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  • Michael Psellos on Literature and Art

    A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics

    by Michael Psellos ...
    Translated by Charles Barber ...
    Series series Michael Psellos in Translation
    The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    by Robert Irwin ...
    This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature

    From Fen to Greenwood

    by Sarah Harlan-Haughey ...
    Series series Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture
    Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 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

    $49.49 USD

  • The Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Mythology

    Edited by Carolyne Larrington, Paul L. Acker ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Women's Rights in Medieval History- Children's Medieval History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men? If you would review your history books, you will notice the great difference in status, rank and role in society. In this book, let's take a look at the women's rights during the medieval times. Do you think women were treated fairly then? Why or why not? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Disney Middle Ages

    A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past

    Edited by T. Pugh, S. Aronstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Women's Networks in Medieval France

    Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

    by Kathryn L. Reyerson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • From Literacy to Literature

    England, 1300-1400

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it ... Read more

    $17.09 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

  • Studies in the Medieval Atlantic

    Edited by B. Hudson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Power Play

    The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

    by Jenny Adams ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often ... Read more

    $62.99 USD