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  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    by Dr. Michael J. Huxtable, Edward Donald Kennedy, Andrew Lynch, Barry A Windeatt, Ad Putter, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge, Venetia Bridges, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Corinne Saunders, Megan G. Leitch, Jordi Sanchez-Marti, A C Spearing ...
    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Medieval Autographies

    The "I" of the Text

    by A. C. Spearing ...
    Series series The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
    In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker or narrator. Spearing identifies and explores a previously unrecognized category of medieval English ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Decameron

    by Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Translated by G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Chaucer's Tale

    1386 and the Road to Canterbury

    by Paul Strohm ...
    A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury TalesIn 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that hehas today—far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)

    A Medieval Household Book

    In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

    by Susan Wittig ...
    This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Revisiting the Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend

    Edited by Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Casebooks
    Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • AElfric of Eynsham's Letter to Sigeweard: An Edition, Commentary, and Translation

    by Larry J. Swain ...
    The Letter to Sigeweard, also known by the title it bears in one of the manuscripts, Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, is Ælfric's response to a request from an Anglo-Saxon nobleman to provide texts from Ælfric's pen. The letter is in part a review of Christian doctrine and in part a review, book by book, of the Christian Bible, its meanings and its contents. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Disney Middle Ages

    A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past

    Edited by T. Pugh, S. Aronstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Weaving Narrative

    Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance

    by Monica L. Wright ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in twelfth-century French romance? This interdisciplinary book explores how writers of this era used ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Moral Play and Counterpublic

    by Ineke Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate ... Read more

    $61.99 USD