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  • The Art of Vision

    Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture

    by Ethan Knapp ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of ekphrasis. The original meaning of this term is simply an extended and detailed, lively description, but it has been used most commonly in reference to painting or sculpture. In this lively collection of essays, Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Women in Old Norse Society

    by Jenny Jochens ...
    Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society places particular emphasis on changing sexual mores and the impact of Christianity as ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Old English Metre

    An Introduction

    by Jun Terasawa ...
    Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between Old English metre and components such as word-formation, word-choice, and grammar. He ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship

    by F. Tolhurst ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peggy Knapp ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign

    The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography

    by Daisy Delogu ...
    Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have more often been read as historical source documents, Daisy Delogu demonstrates how theories of kingship evolved in the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Court of Sapience

    Edited by Elizabeth Ruth Harvey ...
    Series series Heritage
    The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the poet describes the nature and activities of wisdom in all its aspects. He includes a moving account of the fall of a man and his restoration by divine wisdom; then he leads his dreamer through a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Piety in Pieces

    How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts

    by Kathryn M. Rudy ...
    Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather ... Read more

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  • The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

    Volume One

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Through the Daemon's Gate

    Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs

    by Dean Swinford ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book tells the story of the early modern astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, which has been regarded by science historians and literary critics alike as the first true example of science fiction. Kepler began writing his complex and heavily-footnoted tale of a fictional Icelandic astronomer as an undergraduate and added to it throughout his life. The Somnium fuses supernatural and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture

    Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England

    by David J. Falls ...
    Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD