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Living in the Future

Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales

By: Susan Nakley

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Living in the Future

Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales

By: Susan Nakley

Looks beneath Chaucer's vision of a British past to discover a deeply politicized fantasy of England's national identity

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University of Michigan Press

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0472130447

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9780472130443

Transforming Talk

The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England

By: Susan E. Phillips

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Transforming Talk

The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England

By: Susan E. Phillips

In recent decades, scholars have shown an increasing interest in gossip’s social, psychological, and literary functions. The first book-length study of medieval gossip, Transforming Talk shifts the current debate and argues that gossip functions primarily as a transformative discourse, influencing not only social interactions but also literary and religious practices. Known as “jangling” in Middle English, gossip was believed to corrupt parishioners, disturb the peace, and cause civil and spiritual unrest. But gossip was also a productive cultural force; it reconfigured pastoral practice, catalyzed narrative experimentation, and restructured social and familial relationships. Transforming Talk will appeal to a diverse audience, including scholars interested in late medieval culture, religion, and society; Chaucer; and women in the Middle Ages.

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250

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Penn State Press

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0271047399

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9780271047393

Animal Encounters

Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain

By: Susan Crane

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Animal Encounters

Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain

By: Susan Crane

Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206304

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9780812206302

The Middle Ages

From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

By: Susan Wise Bauer

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The Middle Ages

From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

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600

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Peace Hill Press

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0971412944

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9780971412941

The Performance of Self

Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

By: Susan Crane

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The Performance of Self

Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

By: Susan Crane

Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period. Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201701

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9780812201703

Talking to the Gods

Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune

By: Susan Johnston Graf

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Talking to the Gods

Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune

By: Susan Johnston Graf

Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organization for various periods from 1890 to 1930. Yeats, of course, is both a canonical and well-loved poet. Machen is revered as a master of the weird tale. Blackwood's work dealing with the supernatural was popular during the first half of the twentieth century and has been influential in the development of the fantasy genre. Fortune's books are acknowledged as harbingers of trends in second-wave feminist spirituality. Susan Johnston Graf examines practices, beliefs, and ideas engendered within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and demonstrates how these are manifest in each author's work, including Yeats's major theoretical work, A Vision.

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180

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State University of New York Press

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1438455577

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9781438455570

Lassie Come-Home

An Adaptation of Eric Knight's Classic Story

By: Susan Hill

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Lassie Come-Home

An Adaptation of Eric Knight's Classic Story

By: Susan Hill

Celebrating the 75th anniversary"--Cover.

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Macmillan

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1627792945

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A True and Perfect Knight

By: Susan Charnley

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A True and Perfect Knight

By: Susan Charnley

King Edward orders Genevieve Greyford, widow of the king's best friend who had turned traitor, to marry his most trusted knight, Sir Haven de Sessions. Bowing to their king's will, they consummate their vows in a night of fire. They find a need that scorches with intensity--a need that drives them to seek the the truth about each other and about their past.

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326

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Leisure Books

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0843949457

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9780843949452

All Things Are Possible

Songs and Prose

By: Kerry Susan Drake

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All Things Are Possible

Songs and Prose

By: Kerry Susan Drake

This book is a collection of songs and prose. ldsradiostation.com

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503508129

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9781503508125

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

By: Susan Morris

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Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

By: Susan Morris

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.

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eBook Partnership

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1999767055

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9781999767051

Traveling Women

Narrative Visions of Early America

By: Susan Clair Imbarrato

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Traveling Women

Narrative Visions of Early America

By: Susan Clair Imbarrato

A study, with the actual accounts, of early American women's travel writings. Together these records and the editor's analysis, challenge assumptions about the westward settlement of the US and women's role in that enterprise.

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Ohio University Press

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082141674X

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9780821416747

The Secret of the Sunrise

By: Susan Hayward-Tonkin

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The Secret of the Sunrise

By: Susan Hayward-Tonkin

Dragons fight Demons in a battle to protect the Sunrise. A child and her Dragon, a powerful old Magician, and members the Royal Court all find themselves in a blazing battle, assisted by the elves and dwarfs. A beautiful mythical creature holds the key to victory, as they fight courageously for their lives, for their King and for their future.

