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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Nibelungenlied
Author: Daniel Bussier ShumwayPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017995541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Plays of Roswitha
Author: HrotsvithaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian drama, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Medieval Literature in Translation
Author: Charles W. JonesPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486415813
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1025
Book Description
This comprehensive anthology contains exquisite cross-section of Western medieval literature, from Boethius and Augustine to Dante, Abelard, Marco Polo, and Villon, in masterful translations. "No better anthology exists." — Commonweal.
Poets and Poetry of Germany
Author: Mme. Lucien Davesiès de PontèsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Culture of the Teutons
Author: Vilhelm GronbechPublisher:
ISBN: 9781956887914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vilhelm Grønbech was a preeminent professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen in the early twentieth century. His vast breadth of knowledge of world cultures and religions had profound effect on Danish academic thought, and in The Culture of the Teutons, Grønbech turns his keen analysis toward his own culture, that of Germanic Europe. Grønbech draws upon a rich panoply of sources in the Norse sagas, legal rulings, and historical figures both living and mythological to deliver for us a compelling thesis of the tribes that harried Rome, of the Viking Age, of pagan rituals and later widespread adoption of Christianity as much more than the sum of bloodthirsty plundering, as less charitable historians have condemned them. Instead, we delve into a culture alien to that of Tacitus or the Greeks, misunderstood for hundreds if not thousands of years. In seeming contradiction, the pagan worldview is foreign compared to our own today, or to the culturally imperialistic Romans who documented their "barbarian" foes, yet one cannot be truly estranged from his own ancestors. The genius of The Culture of the Teutons lies in Grønbech's ability to weave together what at first glance appear polar opposites, but in reality are inexorably linked. The various Germanic tribes of Europe, the Teutons, place unshakeable value on honor, family, and religion to create a society perplexingly carnal yet sophisticated, advanced yet close to nature. And nowhere is this clearer than in their settlement of inhospitable lands such as Iceland or the Faroe Islands, in which they brought order to a seemingly untamable environment. The impact of the peoples of Northern Europe on world history today is so vast no amount of spilled ink can pay it justice. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to bring this expansive tome back into the limelight for a modern English-speaking audience, now complete with a substantial glossary, index, and hundreds of footnotes to confer important cultural context that would have been assumed common knowledge to its intended Danish audience. Volume II, published in 1912, hones in on the mystic aspects of paganism, the customs of gift giving, the buying and selling of land, and a deep exploration into the various Norse gods.
Ruodlieb
Author: Edwin H. ZeydelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Deutsches Heldenbuch
Author: Ernst MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018258614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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