This lively, interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character and revel in the gory, dark, horrific side of lif
A beginner's guide to programming terminology, fundamental concepts, and techniques for writing code. The author focuses on the four basic constructs of programming sequences, loops, branches, and mod
This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 1 of Peter Lombard?s Sentences, the work that would win the greatest teacher of the twelfth century a place in Dante
Dove translates and annotates the exegetical comments of Origen of Alexandria, Gregory the Great, the Venerable Bede, Anslem of Laon and other scholars on this controversial text. She includes comment
A student edition of two somewhat neglected yet significant and instructive anonymous Middle English alliterative texts usually read in conjunction with Langland's Pier Plowman . Richard the Redeles
Book 3 of the Sentences deals with the mystery of the Word made flesh: Christ's incarnation, passion, and death, the consequent restoration of humankind, and the virtues to be practised in imitation o
The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunc
Livingstone (The Citadel) translated the first eight books and wrote most of the introduction as his PhD dissertation at the University of Rochester. A bibliography of works taking the poem as its cen
English poet Gower (1325-1408) wrote voluminously in Latin and Anglo-French as well as English, consciously making himself an artistic master in the three main languages of his time and place. R.F. Ye
The image of the hero has been sadly tarnished over the past century or so, according the Waugh and Weldon, both of the English department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario. The essays in this fe
The 16 poems presented here are among about 50 that were long praised and preserved because they were associated with Geoffrey Chaucer, and abruptly forgotten once scholarship showed them to be uncano
This volume makes "The Moral Treatise on the Eye" available for the first time in English, and also contains an introduction to Peter of Limoges, his intellectual interests, the sources of the "Treati
This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overvie
In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart— three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals o
Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coas
Improvization in music, dance, drama, and the visual arts and inevitably in the intersection between them from the 15th through the 17th centuries in Europe is explored in 13 essays. The contributors
