Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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A completely new revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle Dore in south Cornwall -- the setting for one of the greatest European love-stories of all time, that of Tristan and Isolde. In each case the ...

This beautiful illuminated manuscript, now in Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, is one of the earliest surviving examples of a unique group of Bibles containing the most extensive cycles of biblical illustrations juxtaposed with theological and allegorical interpretative images. The present moralized Bible was produced in Paris in the first half of the 13th century, and contains over 1000 exquisitely illuminated medallions accompanied ...

Two volumes in one. In vol. I the Sources of the Albigensian Heresy are traced, and its tenets and system described. In vol. II an account is given of its suppression by Crusade and Inquisition, the former an adaptation of military measures originally taken against enemies outside the Church; the latter, a development of legal measures against enemies within the State. ...

A richly illustrated detailed history of Western architectural ornamentation. Contents: Introductory comments; Primitive and savage ornament; Egyptian ornament; Chaldea and Assyria; West Asiatic ornament: Phrygia, Lydia and Persia; Pre-Hellenic ornament: Aegean and Asiatic; Greek Ornament I and II; Etruscan and Roman ornament I and II; Pompeiian ornament; Early Christian or Basilican ornament; Byzantine ornament; Romanesque ornament: I. Italian ...

Handsomely illustrated with over 100 pictures and illustrations. A history of the inquisition, including stories of the inquisition and the inquisitor's manual. Also included in this book is an account of persecutions by Protestants, witches, the war between religion and science and the attitude of the American churches toward African slavery. ...

A treatise on the meanings and derivations of armorial bearings. Contents: origin of armorial bearings; symbolic side of heraldry; heraldic colors and metals; furs of heraldry; meaning of heraldic lines; symbolisms of the ordinaries; division lines of the shield; colors of the commons charges not symbolic; symbolisms of the common charges; crowns, mitres, Episcopal hats, etc.; examples of symbolisms of colors and armorial bearings; cadency and ...

The author gives historical portraits of various classes of men and various trades of the Middle Ages. This book is beautifully and copiously illustrated throughout. Contents: Monks of the Middle Ages; Hermits and Recluses of the Middle Ages; Pilgrims of the Middle Ages; Secular clergy of the Middle Ages; Minstrels of the Middle Ages; Knights of the Middle Ages; Merchants of the Middle Ages. ...

An attempt to glean accurate information relative to the Middle Ages by checking the accuracy of descriptions found in literature of the period. Includes information regarding travel, roads, security on the roads, various types of wayfaring peoples and religious wayfarers. Contains several illustrations. ...

Contents: expansion of the Latin Church; Christian life, sacraments and devotions; history of the monastic life; pontifical election; pontifical state; papacy and the Empire; political advance of the papacy; religious advance of the papacy; pontifical exchequer; Episcopal elections; ecclesiastical celibacy; speculative heresies; antisacerdotal heresies; conflict with the infidelity and heresy, crusades, inquisition, councils; ecclesiastical ...