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Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete (parfois nommée Marguerite Porrette, Marguerite Porette ou la Porette) est une béguine et femme de lettres mystique, née vers 1250, brûlée en place de Grève (à Paris, France) le 1er juin 1310 avec son livre Le Miroir des âmes simples.
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Marguerite Porete (died 1310) was a French beguine, mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian spirituality dealing with the workings of Divine Love. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310.
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Penninc
Penninc is het pseudonym van een 13e eeuwse schrijver uit het graafschap Vlaanderen. Hij is de auteur van de Roman van Walewein, een Middeleeuwse Arturroman.
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Bernat Metge
Bernat Metge (Barcelona, entre 1340 i 1346 – 1413) fou un escriptor, traductor i primer representant de l'humanisme a les lletres catalanes. És considerat un dels millors prosistes del tombant del segle xiv, introductor de l'estil renaixentista a la literatura catalana, amb una fina intel·ligència, i una gran sornegueria. També fou secretari reial. La seva obra mestra és Lo somni (1399)
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Jack Murnighan
Smalltown Hoosier by birth, central-Illinoisan till college, then some semiotics at Brown, an Orwellian stint in Paris, a Ph.D. in Medieval Lit from Duke, and finally New York's Chinatown. And now that i've hauled all my books to my 6th-floor walk-up, i'm staying put.
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Jeannine Atkins
Jeannine Atkins is the author of Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math, and Little Woman in Blue: A Novel of May Alcott. She teaches in the MFA program at Simmons College. You can learn more on her website at http://www.Jeannineatkins.com.
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Kiran Atma
Kiran Atma was born a Hindu and has been a practicing Pagan and Witch since hitting puberty. Kiran continues to research, study, and analyze the history and contemporary practices associated with his faith and craft as seen worldwide while sharing the same with the wider community.
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Kiran's body of work hopes to help you broaden your awareness and deepen your understanding of these rich areas of knowledge, spirituality and cultural diversity that he has found so fascinating.
When not writing, Kiran loves to read, and spend time traveling and exploring works of art, literature, live theater, foreign cultures and cuisines, and classical and contemporary music performances around the globe. As a creative Artist, Kiran is actively involved in perf -
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Paul-Alain Beaulieu is a Canadian Assyriologist, a Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.
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Beaulieu earned a masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1980 under the supervision of Marcel Leibovici, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1985. He was an assistant and subsequently associate professor at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Toronto. -
Michael Ruse
Michael Escott Ruse was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse began his career teaching at The University of Guelph and spent many years at Florida State University.
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F.R. Leavis
Frank Raymond "F.R." Leavis, CH was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge but often latterly at the University of York.
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Grant Horner
Grant Horner is a full-time Associate Professor at The Masters College in Santa Clarita, CA. He specializes in literary and cultural studies, especially Renaissance and Reformation studies, philosophy, theology, art history, and film studies. He teaches a Medieval/Renaissance survey course, and upper division courses on Milton, Shakespeare, Poetry and Poetics, Epic, Dramatic Literature, Critical Theory (Pre-Socratics through Derrida), Art History, Film Studies, Classical Christian Humanism, Classical Latin, & Comedy. He also teaches Art History in Germany and Italy for AMBEX. Some of the languages he speak includes Koine Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Middle French, and Medieval Latin. Dr. Horner has been an invited lecturer at Caltech
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Miriam Lichtheim
Miriam Lichtheim was an Israeli translator of ancient Egyptian texts whose translations are still widely used.
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In 1973 she published the first volume of the Ancient Egyptian Literature (abbr. AEL), annotated translations of Old and Middle Kingdom texts. In 1976 the second volume of AEL containing New Kingdom texts appeared, followed in 1980 by the third dealing with the first millennium BCE literature. -
Adomnán of Iona
Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (c. 624–704), also known as Eunan (from Irish: Naomh Adhamhnán), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the most important book on the life of his cousin St. Columba and the promulgator of the Law of Adomnán or Law of Innocents (Latin: Lex Innocentium).
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J.J. Brinski
JJ Brinski is a poet and flash-fictioner living in Marquette, Michigan in the wildly gorgeous Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior. He does life with his talented wife Grace and four growing daughters and writes in community with the Rabbit Room and Flash Fiction Magic. Having many passions, JJ spends most of his time loving space, theology, collecting typewriters, riding his bike ridiculous distances, making up words, and playfully arguing Star Wars.
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R.H. Snow
Once upon a time in pre-apocalyptic Texas, singer, sketcher and gamer R. H. Snow fused a balladeer’s dynamic storytelling with experience as a firefighting, storm-chasing EMT to bring the sci-fi western series “WATCHER of the DAMNED” to gritty, exuberant life. Snow’s saga of post-apocalyptic Texas combines bleeding-edge action with heart and humor to create a Tall Texas Tale of life, love and liberty after pandemic world’s end. WATCHER of the DAMNED is Snow's love song to the indomitable spirit of the Survivor in us all, and a tribute to all people who fight to be free.
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A seventh-generation Texan, R. H. Snow lives on a small Ranch with a loving family of redeemed Humans and rescued dogs, cats, donkeys, chickens, goats, a horse named Ranger a -
Nikolai Tolstoy
Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский; born 23 June 1935) is an Anglo-Russian author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the Tolstoy family, he is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
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George Lillo
George Lillo (3 February 1691 – 4 September 1739)[1] was an English playwright and tragedian. He was a jeweller in London as well as a dramatist. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730. A year later, he produced his most famous play, The London Merchant. He wrote at least six more plays before his death in 1739, including The Christian Hero (1735), Fatal Curiosity (1737) and Marina (1738).[2]
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George Lillo was born in Moorfields, or Moorgate, in the City of London.[3] He became a partner in his father’s goldsmith-jewellery business.[2]
Early stage works
Lillo wrote at least eight plays between 1730 and his death in 1739. His first work in the theatre was the ballad opera Silvia, or The Country Buria -
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978.
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While living in the United States, Carrera developed many literary relationships with American writers, in particular Muna Lee whose critically-acclaimed translation of his poetry, Secret Country, was published in 1946. His work was praised and championed by John Malcolm Brinnin, H.R. Hays, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, William Jay Smith and William Carlos Williams. Carrera Andrade's poetic work developed for half a century in a number of volumes published worldwide. -
Martin Hewings
Martin Hewings is a senior lecturer in the English for International Students Unit at the University of Birmingham. He is an established ELT author with a strong reputation.
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Scott F. Crider
Scott Crider is the Associate Dean of Constantin College and Professor of English at the University of Dallas.
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He earned a B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Sacramento, and a Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside.
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Christopher Tolkien
Christopher Reuel Tolkien was the youngest son of the author J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C. J. R. T. The J. stands for John, a baptismal name that he didn't ordinarily use.
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J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a great deal of material connected to the Middle-earth mythos that was not published in his lifetime. Although he had originally intended to publish The Silmarillion along with The Lord of the Rings, and parts of it were in a finished state, he died in 1973 with the project unfinished.
After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien embarked on organizing the masses of his father's notes, s -
John H. Gerstner
John Henry Gerstner was a Professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary and an authority on the life and theology of Jonathan Edwards.
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He earned both a Master of Divinity of degree and a Master of Theology degree from Westminster Theological Seminary. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University in 1945. He was originally ordained in the United Presbyterian Church of North America, then (due to church unions) with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 1990, he left the PCUSA for the Presbyterian Church in America.
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Jane Yeh
Jane Yeh is a poet and journalist. Her first collection of poems, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh poetry prizes. Her next collection, The Ninjas, was published by Carcanet in 2012. She was a judge for the 2013 National Poetry Competition and was named a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014. Her poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Nation (US), Poetry Review, and other journals, as well as in anthologies including The Best British Poetry 2012 and The Forward Book of Poetry 2013 and 2006.
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Jane Taylor
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David M. Gwynn
David Gwynn is a Reader in Ancient and Late Antique History at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Ralph McInerny
Ralph Matthew McInerny was an American Catholic religious scholar and fiction writer, including mysteries and science fiction. Some of his fiction has appeared under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin, and Monica Quill. As a mystery writer he is best known as the creator of Father Dowling. He was Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Jacques Maritain Center, and Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in June 2009. He died of esophageal cancer on January 29, 2010.
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Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Professor Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson CBE FRSE FSA DLitt was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written circa AD 1100, preserves an oral tradition originating some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard.
