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  • Dreaming of Cockaigne

    Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life

    by Herman Pleij ...
    Translated by Diane Webb ...
    Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    by Jesse Byock, Snorri Sturluson ...
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    The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda shows the gods' ... Read more

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  • The Treasure of the City of Ladies

    Or the Book of the Three Virtues

    by Christine de Pizan, Sarah Lawson ...
    Translated by Sarah Lawson ...
    Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a ... Read more

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  • Orpheus

    The Song of Life

    by Ann Wroe ...
    "[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today" ( Library Journal).For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing ... Read more

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  • Shards of Love

    Exile and the Origins of the Lyric

    by María Rosa Menocal ...
    With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Second World War

    Memory, Culture, Identity

    Edited by Irena Makaryk, Marissa McHugh ...
    Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image.In wartime, such ... Read more

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  • Savage Economy

    The Returns of Middle English Romance

    by Walter Wadiak ...
    In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities. Essential to this literary evolution is the concept and practice of “noble” gift-giving, which binds ... Read more

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  • Philippe de Commynes

    Memory, Betrayal, Text

    by Irit Ruth Kleiman ...
    Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described as ‘the confessions of a traitor’: Commynes had abandoned Louis’ rival, the Burgundian duke ... Read more

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  • Beyond Reformation?

    An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity

    by David Aers ...
    In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in English. His reading, most unusually, seeks to explore the relations of Langland's poem to both medieval and early ... Read more

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  • Creation as Emanation

    The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Great's On the Causes and the Procession of the Universe

    by Therese Bonin ...
    Series Book 29 - Publications in Medieval Studies
    The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle. Considering this Neoplatonic text a product of Aristotle's school and even the completion of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Albert the Great concluded his series of Aristotelian ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition

    History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran

    by Dr Haila Manteghi ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Studies
    Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.Haila Manteghi here offers a complete survey of that deep tradition, ranging from analysis of classical ... Read more

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  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VI

    Edited by Michael D.C. Drout, Douglas A Anderson, Verlyn Flieger ...
    Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields ... Read more

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