial networks ever built."All roads lead to Rome” is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire—and these ancient roads continue to grip our modern imaginations as a physical ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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