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The Age of Chivalryby Liliane Funcken, Fred FunckenISBN 0706358082 (0-7063-5808-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc Canada Ltd
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Ancient Chinaby Arthur Cotterell, Alan Hills, Geoff BrightlingISBN 067986167X (0-679-86167-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Arab Historians of the Crusadesby Francesco GabrieliISBN 0710028741 (0-7100-2874-1)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades: Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidhby Usamah Ibn Munqidh, Philip Khuri HittiISBN 0691022690 (0-691-02269-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Art and Eloquence in Byzantiumby Henry MaguireISBN 0691036934 (0-691-03693-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bookby Karen Broofield, Laurence PordesISBN 0679840125 (0-679-84012-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journeyby Isabel FonsecaISBN 067973743X (0-679-73743-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Companion to Roman Britainby Peter A. Clayton, Michael Grierson JarrettISBN 0714820318 (0-7148-2031-8)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literatureby Earl Roy MinerISBN 0691014906 (0-691-01490-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the Worldby Edward W. Said, Luann WaltherISBN 0679758909 (0-679-75890-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantryby Roy StrongISBN 0712664815 (0-7126-6481-5)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empireby Alan Warwick PalmerISBN 0719552818 (0-7195-5281-8)
Softcover, J. Murray
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Early Spanish Manuscript Illuminationby John WilliamsISBN 0701122692 (0-7011-2269-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizamiby Barbara BrendISBN 0712303928 (0-7123-0392-8)
Softcover, British Library Board
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japanby Charles J. DunnISBN 0713416831 (0-7134-1683-1)
Hardcover, Batsford
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I & II'Book summary:Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Faust:Parts 1 & 2by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard TaylorISBN 0722179049 (0-7221-7904-9)
Hardcover, Sphere
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French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Dukeby Millard MeissISBN 0714813095 (0-7148-1309-5)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Gudrunby Alma Johanna KoenigISBN 0688518990 (0-688-51899-0)
Hardcover, Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Books
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Hellby Steve Ellis, Alighieri DanteISBN 0701161272 (0-7011-6127-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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History of Everyday Things in Englandby Marjorie OvennellISBN 0713416505 (0-7134-1650-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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History of Everyday Things in England: 1733-1851by Marjorie and Ovennell Ovennell, C. H. OvennellISBN 0713416521 (0-7134-1652-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A History of Japanese Literature: The Archaic and Ancient Agesby Jinichi Konishi, Earl Roy MinerISBN 0691065926 (0-691-06592-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A History of Japanese Literature: The Early Middle Agesby Jinichi KonishiISBN 0691101779 (0-691-10177-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A History of Japanese Literature Vol. III: The High Middle Agesby Jin'ichi Konishi, Earl Miner, Aileen Gatteu, Mark A. HarbisonISBN 0691066566 (0-691-06656-6)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Icelandic Patterns in Needlepoint: Over 40 Easy-To-Stitch Designs from the Land of Ice and Fireby Jona SpareyISBN 0715399888 (0-7153-9988-8)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Illuminated Haggadah: Featuring Medieval Illuminations from the Haggadah Collection of the British Libraryby British LibraryISBN 071121106X (0-7112-1106-X)
Hardcover, F. Lincoln
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminated Haggadah: Featuring Medieval Illuminations from the Haggadah Collection of the British Library'Book summary:Reflecting its Talmudic ancestry, this illuminated Haggadah contains Jewish stories and traditions, and is also a prayerbook made for use. It tells the story of release from persecution and slavery into freedom and a new life. It is as relevant today as when it was written, over 2000 years ago. The Exodux of the Children of Israel from Egypt is a pivotal event in the Bible, celebrated today in books, plays and films. Each year, during the festival of Passover, Jewish families gather to remember the Exodus. The evening meal, or Seder, is filled with biblical readings, symbolic foods to be eaten and songs to be sung. The traditional patter of this meal is recorded in the Haggadah - literally, "story-telling". The book is decorated with illustrations taken from the British Library's collection of Medieval Haggadot, and the commentary makes the book accessible to all readers. [via]
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Illuminated Manuscriptby Janet BackhouseISBN 0714824682 (0-7148-2468-2)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Libraryby Janet BackhouseISBN 0712345426 (0-7123-4542-6)
Hardcover, British Library
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Gregory Gillespie, Elio ZappullaISBN 0679757082 (0-679-75708-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:An extraordinary new verse translation of Dantes masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poems line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.
Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dantes most important sourcesfrom Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologiansthat deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited. [via]More editions of The Inferno:
- The Inferno: ISBN 0679642617 (0-679-64261-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Inferno: ISBN 0691018324 (0-691-01832-4)
Softcover, Princeton University Press - Inferno : A New Verse Translation: ISBN 0679442804 (0-679-44280-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Inferno: ISBN 0679602097 (0-679-60209-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Inferno: ISBN 0710069960 (0-7100-6996-0)
Hardcover, Routledge and K. Paul - Inferno: ISBN 0679757082 (0-679-75708-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Ink Dark Moonby Jane Hirshfield, Mariko ArantaniISBN 0679729585 (0-679-72958-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ink Dark Moon'Book summary:These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment. [via]
Islamic Textilesby Patricia L. BakerISBN 0714125229 (0-7141-2522-9)
Hardcover, British Museum Pubns Ltd
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King Richard IIby Margaret ShewringISBN 0719046262 (0-7190-4626-2)
Softcover, Manchester University Press
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Knightby Geoff Dann, Christopher GravettISBN 0679838821 (0-679-83882-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knight'Book summary:Detailed photographs trace the origins, heyday, and eventual decline of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. Discover how armor was made, how men became knights, and what life in a medieval castle was like. "Great for reluctant readers."--School Library Journal. [via]
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Knights Templarby Stephen HowarthISBN 0689111851 (0-689-11185-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knights Templar'Book summary:Here is a complete account of one of the strangest phenomena of Medieval history: The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights of The Temple of Solomon- more popularly known as The Knights Templar. In their brotherhood, the Knights united two conflicting medieval ideals, for they were both monks and warriors, committed to God and commited to war. Charting the rise and fall of The Order, tracing the lives and deaths of its members, examining the motives of its supporters and opponents, Stephen Howarth cuts through the myths and legends and sets out the true historical facts. >[via]More editions of Knights Templar:
Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modernby Tsurayuki Ki, Mary Catherine Henkenius, Laurel Rasplica RoddISBN 0691065934 (0-691-06593-4)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Koranby N. J. DawoodISBN 071391131X (0-7139-1131-X)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The Koran Interpreted: A Translationby A.J. ArberryISBN 0684825074 (0-684-82507-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran Interpreted: A Translation'Book summary:No other book ever written, with the possible exception of the Bible, has so dramatically influenced the course of civilization as the Koran. Yet this important text remains little understood in the West. Since its first publication in 1955, Professor A.J. Arberry's translation has been the finest one available, its magnificently written verse making the Koran accessible to a Western audience. Professor Arberry has rendered the Koran into clear and lyrical English while carefully preserving the incomparable artistry of the Arabic original. "The Koran Interpreted" is universally recognized as not only the most authoritative translation but also the most beautiful one in the English language. [via]
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Koran Or, Alkoran of Mohammed the Bible of the Easby George SaleISBN 0723202613 (0-7232-0261-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Lewis Chessmen: The Enigma of the Hoardby Neil StratfordISBN 0714105872 (0-7141-0587-2)
Softcover, British Museum Pubns Ltd
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Life in a Medieval Castleby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 069000561X (0-690-00561-X)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Looking at Denmarkby Jonathan RutlandISBN 0713608838 (0-7136-0883-8)
Hardcover, Black
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Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science: From the Babylonians to the Mayaby Dick TeresiISBN 0684837188 (0-684-83718-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science: From the Babylonians to the Maya'Book summary:Did Nicolas Copernicus steal his notion that the earth orbited the sun from an Islamic astronomer who lived three centuries earlier? "The jury is still out," writes Dick Teresi, whose intriguing survey of the non-Western roots of modern science offers several worthy arguments that Copernicus in fact ripped off Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Common belief is that Westerners have been the mainspring of most scientific and technical achievement, but in Lost Discoveries Teresi shows that other cultures had arrived at much of the same knowledge at earlier dates. The Babylonians were using the Pythagorean theorem at least 15 centuries before Pythagoras drew his first triangle, and in A.D. 200 a Chinese mathematician calculated an incredibly accurate value for pi. The Mayans and other Mesoamericans were outstanding sky watchers and stargazers. The greatest advances occurred in math and astronomy, though Teresi also devotes chapters to physics, geology, chemistry, technology, and even cosmology. Sometimes he is a bit overeager to ascribe great thoughts to long-dead people (he casually suggests that "many ancient cultures had inklings of quantum theory"), but on the whole his book is a reliable and fascinating guide to the unexplored field of multicultural science. --John J. Miller [via]
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Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: The Fourteenth Century (1319-1380)by Francois AvrilISBN 0701123060 (0-7011-2306-0)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Meaning of: The Glorious Koran/an Explanatory Translation by Marmaduke Pickthallby Marmaduke William PickthallISBN 0679417362 (0-679-41736-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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While in the service of Indias Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise English interpretation of the Holy Koran. His work is honored by believer and non-believer alike for its unique combination of piety, scholarly rigor in its translation and explanatory notes, and deep feeling for the poetic beauty and moral grandeur of its Arabic original.
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Medieval Lifeby Andrew Langley, Geoff BrightlingISBN 0679880771 (0-679-88077-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Life'Book summary:The mysterious Middle Ages come alive in a pictorial overview of medieval life. Learn about the harsh lives of the peasants, the majestic manor houses of the feudal lords, the tournaments and romance of the royal court, the details of daily life, and many other remarkable aspects of this enigmatic era. [via]
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The Medieval Soldierby A. Vesey B. NormanISBN 0690528213 (0-690-52821-3)
Hardcover, Crowell
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 0716632039 (0-7166-3203-9)
Hardcover, World Book
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A Middle East Mosaic : Fragments of Life, Letters, and Historyby Bernard LewisISBN 0679451919 (0-679-45191-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscriptsby British Library, Alixe BoveyISBN 0712347453 (0-7123-4745-3)
Softcover, British Library
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The Pope, His Banker, and Veniceby Felix GilbertISBN 0674689763 (0-674-68976-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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As a dramatic account that brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, viewed through one long entrepreneurial venture, this book is unique. It juxtaposes differing institutional structures and the various political ways among Italy's city states; it also brings into sharp focus the new men of the Renaissance. Their dealings and lifestyles were original and bold. They were successful against great odds and flaunted their new wealth and position in society in building great palaces and estates and becoming patrons of art. Felix Gilbert is a master teacher of history, and his new work is as luminous as the men and events he tells about.
