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  • The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature

    The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin

    Edited by Siân Echard ...
    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that there was a Latin Arthurian tradition which extended beyond Geoffrey. This collection of essays will ... Read more

    $30.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Companion to Malory

    by Megan G. Leitch, Lisa G. Robeson, Masako Takagi, Meg Roland, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Robert Gossedge, Sian Echard, Thomas Howard Crofts, Cory Rushton1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Andrew Lynch3, Catherine Nall4, Daniel Glynn Helbert5, Dorsey Armstrong6, Kevin S Whetter7 ...
    Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Book Unbound

    Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

    Edited by Stephen Partridge, Siân Echard ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Historians on John Gower

    by Stephen Rigby, Mark Bailey, Martha Carlin, Martin Heale, Michael J Bennett, Seb Falk, Sian Echard, Anthony Musson, Christopher Fletcher0, David Green1, David N Lepine2, James Davis3, Jens U. Rohrkasten4, Katherine J Lewis5 ...
    The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards.These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Book in Britain

    A Historical Introduction

    Edited by Zachary Lesser, Daniel Allington, David A. Brewer, Stephen Colclough, Sian Echard ...
    Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future statusPresented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing ... Read more

    $138.00 USD

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  • 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

    $23.99 USD

  • From Childhood to Chivalry

    The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530

    by Nicholas Orme ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows noble boys and girls from birth through the care of their nurses, masters and mistresses, until they ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Mapping the Medieval City

    Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600

    by Catherine A M Clarke ...
    Series series Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
    This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study - with attention to its location on the border between England and Wales, its rich multi-lingual culture and surviving material ... Read more

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  • Katherine Swynford

    The History of a Medieval Mistress

    by Jeannette Lucraft ...
    Katherine Swynford – sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court?This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating woman, to show her in a whole new light. Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer and governess to the daughters of Blanche of Lancaster and John of Gaunt. She also became John of Gaunt's mistress – a role that she maintained for 20 ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Stephen

    by Edmund King ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135–1154), with its “nineteen long winters” of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 1536

    The Year that Changed Henry VIII

    by Suzannah Lipscomb ...
    One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent.1536 - focusing on a pivotal year in the life of the King - reveals a fuller portrait of this complex ... Read more

    $12.99 USD