20 títulos para "Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Acmrs"

Death Before Compline

Sharan, Newman / Newman, Sharan

Readers looking for quality historical fiction ought to add Newman’s name to their lists of must-read authors. In addition to providing readers with a vivid look at life in France in the twelfth century, Newman also offers absorbing stories with well-drawn sympathetic characters. —Myster...

A Hole in the Heavens

Elliott, Dyan

What if Satan were to disguise himself as an angel of light? What if he even appeared as Christ? Schoolmen in late medieval Paris were obsessed with that question--and A Hole in the Heavens explores the alarming consequences of this obsession. It soon becomes impossible to tell the difference betwee...

Early Modern Women Journal v.10.1

Cruz, Anne J.;Lindemann, Mary;Suzuki, Mihoko

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a collaborative publication of The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University and the University of Miami, Florida. This journal publishes essays on women and gender during the years 1500-1700 from all geographi...

The Devourer of Gods

De Mayo, Thomas Benjamin

An axe age, a sword age, a wind age, a wolf age. Shields shall be cloven… The Devourer of Gods weaves the tapestry of an alternate Viking North America soaked in blood and magic. Pagans and Christians clash with ship and shield-wall, unaware of the supernatural menace that hungers for them....

Mary Wroth

Lamb, Mary Ellen

The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth’s Countess of Montgomery’s Urania is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu...

Paint

Tiffany, Grace

Emilia Bassano is only a teenager when she’s pitched among the poets, politicians, and painted women of the Elizabethan court. Withdrawn and pensive by nature, she devises a remarkable strategy to preserve her own solitude. At first it works. But she’s soon shocked to find that, so far f...

Caliburn

Renzulli, Virgil

Some thought the old man a specter; he purported himself none other than the Wizard Merlin. Whoever he was, he told a story about Arthur that no one had heard before, a tale of victory and disgrace, love and treachery, arrogance and destiny. It was a time of great turmoil in Britain. A ruthless Saxo...

Gunpowder Percy

Tiffany, Grace

It’s 1603, and Sir Thomas Percy can’t stay away from the Globe playhouse and the history plays London is mad for. Inspired by the warrior Hotspur in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, he joins a group of disaffected Catholics that includes the mysterious traveler Guido Fawkes and the rebel ar...