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With an insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more, this title reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance.

This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the divine to a very explicit upholding of a sense of dichotomy between literary text and sacred scripture.

Collective nouns such as majorite or foule have long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French.

Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work.

Terence Cave's work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century.

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? 'Pre-histories' and 'afterlives', methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer.

This well-presented contribution to settlement archaeology examines the archaeological and historical evidence for the settlements of that most nomadic of peoples, the Vikings.

The definitive record of the monuments in Leeds Parish Church, dating from medieval times to the present day. Set out in near-facsimilie of the original manuscript, and illustrated with line drawings and photographs, this book contains an historical introduction, detailed notes on individual memorials, and a comprehensive index.

The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting, multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self-) invention.

Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre.

The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant.

The Hellenistic paintings found in a pair of tombs at Marisa/Maresha in Israel were among the most important surviving examples of Hellenistic art to survive into recent times.

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004.

This collection of papers, first delivered at the BAA's annual conference in 2002, celebrates medieval Rochester, including both cathedral and castle, an outstanding pair of surviving monuments to the power of contemporary church and state.

Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth.

Of the three Cistercian houses in north Staffordshure, Hulton Abbey is the only one to have been properly investigated. Founded in 1219, it was a poor monastic house which was dissolved in 1538.

This volume contains the correspondence of Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet of the Romantic age. The letters document the background - the difficult circumstances, the troubled family relationships, the friendships with other writers - against which a compelling poetic voice came to maturity.

This study shows that the potential for subversion personified by the German writer W. G. Sebald's solitary males is essential for understanding his work, while also demonstrating the contribution that Sebald made to the German tradition of queer writing.

Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) e uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della societa.

This volume is the definitive account of the excavation which led to the discovery of the magnificent hoard of 28 pieces of Pictish silverware on St Ninians Isle, Shetland in 1958.

This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

Eighteenth-century sensibilite has always been controversial. In fact, the term itself refers to complex forms of physical and emotional responsiveness, and Lewis's study investigates the fictional exploration of various key problems of sentimental response that were at the heart of eighteenth-century moral, epistemological and aesthetic debates.

Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884-1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as 'The Hidden One', is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic.