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All You Need Is Love

Peter Brown , Steven Gaines

Small Islands, Big Issues

Peter Brown , Nabila Gaertner-Mazouni

«This work highlights the need for a holistic approach to the confounding issues confronting the region, confronting our age. In reminding us of the many vulnerabilities and vitalities of Oceanian communities and island worlds, it shows the potential for dialogue...

A New Companion to Chaucer

Peter Brown

The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of...

Reading Chaucer

Peter Brown

This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales....

The Rise of Western Christendom

Peter Brown

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid...

Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

Peter Brown

Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval...

Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

Peter Brown

Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval...

Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage

Peter Brown , Suzana Suzana Ograjenšek

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading...

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500

Peter Brown

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. ...

A Companion to Chaucer

Peter Brown

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

Terence, The Comedies

Peter Brown

Terence (?184-159 BC) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. His plays have been imitated by authors as diverse as the nun Hrothswitha in the tenth century and P. G. Wodehouse in the...

Modern Meteor Science

Peter Brown , Robert Hawkes , Ingrid Mann

This volume contains leading edge research and authoritative reviews in meteor science. It provides a comprehensive view of meteoroid research including the dynamics, sources and distribution of these bodies. Techniques for investigation of meteor phenomena in the book...

À travers un trou d'aiguille

Peter Brown

Jésus enseigna à ses disciples qu’il était plus facile à un chameau de passer par le trou d’une aiguille qu’à un riche d’entrer dans le royaume des cieux. Or, à l’époque de la chute de Rome, l’Église était devenue démesurément riche. À travers un trou d’aiguille est...