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Middle English Marvels
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Tara Williams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-14 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinct
Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Jacques Le Goff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-02 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One
The Book of Marvels and Travels
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: John Mandeville
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Man
The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands
Language: en
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Authors: Sergey Minov
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This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels
Marvel and Artefact
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: A. J. Ford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-02 - Publisher: BRILL

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Marvel and Artefact examines the manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v; and Oxford, Bodleian