German writer, philologist, lyricist of the era of late romanticism Gustav Schwab devoted himself entirely to the study of ancient and German epic heritage. ...
Distant unknown countries and cities, religion, customs and life of the people who inhabited them - Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who traveled through Asia...
The book includes prose texts written by the famous English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) after he became rector of St. Paul's Cathedral in London...
The most famous work of the “first encyclopedist of the Middle Ages,” Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c. 570–636), is a comprehensive system of human knowledge t...
"Etymologies. Book VIII: On Churches and Sects" is a part of the outstanding work of the outstanding Dutch philosopher and etymologist, who is called an ancient...
For twelve years now, the sorcerer Prospero has been living on a mysterious island inhabited by magical creatures, deprived of his crown and homeland by his ...
The book publishes for the first time a complete translation into Russian of the work of the German medieval mystic Heinrich Suso (c. 1295-1366) “The Book of...
The work of the Italian diplomat, writer and poet Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) “The Courtier,” combining memories of the court life of the Duchy of Urb...
The anonymous 13th-century poem “Bestiary of Love in Verse” is a kind of discourse on the nature of love; in it, the material of medieval bestiaries is reint...
The book contains extensive sections of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart (c. 1337–1410?), which cover the background of the Hundred Years' War and its earlie...
The book is the next edition of the collection “Ancient Sources on the History of the Peoples of Eastern Europe”, the initiative to publish which belongs to ...
