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Motif-index of folk-literature; a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, medieval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. by Thompson, Stith,1885-1976.(CARDINAL)153742;
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Folklore; Folk literature; Folk literature;
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Kingdom of love [sound recording] : 3 medieval romances / by Peterson, Tracie,author.(CARDINAL)342735; Lee, Polly,narrator.;
A kingdom divided -- Alas, my love -- If only.Narrated by Polly Lee.Liberty and love, even life itself, are fragile commodities for those living in medieval England. Will God's love and power triumph in the lives of three courageous women?
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Audiobooks.; Christian fiction.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Livres audio.; Romans chrétiens.; Man-woman relationships; Arranged marriage; Secrecy; Nobility; Revenge; Families; Kings and rulers; Black Death; Physicians; Murder;
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Mr. Skeffington / by Sherman, Vincent,Film directorDirector(DLC)n 96030066 ; Epstein, Julius J.,1909-2000,Film producerScreenwriter(DLC)n 80160334 ; Epstein, Philip G.,Film producerScreenwriterProducer(DLC)n 80160332 ; Warner, Jack L.,1892-1978Film producerProducer(DLC)n 85378842 ; Haller, Ernest,1896-1970,Director(DLC)n 85376800 ; Dawson, Ralph,1897-1962,Film editor(DLC)n 85342736 ; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967,Musical director(DLC)n 83065680 ; Raab, Leonid.(DLC)no 92022993 ; Forbstein, Leo F.,Musical directorDirector(DLC)n 85342776 ; Haas, Robert,1889-1962,Art directorDirector(DLC)no2010193834; MacLean, Fred.(DLC)no 93035746 ; Orry-Kelly,1897-1964,Costume designer(DLC)n 85342780 ; Davis, Bette,1908-1989Actor(DLC)n 50035515 ; Rains, Claude,1889-1967,Actor(DLC)n 85177494 ; Abel, Walter,1898-1987Actor(DLC)n 79136404 ; Coulouris, George,1903-1989,Actor(DLC)no 90023867 ; Waring, Richard,1910-1993,Actor(DLC)n 85327165 ; Riordan, Marjorie,Actor(DLC)no2008096776; Shayne, Robert,Actor(DLC)no 92027605 ; Alexander, John,1897-1982,Actor(DLC)no 90016760 ; Cowan, Jerome,1897-1972,Actor(DLC)no 90004224 ; Mitchell, Johnny,1918-1951,Actor(DLC)no2014087051; Peterson, Dorothy,1897-1979,Actor(DLC)n 86139979 ; Whitney, Peter,1916-1972,Actor(DLC)no 92029626 ; Kennedy, Drew,Actor(DLC)no 96012083 ; Von Arnim, Elizabeth,1866-1941.Mr. Skeffington.(local)tmpaut6628063448252600; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967),Production companyDistributor(DLC)n 50028315 ; First National Pictures, Inc.,Production company(DLC)n 85376707 ; Warner Home Video (Firm),Film distributorDistributor(DLC)no 95005960 ; Turner Entertainment Co,Film distributorDistributor(DLC)n 88034562 ;
Director of photography, Ernest Haller ; film editor, Ralph Dawson ; art director, Robert Haas ; set decorations by Fred M. MacLean ; gowns by Orry-Kelly ; orchestral arrangements by Leonid Raab ; musical director, Leo F. Forbstein ; music by Franz Waxman.Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, Marjorie Riordan, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Johnny Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Peter Whitney, Bill Kennedy.Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge. But Fanny has always used beauty to manipulate her way through life by encouraging dozens of suitors, even after her marriage. However, when she falls ill her beauty is gone and she is lost. This film deals openly with anti-Semitism, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the preliminary volley of World War II.Not rated.DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Subjects: DVDs; romances (medieval narratives); Romances.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Drama.; Romance; Films d'amour.; Films de fiction.; Films historiques.; Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.; Romans courtois.; Adaptations cinématographiques.; Based on the book.; Feature films.; Romance films.; Historical films.; Antisemitism; Man-woman relationships; Aging; Medical drama; Self-evaluation; Aging.; Antisemitism.; Medical drama; Man-woman relationships; Self-evaluation.;
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The chapter : a segmented history from antiquity to the twenty-first century / by Dames, Nicholas,1970-author.(CARDINAL)704960;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time. Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to organize information. He goes on to discuss the earliest divisional systems of the Gospels and the segmentation of medieval romances, describing how the chapter took on new purpose when applied to narrative texts and how narrative segmentation gave rise to a host of aesthetic techniques. Dames shares engaging and in-depth readings of influential figures, from Sterne, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dickens to George Eliot, Machado de Assis, B. S. Johnson, Agn's Varda, Uwe Johnson, Jennifer Egan, and L©Łszl©đ Krasznahorkai. He illuminates the sometimes tacit, sometimes dramatic ways in which the chapter became a kind of reckoning with time and a quiet but persistent feature of modernity. Ranging from ancient tablets and scrolls to contemporary fiction and film, The Chapter provides a compelling, elegantly written history of a familiar compositional mode that readers often take for granted and offers a new theory of how this versatile means of dividing narrative sculpts our experience of time."
