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  • Weaving Narrative

    Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance

    by Monica L. Wright ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in twelfth-century French romance? This interdisciplinary book explores how writers of this era used ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Vita Nuova

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Barbara Reynolds ...
    A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • King Arthur: Hero and Legend

    by Richard Barber ...
    The whole subject is brought up to date - Arthurian buffs will want this book. DAILY TELEGRAPHWho was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous 8th century chronicler who first listed his battles to the novelists of the 20th century. A clear and readable account of the development of the stories about Arthur and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $65.99 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

  • The Romance of Adultery

    Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature

    by Peggy McCracken ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Piers Plowman

    The Ethics and Epistemology of Love in Late Medieval Thought

    by David Strong ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of human potential through their theories of epistemology, ethics, and freedom of the will, Langland vivifies these ideas by contextualizing them in an ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany

    by J. Frakes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    by Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Read more

    $62.99 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

  • The Stag of Love

    The Chase in Medieval Literature

    by Marcelle Thiébaux ...
    A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies.While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Merlin and Legendary Romance

    by Carol Harding ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    An indepth work on the origins of the Merlin of Arthurian legend, this book examines early texts, thirteenth century romances focusing particularly on Merlin as a character, rather than those where Merlin is a background cast member. The outline here starts with looking at the genre and the place of fantasy, moving on to consider the attitudes towards magic and magic-users in medieval times. Main ... Read more

    $65.99 USD