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  • Studies in the Age of Gower

    A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

    by Susannah Chewning, Natalie Grinnell, Peter Nicholson, Richard Firth Green, Roger A. Ladd, Russell Peck, Stephanie L. Batkie, William Rogers, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Andrew Galloway0, Brian Gastle1, David A. Roberts2, Derek Pearsall3, Martha W. Driver4, Matthew Matthew Irvine5, Michael Kuczynski6 ...
    The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture

    Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

    by Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen, Mark Amsler, Craig E. Bertolet, John M. Ganim, Scott Lightsey, Kathryn McKinley, Gabrielle Parkin, Karla Taylor0, Joseph Turner1, Lawrence Warner2, Christian Zacher3, R.F. Yeager4 ...
    The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

    Edited by Ana Saez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, R.F. Yeager ...
    The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
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    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Fold

    Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

    by S. Verderber ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to ... Read more

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  • Boccaccio the Philosopher

    An Epistemology of the Decameron

    by Filippo Andrei ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach ... Read more

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  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edited by Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Read more

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  • Merlin and Legendary Romance

    by Carol Harding ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    An indepth work on the origins of the Merlin of Arthurian legend, this book examines early texts, thirteenth century romances focusing particularly on Merlin as a character, rather than those where Merlin is a background cast member. The outline here starts with looking at the genre and the place of fantasy, moving on to consider the attitudes towards magic and magic-users in medieval times. Main ... Read more

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  • The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

    Edited by K. Terrell, M. Bruce ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies. ... Read more

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  • Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages

    by John Flood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve was understood by Christians in antiquity and in the English Middle Ages, and it relates these ... Read more

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  • Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

    Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales

    by J. Pitcher ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the ... Read more

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  • Le Bone Florence of Rome

    A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale

    Edited by Jonathan Stavsky ...
    Series series New Century Chaucer
    Le Bone Florence of Rome　is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s　Man of Law’s Tale, it*　follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time, it explores such issues as the abuse of power, the stakes of global conflict, women’s place in society and ... Read more

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