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  • Chaucer and the Bible

    A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography

    by Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer
    Originally published in 1988. This book offers a very useful source of information on Chaucer’s relationship to the Bible. It contains a detailed chapter on research into this connection and then presents two indexes. The first is organised by title of Chaucer’s work and then line number detailing the biblical reference. Each entry, if relevant, also notes works listed in the Bibliography that ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Challenge of Periodization

    Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

    Edited by Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
    In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

    From Cædmon to Malory

    by Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Iliad And Odyssey

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    The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to the poet Homer and are the earliest surviving works of Western literature. Composed sometime around the eighth century BC, the ancient Greek poems has since been translated into many languages and serves as an important source of information on ancient Greek culture and mythology.In the Iliad it is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have ... Read more

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  • Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

    by E. Upton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making. ... Read more

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  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    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 Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

    by Dieter Mehl ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and ... Read more

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  • Thor

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    The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries. ... Read more

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  • Gilgamesh among Us

    Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic

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