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  • Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy

    by Laura Ashe ...
    Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer anticipates modern philosophical debates, using his fictions to explore the ethics of subjectivity and recognition, agency and moral ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Brittle Glory

    by Laura Ashe ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

    by Laura Ashe ...
    Series series Oxford English Literary History
    The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Early Fiction in England

    From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer

    Edited by Laura Ashe ...
    A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and many others, in new translations and with illuminating introductions.Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

    by Victoria Flood, Dr. Rebecca Newby, Venetia Bridges, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Dr. Jan Shaw, Laura Ashe, Megan G. Leitch, Helen Fulton0, Dr Jessica J. Lockhart1, Helen Cooper2, Carl Phelpstead3, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge4 ...
    Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Failed King?

    by Rosemary Horrox ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers.In ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Crusader King

    by Thomas Asbridge ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Edward II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Terrors of Kingship

    by Christopher Given-Wilson ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.'The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Edward IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Summer King

    by A J Pollard ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of civil conflict that culminated in him losing, then regaining the crown, he had finally secured his kingdom. The years that followed witnessed a period of rule that has been described as a golden age: a ... Read more

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  • Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Daughter of Time

    by John Edwards ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Edward III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Heroic Failure

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)

    From Playboy Prince to Warrior King

    by Anne Curry ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: AgincourtHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid rumours that he planned to depose his father. Despite a complete change of character as king - founding ... Read more

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