The Virtuous Knight

Author : Margo Maguire
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459243316

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One Thought Consumed Her: Escape! Lucy Kendal would do anything to leave the convent she'd called home since girlhood. But never had she dreamed the world contained such danger—and such desire—as she'd experienced firsthand. Though Sir Alexander Breton had rescued her countless times, he also stirred in her a sense of wildness—something he was honor bound never to fulfill! One Emotion Compelled Him: Grief! Widowed knight Alexander Breton had gone crusading to retreat from sorrow. Indeed, he was to take monastic vows after fulfilling a sacred quest for a dying friend. But fate decreed he would instead find Lucy Kendal, the brave, beauteous innocent, who needed protection…and needed him!

Author : Craig Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153918

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A Virtuous Knight by Craig Taylor Pdf

A radical re-interpretation of the chivalric biography of Boucicaut.

Author : Robert Emmet Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Crusades
ISBN : UVA:X002015597

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Author : Daniel A. Biddle
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449750435

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Knights of Christ by Daniel A. Biddle Pdf

The true knights of the Middle Ages were passionate about their faith, their relationship with Christ, and their dedication to living by the virtues of Scripture. The order of knighthood was esteemed by all, pursued by many, yet held by only few. The lifestyles, virtues, and commitments held by these knights who were half warriors and half priests were second to none in the medieval era, as well as today. The order of knighthood provided a code to live by a set of guidelines and practices that instilled honor, strength, and valor. This same order also served to set their lives on a track that helped safeguard them against self-inflicted trouble and heartache, insuring they could enjoy God's best for their lives.

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466875463

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Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück Pdf

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

Author : R. A. Waldron
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810103281

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by R. A. Waldron Pdf

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Author : Geoffroi de Charny
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208689

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A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny Pdf

On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.

Author : Daniel A. Biddle
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781449750442

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Knights of Christ by Daniel A. Biddle Pdf

The true knights of the Middle Ages were passionate about their faith, their relationship with Christ, and their dedication to living by the virtues of Scripture. The order of knighthood was esteemed by all, pursued by many, yet held by only few. The lifestyles, virtues, and commitments held by these knightswho were half warriors and half priestswere second to none in the medieval era, as well as today. The order of knighthood provided a code to live bya set of guidelines and practices that instilled honor, strength, and valor. This same order also served to set their lives on a track that helped safeguard them against self-inflicted trouble and heartache, insuring they could enjoy Gods best for their lives.

Author : Charles L. Nelson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813194912

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The Book of the Knight Zifar by Charles L. Nelson Pdf

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.

Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UCAL:B4080490

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393334159

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) by Anonim Pdf

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).

Author : Anthony D. Baker
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048602

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Diagonal Advance by Anthony D. Baker Pdf

Reveals how the divorce of divine perfection from human perfection undergirds the divorce of theology and philosophy. This work shows how these discourses were originally joined by the Church Fathers, to how they were separated in the Middle Ages and modern Anglicanism, to how they can be rejoined.

Author : Michael Inwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192534590

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Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit by Michael Inwood Pdf

G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the modern reader in an intelligible and accurate new translation. This translation attempts to convey, as accurately as possible, the subtle nuances of the original German text. Inwood also provides a detailed commentary that explains what Hegel is saying at each stage of his argument and also discusses the philosophical issues it raises. This volume will therefore prove invaluable to those who want to get to grips with Hegel's thought processes and to follow his complex argument.

Author : Catherine LaRoche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476710136

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Knight of Love by Catherine LaRoche Pdf

In this saucy romance, an English lady turns the damsel-in-distress tale on its head as she escapes her malicious fiancé and fights for both her life and that of the lustful rebel that has become her protector. Lady Lenora Trevelyan, a naïve yet stubborn young lady born to the highest noble houses of England and Germany, finds herself betrothed to the brutal Prince Kurt von Rotenburg-Gruselstadt. But after she is cruelly bruised and flogged by her fiancé, she decides to take the reins of her fate. In the midst of a German revolution, Lenora escapes Kurt’s iron fist and embarks home to England. She quickly finds herself in the hands of a rebel group and their robust, gentle, and handsome leader, Wolfram von Wolfsbach und Ravensworth, the English Earl of Ravensworth. Lenora struggles to deny the passion she feels towards the frustratingly chivalrous Earl but her desire for him continues to bloom. Wolfram hungers nothing other than to fight for democracy and civil rights in uniting Germany and to protect what he assumes is his damsel in distress. Through nights of immeasurable pleasure, Lenora and Wolfram learn that their passion is no match for the revolutionary chaos that ensues. And when Lenora discovers that her protector’s life is threatened, she must risk everything to save her Knight of Love.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470692745

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A Companion to Chaucer by Peter Brown Pdf

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.