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  • Marian maternity in late-medieval England

    de Mary Beth Long ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts. By bringing together texts and authors that are not often discussed in tandem, this study offers a rich examination of the multiple ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • A Companion to Middle English Hagiography

    de Sarah Salih, Anke Bernau, Claire M Waters, Katherine J Lewis, Mary Beth Long, Matthew Woodcock, Samantha Riches ...
    The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edición de Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Gender and Holiness

    Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

    Edición de Sam Riches, Sarah Salih ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Margery Kempe

    A Mixed Life

    de Anthony Bale ...
    Series Libro 1 - Medieval Lives
    This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts her life, and tells her story through the places, relationships, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Cushions, Kitchens and Christ

    Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing

    de Louise Campion ...
    Series Libro 1 - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
    This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, ... Leer más

    $81.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England

    de Robyn Malo ...
    Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines of England’s major saints underwent dramatic changes from c. 1100 to c. 1538, relic discourse became ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

    de Susan S. Morrison ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
    This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

    Edición de Marilyn Corrie ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as the religious and historical background to Middle ... Leer más

    $105.00 USD

  • Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature

    de Nicole R. Rice ...
    Series Libro 73 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In late-fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and Chaucer; however, they have not received the critical ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Women and Medieval Literary Culture

    From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century

    Edición de Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt ...
    Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic ... Leer más

    $137.99 USD

  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

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