451円 A canonical work of French literature that chronicles the struggles and triumphs of an African woman's attempts to navigate the oppressive colonial structures of 18th century Paris. Through her narrative, the protagonist Ourika is able to challenge and defy the expectations placed upon her as a w...

451円 Une œuvre canonique de la littérature française qui relate les luttes et les triomphes des tentatives d'une femme africaine de naviguer dans les structures coloniales oppressives du Paris du XVIIIe siècle. À travers son récit, la protagoniste Ourika est capable de défier et de défier les attentes...

451円 An early African American novel that tells the story of a young woman named Clotel, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a slave. It follows her journey as she navigates the complexities of her identity and experiences the brutal realities of slavery.

1,806円 In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and ...

150円 In 'De Ridderromantiek der Franse en Duitse Middeleeuwen' onderzoekt Vald. Vedel het rijke culturele en literaire erfgoed van de middeleeuwse ridderromantiek, met een focus op zowel Franse als Duitse literatuur. Het boek biedt een diepgaande analyse van thema's zoals eer, liefde en avontuur, en p...

7,953円 Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodolo...

13,369円 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 prese...

16,848円 Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, though, the Middle English romance genre remained popular across the early modern period. Difficult ...

158円 Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, ‘The Prose Edda’ is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elv...

5,306円 **A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”ーKirkus Reviews** For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their wr...

451円 A compilation of insightful essays and speeches by the renowned abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass. This collection brings together some of his most powerful and eloquent writings on the issues of slavery, freedom, and racial justice, showcasing his intellectual brilliance and tireless a...

451円 A compelling biography of one of the most controversial and significant figures in American history. John Brown was a white abolitionist who led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859, in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion and overthrow the institution of slavery in the United ...