Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings 1579580203, 9781579580209

The Middle Ages and Renaissance

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How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology 9780226075389

This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson arg

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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 9780812203745

The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequen

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Myths and Legends of Christmastide

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The Legends and Myths of Hawaii 9783748128366

The legends are of a little archipelago which was unknown to the civilized world until the closing years of the last cen

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A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 9781350074453, 9781350074484, 9781350074477

This volume traces the history of Western philosophy of education in Antiquity. Between the fifth century BCE and the fi

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Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and ... in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 46) 9782503590448, 2503590446

The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of

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Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance 9780691221953, 0691040435, 0691002193

For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illu

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Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 47) 9782503597034, 2503597033

The essays in this collection explore the motives and methods of marginalization throughout pre-modern Europe, Japan, th

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Paradigm Shifts During the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance: Epochs, Epistemes, and Cultural-historical Concepts (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages ... in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 44) 9782503583044, 2503583040

For a long time we have naively talked about the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and other periods, but at closer analysis

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