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The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literatureby Earl Miner, Robert E. Morrell, H. OdagiriISBN 0691008256 (0-691-00825-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relationships between Natural Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literatureby Barbara J. ShapiroISBN 0691101469 (0-691-10146-9)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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The Reign of Chivalryby Richard W. BarberISBN 071537740X (0-7153-7740-X)
Hardcover, David & Charles
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reign of Chivalry'Book summary:Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers, Richard Barber's classic The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by great social movements, great writers and great events, and analyses the legacy it passed down to later ages. The opening chapter looks at the central figure of the whole chivalric world, the knight, and asks why he is such a different figure from other fighting men. Following sections deal with chivalry in relation to the main themes of medieval literature, especially the vast cycle of Arthurian romances, and discuss the attitudes towards chivalry of writers such as Jean Froissart, whose pages cast a golden glow over the harsh realities of war. Later sections look at chivalry's influence on the Renaissance and later culture, beginning with the knight's transition to gentleman. The element by which chivalry is now most remembered, its respectful, even adoring, attitude towards women, is the subject of a wide-ranging discussion, covering both medieval reality and modern ideals. [via]
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Religions of Japan in Practiceby George J. TanabeISBN 0691057893 (0-691-05789-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Renaissance of the Twelfth Centuryby Charles Homer HaskinsISBN 0674760751 (0-674-76075-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Romance Of Tristan And Iseultby Joseph BedierISBN 0679750169 (0-679-75016-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult'Book summary:The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly laws has inspired artists through the centuries. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than this edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, William HazlittISBN 067964220X (0-679-64220-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings around the world in mediums that include literature, dance, stage, and screen.
"It is Shakespear all over, and Shakespear when he was young," declares William Hazlitt (1778-1830), acclaimed British essayist and critic, in his exuberant Introduction to this Modern Library edition.
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventuríd piteous overthrows, Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Avery, Omar KhayyamISBN 0713911344 (0-7139-1134-4)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar KhayyamISBN 0690713886 (0-690-71388-6)
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Ships and the Sea: A Chronological Reviewby Duncan HawsISBN 0690009682 (0-690-00968-2)
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Silenceby Shusaku EndoISBN 0720603544 (0-7206-0354-4)
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Sugawara No Michizane and the Early Heian Courtby Robert BorgenISBN 0674854152 (0-674-85415-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sun Tzu: The New Translationby Sun-Tzu, J. H. HuangISBN 0688124003 (0-688-12400-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun Tzu: The New Translation'Book summary:Sun-Tzu is a landmark translation of the Chinese classic that is without a doubt one of the most important books of all time. Popularly known as The Art of War, Sun-Tzu is one of the leading books on strategic thinking ever written. While other books on strategy, wisdom, and philosophy come and go, both leaders and gentle contemplators alike have embraced the writings of Sun-tzu.
Sun-Tzu is not simply another of many translations already available, but an entirely new text, based on manuscripts recently discovered in Linyi, China, that predates all previous texts by as much as one thousand years. In translating the text, researcher and interpreter J. H. Huang traced the roots of the language to before 221 B.C. to get to the original intent; Besides offering a wonderfully clear translation, Huang adds an introduction to the history behind Sun-Tzu and his own comments on the meaning of the text. In addition, Sun-Tzu includes six appendices, five of which were uncovered at Linyi and are not found in other editions.
The writings of Sun-tzu have stood the test of time, and J. H. Huang's Sun-Tzu is the edition for the next millennium and beyond. [via]More editions of Sun Tzu: The New Translation:
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Tale of Genjiby Murasaki ShikubuISBN 0679729534 (0-679-72953-4)
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the worlds first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (7941185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.
Genji is the favorite son of the emperor but also a man of dangerously passionate impulses. In his highly refined world, where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, his shifting alliances and secret love affairs create great turmoil and very nearly destroy him.
