Download or read book Joust of Honor written by Paul Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling creators of the Edge Chronicles deliver a second helping of knightly adventures for middle-graders, in which Lance becomes caught in a web of sorcery and secrecy that even he may not be able to untangle. Illustrations.
Download or read book Venice s Most Loyal City written by Stephen D. Bowd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.
Download or read book Joust written by Mercedes Lackey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National best-selling fantasy author Mercedes Lackey creates a vivid, dynamic fusion of the cultures of ancient Egypt and legendary Atlantis with the most exciting and believable portrayal of dragons ever imagined. The first book in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster-one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon...
Download or read book The Life and Works of John Heywood written by Robert Whitney Bolwell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Works of John Heywood written by Robert W. Bolwell and published by Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature. This book was released on 1921 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of John Heywood during the 16th century from his early life, to court entertainer, Catholic exile, and his dramatic and non-dramatic works.
Download or read book Jean de Saintre written by Antoine de La Sale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older and much more experienced lady, Madame des Belles Cousines, the youth grows into an accomplished knight, winning numerous tournaments and even leading a crusade against the infidels for the love of Madame. When he reaches maturity, Jean starts to rebel against Madame's domination by seeking out chivalric adventures on his own. She storms off to her country estates and takes up with the burly abbot of a nearby monastery. The text moves into darker and uncourtly territory when Jean discovers their liaison and lashes out to avenge his lost love and honor, ruining Madame's reputation in the process. Composed in the waning years of chivalry and at the threshold of the print revolution, Jean de Saintré incorporates disquisitions on sin and virtue, advice on hygiene and fashion, as well as lengthy set pieces of chivalric combat. Antoine de La Sale, who was, by turns, a page, a royal tutor, a soldier, and a judge at tournaments, embellished his text with wide-ranging insights into chivalric ideology, combat techniques, heraldry and warfare, and the moral training of a young knight. This superb translation—the first in nearly a hundred years—contextualizes the story with a rich introduction and a glossary and is suitable for scholars, students, and general readers alike. An encyclopedic compilation of medieval culture and a window into the lost world of chivalry, Jean de Saintré is a touchstone for both the late Middle Ages and the emergence of the modern novel.
Download or read book Medieval Jousts and Tournaments written by John Green and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the thrills, spectacle, and excitement of tournament life in 43 realistic drawings: a free-for-all on an open battlefield, a dying knight receiving last rites, much more.
Download or read book Lake of Skulls written by Paul Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chockful of suspense, humor, and action-packed illustrations, topped off witha surprising and twisted climax, this first episode in a new adventure seriesintroduces knight-for-hire Free Knight, who is tapped to recover an enchantedcrown from the legendary Lake of Skulls.
Download or read book The Enchantress of Florence written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world’s most important living writers.
Download or read book The Complete Romances of Chr tien de Troyes written by David Staines and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately . . . it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétien's originals. . . . The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style. . . . [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." —Speculum "[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a pleasure to read." —Library Journal "These are, above all, stories of courtly love and of knights tested in their devotion to chivalric ideals (with passion and duty often at odds); but they are also thrilling wonder stories of giants, wild men, tame lions, razor-sharp bridges and visits to the Other World." —Washington Post Book World "This tastefully produced book will be the standard general translation for many years to come." —Choice This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes' famous romances.
Download or read book The Knights of Takius written by and published by Fire & Flame Publishing Com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echoes Of Honor written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Admiral Honor Harrington, a genetically engineered space warrior, embarks on a mission to free prisoners of war held by the People's Republic on the planet Hades.
Download or read book Manhood and the Duel written by J. Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the aggression inherent in single combat, masculinity could be understood in spatial terms, social terms, or developmental terms. Low considers each category, developing a corrective to recent analyses of gender in early modern culture by scrutinizing the relationship between social rank and the understanding of masculinity. Reading a variety of documents, including fencing manuals and anti-dueling tracts as well as plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and other dramatists, Low demonstrates the interaction between the duel as practice, as stage-device, and as locus of early modern cultural debate.
Download or read book Joust written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National best-selling fantasy author Mercedes Lackey creates a vivid, dynamic fusion of the cultures of ancient Egypt and legendary Atlantis with the most exciting and believable portrayal of dragons ever imagined. The first book in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster-one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon...
Download or read book Arthurian Romances Tales and Lyric Poetry written by Kim Vivian and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartmann von Aue (c. 1170&–1215) is universally recognized as the first medieval German poet to create world-class literature. He crafted German into a language of refined literary expression that paved the way for writers such as Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Wolfram von Eschenbach. This volume presents the English reader for the first time with the complete works of Hartmann in readable, idiomatic English. Hartmann's literary efforts cover all the major genres and themes of medieval courtly literature. His Arthurian romances, Erec and Iwein, which he modeled after Chr&étien de Troyes, introduced the Arthurian world to German audiences and set the standard for later German writers. His lyric poetry treats many aspects of courtly love, including fine examples of the crusading song. His dialogue on love delineates the theory of courtly relationships between the sexes and the quandary the lover experiences. His verse novellas Gregorius and Poor Heinrich transcend the world of mere human dimensions and examine the place and duties of the human in the divine scheme of things. Longfellow would later use Poor Heinrich in his Golden Legend. Arthurian Romances, Tales, and Lyric Poetry is a major work destined to place Hartmann at the center of medieval courtly literature for English readers.
Download or read book Farewell to the King written by Johann Fuchs and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final installment of the trilogy of King William and Queen Margaret. The story led to the end of the lives of William and Margaret and the foundation of the fictional House of Rochester. It follows them in their final years as they become the beloved monarchs. The story follows the general fictional English history and ends with the new generation of English monarchs. The new generation is revived by a young sassy princess who defies the government and gains the respect of her people.
Download or read book The History of Chivalry Volume I of 2 written by Charles Mills and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2) by Charles Mills
