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Title: Portable Medieval Reader by James B. Ross, Mary Martin McLaughlin ISBN: 0-14-015046-3 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Good Collection of Excerpted Texts
Comment: This book contains excerpts from 100+ different medieval texts on diverse subjects. The excerpts are arranged thematically, with like subjects grouped together. There is, for example, a section on monastic life and practice, with several different texts provided to illustrate monastic life both as it was supposed to be, as it actually was, and as it was seen by non-monks. The texts chosen provide accounts of various monastic orders (the Franciscans, the Cistercians, etc.)in different parts of Europe. Similar thematic sections are provided for nobles, peasants, craftsmen and merchants, and there are thematic sections on a range of more specific subjects to boot. The kinds of texts chosen range from the highly literary and erudite (poems, philosophical treatises, etc.) to the mundane and prosaic (court records, trade accounts, etc.) All in all it's an excellent compilation, although I wish more had been provided to "introduce" each selection-- with a bit more said about the author, the work the excerpt was taken from, it's specific historical context in which it was written, etc., so that the reader of "The Portable Medieval Reader" could be a bit more informed about the sources provided.
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Title: The Portable Renaissance Reader by James Bruce Ross, Mary M. McLaughlin ISBN: 0140150617 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1977 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Portable Roman Reader by Basil Davenport ISBN: 0140150560 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1977 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library) by Issac Kramnick, Isaac Kramnick ISBN: 0140245669 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Portable Greek Reader (The Viking Portable Library) by W. H. Auden ISBN: 0140150390 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics) by Pauline Maud Matarasso ISBN: 0140442200 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1969 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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