European ancient literature

Chrétien de Troyes worked on his novel Yvain ou Chevalier au lion, most scholars believe between 1172 and 1181. The text survives in seven manuscripts (not c...

The volume includes the best examples of Old Scandinavian literature of the Viking Age - selected songs about the gods and heroes of the Elder Edda, poetry o...

In the middle of the 12th century, having conquered overseas lands and having found nothing remarkable there except pigeon mail, Europe was alarmed by the ne...

“Furious Roland” or “Furious Orlando” (Italian: Orlando furioso) is a chivalric poem by the Italian writer Ludovico Ariosto, which had a significant influenc...

“Furious Roland” or “Furious Orlando” (Italian: Orlando furioso) is a chivalric poem by the Italian writer Ludovico Ariosto, which had a significant influenc...

The collection of short stories by the Queen of Navarre (1492 - 1549) was conceived as a French analogue to Boccaccio's Decameron. In the collection, the the...

In this book you will learn from A to Z in Python such as Python Tutorial, File Handling, Python NumPy, Python Matplotlib, Python SciPy, Machine Learning...

The book presents a poetic translation of a poetic chronicle of the 15th century, which contains a story about the famous Swedish uprising (1434-1436) led by...

Titus Livy (59 BC - 17 AD) belongs to that brilliant galaxy of writers and poets, thinkers and historians who are usually attributed to the so-called golden ...

One of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia appeared in 1516. The formidable Henry VII...

“Where are you, where are you, my share? Where are you, my share? I would go and ask all the sides, all the edges!..”

The Dominicans were a brotherhood of philosophers, while the Franciscans were a brotherhood of singers. Dominico, with the gift of communication, and not vio...