Broadview press ltd jan 2006 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historical documents included with this fully-annotated edition help contextualise the novel's debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Distaff Gospels (Les Évangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval women's wisdom. The women's beliefs and experiences are recounted within the narrative frame of traditional gatherings where women meet with their spindles and distaffs to spin. They share advice on such important matters as how to control errant husbands, how to predict the gender of future offspring, how to cure common diseases, and ways to deal with evil spirits, providing a rare look into the intimate lives of medieval peasant women.…