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The Golden Labyrinth A Study of British Drama

The Golden Labyrinth A Study of British Drama

First published in 1965 The Golden Labyrinth provides a coherent and readable history of the essential nature of British drama in a single volume. The treatment is philosophical and imaginative and full of enthusiasm and clarity which have made Professor Wilson Knight’s works of Shakespearian and other interpretations so famous. The chapters in this book have been organized according to literary periods and will appeal to both students of literature and casual readers. | The Golden Labyrinth A Study of British Drama

GBP 130.00
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English Readers of Catholic Saints The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend

English Readers of Catholic Saints The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend

In 1484 William Caxton the first publisher of English-language books issued The Golden Legend a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters but also the addition of lives of British saints and translated excerpts from the Bible showing an appetite for vernacular scripture and stories about England’s past. The publication history of Caxton’s Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national identity and piety within the context of English print culture during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation. | English Readers of Catholic Saints The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend

GBP 38.99
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Public Relations and Whistleblowing Golden Handcuffs in Corporate Wrongdoing

Public Relations and Whistleblowing Golden Handcuffs in Corporate Wrongdoing

There is a growing interest in corporate whistleblowing but no comprehensive research has yet focused on public relations practice. Drawing on extensive research on Fortune 1000 and Wilshire 5000 corporations this book reveals executives’ attitudes and relationships toward their organizations and their impact on whistleblowing. Perhaps unsurprisingly it reveals that wrongdoing in corporations and the privileges of power coexist. Top-ranking public relations executives who are mostly white and male are more likely to be aware of wrongdoing but no more likely to blow the whistle fundamentally due to their positive relationship with their employers. Using the new lens of evolutionary theory this study explains whistleblowing retaliation and relationships and in the light of the connection between whistleblowing behavior and executives’ attitudes it proposes a new theory of the phenomenon of Golden Handcuffs. As public attitudes to corporations corporate social responsibility (CSR) and transparency harden these findings have serious implications for companies globally. Researchers scholars and advanced students in public relations organizational communication corporate communication strategic communication corporate reputation and CSR will find this book full of revealing insights. | Public Relations and Whistleblowing Golden Handcuffs in Corporate Wrongdoing

GBP 34.99
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

GBP 110.00
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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry with special emphasis on appliances from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. | The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

GBP 38.99
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The Breakfast Club John Hughes Hollywood and the Golden Age of the Teen Film

The Breakfast Club John Hughes Hollywood and the Golden Age of the Teen Film

The Breakfast Club is a quintessential teen film. This book analyzes how multiple factors coalesced to solidify the status of The Breakfast Club as one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s and one of the most definitive teen films of the genre. The film brings together genre-defining elements – the conflicts between generations and peer pressure archetypical characters and breaking down stereotypes the celebration and survival of adolescence and the importance of this time in life on the coming-of-age process – and became a significant moment for John Hughes as an auteur and for teen films in the 1980s. More than just embodying these elements of the genre filmmaker Hughes and the Brat Pack stars helped introduce and popularize multiple generic features that would come to be expected with the teen film formula. The content of the film combined with its context of production in the middle of a boom in teen filmmaking in Hollywood. Meanwhile the marketing that focused on contemporary music peer group dynamics and oppositions between Generation X and baby boomers merged with an enthusiastic reception by youth audiences. Its endurance speaks to the way the film’s level of importance as a critical commercial and influential film with tremendous impact has grown since its initial debut. | The Breakfast Club John Hughes Hollywood and the Golden Age of the Teen Film

