"Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dan…
This translation of Notre-Dame de Paris offers Victor Hugo's epic view of mankind's history, which assumes even more importance than the novel's compelling story.
"All the articles in this volume have been inspired by the life and the work of Elisabeth van Houts. All are in one way or another reflections on the book's chosen title and of her remarkable range of interests and sympathies. In assembling the group of scholars who have written…
"All the articles in this volume have been inspired by the life and the work of Elisabeth van Houts. All are in one way or another reflections on the book's chosen title and of her remarkable range of interests and sympathies. In assembling the group of scholars who have written…
How did medieval people define themselves? And how did they balance their identities as individuals with the demands of their communities? Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages intertwines the study of identities with current scholarship to reveal their mult…
"All the articles in this volume have been inspired by the life and the work of Elisabeth van Houts. All are in one way or another reflections on the book's chosen title and of her remarkable range of interests and sympathies. In assembling the group of scholars who have written…
"All the articles in this volume have been inspired by the life and the work of Elisabeth van Houts. All are in one way or another reflections on the book's chosen title and of her remarkable range of interests and sympathies. In assembling the group of scholars who have written…
"The Crown and the Cross examines the heretofore-unstudied role of the French province of Burgundy in the 'traditional' era of the Crusades, from 1095-c.1220. Covering the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Albigensian Crusades in detail, it focuses primarily on the Capetian duke…
"The Crown and the Cross examines the heretofore-unstudied role of the French province of Burgundy in the 'traditional' era of the Crusades, from 1095-c.1220. Covering the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Albigensian Crusades in detail, it focuses primarily on the Capetian duke…
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a maj…
This text offers a reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history. This work combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived from studies of ear…
