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History:: Medieval, Renaissance |
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Barber, Richard The Reign of Chivalry.
St. Martin's Press 1980. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Quarto
208 pp "The idea of chivalry is one that has fascinated readers, poets and historians for over 200 years, since the first attempts in the mid-eighteenth century to give a critical account of it. In the nineteenth century the imagery of chivalry played a large part in the Romantic literature: Thomas Arnold thought it a pernicious influence; Tennyson turned the knights into Victorian gentlemen; and Malory became a household name. The increasing interest today in things medieval, whether they be music, art or literature, naturally includes chivalry, one of the most original concepts of the medieval mind. The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected by great social movements, great writers and great events, and analyses the legacy it passed down to later ages."
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Bradford, Ernle The Great Betrayal : The Story of the Fourth Crusade.
Dorset Press 1990 0880295988 / 9780880295987 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo
223 pp "This remarkable book chronicles the momentous events of the Fourth Crusade which altered the face of the world. It brings to life the men and their times, the background of the Crusade and its actual chronology, the raising of the Crusade in France and its movement across Europe to Venice. It was in Venice that treacherous dealings embroiled it in one of the most despicable acts in human history and left Eastern Europe open to the eventual Turkish conquest, a conquest which Constantinople had withstood for nine hundred years. In addition, the Crusade set the stage for the later Balkan problem and the inevitable division of Eastern and Western Europe which survives to this day. Contrary to most Western opinion, it also began the westward movement of artistic influence which culminated in the Renaissance. "
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10.00 USD
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Castiglione, Baldasarre The Courtier.
The Natiional Alumni 1907. Full thin leather over boards with gold gilt stamp Some chipping to head and foot and and slight wear to cover. Octavo
306 pp 3 illus. Stand alone volume from The Literature of Italy series. The binding is a facsimile of an Italian binding of the eighteenth century. The arms stamped in the center are those of Pope Clement.
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40.00 USD
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales Rendered into Modern English with Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
Covici - Friede 1934 Cloth hardcover in DJ Fair, inner hinge cracked Poor dj, some pieces missing on head and foot of spine of dj. Octavo
607 pp Nicolson, J.U. (Translator into modern English and poetic versification); Gerould, Gordon Hall (Introduction) Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). "The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. Although the tales are considered to be his magnum opus, some believe the structure of the tales is indebted to the works of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have read on an earlier visit to Italy."
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Clements, Robert and Levant, Lorna edit. Renaissance Letters: Revelations of a World Reborn.
New York University Press 1976 Hard cover in DJ. Good Good Quarto
468 pp "The editors of this excellent collection have chosen well. The letters not only represent the range of the age - with its excitement of rediscovery of ancient Greece and Rome and its enthusiasm for new discovery, science, travel, exploration, the issue of religion and its reformation, curiosity about the world - but also the gallery of interesting men and women of the age of humanism."
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Cummins, John The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk.
Edison, N.J. Castle Books: 2003. Hardcover in dust jacket. Good. Good. Octavo
306 Pages with Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. " The gentlemen of medieval and Renaissance Europe had three all-consuming passions: warfare, courtly love, and hunting with a hawk or hound—and the philosophy behind the last of the trio really encompasses them all. Hunting, the sport of kings, served as training for battle, a rite of manhood, and a powerful ritualistic pastime. In vivid and engrossing detail, here are all the appropriate methods for hunting deer, boar, wolves, foxes, bears, otters, birds, hares...even unicorns! A dazzling diversity of sources (poems, ballads, letters, court directives, royal accounts, gamekeepers' handbooks, psalters) illustrate how hunting and hawking appear throughout medieval art and literature as metaphors and motifs for everything from romance to combat."
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