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  • The Medieval Fold

    Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

    by S. Verderber ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1

    by Thomas Malory ...
    Series Book 1 - Le Morte D'Arthur
    Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • 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

    $28.49 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

  • Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

    Edited by G. Ashton, D. Kline ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    by William McClellan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably changes how we read literature from the past. McClellan gives a thoroughgoing reading of the M**an of ... Read more

    $53.99 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