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Free Download Harold Bloom, "Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (Bloom’s Guides)"
English | 2008 | pages: 119 | ISBN: 0791097927 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The Canterbury Tales was the first great poem in the English language, and it remains a favorite among students and scholars to this day. Ideal for research, this new title in the Bloom’s Guides series includes broad-ranging excerpts from interpretive essays that provide expert commentary on this timeless work. It also features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a bibliography, and an index.

Free Download John Jenkins, "The Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral: Latin Text and Translation "
English | ISBN: 1641894482 | 2022 | 120 pages | PDF | 1020 KB
The shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most popular pilgrim destinations in medieval Europe, as well as the focal point for the liturgy of the cathedral’s monastic community. In 1428 the keepers of the shrine composed a customary detailing its day-to-day operation, including the opening hours, decoration, maintenance, and staffing. This unique survival offers a rare glimpse into the realities of organizing a pilgrimage site in a major medieval church, and the Latin text with facing English translation is provided for the first time. A comprehensive introduction and extensive notes set the Customary within the context of the cathedral, its liturgy, and pilgrim practice more widely.

Free Download Alixe Bovey, "Medieval Art, Architecture & Archaeology at Canterbury"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1909662208, 1909662216 | PDF | pages: 328 | 27.4 mb
This book argues that Robert Willis’s presentations were fundamental to the format of British Archaeological Association meetings and to the creation of medieval architectural history. It discusses the background to his study of Canterbury in terms of his own research.

Free Download Nancy Mason Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales"
English | ISBN: 0271096888 | 2024 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 11 MB
In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.

Free Download Jim McAloon, "No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago 1840-1914"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 1877276235 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 3.7 mb
Wealth and power in a colonial society is the subject of this book. It is a detailed study of the richest settlers in southern New Zealand, where the country’s earliest fortunes were made, mostly by pastoral farmers and financiers. Who where the rich? Not born gentlemen, the author shows, but astute and innovative capitalists, generally from relatively humble origins, Drawing on innovative research using wills, business papers and biographical sources, he investigates how they made their money, the significance of family relationships and the role of women, the influence of the rich on national and local politics, and how they justified and maintained their position.

Free Download The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Guides to Chaucer), 3rd Edition by Helen Cooper
English | November 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0198821425, 0198878788 | True EPUB/PDF | 512 pages | 1.3/2.8 MB
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference.

Free Download The Book of Experience: From Anselm of Canterbury to Bernard of Clairvaux (Explorations in Philosophy and Theology) by Emmanuel Falque, translated by George Hughes
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1350386499 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 0.7/3.7 MB
Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.

Free Download Manish Sharma, "The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales"
English | ISBN: 1487509030 | 2022 | 406 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved.

Free Download Sarah Breckenridge Wright, "Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales "
English | ISBN: 1843845520 | 2020 | 218 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by pilgrims en route to Canterbury; but how does their movement shape the world around them, and how are they shaped by their world? This volume seeks to answer these questions by exploring expressions of mobility in Chaucer’s frame narrative and tales. Combining the theoretical and historical methods of literary analysis with the interpretive tools of cultural geography and ecocriticism, it argues that movement is the medium through which identity is performed in The Canterbury Tales. This unique interdisciplinary approach shows how physical and ideological mobilities shape and are shaped by geographical, ecological, sociopolitical, and gendered identities. As human and more-than-human bodies cross borders and dissolve boundaries, they contribute to a fluid, permeable, and hybrid world that challenges traditional perceptions of boundedness, security, and fixity. By examining this kinesis alongside contexts including medieval bridge building, economics, and biology, this book reveals a rich exchange between word and world. In the end,

Free Download Giles E.M. Gasper, "Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance"
English | ISBN: 0754639118 | 2004 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Anselm of Canterbury is one of the most famous of medieval Christian thinkers, who left a considerable political and intellectual inheritance of his own. This book reveals that the theological and intellectual inheritance available to Anselm was more dynamic, broader and deeper than is traditionally thought and Anselm was influenced by more than just the works of St Augustine. Giles Gasper focuses particularly on the part played by the translated works of the Greek Fathers. Demonstrating how widely the writings of the Fathers of the Church were available in western libraries, Gasper goes on to compare key aspects of doctrine in Anselm’s thought with that of the notable Greek Fathers. Questioning the way in which Anselm and other authors have been described, this book moves away from well worn routes of interpretation and provides new perspectives on this most significant figure in the history of the church, the middle ages, and western thought.