A collection of translations of Breton legends and fairy tales, collected and processed at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. The book is i...

About fifteen years ago, employees of the department of classical literatures of the West and comparative literature of IMLI began to prepare an updated reis...

What price can you pay to gain secret knowledge? To be known as a great necromancer, an all-knowing wizard? Are you ready to give your soul to the devil in o...

This book is a hymn to life in all its manifestations. It included various kinds of traditions (fairy tales, legends, myths) of the peoples who make up the v...

Marriage, love and family - these topics worried people in the 14th–15th centuries. no less than our contemporaries. However, in their meaning these worries ...

This book contains legends from medieval European countries, telling about deeds performed in the name of love. These legends tell about both fictional heroe...

“Chartres School” is a phrase well known in the history of philosophy and literature, in fact a synonym for the “Renaissance of the 12th century”. This is no...

The book contains the best examples of the so-called “small monuments” of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The book also includes fragments of epic poems in cases where t...

Anthology compiled and published in 1953 by the outstanding scientist and teacher B.I. Purishev (1903-1989) and significantly updated and expanded in the sec...