Curious Antiquities: Or, the Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs, and Singular Customs

Taylor, Joseph

History

Franklin Classics

The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain (Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult)

If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life in medieval Britain, whether animal or vegetable, was subject to the same legal machine that enabled claims on land, are we not ignoring the ecocritical demand that we counteract human exceptionalism and reframe the past with inhuman eyes?   This volume, edited by Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, presents a diverse and stimulating group of interconnected essays that respond to these questions by infusing biopolitical material and theory into ecocentric studies of medieval life. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain pursues the political power of sovereign law as it disciplines and manages various forms of natural life, and discloses the literary biopolitics played out in texts that work out the fraught interactions of life and law, in all its forms. Contributors to this volume explore such issues as legal networks and death, Arthurian bare life, Chaucerian medical biopolitics, the biopolitics of fur, ecologies of sainthood, arboreal political theology, conservation and political ecology, and geographical melancholy.   Bringing together both established and rising critical voices, The Politics of Ecology creates a place for cutting-edge medievalist ecocriticism focused on the intersections of land, life, and law in medieval English, French, and Latin literature.  

Literature & Fiction

Schiff, Randy P.

History & Criticism

Ohio State University Press

Alison Martin has two big problems: she has an overactive imagination, and she can't stay out of other people's business. Her lifelong goal is to become a detective, and when her neighbor's car is stolen, she seizes the moment. After snooping around, Allison and her friends discover a simple clue that the police overlook. Suddenly they are thrust into the intriguing, close-knit skateboarder subculture that could hold the key to their mystery. 
 Before they know it, they find themselves neck deep in a group of car thieves connected to organized crime. With nowhere to turn, they are forced to make a tough decision--stand up to the car thieves and jeopardize their families' safety or to look the other way and give up Alison's longtime dream. 
 Allison Investigates is a fast-paced adventure that takes the reader deep into the urban underworld as Allison and her friends make the jump from teens to young adults in the most memorable summer of their lives.

Allison Investigates

Teen & Young Adult

Four Star Publishing

In a time long ago, when honor meant more than life itself, the most powerful king in the world have everything, but he didn’t have the one thing he desired most: peace in his land. His country had been at war with its neighboring nations for more than a hundred years. Despite his ongoing efforts to promote peace, King Cornelius comes to the unwelcome realization that a traitor wants nothing more than to see him dead and his kingdom destroyed.King Cornelius’s world is torn apart when his beautiful wife dies giving birth to his third son. The great king holds his son responsible for his true love’s death and refuses to have a relationship with him, pushing him off on a loyal mentor. The mentor soon realizes that young Prince Phillip is a remarkable child and vows to give him the best upbringing possible.Years later, when King Cornelius’s older two sons are killed in battle, the king is forced by circumstances to try to build a relationship with Prince Phillip, while the country descends further into turmoil and intrigue swirls around them. The young prince, rapidly becoming a man, is driven to learn the truth about his brothers’ deaths and forces conspiring against his father.But when Phillip falls in love with a forbidden peasant girl, his fragile relationship with his father reaches its breaking point. The prince is faced with the terrible choice of forsaking his honor to marry his one true love, or forsaking his love to placate his father and claim the throne.

For Love or Honor

Contemporary

Breaking Point

Paperback, as pictured; signed by the author (f-T)

Allison Strikes Again

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship – imaginative, material, and political – between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism.

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 119)

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Edward I. of England in the North of Scotland, by a Member of the Literary and Scientific Assoc. of Elgin [J. Taylor]

EDWARD

Europe

Legare Street Press

The General Character Of The Dog: Illustrated By A Variety Of Original And Interesting Anecdotes Of That Beautiful And Useful Animal, In Prose And Verse (1804)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Publishing

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