Subjects: Literary criticism.; Books and reading; Composition (Language arts); Books;
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The hunchback of Notre Dame [sound recording] / by Hugo, Victor,1802-1885.(CARDINAL)145032; Guidall, George.nrt(CARDINAL)345518;
Narrated by George Guidall.Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge--Hugo captures them all in this timeless, almost Gothic, piece of literature.Compact disc.
Subjects: Romances.; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The fortress : a love story / by Trussoni, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)475623;
Enchantment -- The magician -- Portcullis -- Enceinte -- Moat -- Battlements -- Pitch -- Buttresses -- Le mistral -- The knight -- Oubliette -- The fortress -- The white queen.Trussoni believed she controlled the narration of her life. But from their first kiss she was spellbound by Nikolai, a novelist from Bulgaria, sharing a love of jazz and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Eight years later, hopeful to renew their marriage, they move to the south of France, to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc, where they buy a thirteenth-century stone fortress. It is here she finds the strength to overcome her illusions, and start again.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Trussoni, Danielle.; Wives; Husbands; Dysfunctional families;
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Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens Book Two / by Weir, Alison,author.(CARDINAL)515667;
Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years.The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, seductive queens, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europethese determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill.This second volume of Alison Weirs critically acclaimed history of the queens of medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291: years of chivalry and courtly love, dynastic ambition, conflict between church and throne, baronial wars, and the ruthless interplay between the rival monarchs of Britain and France. We see events such as the murder of Becket, the Magna Carta, and the birth of parliaments from a new perspective.Weirs narrative begins with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Henry II established a dynasty that ruled for over three hundred years and created the most powerful empire in western Christendombut also sowed the seeds for some of the most destructive family conflicts in history and for the collapse, under her son King John, of Englands power in Europe. The lives of Eleanors four successors were just as remarkable: Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard the Lionheart; Isabella of Angoulme, queen of John; Alienor of Provence, queen of Henry III; and finally Eleanor of Castile, the grasping but beloved wife of Edward I.Through the story of these first five Plantagenet queens, Alison Weir provides a fresh, enthralling narrative focusing on these fascinating female monarchs during this dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics, with determined women at its heart.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Fiction, Medieval.; Royalty;
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The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors / by Jones, Dan,1981-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.The fifteenth century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. Now, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these turbulent times-from Joan of Arc and Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule marked the high point of the medieval English monarchy, to Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the princes in the Tower. It is also a period of headstrong and resilient women-Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort-who were not afraid to seize power and bend men to their will. With vivid descriptions of the battles of Towton and Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was slain, this is a bold and dramatic narrative history that will delight readers who like their history with a healthy dose of bedlam, romance, and intrigue.
Subjects: Tudor, House of.; Plantagenet, House of.;
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Civilisation [videorecording] : the complete series / by Clark, Kenneth,1903-1983.(CARDINAL)151645; Gill, Michael,1923-; Montagnon, Peter.; BBC Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)270800; British Broadcasting Corporation.(CARDINAL)143648;
The skin of our teeth -- The great thaw -- Romance and reality -- Man, the Measure of all things -- The hero as artist -- Protest and communication -- Grandeur and obedience -- The light of experience -- The pursuit of happiness -- The smile of reason -- The worship of nature -- The fallacies of hope -- Heroic materialism.Various personal production credits.Narrator: Kenneth Clark.Originally broadcast on British television in 1969.A sweeping survey of Western civilization tracing the interaction between man and art, philosophy, literature, music, and architecture between the fourth and twentieth centuries.DVDs.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Art and history.; Civilization, Medieval.; Civilization, Modern.; Civilization, Western.; Religion and civilization.; Science and civilization.;
For private home use only.
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A history of illuminated manuscripts / by De Hamel, Christopher,1950-author.(CARDINAL)335115; Phaidon Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)196256;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and indexes.Medieval manuscripts are counted among the greatest glories of Western civilization. With their gold and painted decoration and their charming miniatures, they have always had immense appeal, and images from them can be seen everywhere - from greeting cards and wrapping paper to expensive facsimiles. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first to provide a general introduction to the whole subject of the making of books from the Dark Ages to the invention of printing and beyond. Christopher de Hamel vividly describes the widely different circumstances in which manuscripts were created, from the earliest monastic Gospel Books to university textbooks, secular romances, Books of Hours and classical texts for humanist bibliophiles. As the story unfolds the wonderful variety of manuscripts and their illumination is revealed, and many fundamental questions are answered - who wrote the books, what texts they contained, who read them, how they were made and what purposes they served. Illuminated manuscripts have alway been highly valued, and among them are some of the world's great masterpieces of art. With its lively narrative and many new and superb illustrations, this new edition of a much-praised book provides the perfect introduction to a large and fascinating subject.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts;
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