GBP 18.99
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The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture Empire of Signs but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas political scientist Aaron Wildavsky and a number of other social scientists. This manuscript is at first a guide to Rajasthan and India and it is that but it is also more in that it considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level. Berger begins with statistics on tourism and other aspects of life in Rajasthan and India and then considers how tourism in India compares with tourism in other important tourism destinations. He refers to the Imaginary India as the picture created in tourists' minds with the help of guidebooks media and the Internet before they actually travel to India. He then discusses these representations and how they are actually different from the country itself. The trip itself then becomes the search for the authentic India-the goal is to find places before they are discovered. He calls this Semiotic Rajasthan where the representations are compared to actuality. After offering a discussion of semiotic theory it interprets and analyzes a number of important aspects of Rajasthani and Indian culture such as: the Taj Mahal the Palace of Winds in Jaipur the notorious rat temple in Deshnok and sacred cows. Lastly he discusses his own trip and how the impact of Rajasthan did not fully register until he returned home. This volume's strength lies in the author's ability to write in an accessible manner assemble the project in an interesting way and include only that information which will guide the reader along the narrative trail. While this manuscript really is a guidebook to Rajasthan it could also serve as a good introduction to ethnography for beginning students and an interested general audience. It moves from basic explanations such as that of semiotics to complex applications all with the grace of good story telling. | The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

GBP 84.99
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Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

In this book Steve Gronert Ellerhoff explores short stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut written between 1943 and 1968 with a post-Jungian approach. Drawing upon archetypal theories of myth from Joseph Campbell James Hillman and their forbearer C. G. Jung Ellerhoff demonstrates how short fiction follows archetypal patterns that can illuminate our understanding of the authors their times and their culture. In practice a post-Jungian ‘mythodology’ is shown to yield great insights for the literary criticism of short fiction. Chapters in this volume carefully contextualise and historicize each story including Bradbury and Vonnegut’s earliest and most imaginatively fantastic works. The archetypal constellations shaping Vonnegut’s early works are shown to be war and fragmentation while those in Bradbury’s are family and the wholeness of the sun. Analysis is complemented by the explored significance of illustrations that featured alongside the stories in their first publications. By uncovering the ways these popular writers redressed old myths in new tropes—and coined new narrative elements for hopes and fears born of their era—the book reveals a fresh method which can be applied to all imaginative short stories increasing understanding and critical engagement. Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut is an important text for a number of fields from Jungian and Post-Jungian studies to short story theoriesand American studies to Bradbury and Vonnegut studies. Scholars and students of literature will come away with a renewed appreciation for an archetypal approach to criticism while the book will also be of great interest to practising depth psychologists seeking to incorporate short stories into therapy. | Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Golden Apples of the Monkey House

GBP 42.99
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Volume 7 Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries - Literature Drama and Aesthetics

Volume 7 Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries - Literature Drama and Aesthetics

The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's Golden Age which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century when Denmark's most important writers philosophers theologians poets actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes on key issues of the day. His authorship would be unthinkable without reference to the Danish State Church the Royal Theater the University of Copenhagen or the various Danish newspapers and journals such as The Corsair F¦drelandet and Kj¸benhavns flyvende Post which played an undeniable role in shaping his development. The present volume features articles that employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Danish sources of Kierkegaard's thought. The volume is divided into three tomes in order to cover the different fields of influence. Tome III is dedicated to the diverse Danish sources that fall under the rubrics Literature Drama and Aesthetics. The Golden Age is known as the period when Danish prose first established itself in genres such as the novel; moreover it was also an age when some of Denmark's most celebrated national poets flourished. Accordingly this tome contains articles on Kierkegaard's use of the great Danish poets and prose writers whose works are frequently quoted and alluded to throughout his writings. Kierkegaard regularly attended dramatic performances at Copenhagen's Royal Theater which was one of Europe's leading playhouses at the time. In this tome his appreciation for the art of Denmark's best-known actors and actresses is traced. Finally this tome features articles on the leading literary critics and aesthetic theorists of the Golden Age who served as foils for Kierkegaard's own ideas. | Volume 7 Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries - Literature Drama and Aesthetics

GBP 38.99
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The Kabbalah Unveiled

The Kabbalah Unveiled

The Kabbalah is an esoteric Jewish doctrine adapted by author S. L. MacGregor Mathers to form the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn an occult organisation. This volume includes three of the critical books from the Zohar the fundamental work in Kabbalah as well as Mathers' introduction explaining the key elements of Jewish mysticism. Mathers' translation from Hebrew originally appeared in 1926 and it continues to be a valuable resource for students interested in Religious Studies particularly Mysticism and the Occult. | The Kabbalah Unveiled

