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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature

    Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson

    Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of ... Read more

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  • The Works of the Gawain Poet

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

    A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must ... Read more

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  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic

    The Form, Poetics, and Style of <I>Fortunes Stabilnes</I>

    The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orléans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which ithas most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to The Gawain-Poet

    by Ad Putter ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance

    Edited by Ad Putter, Jane Gilbert ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in ... Read more

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  • Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period including Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer. The coherence and beauty of these notions make heaven one of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD