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  • Beowulf

    Poem, Poet and Hero

    The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book aims to present the poem to readers who want to know what makes it such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance.Most readers will only have encountered Beowulf through one of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition

    From Chaucer to Spenser

    by R. D. Perry ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods created a profusion of coterie forms as they sought to navigate their relationships with their contemporaries and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

    Series Book 49 - Anglo-Saxon Studies
    An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature. This study takes the next step, arguing that both heroic and religious texts were vehicles for emotional practice - that is, for doing things with emotion. Using case studies from heroic poetry (Beowulf, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Soundings in Context

    Poetry's Embodiments

    Edited by Judith Goldman, James Maynard ...
    Series series The University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics
    Soundings in Context brings together the second and third University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics by the renowned literary and textual scholar Jerome McGann, and the innovative, prolific Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist Lisa Robertson, respectively. The volume's first half presents McGann's "Reading (I Mean Articulating) Poetry, a Multi-Player Game," with responses ... Read more

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  • The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria

    The Text and its Contexts

    by Alfred Thomas ...
    The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.The virgin martyr St Catherine was one of the pre-eminent and most popular saints in the Middle Ages, her legend spreading far and wide throughout Europe. A Bohemian version of her Vita was written in the second half of the fourteenth century, probably for the court of Emperor Charles IV in Prague; it is a fascinating ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Pig

    Series Book 9 - Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
    Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might be in the street, with the swineherd close behind at their heels. They might be dismembered, for sale by a butcher. They might be represented on misericords, in a church or cathedral, dancing, playing ... Read more

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  • Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages

    Comparative Contexts

    Series Book 8 - Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
    Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the ... Read more

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  • THE BLACK DEATH

    A captivating account of a significant medieval event in Europe.

    "The Black Death: Unraveling Europe's Medieval Catastrophe"In the tumultuous landscape of medieval Europe, the Black Death emerged as a cataclysmic force, reshaping societies, economies, and the very fabric of life itself. This captivating account delves into the harrowing narrative of one of the most significant events in European history.Originating in the 14th century, the Black Death, believed ... Read more

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  • Premodern Masculinities in Transition

    Series Book 23 - Gender in the Middle Ages
    Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change.Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

    Edited by Reinhold F. Glei, Maik Goth ...
    Series Book 49 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales

    The Transmission and Reception of the Welsh Bardic Grammars

    The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, which contain both a highly Latinate description of the Welsh language and a treatment of the strict poetic metres, began their life as essentially vernacular artes poetriae. However, from the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, they ... Read more

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  • Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings

    Readers can get a thorough understanding of Gothic literature by reading the ebook "Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings," which explores the genre's beginnings and traits.Beginning in the 18th century, the guide delves into the historical and cultural circumstances that gave rise to Gothic literature. It looks at how the rise of Gothic themes in ... Read more

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  • The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts

    Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Old Norse Literature
    Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature.The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison between these two literatures is rarely ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature

    by Dr Anna McKay ...
    Series Book 22 - Gender in the Middle Ages
    Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages.For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they have been little explored.Drawing upon the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision

    Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas

    An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design.The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    A Book for James Simpson

    New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, Simpson has also pioneered the field of Trans-Reformation studies, dismantling the barrier between the medieval and early ... Read more

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  • Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain

    Questioning Life, Predicting Death

    by Joanne Edge ...
    Series Book 6 - Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
    Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain.When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their uncertainties about the future, from the serious to the mundane, in a variety of ways. One of the most ... Read more

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  • Les inscriptions romanesques dans la prose arthurienne du XIIIe au XVe siècle

    Series series Écritures
    La prose romanesque arthurienne (XIIIe-XVe siècle) fait volontiers référence, au détour du récit, à des inscriptions qu’il est donné de lire à un lecteur fictif, le plus souvent un chevalier errant en quête de sens. À partir d’un large corpus – Lancelot-Graal, Suite du Roman de Merlin, Prophesies de Merlin, Tristan en prose, Roman de Meliadus et de Guiron le Courtois, Perceforest, le Livre du Cuer ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France

    From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy

    by Joan E. McRae ...
    Series series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions
    How medieval poems sparked discussions on women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminismThis volume immerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished in France during the late Middle Ages, focusing on two works that were both popular and controversial in their time: Le Roman de la Rose by thirteenth-century poets Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun and La Belle ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Deorhord

    An Old English Bestiary

    by Hana Videen ...
    An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a marvelous book”Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nature and Medieval Literature

    Series series New Century Chaucer
    This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts, including the work of Chaucer, the Scottish Chaucerians (Dunbar and Henryson), the medieval ... Read more

    $78.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Emotion

    Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

    The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states—love, melancholy, grief, and madness—with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources—literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents—Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428–1496), queen ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Rival Wisdoms

    Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

    In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.In order to understand Chaucer’s use of proverbs and their reception by ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Fixers

    Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature

    A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: ... Read more

    $25.99 USD