GBP 35.99
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Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction Expenditure Labor Value

Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction Expenditure Labor Value

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950 Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style but by the way they structure knowledge value and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their conservationism (and not only by their conservatism) with the detectives’ actions serving to stabilize institutions with specific ideological aims. In contrast the criminal investigations of the hard-boiled detective who is poorly aligned with institutions and strong interest groups reveal the fragility of the status quo in the face of escalating cycles of violence. Key to Yan’s discussion are theories of exchange value and the gift the latter of which he suggests is more akin to detective work than is wage labour. Analyzing texts by a wide range of authors that includes Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler Dorothy Sayers Raoul Whitfield George Harmon Coxe and Mickey Spillane Yan demonstrates that the detective’s truth-generating function most often characterized as a process of discovery rather than creation is in fact crucial to the institutional and class-based interests that he or she serves. | Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction Expenditure Labor Value

GBP 38.99
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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives. Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (a period traditionally known as the Golden Age) the volume examines topics including political and scientific culture literary and artistic innovations and religious and social identities and institutions in transformation. The 36 chapters of the volume include both expert overviews of key topics and figures from the period as well as new approaches to understudied questions and materials. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Hispanic studies as well as Renaissance and early modern studies more generally.

GBP 205.00
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The Sephardim of England A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492-1951

The Sephardim of England A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492-1951

Originally published in 1951 this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community the co-heirs with their kinsmen in Holland in Italy in North America and in the Middle East of the Golden Age of Jewish history in Spain. Based on archival history from within the community it was the first full-length history of the Sephardi community in England and describes how this little Jewish community the first in England since the Middle Ages grew prospered and contributed the wealth and influence of London and eventually producing in Disraeli one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers. | The Sephardim of England A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492-1951

GBP 32.99
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Baha’i Faith: The Basics

Baha’i Faith: The Basics

Bahá’í Faith: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to a fascinating independent world religion. Examining its historical development current “community-building” efforts and the social contributions of the Bahá’í Faith in the world today this introduction covers: Beliefs: Bahá’í spiritual teachings Principles: Bahá’í social teachings History: Bahá’u’lláh and his covenant. Scripture: Bahá’í sacred texts and inspired guidance Institutions: The Bahá’í Administrative Order Building community: What Bahá’ís do Social action: Bahá’í social and economic development projects Public discourse: The Bahá’í International Community Vision: Foundations for a future golden age With features including a glossary of terms and references to the Bahá’í writings throughout this is the ideal text for students and interested readers wanting to familiarize themselves with the Bahá’í Faith. | Baha’i Faith: The Basics

GBP 18.99
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Ethics A Contemporary Introduction

Ethics A Contemporary Introduction

Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy. It gets students to struggle with the big questions of morality while it also relates these questions to practical issues especially racism global warming moral education and abortion. Providing a practical method for thinking about moral issues—a method based largely on the golden rule—it is written simply and clearly throughout. College students who are new to philosophy or who have already taken an introductory-level course will benefit from its use. Key Features: Serves as either the sole textbook for a lower-level introduction to ethics/moral philosophy course or a supplementary text for a more advanced undergraduate ethics course. Provides clear direct writing throughout making each chapter easily accessible for an engaged undergraduate student. Offers a philosophically rigorous presentation of the golden rule. Includes helpful study aids including: bolded technical terms; boxes for key ideas; summaries study questions and suggested readings for each chapter; and a comprehensive glossary/index at the back of the book. Key Additions to the Third Edition: Each chapter now offers additional optional sections on more advanced topics for students wishing to dig deeper into the material (advanced topics include: Kohlberg’s moral psychology whether morality is gendered types of relativism early Greek ethics Hume and the prisoner’s dilemma). Other improvements include: better chapter organization clearer explanations improved examples new names for key arguments and a better Kindle version. An updated and improved EthiCola instructional program (with a score-processing program teacher’s manual and class slides) which can be downloaded from the web for free (from www. harrycola. com/ec or www. harryhiker. com/ec). | Ethics A Contemporary Introduction

