Author: Bella Jewel
Publisher: Swerve
ISBN: 1250183030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Originally published in the USA Today bestselling collection Eye Candy, Unsafe Haven is a sexy, sinister thrill ride from USA Today bestselling author Bella Jewel! After escaping an abusive boyfriend, Jade finally feels like her life is coming around: She works at a safe haven for people who’ve had similar experiences, and there’s a gorgeous handyman, Oliver, whom she can’t stop thinking about. But at Sanctuary’s Halloween party, eerie things start happening and they are starting to feel real. Is this an elaborate Halloween prank, or has Jade’s past come back to haunt her?
Unsafe Haven
Author: Bella Jewel
Publisher: Swerve
ISBN: 1250183030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Originally published in the USA Today bestselling collection Eye Candy, Unsafe Haven is a sexy, sinister thrill ride from USA Today bestselling author Bella Jewel! After escaping an abusive boyfriend, Jade finally feels like her life is coming around: She works at a safe haven for people who’ve had similar experiences, and there’s a gorgeous handyman, Oliver, whom she can’t stop thinking about. But at Sanctuary’s Halloween party, eerie things start happening and they are starting to feel real. Is this an elaborate Halloween prank, or has Jade’s past come back to haunt her?
Publisher: Swerve
ISBN: 1250183030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Originally published in the USA Today bestselling collection Eye Candy, Unsafe Haven is a sexy, sinister thrill ride from USA Today bestselling author Bella Jewel! After escaping an abusive boyfriend, Jade finally feels like her life is coming around: She works at a safe haven for people who’ve had similar experiences, and there’s a gorgeous handyman, Oliver, whom she can’t stop thinking about. But at Sanctuary’s Halloween party, eerie things start happening and they are starting to feel real. Is this an elaborate Halloween prank, or has Jade’s past come back to haunt her?
The Knights of Modernism
Author: Branko Vraneš
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662619326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662619326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.
The Knight's Ransom
Author: Laura Valentine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Book of the Knight Zifar
Author: Charles L. Nelson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements—his horse—Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures—alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous—until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements—his horse—Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures—alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous—until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.
Gods of Desterrados
Author: Jeannie Mane
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728357373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
It’s a race against time as the Chess Game of Life continues for Knight Squad and the Other realm participants. Priest and his team inadvertently reveal the shocking discovery of their true past life identities through an ancient Koa realm time travel technique. Priest and his men utilize the kapu ‘forbidden’ ability against the advice of another elite team who finally agree to intervene for the safety of the realms. It is an unprecedented occurrence and the realm who makes an appearance is none other than the Divine Archangelics of Angelic realm. Multiple realms are affected by Priest and Franco's decision and the Civil wars threaten to spill into the lives of the other teammates' realms. Alliances are soon to be cemented against the Tunui as another terrible Divine secret is revealed involving Angelic realm. Will Knight Squad learn their true destined paths before Chaos prevails? Meanwhile, another Tiafau realm bloodline is introduced back into Knight Squad who shares a long rivalry against the Tagaloa brethren. Will they settle their differences to fight alongside one another again? Such is the game of the Cosmos and the ever changing destined paths of the Divine gods.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728357373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
It’s a race against time as the Chess Game of Life continues for Knight Squad and the Other realm participants. Priest and his team inadvertently reveal the shocking discovery of their true past life identities through an ancient Koa realm time travel technique. Priest and his men utilize the kapu ‘forbidden’ ability against the advice of another elite team who finally agree to intervene for the safety of the realms. It is an unprecedented occurrence and the realm who makes an appearance is none other than the Divine Archangelics of Angelic realm. Multiple realms are affected by Priest and Franco's decision and the Civil wars threaten to spill into the lives of the other teammates' realms. Alliances are soon to be cemented against the Tunui as another terrible Divine secret is revealed involving Angelic realm. Will Knight Squad learn their true destined paths before Chaos prevails? Meanwhile, another Tiafau realm bloodline is introduced back into Knight Squad who shares a long rivalry against the Tagaloa brethren. Will they settle their differences to fight alongside one another again? Such is the game of the Cosmos and the ever changing destined paths of the Divine gods.
The Knights of the Cross
Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Bloody Good
Author: Allen J. Frantzen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226260852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226260852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.
The Peace of God
Author: Thomas Head
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.
The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant Don Quixote of the Mancha
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knights and knighthood
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knights and knighthood
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Faery Queen and Her Knights
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description