The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This Very Short Introduction presents this lively literary... Læs mere
Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.
This Very Short Introduction is a guide to the most distinctive works from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the Baroque and Enlightenment periods, and then into the explosion of writings and movements from Romanticism to the twenty-first century.