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Lulu.com

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1326787969

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9781326787967

The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease

By: Susan Wise Bauer,Peter Buffington

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The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease

By: Susan Wise Bauer,Peter Buffington

A workbook to accompany the acclaimed series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind. In Writing with Ease, Susan Wise Bauer lays out an alternative plan for teaching writing, one that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods. The Complete Writer workbooks (each sold separately) complement this plan with lessons, student worksheets, and teacher instructions for every day of writing instruction. Each covers one year of study. Used along with Writing with Ease, The Complete Writer, Level One (first in a four-volume set) complete the elementary-grade writing curriculum.

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Peace Hill Press

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1942968175

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9781942968177

Learn Chess the Right Way!

Book 1: Must-know Checkmates

By: Susan Polgar

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Learn Chess the Right Way!

Book 1: Must-know Checkmates

By: Susan Polgar

THE POLGAR WAY TO BETTER CHESS! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Each of the five volumes will consist of 500 puzzles. In Book 1, the focus is on one-move checkmate exercises. In each of the first five chapters, a specific piece delivers checkmate (in Chapter 1 – the queen, Chapter 2 – the rook, and so on). In Chapters 6-8, checkmates which involve special tactics (such as pins, discovered attacks, etc.) are introduced. Chapter 9 has a mixed collection of puzzles, without any hint about which piece is to deliver checkmate. Chapter 10 builds on the previous 9 chapters, and introduces basic patterns of checkmate in two moves. With over 40 years of experience as a world-class player and coach, international grandmaster Susan Polgar has developed the most effective way to help young players and beginners – Learn Chess the Right Way. Let her show you the way to understanding the most common and critical patterns and let her show you the way to becoming a better player. SUSAN POLGAR is a winner of four Women’s World Championships and the top-ranked woman chess player in the United States. She became the #1 woman player in the world at 15 and remained in the top 3 for over 20 years. In 2013, she received the U.S. Coach of the Year Award and the following year, she was named the Chess Trainer of the Year by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). She thus became the first person in history to be accorded both honors. Under her guidance, SPICE chess teams at both Texas Tech University and Webster University have won a combined five consecutive National Division I Collegiate Chess Championships.

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SCB Distributors

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1941270417

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9781941270417

Tarot Correspondences

Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers

By: T. Susan Chang

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Tarot Correspondences

Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers

By: T. Susan Chang

Use the Power of Correspondences to Breathe New Life and Magic into Your Tarot Practice Correspondences are woven into the structure of every modern deck. Focusing on four main systems of correspondences—the elements, astrology, numbers, and Kabbalah—this remarkable book helps you integrate the images, associations, and myths that have allowed the tarot to resonate across many centuries and cultures. Author T. Susan Chang provides comprehensive correspondence tables for court cards, majors, minors, and the four suits, making this book your must-have resource whether you're a student, professional reader, spiritual seeker, or magical practitioner. Tarot Correspondences also shares methods for working with correspondences in readings, focusing on elements, astrology, numbers, or Kabbalah separately or in combination. You'll also discover meditation and visualization exercises, creative interpretation techniques, and tips for using correspondences to enhance spells and magical rituals. With this book, you'll create a powerful system that helps you journey deep into the cards and strengthen your practice. Praise: "Tarot Correspondences is a great investment in your tarot journey whether you're a new or seasoned reader."—New Spirit Journal

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738755761

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9780738755762

Book's by Susan Knight

Living in the Future

Living in the Future

Transforming Talk

Transforming Talk

Animal Encounters

Animal Encounters

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages

The Performance of Self

The Performance of Self

Talking to the Gods

Talking to the Gods

Lassie Come-Home

Lassie Come-Home

A True and Perfect Knight

A True and Perfect Knight

All Things Are Possible

All Things Are Possible

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

Traveling Women

Traveling Women

The Secret of the Sunrise

The Secret of the Sunrise

The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease

The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease

Learn Chess the Right Way!

Learn Chess the Right Way!

Tarot Correspondences

Tarot Correspondences

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