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  • Merlin

    A Casebook

    Edited by Peter H. Goodrich ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full bibliography, the volume offers nearly twenty essays--some newly commissioned for this volume, others selected from the most important scholarly and critical studies of Merlin and his role. Two of the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Eyrbyggja Saga

    by Hermann Palsson ...
    Translated by Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards ...
    An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

    A Life in Perspective

    by C. Keene ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. ... Read more

    $89.99 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

    $73.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

    Edited by J. Brown, M. Segol ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today. ... Read more

    $49.99 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

    $16.99 USD

  • Outlawry in Medieval Literature

    by T. Jones ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

    Volume One

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ekphrastic Medieval Visions

    A New Discussion in Interarts Theory

    by C. Barbetti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622

    by J. Grogan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire. ... 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