Product Description: English summary: Natural church law was the central discussion forum for questions of religious policies in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In this section of secular natural law, very diverse protagonists discussed the sovereign's claim to power over the church, the freedoms enjoyed by the clergy, the demand for religious freedom and democracy within the church...read more

Product Description: Chaucer has attracted enthusiastic readers continuously from his own lifetime to the present day. The responses of twentieth-century readers, however, have exceeded, by a factor of several hundred, the entire body of criticism produced during the first half millennium following his death (1400)...read more

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Product Description: Good stories are told over and over again. Each successive retelling transforms the narrative, the characters, details both minor and essential, and other elements of the story. This process of transformation is the subject of the studies in this volume, which explore the nature of narrative reshaping in specific tales - Biblical, Classical, historical, Arthurian -and between different media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)