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Double-fisting Books: Pragmatic Literature Down the Ages

Guest Robert Whitely discusses how the middle ages were, in many ways, much like our own.

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Reading list:

  • Jaeger, C. Stephen. The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210. United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 1985.

  • Butler, E. M.. The Tyranny of Greece Over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry Over the Great German Writers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

  • Salisbury, John of. The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium. United States: Paul Dry Books, 2009.

  • Tristan + Isolde (2006) [IMDb]