Product Description: The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis Green's life-long and wide-ranging quest for evidence that would broaden our understanding of those complex periods and correct the misapprehensions which have gathered about them...read more

Product Description: Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the purest Spanish prose before the immortal Don Quixote of Cervantes written two centuries later...read more

Product Description: This book was first published in 1964 by Castalia, then in 1994 by LinguaText, Ltd., and now (2005) by Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs.

Product Description: Light wear on dust jacket, I see NO writing throughout.

Product Description: "Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. They began with writings in Latin and, eventually, made their way into the vernacular languages of Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, John Keller integrates clinical understandings and the gospel message by using the model of Alcoholics Anonymous, identifying distorted perceptions and opening the way for spiritual and emotional growth.

Product Description: Book by Keller, John E.