Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his ...
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“In the ten volumes of “The Nights” proper, I mostly avoided parallels of folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting and valuable to scholars, would have ...
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 The legend of Tristan and Isolde — the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love — achieved its most complete and ...
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 By this otherwise unknown author, we have a short book, coming from sometime in the 2nd century BCE. His work, the Art of Grammar ...
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Suger, the twelfth century abbot of Saint-Denis, has not received the respect and attention that he deserves. Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable have ...
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 The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek ...
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Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus’s work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings ...
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 Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despite ...
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In On Being and Cognition Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of cognition by developing his doctrine of ...
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 Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-ca. 406) is one of the great Christian Latin writers of late antiquity. Born in northeastern Spain during an era of ...
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