GBP 38.99
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The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology Psychology and Cultural Studies

The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology Psychology and Cultural Studies

Social scientists increasingly invoke narrative in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology psychology and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning subjectivity politics and power in concrete contexts. The Uses of Narrative presents a range of case studies including: Princess Diana's Panorama interview media coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots memoirs of the wives of scientists who made the first atomic bomb popular images of gay marriage and the effect of the Velvet Revolution on writing autobiography. The book brings together contributions from European Australian and North American researchers indicating the diversity and potential of narrative approaches. The editors adopt a distinctive and unique psychosocial approach to narrative and set the individual chapters in the context of three broad themes: culture life histories and discourse. The Uses of Narrative complicates challenges and stimulates-it will be of vital interest to sociologists psychologists social theorists students of cultural studies and others who are interested in the relationships between meaning self and society. | The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology Psychology and Cultural Studies

GBP 130.00
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Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative film and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female and often a warrior hero in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice agency physical violence purity and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girlhoods in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girlhoods beyond the fairy-tale princess or the damsel in distress into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to authentic selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies Gender Studies Film Studies Popular Culture and Media Studies. | Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

GBP 120.00
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The Yezidis A Study in Survival

The Yezidis A Study in Survival

First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq Turkey Syria and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidi’s believe that Lucifer the fallen angel has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is like their faith characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamid’s cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapter describes the community in Soviet Armenia and Georgia. This book is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history. | The Yezidis A Study in Survival

GBP 105.00
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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain. Although the focus is on Britain this volume signals how the women’s suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. The historical developments and structures that affected women’s lives and suffrage struggles were not limited to national contexts. Early chapters focus on particular individuals both well and lesser known including Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst as well as Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Lady Isabel Margesson and Isabella Ford. Later chapters highlight the interrelationship between the British movement and suffrage campaigns across the globe with reference to Austria Japan New Zealand Australia and the USA. The chapters deal with issues around strategies social class employment religion nationalism empire and race and explore complex issues about women’s roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering the reader a broad view of the British women’s suffrage movement this is the ideal volume for students of women’s and political history in both its national and international contexts. | The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

GBP 36.99
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How to Make Animated Films Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation

How to Make Animated Films Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond. all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. Includes hands-on Tutorials demonstrations and final sample animations. . Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D 3D Flash or any other form of animation Tony White's foundations bring you closer to that goal. The downloadable resources are invaluable in that readers are not only taught principles and concepts in the book they are able to see them demonstrated in action in the movies. | How to Make Animated Films Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation

GBP 180.00
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Turks Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries

Turks Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries

The setting for the studies collected here is the West-Eurasian steppe region extending from present-day Kazakhstan through southern Russia Ukraine and Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. The first articles deal with pre-Mongol Turkic peoples of the region and their relations with the Byzantine Empire to the south but the core of the volume is the history of the Golden Horde and its successor states such as the Kazan and Crimean Khanates whose Turco-Mongol overlords are often referred to as Tatars. These played a decisive role in the history of Western Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries and had a fundamental influence on the rise of the Russian state. Particular articles look at Mongol institutions and terminology others at the interaction of the medieval Tatar and Russian worlds. | Turks Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries

GBP 52.99
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Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people places and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Each chapter explores a different figure and together they present snapshots of life across a wide range of different social backgrounds. Among the figures are both imagined and historical characters including the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita a Jewish traveller a slave the Mongol general Sübodei a woman from Novgorod and a Rus’ pilgrim. A range of different narrative styles are also used throughout the book from omniscient third-person narrators to diary entries letters and travel accounts. By using primary sources to construct the lives of and give a voice to the types of people who existed within medieval European history Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides a highly accessible introduction to the period. Accompanied by a new and interactive companion website it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe. | Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

GBP 35.99
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