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  • The Medieval Hero on Screen

    Representations from Beowulf to Buffy

    Edited by Martha W. Driver, Sid Ray ...
    Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes.This collection of essays about the medieval hero on ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • 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

  • Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

    Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney

    by Holly James-Maddocks, Professor Michael G Sargent, Joel Fredell, Professor Wendy Scase, Susan Powell, Professor Daniel W Mosser, Simon Horobin, Derek Pearsall, Daryl Green0, Margaret Connolly2, Martha W. Driver3, Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton4, Ralph Hanna5, Estelle Stubbs6, Professor Sebastian Sobecki7 ...
    Series Book 3 - York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
    Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

    by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese, Jane Chance, Howell Chickering, Andrew Cole, Donna Crawford, Kara Crawford, Holly Crocker, Bryan P. Davis, Martha W. Driver, Robert Epstein, Patricia Ingham, Alexander L. Kaufman, Leonard Michael Koff, Roger A. Ladd, Jacob Lewis, Emma Lipton, Kathryn Lynch, Becky McLaughlin, Robert Myer-Lee, Alex Mueller, Florence Newman, Tison Pugh, William A. Quinn, Larry Scanlon, Nicole Nolan Sidhu, Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Timothy L. Stinson, Loraine Kochanske Stock, Jamie Taylor, David Wallace, Michelle Warren, Susan Yagar, Tara Williams ...
    Series Book 131 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Gilded Page

    The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

    by Mary Wellesley ...
    A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII“A delight—immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description.” –Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesMedieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • From Memory to Written Record

    England 1066 - 1307

    by Michael T. Clanchy ...
    This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition.This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the worldFeatures a completely re-written first chapter, ‘Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest', and a new postscript by the author reflecting on the ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Medieval Texts in Context

    Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey ...
    This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to John Skelton

    by Professor Sebastian I. Sobecki, John A. Burrow, John Scattergood, Julia Boffey, Nadine Kuipers, Thomas Betteridge, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Carol Meale, David R. Carlson0, Elisabeth Dutton1, Greg Waite2, Helen Cooper3, Jane Griffiths4 ...
    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Henry V

    The Conscience of a King

    by Malcolm Vale ...
    More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects’ welfareShakespeare’s centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king’s reputation as a warmongering monarch, a perception that has persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly researched volume a different view of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Liturgy in Medieval England

    A History

    by Richard W. Pfaff ...
    This book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or parish - primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the wider political, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the period. The main focus is on ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Broken Idols of the English Reformation

    by Margaret Aston ...
    Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the ... Read more

    $41.89 USD