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Originally published in 1861, this early work by Charles Reade is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It tells the story of a young scribe's travels through Europe and deals with conflicts between family life and the church. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in historical English literature. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Middle Ages

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Middle Eastern philology --- Middle East

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A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older"With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond's Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties and the inevitable midlife crisis. Small Comforts is a portrait of the artist who is no longer a young man and now must find the courage to face what he has created and what he has failed to create in the smithy of his soul." --Richard "Pete" PetersonSmall Comforts quietly probes the mysteries of an ordinary life when reviewed at middle age. Essayist Jeff Hammond, a midcareer academic who examines a variety of lifelong obsessions, frustrates any expectation that life's fogs dissipate as we age. At stake here is the need for those of us who have reached a "certain age" to look at who we have become with courage, honesty, and humor.Beneath the discoveries of a sometimes bewildered narrator lurks that strange sense of liberation that can brighten the process of getting older. Hammond's diverse musings on time and its effects will prompt an oddly calming discovery that many problems usually identified as "midlife" issues have actually been with us since childhood.In the narrator's seriocomic self-effacement, Small Comforts embodies midlife retrospection with humor and tender nostalgia and is certain to appeal to the ever-growing middle-aged population.

Middle-aged persons --- Middle age --- Aging

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This book brings together the proceedings of the study days organized to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Florence University PhD course in Mediaeval History. It offers, first and foremost to the broad public of young scholars of Italian mediaeval history, an overview of conceptual approaches to the major issues characterizing the various ambits of mediaeval research over the last twenty years. The volume collects the texts of some reports presented during the study days organized on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the PhD in Medieval History of the University of Florence. A series of reflection paths on the main issues that have characterized the various fields of medieval research of the last twenty years, and which cover historiographical, thematic and chronological fields, are offered here, first of all to the wide audience of young history scholars. from the high to the late Middle Ages, from the history of power to that of the church, from the history of the territory to the economic one, from material to cultural history. The volume is enriched with precious biographical testimonies and copious bibliographic references.

Middle Ages --- Historiography

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Nationalism --- Islam --- Middle East