ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona, USA.
85 Ebooks by Albrecht Classen
Albrecht Classen: The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading …
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€53.49
Albrecht Classen: Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries
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€103.94
Albrecht Classen: Water in Medieval Literature
Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water …
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€46.40
Albrecht Classen: Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social and cultural meanings across time periods, …
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€37.47
Late-Medieval German Women’s Poetry
A considerable collection of German women’s poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it wa …
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€27.99
Late-Medieval German Women’s Poetry
Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen’s careful investigation of archival material, …
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€17.99
Albrecht Classen: Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen & Wolfgang Brylla: Eros und Logos
Die literarische Bearbeitung des Erotischen scheint eine der schwierigsten künstlerischen Aufgaben zu sein, hat aber stets noch provozierend und stimulierend gewirkt. Die damit verbundenen Probleme …
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€62.40
Albrecht Classen & Eva Parra-Membrives: Bestseller – gestern und heute / Bestseller – Yesterday and Today
What is the meaning of a ‘bestseller’ for the history of literature? How do we defi ne it in the fi rst place, and what consequences does the success on the book market have for the literary …
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€54.40
Albrecht Classen & Wolfgang Brylla: Eros und Logos
Die literarische Bearbeitung des Erotischen scheint eine der schwierigsten künstlerischen Aufgaben zu sein, hat aber stets noch provozierend und stimulierend gewirkt. Die damit verbundenen Probleme …
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€62.40
Albrecht Classen: Amerikanische Satiren
Amerika ist schon ein schrulliges Land, vielleicht weil so viele Menschen aus der ganzen Welt hier ankommen, vielleicht aber auch, weil es so groß und immer noch so jung ist. Aber die politische …
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€4.99
Albrecht Classen: Violence in Courtly Medieval Literature
Violence in Courtly Medieval Culture explores the dark side of courtly literature. Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the essays in this collection …
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€81.42
Albrecht Classen: Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages
This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread …
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€64.94
Albrecht Classen: Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages
This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread …
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€64.99
Albrecht Classen: The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these …
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€58.91
Albrecht Classen: The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these …
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€58.68
Albrecht Classen: Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly …
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€64.94
Albrecht Classen: Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly …
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€64.99
Albrecht Classen: Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In …
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€48.89
Albrecht Classen: Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In …
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€48.89
Albrecht Classen: Handbook of Medieval Studies
Dieses interdisziplinäre Handbuch informiert umfassend über die mediävistische Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte und ihre wichtigsten Ergebnisse. Es stellt ein Referenzwerk dar, das es ermöglicht, sic …
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€719.00
Albrecht Classen: Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit
Der zweite Band der „Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien“ versammelt die Beiträge internationaler Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen. Beleuchtet werden die kulturhistorischen und mentalitä …
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€179.95
Albrecht Classen: Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth century played a major role in the history …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen: Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age, ’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen & Marilyn Sandidge: Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Aus heutiger Sicht mag das Thema ‚Freundschaft‘ fast trivial erscheinen, aber die Beiträger zu diesem Band argumentieren aus unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, dass schon in der Spä …
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€230.00
Albrecht Classen: Religion und Gesundheit
Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehörte zwar zu den herausragenden Ärzten seiner Zeit, war aber zugleich heftig umkämpft, wie die Entwicklung der Medizingeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts überhaup …
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Albrecht Classen: Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages
Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on English, French, or Italian documents. Here we have the …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen & Nadia Margolis: War and Peace
The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discou …
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€154.95
Albrecht Classen: Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both i …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen: Gutes Leben und guter Tod von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart
Das Streben nach einem guten Leben, mithin nach einem guten Tod, beherrschte schon immer die Philosophie, Theologie, und dann auch die Literatur und Medizin. In der Frühneuzeit intensivierte sich der …
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Albrecht Classen & Connie Scarborough: Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong behavior, and much of human culture proves to be the …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen: East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies repre …
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€179.95
Albrecht Classen: Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 2
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over …
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€273.51
Albrecht Classen: Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and w …
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€179.95
Albrecht Classen: Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over …
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€199.95
Albrecht Classen: Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 2
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over …
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€199.95
Albrecht Classen: Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 3
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over …
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€199.95
Albrecht Classen: Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of c …
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Albrecht Classen: Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different …
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€119.95
Albrecht Classen: Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approa …
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€169.95
Albrecht Classen: Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its …
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€221.84
Albrecht Classen: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term ‘magic, ‘ the contributors to this volume exami …
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€179.95
Albrecht Classen: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term ‘magic, ‘ the contributors to this volume …
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€238.21
Albrecht Classen: Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout …
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€179.95
Albrecht Classen: Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout …
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€237.48
Albrecht Classen: Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shift initiated, as there is an overwhelming body of evidence to show that in medieval and early modern t …
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Albrecht Classen: The Power of a Woman’s Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures
The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical …
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€129.95
Albrecht Classen: Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many …
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€164.95
Albrecht Classen: Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importan …
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€189.95
Albrecht Classen: Die Welt und ich, ein etwas unausgewogenes Verhältnis
Wie gerne schielt man über den Atlantik, von hüben nach drüben, mit Bewunderung und mit Spott. Wieviele Missverständnisse gibt es nicht allenthalben, und auch der Alltag erweist sich als manchmal rec …
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Eva Labouvie: Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt
Das Lexikon stellt Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zum 18. Jahrhundert vor, die sich im Raum des heutigen Sachsen-Anhalts und über ihn hinaus durch ihr Können, ihr Engagement und ihre gestalterische Kraft …
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Wolfgang Brylla & Cezary Lipiński: Im Clash der Identitäten
Albert Einstein sah den Nationalismus als eine »Kinderkrankheit, sozusagen die Masern der Menschheit« an. Heute ist diese Maxime angesichts der europaweit immer lauter werdenden rechtspopulistischen …
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Albrecht Classen: Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von …
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Albrecht Classen: Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von …
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Albrecht Classen: Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also …
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€184.95
Albrecht Classen: Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
Comprehensive survey of the legend of Charlemagne in the medieval German-speaking world.
