The Medieval Python

Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.

This volume prints, from a manuscript in the National Maritime Museum, the accounts kept by the official in charge of the King’s ships during these years, translated from medieval Latin. The accounts

The debut graphic novel set in seminal medieval fantasy MMORPG RuneScape expands on the fan-favorite God Wars Dungeon questline in a never-before-seen epic.Filled with vibrant characters, daring adventure, and mysterious magicks, this debut graphic novel is one you wont want to miss!Delve into the Temple of Lost Ancients during the catastrophic and iconic God Wars, as four warring armies fight for control of the Godsword: the only weapon capable of killing a deity. Trapped in the center of the conflict is the undead Maro, who dreams of breaking free of his master''s clutches. But escaping from the necromancers clutches leads to a twisting, thrilling journey for Maro when he finds allies and enemies across the front lines.RuneScape: Untold Tales of the God Wars collects issues 1-4 of the comic series, plus the Free Comic Book Day 2023 Special, which explores the lore behind the Temple of Lost Ancients, and the 4 Generals, and the Godsword blade!

First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we

This study investigates the reception of Ovidian heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618 on the Continent in England. Medieval and early modern clerical readings of the fe

Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject observes the rise and progression of student activism across the globe. By selecting critical case studies from the medieval to modern period, Mark

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it includes case studies

The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions

Life in ancient and medieval times - teeming with poverty, disease, early death, cruelty and war - was hardly enviable. The concern of the Enlightenment was to alter this. Rather than a world of count

"A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers…. An ambitious attempt to understand hat ‘gender’ and ‘text’ might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of

Medieval castles were not just showcases for the royal and powerful, they were also the centerpieces of many people's daily lives. A travel guide as well as a historical text, this volume looks at cas

Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs t

This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers for whom religious identity revolves around ritual and worship. In Leviticus 18:3's story of Jewishness, sexual practice and cultural habits instead loom large. The readings in this book are on a micro-level, but their implications are far-ranging: Berkowitz transforms both our notion of Bible-reading and our sense of how Jews have defined Jewishness.

Past studies of medieval Portugal have focused on such specific themes as political or administrative history and voyages of discovery. Oliveira Marques, however, has captured the vast

Nash-Marshall (Medieval and Renaissance studies, New York U. and philosophy, Fordham U.) analyzes the two metaphysical works by sixth-century writer Boethius Quomodo Substantiae and Consolatio Phil

This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical tr

For students of Arabic and Jewish music and culture or of medieval musical thought and theory, presents 15 previously published articles (five in French) on the symbolic and metaphorical interpretatio

A master ninja and a Portuguese priest investigate a local artisan's murder in medieval Kyoto.August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro's brewery, and all the evidence implicates

Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced l

This beautiful catalog explores four books that are remarkable survivals of what people read in the Middle Ages – the finest of medieval Bibles (the greatest text of Western civilization), one of the

Examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fr

Moving from the early Christian age to modern times, with emphasis on the high points of mysticism in the medieval, early modern and Eastern Orthodox traditions, this title tells the story of people w

Most readers think of a written work as producing its meaning through the words it contains. But what is the significance of the detailed and beautiful illuminations on a medieval manuscript? Of the d

Through a detailed analysis of medieval Spain's best known literary works, this book examines two common images of woman--the sexually attractive matron of the Christian upper classes, and the beautif

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and An

This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to inte

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Sax

From the Jurassic period and the dinosaurs, to a medieval castle, Geronimo Stilton and a few members of his family embark on an adventure through time in Professor von Volt's new time machine, the Mou

The two themes brought together in this volume a€“ the canon law and the liturgy of the early medieval Latin Church a€“ have close links, as these articles reveal. At the basis of this lies that fact

We invite to join a friendly and fun conversation with Joe and Jason designed to help you find your own unique paleo Tao:Jason: What do you think would happen if paleo and Monty Python collided head-o

Contemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being recon

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and supersti

Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flo

From medieval 12th-century Ireland to 16th-century Renaissance France; from 13th- and 14th-century England to 15th-century Italy...The breadth of history captured within these manuscripts is simply as

The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is explored in detail in this study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia in the ninth and tenth centuries

In a lost corner of the Yorkshire Dales, Lana Donati runs a medieval theme restaurant with her brother. As a distraction to help them get over losing the father they loved dearly, and as a tribute to

This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas, and thus on the need to look beyond the models ela

This book brings together new archaeological, historical and palaeoecological approaches to the transition from the Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy between the fourth and ninth centuries AD,

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry.Once the capital of

Budapest is unique among European capitals in having three different historical centres. TheBuda castle, much visited by tourists, recalls the medieval era, while the city centre on the Pest side deve