Edward Seidenstickers translation of Lady Murasakis splendid romance has been honored throughout the English-speaking world for its fluency, scholarly depth, and deep literary tact and sensitivity. [via] -
The Tale of Genjiby Shikibu Murasaki, Arthur WaleyISBN 0679424679 (0-679-42467-9)
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The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetryby Ian Hideo LevyISBN 0691000298 (0-691-00029-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Andrew M. WilkinsonISBN 0723100896 (0-7231-0089-6)
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The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing 16th-Century Dressby Ninya Mikhaila, Jane Malcolm-DaviesISBN 0713489855 (0-7134-8985-5)
Softcover, Batsford
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing 16th-Century Dress'Book summary:A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you need to create authentic clothes from the Tudor period. Computer-generated, historically accurate patterns enable you to make a wide range of garments, such as doublets, hose, bodices, skirts, hats and headdresses -- even underwear. There are also plenty of ideas for decoration and embellishment such as ruffs, cuffs, collars, embroidery and other surface decoration. The full range of Tudor society is represented, including lower- and middle-class clothing as well as the more sumptuous costumes from the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. There is also information on how to store and look after your finished clothing. In addition to the patterns, there are detailed drawings of each costume and information about historical context, including original paintings and source material. [via]
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Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Agesby Mark R. CohenISBN 069101082X (0-691-01082-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages'Book summary:The exacerbation of Arab-Israeli conflict at the time of the Six-Day War in 1967 gave birth in some quarters to a radical revision of Jewish-Arab history. At stake was the long-standing, originally Jewish, "myth of the interfaith utopia," in which medieval Muslims and Jews peacefully cohabited in Arab lands - a utopia that many Arabs claimed had continued until the emergence of modern Zionism. Some Jewish writers challenged this notion with a "countermyth of Islamic persecution", suggesting that medieval Jews fared not much better socially and politically under Islamic rule than they did under Christendom. Full of implications for Jewish, Islamic and European historians, both myths form the backdrop of this provocative book, aimed at enriching our understanding of medieval gentile-Jewish relations. It offers an in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, although not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West. The author presents a systematic comparison of the legal, economic and social situations of Jews in medieval Islam and Christendom, offering fresh insights on issues of hierarchy, marginality and ethnicity, persecution and collective memory. His analysis includes differences in theology that helped influence the way Muslims and Christians treated Jews. [via]
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The Vikingsby Else Roesdahl, Susan M. Margeson, Kirsten WilliamsISBN 0713990481 (0-7139-9048-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vikings'Book summary:For almost 300 years, from the 8th to the 11th centuries, the Vikings played an important and often decisive role in shaping the history of large parts of Europe. Their long ships took them from Scandinavia to conquer England, exploit the Franklin Empire, rule Normandy, trade in Russia, colonize Iceland, discover Greenland and America and much else. At the same time the three Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden started to take form. Towns were founded, far-flung trade routes were organized, art and poetry flourished and Christianity was introduced. This book covers the contributions of the many disciplines involved in modern Viking studies, giving a full survey of the Viking's achievements abroad. It also investigates the background which made it all possible and presents a picture of a strong, self-contained and fast developing society and culture. It discusses the sources of our knowledge, and those of the popular Viking myth. [via]
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A Visual History of Costumeby Jane AshelfordISBN 0713440996 (0-7134-4099-6)
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The Warrior's Way: England in the Viking Ageby Stephen PollingtonISBN 0713721200 (0-7137-2120-0)
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Warriors of Arthurby John Matthews, Richard Hook, Bob StewartISBN 0713721464 (0-7137-2146-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warriors of Arthur'Book summary:Information on the basics of Arthurian myth, on Britain and the Celts under Rome and in the early Dark Ages, and the role the historical Arthur might have played in the wars against the Picts and Saxons. The book also has several rewritten versions of Arthurian legends with their origin pagan Welsh names and themes, such as the 'Beheading Game' that led to the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the champion Lugh Strong-Arm who inspired the myth of Sir Launcelot. Includes detailed and colorful artwork to support both the stories and the text. [via]
Women in the Middle Agesby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 0690017243 (0-690-01724-3)
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Women's Costume of the near and Middle Eastby Jennifer ScarceISBN 0700715606 (0-7007-1560-6)
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The World of Ottoman Artby Michael LeveyISBN 0684148501 (0-684-14850-1)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Zen and Japanese Cultureby Daisetz T. SuzukiISBN 0691017700 (0-691-01770-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and Japanese Culture'Book summary:Zen and Japanese Culture is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes his conception of Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative work is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture.
Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.
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