The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle …
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€32.99
Caroline Schaumann & Sean M. Ireton: Heights of Reflection
Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, pl …
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€32.99
J. M. van der Laan & Andrew Weeks: The Faustian Century
New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character.
The Re …
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Ernst Ralf Hintz & Scott Pincikowski: The End-Times in Medieval German Literature
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
The contemporary fascination with the end of …
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Tristan E. Franklinos & Henry Hope: Revisiting the Codex Buranus
The Codex Buranus, compiled, in all likelihood, in South Tyrol in the first half of the thirteenth century, has fascinated modern scholars and performers ever since its rediscovery in 1803. Its …
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Albrecht Classen: Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Si …
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€124.95
Albrecht Classen: Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
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Albrecht Classen: Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
Comprehensive survey of the legend of Charlemagne in the medieval German-speaking world.The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle …
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€31.04
Norris J. Lacy: A History of Arthurian Scholarship
A survey of critical attention devoted to Arthurian matters.
This book offers the first comprehensive and analytical account of the development of Arthurian scholarship from the eighteenth centur …
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€32.99
Albrecht Classen: Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religions, and cultures. Beyond that, as the contributo …
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€139.95
Arletta Szmorhun & Paweł Zimniak: Menschen als Hassobjekte
Das Spannungsfeld zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen wirft mit Hass seine pathologischen Schatten. Das menschliche Leben kristallisiert sich in seinen individuellen und kollektiven, privaten und …
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€50.00
Albrecht Classen: Secret in Medieval Literature
The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those …
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€37.47
Albrecht Classen: Deep Poetic Gazes Into the World
Poetic reflections about the self, our society, nature, politics, values, truth, love, passion, and also faith. Das E-Book Deep Poetic Gazes Into the World wird angeboten von tredition und wurde mit …
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€9.99
Will Hasty: German Literature of the High Middle Ages
New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.
The High Middle Ages, and particularly the period from 1180 to 1230, sa …
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Edelgard E DuBruck & Barbara I Gusick: Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 28
The focus of the volume, in addition to standard features such as the bibliographical update on 15th-c. theater, is on late-medieval authors as literary critics.
Founded in 1977 as the publicatio …
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Albrecht Classen: Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this …
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€139.95
Rolf J. Goebel: A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings .
As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound …
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€32.99
Rolf J. Goebel: Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound …
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€31.27
Albrecht Classen: Deep Words and Epiphanies
englische Haikus, die über die Welt, Natur und die Menschen reflektieren und zum Nachdenken anregen. Sie sind alle in Reaktion auf meine eigenen Fotos entstanden, die ich oftmals auf FB …
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€9.99
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht , c.1350
Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.
That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, vi …
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€27.99
Albrecht Classen: English Translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gerhart
To expand our understanding of medieval literature in its wider context, there is a desperate need for more translations, since not every text in the Middle Ages was written in Latin, English, or …
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€96.14
Albrecht Classen: Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)
Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The …
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€117.49
Albrecht Classen: Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen
Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduced here through the English translation of a …
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€112.02
Albrecht Classen: Translation of Johannes Pauli’s Didactic Tales
The Franciscan preacher and author Johannes Pauli published a highly influential collection of sermon narratives, Schimpf und Ernst, in 1522. This was a major bestseller well into the 17th and 18th …
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€129.08
Albrecht Classen: Haikus – Hawai’ian Experiences
Viele träumen von Hawai’i, dem 50. Staat der USA. In der Werbung gibt es viele beeindruckende Bilder von diesen Inseln, aber nur wenn man dort länger lebt und mit der Kamera genauer hinschaut, und …
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€2.99
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, c.1350
First English translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been …
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€25.12
