"The Emperor and the Saint" is a vivid place-by-place telling of the life and times of the most enlightened, creative, and dynamic ruler of Medieval Europe, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. St. Francis, who shared with Frederick a love of the natural world and was baptized in the same cathedral in Assisi, is a parallel and contrasting presence. Cassady enthusiastically guides the ...(展开全部)

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

This special new edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land.

Hyman's meticulously researched illustrations bring Hodges' retelling of Edmund Spenser's 16th century poem to full realization. The glowing paintings and borders recall the religious art of Spenser's time while details in the picture evoke the earliest origins of the St. George island.

雅克·勒高夫（Jacques Le Goff，1924－2014），法国历史学家，年鉴学派第三代代表人物之一，1972—1977年任法国社会科学高等学院院长。勒高夫专长中世纪史，尤其是12—13世纪。他认为中世纪本身是一个独立的文明，与希腊－罗马时代及现代有明显分别。勒高夫的著作有多种在中国翻译出版，如《圣路易》（2002）、《中世纪的知识分子》《钱袋与永生：中世纪的经济与宗教》《试谈另一个中世纪》（2014）等。

With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who challenged the conventions and values of her day.

雅克·勒高夫（Jacques Le Goff，1924－2014），法国历史学家，年鉴学派第三代代表人物之一，1972—1977年任法国社会科学高等学院院长。勒高夫专长中世纪史，尤其是12—13世纪。他认为中世纪本身是一个独立的文明，与希腊－罗马时代及现代有明显分别。勒高夫的著作有多种在中国翻译出版，如《圣路易》（2002）、《中世纪的知识分子》《钱袋与永生：中世纪的经济与宗教》《试谈另一个中世纪》（2014）等。

为什么是圣保罗？为什么要诉诸这位“使徒”？他似乎更加怀疑自称为“使徒”的正确性，他的名字常常与基督教最不开放、最制度化的方面有关：教会，道德纪律，社会保守主义，对犹太人的怀疑。我们何以把这个名字纳入我的研究？我的研究旨在重建一个主体理论，把生存置于事件的机遇维度，置于多元存在的纯粹偶然性，而又不牺牲真理。