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In retirement, Jackson continued his work on place-names and Goidelic languages. However he suffered a stroke in 1984 that restricted his work.
An obituary was published in The Times on 8 March 1991 and in the journal Nomina. -
Geoffroi De Charny
Geoffroi de Charny (c. 1300/1306 – 19 September 1356), first name sometimes spelled Geoffroy, was a French knight and author of at least three works on chivalry. He was born around 1300. His father, Jean de Charny was the Lord of Lirey in Burgundy and his mother was Margaret de Joinville (d. 1306), a daughter of Jean de Joinville, biographer of King Louis IX the Saint. Geoffroi was a knight in the service of King Jean II of France and a founding member of the Order of the Star, an order of chivalry founded on 6 November 1351 by Jean II of France similar to the Order of the Garter (1347) by Edward III of England. He was also the carrier of the Oriflamme, the standard of the crown of France, an immensely privileged, not to mention dangerous,
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Karel van de Woestijne
Karel Peter Edward Marie van de Woestijne was een Vlaamse dichter-schrijver.
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van de Woestijne groeide op in zijn geboortestad Gent en volgde er een opleiding als vrij student in de Germaanse filologie. Vanaf 1911 werd hij ambtenaar te Brussel en vanaf 1920 doceerde hij de cursussen inleiding tot de literaire kritiek en geschiedenis van de Nederlandse letterkunde aan de universiteit van Gent.
Als dichter wordt hij beschouwd als de grootste Vlaamse moderne dichter na Gezelle. Daarnaast schreef hij ook proza en was hij actief als criticus.
In 1914 kreeg hij de August Beernaertprijs voor de bundel Interludiën, en voor diezelfde bundel ontving hij in 1915 de driejaarlijkse staatsprijs voor Nederlandse letterkunde (periode 1910-1914). Voor Zon in de -
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano de La Roche was a leading German Romantic poet and novelist.
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Charles Mortimer Carty
Fr. Charles Carty broadcast a radio program, the Catholic Radio Hour, from St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked as a Catholic Campaigner for Christ, an "Apostolate to the man in the street", using a trailer and loud-speaker.
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He wrote and distributed pamphlets and books on the Catholic Faith, most notably the Radio Replies series, in which he collaborated with Fr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C.
They worked together--Fr. Carty in the United State, and Fr. Rumble in Australia--without meeting in person until after the first Radio Replies volume was a hit.
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Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson (1832-1916), was a Keeper of the National Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Johannes von Saaz
Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 – c. 1415), also known as Johannes von Saaz (Czech: Jan ze Žatce), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German—depending on the criteria). He was literate in Czech, German and Latin
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Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who emerged primarily as a playwright. Because of the identity-creating use of his works, especially after 1945, he is also referred to as the Austrian national poet.
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Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild (or Mechtild) of Magdeburg (c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294), a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of Divinity) described her visions of God.
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Definite biographical information about Mechthild is scarce; what is known of her life comes largely from scattered hints in her work. She was probably born to a noble Saxon family, and claimed to have had her first vision of the Holy Spirit at the age of twelve. In 1230 she left her home to become a Beguine at Magdeburg. There, like Hadewijch of Antwerp, she seems to have exercised a position of authority in a beguine community. In Magdeburg she became acquainted with the Dominicans and became a Dominican tertiary. It seems clear that she re -
Jo Gill
Professor Jo Gill completed her first degree at the University of Leicester, her MA at York University and her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire. She worked in publishing for several years before commencing research for a PhD and taking up an academic career. She specialises in modern and contemporary literature with a particular interest in confessional and life writing, mid-century American poetry, the cultures of the American suburbs and literature and architecture. She is Chair of Governors at Richard Huish Sixth Form College, Taunton.
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Wace
Wace (c. 1115 – c. 1183) was a Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.
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Wace, dit aussi Guace ou Wistace était un poète normand, né à Jersey. Ses deux œuvres majeures sont le Roman de Brut et le Roman de Rou.
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Caedmon
Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational religious poet.
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Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval sources, and one of only three for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived. His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ("Ecclesiastical History o -
Yom Sang-seop
염상섭
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Yeom Sang-seop was a South Korean writer. He was a Korean novelist and freedom fighter in the early part of the 20th century. Yom was an early pioneer of modern narrative in Korea and a “writer of the period of dissatisfaction.