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Wrestling John Irving, Don Morrow
Frozen Festivals: Ceremony And The Carnaval In The Montreal Winter Carnivals During The 1880s, Don Morrow
Frozen Festivals: Ceremony And The Carnaval In The Montreal Winter Carnivals During The 1880s, Don Morrow
Donald Morrow
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Frozen Festivals: Ceremony And The Carnaval In The Montreal Winter Carnivals 1883-1889, Don Morrow
Frozen Festivals: Ceremony And The Carnaval In The Montreal Winter Carnivals 1883-1889, Don Morrow
Donald Morrow
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With Craft And Guile: Canada's Jimmy Mclarnin And The Business Of Welterweight Boxing During The Great Depression, Don Morrow
Donald Morrow
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French Philosophy And English Politics In Interregnum Poetry, Charles Kay Smith
French Philosophy And English Politics In Interregnum Poetry, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
This essay offers a historical context for the influence of epicurean philosophy in mid-seventeenth century so that the ideological nature of poetry during the Interregnum becomes more clear. I begin by discussing the epicurean tradition in France from Michel Montaigne to Pierre Gassendi that had been maturing for half a century. This late Renaissance secular tradition, sometimes referred to as a new humanism, has too often been misinterpreted as the consequence of neo-stoicism rather than neo-epicureanism. Prominent French libertins (epicurean free-thinkers) greeted the defeated cavalier=s after their decisive defeat at the battle of Marston Moor in the summer of 1644. …