"The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This compan...
"The 'rise of the black middle class' is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the c...
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"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters, a multilingual process involving not on...
As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering f...
"This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Hon...
The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early yea...
Guillaume de Machaut was celebrated in the later Middle Ages as a supreme poet and composer, and accordingly, his poetry was recommended as a model for aspiring...