Product Description: The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from Italy in the fourteenth by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)...read more

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This volume includes a verse translation of Beowulf, Chaucer's General Prologue and five of the Canterbury Tales (including The Franklin's Tale) with guides to grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeen Middle English lyrics, ten popular ballads, Everyman, and The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume documents the remarkable range of E H Gombrich's achievements, from his first article published in 1930 to a book review, letters, a lecture and other pieces published as recently as April 2000. Following established bibliographical principles, it lists in chronological order all his books, articles, reviews, prefaces and other published pieces, giving each item a unique reference number...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this study, the published record of the sixth series of Panizzi Lectures given at The British Library in 1990, the author provides a detailed survey of the manuscripts and printed books that the early Tudor Humanists wrote, had written or printed for them, owned, read and used...read more

Product Description: Thomas More’s Apology (1533) is one of his most significant works of religious controversy.  More’s defense focuses on an anonymously published pamphlet, A Treatise concerning the Division between the Spirituality and Temporality, issued in 1532 and generally attributed to the jurist Christopher St...read more