Thursday, March 10, 2011

Normans and Dante and Cash, Oh MY! Latest from Oxford University Press

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From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death
An Anthology of Writings from England

Edited by Douglas Gray

This anthology makes available to the modern reader a range of texts produced in the often overlooked period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. A wide variety of texts - chronicle, history, legends, plays, lyrics, debates, romances, and stories of all shapes and kinds - are included in translation or helpfully glossed form.

Hardback
616 pages

£85.00
24 February 2011
978-0-19-812353-8

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Volume 3: Paradiso

Edited and Translated by Robert Durling and Introduction and Notes by Ronald Martinez

Pardiso is the third of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dantes's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Similar to volumes I Inferno and II Purgatorio, this translation will be into English prose, emphasizing the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages and includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship.

Hardback
704 pages

£27.50
3 February 2011
978-0-19-508742-0

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