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Book Besieging the Castle of Ladies

Download or read book Besieging the Castle of Ladies written by Thomas M. Greene and published by Bernardo Lecture Series. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the mysterious motif of the castle defined by women across several centuries, regions, and cultural expressions.

Book The Ladies  Repository

Download or read book The Ladies Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Book Memoirs of Royal Ladies

Download or read book Memoirs of Royal Ladies written by Emily Sarah Holt and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arthurian Name Dictionary

Download or read book The Arthurian Name Dictionary written by Christopher W. Bruce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive encyclopedia of characters, places, objects, and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table. Draws from all significant source between Gildas' De Excidio Britanniae written about 540 AD and Tennyson's 19th-century Idylls of the King, including versions from throughout Europe. The entries range from a short identifying sentence to nearly ten pages for the king himself. Each is referenced to a source, which are presented in a endtable showing author and tit date, form, and langua description; keywords from the entries; and recent editions, a vital bit of information such references usually neglect. The cross-referencing is fairly good, often done as a full entry identifying a name as a variant of another, so the lack of an index is not a problem. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Ladies  Repository

Download or read book The Ladies Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Female Biography

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  • Author : Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
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  • Release : 1834
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Female Biography written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tait s Edinburgh magazine

Download or read book Tait s Edinburgh magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heroic Women of History  Comprising Some of the Most Remarkable Examples of Female Courage  Disinterestedness  and Self sacrifice  of Ancient and Modern Times

Download or read book Heroic Women of History Comprising Some of the Most Remarkable Examples of Female Courage Disinterestedness and Self sacrifice of Ancient and Modern Times written by Henry Clay Watson and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Women s Military History

Download or read book A Companion to Women s Military History written by Barton Hacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women’s military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.

Book Japanese Girls and Women

Download or read book Japanese Girls and Women written by Alice Mabel Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antiquary

Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus

Download or read book Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus written by Henry Foley and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Waverley Novels

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  • Author : Walter Scott
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  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 634 pages

Download or read book Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Waverley Novels

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  • Author : Walter Scott
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  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book The Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Story of the Grail

Download or read book The Complete Story of the Grail written by Chrétien (de Troyes) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their surprising responses to Chrétien's theme - not least their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chrétien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction withone or more of the Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High Bookof the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.

Book Vengeance in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Vengeance in the Middle Ages written by Paul R. Hyams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. A diverse assortment of interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the Middle Ages. Each essay attempts to clarify the multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval context”a particular region, a particular text, a particular social movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, including the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical periods.

Book Noble deeds of woman     Seventh edition  etc

Download or read book Noble deeds of woman Seventh edition etc written by Elizabeth STARLING and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: