Product Description: The plot of the late-medieval Spanish work Celestina (1499) centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the fascinating character of their intermediary, Celestina. In this ground-breaking rereading of the play, James F...read more

Product Description: In addition to a review of the basics, this ready reference will provide numerous how-to instructions on metalworking activities and skills. You will learn how to create fireplace tools, candleholders, a shop dustpan, a tool set, a woven table, a rod table structure and many more interesting and useful products...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. This book examines such contrasts in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature, arguing that medieval writers and artists subscribed to the classical belief that one must introduce the contrary of a concept in order to elucidate it fully...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)