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  • Wounded Knights

    Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love

    by Alfred Thomas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages. Comparative and transnational in scope, it explores the role of masculinity and violence in the romance, love lyric and saints’ ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Cultures of Forgery

    Making Nations, Making Selves

    Edited by Judith Ryan, Alfred Thomas ...
    Series series CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard
    In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Truth and Legend of King Arthur

    10 Books of Myths, Tales & The History Behind The Legendary King

    by Howard Pyle, Richard Morris, James Knowles, T. W. Rolleston, Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford ...
    Translated by Charlotte Guest ...
    The anthology 'The Truth and Legend of King Arthur' offers a profound exploration of the mythic and historical dimensions of the legendary King Arthur and his court. Through a diverse array of literary styles, from epic poetry to narrative prose, this collection captures the enduring charm of Arthurian lore. It merges historical authenticity with the enchanting myth-making that has captivated ... Read more

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  • King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot

    An Arthurian Anthology of Camelot, Excalibur, Merlin, the Grail, and the Round Table

    by Howard Pyle, Richard Morris, James Knowles, T. W. Rolleston, Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford ...
    Translated by Charlotte Guest ...
    King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot gathers a rich, diachronic archive of Arthurian imagination, tracing Camelot through medieval romance, Victorian poetry, children's retelling, and modernized mythic narration. The collection ranges from chivalric quests and enchantments to tragic meditations on loyalty, desire, kingship, and national destiny. Episodes of ... Read more

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  • King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot

    Stories & Legends of The Excalibur, Merlin, Holy Grale Quest & The Brave Knights of the Round Table

    by Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, Howard Pyle ...
    Translated by Charlotte Guest ...
    King Arthur: 10 Books of Tales & Myths about the Legendary King of Camelot is a unique anthology that encapsulates the rich tapestry of Arthurian mythology through various literary landscapes. This collection spans traditional narratives to modern reimaginings, chronicling the chivalric exploits and mystical allure of Camelot. With an impressive range from romantic poetry to robust prose, the ... Read more

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  • Elizabethan Demonology

    Enriched edition. Exploring Supernatural Beliefs in Elizabethan Society

    by Thomas Alfred Spalding, Ariana Howard ...
    In "Elizabethan Demonology," Thomas Alfred Spalding intricately explores the rich tapestry of belief, superstition, and the complex cultural dynamics surrounding demonology during the Elizabethan era. Spalding employs a meticulous scholarly style that blends historical analysis with literary critique, examining texts from canonical authors such as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, while ... Read more

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  • KING ARTHUR - Ultimate Collection: 10 Books of Myths, Tales & The History Behind The Legendary King

    Camelot, the Grail, and the Rise and Fall of a Legend

    by Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, Howard Pyle ...
    Translated by Charlotte Guest ...
    KING ARTHUR - Ultimate Collection gathers ten books that trace the Arthurian legend across medieval romance, Victorian poetic reimagining, popular retelling, antiquarian inquiry, and illustrated narrative. Its range reveals Arthur not as a fixed historical personage but as a mutable cultural emblem: warrior-king, courtly ideal, tragic ruler, and subject of historical speculation. Foundational ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

    Maimed Rights

    by Alfred Thomas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

    by Alfred Thomas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Political Science. Classics Collection:

    Sun Tzu-The Art of War, Plato-The Republic, Niccolo Machiavelli-The Prince, Lao Tzu-Tao Te Ching, Thomas More-Utopia, Thomas Paine-Common Sense, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels-The Communist Manifesto

    by Marcus Aurelius, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Paine, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Plato, John Stuart Mill, Vladimir lenin, Thomas More ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Elliot, Alfred Costa, Peter Coates, John Brown, Douglass Scott, Jowanna Lewis, Richard Williams, Jamey Lewis, Andrew Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 24 min

    Why Political Science Classics Collection is so important? In today's world, providing quality training for the younger generation at colleges and universities is of primary importance. But higher education is not enough. Any graduate is first and foremost a citizen of his nation. He has the right to be an actor in the political life of his society. The political changes taking place today in the ... Read more

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  • Writing Plague

    Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19

    by Alfred Thomas ...
    Series Book 19 - Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • 100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs

    Eyewitness Memoirs of Soldiers, Sailors, Commanders, and Civilians from the Union and Confederacy

    by Ulysses S. Grant, Heros von Borcke, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, J. W. Gibson, William Howard Russell, Samuel S. Hildebrand, Joseph Warren Keifer, John A. Sloan, Thomas North, George Perkins, Jacob D. Cox, Henry Bascom Smith, W. H. Morgan, Henry B. James, Louis Richards, Preston Lafayette Ledford, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Charles A. Fuller, Thomas Coleman Younger, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel R. Watkins, John Singleton Mosby, James Longstreet, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, James Madison Page, Alonzo Cooper, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Isaac Hermann, Richard Taylor, Leander Stillwell, Charles Anderson Dana, Raphael Semmes, James Harvey Kidd, John Beatty, William Watson, Carlton McCarthy, Hampton Sidney Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, Frederick L. Hitchcock, James R. Carnahan, J. Wilkinson, Joseph W. Grant, Daniel P. Smith, Richard J. Fulfer, John Lockwood, Henry C. Meyer, Richard L. Maury, Samuel Scoville, James Carson Elliott, H. Clay Trumbull, James Madison Stone, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Stanton P. Allen, Allen Ripley Foote, Alfred J. Vaughan, Thomas Kirwan, Henry Lane Stone, E. H. Clement, Edward Mott Robbins, Luther W. Hopkins, Martin A. Haynes, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John G. B. Adams, Ansel D. Nickerson, Warren Olney, Daniel Avery Langworthy, John Porter Fort, Joshua M. Addeman, Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden, H. Ashton Ramsay, Bradford Ripley Jr. Wood, Frank A. Rollin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, John Milton Hubbard, John Watson Foster, Rufus H. Peck, R. E. McBride, Charles Carleton Coffin, Wickham Hoffman, George T. Ulmer, Thomas D. Duncan, Edward Alexander Moore, John Call Dalton, Henry H. Meacham, David E. Johnston, William A. Canfield, Abner Doubleday, John M. Batten, George Cary Eggleston, Lawrence Van Alstyne, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, David W. Stafford, James H. Wood, Charles C. Nott, William Meade Dame, S. Emma E. Edmonds, John Levi Maile, Edward M. Boykin, D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher, William N. Tyler, John Azor Kellogg, James Pike, Lot D. Young, Francis Warrington Dawson, David Lathrop ...
    100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD