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Author : James Bruce Ross,Mary Martin McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : UCSC:32106012830342
Author : James Bruce Ross (ed)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417105368
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101173749
In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars—that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window."
Author : James Bruce Ross,Mary Martin McLaughlin
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106009307577
An anthology of writings from the Renaissance, including history, biography, essays, memoirs, poetry, religious works, and more.
Author : James Bruce Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:1020188514
Author : John Raymond Shinners
Publisher : Readings in Medieval Civilizat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 144260106X
This new edition is a marvelous teaching tool and true feast for the intellectually curious. - Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University
Author : James Bruce Ross (1902- Ed)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1086708789
Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009787651
First hand accounts of the Middle Ages including letters, essays, state and church documents, poetry and ballads.
Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140245660
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101127971
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101173756
The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0140150625
The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174005
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.
Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101128091
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli’s contribution to Western political theory.The Portable Machiavelli brings together the complete texts of The Prince, Belfagor, and Castruccio Castracani, newly translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa especially for this volume. In addition, the editors include an abridged version of The Discourses; a play, The Mandrake Root, in its entirety; seven private letters; and selections from The Art of War and The History of Florence.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174432
The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.