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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780141393544
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate... -
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Helen Cooper
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek... -
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of... -
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but... -
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The... -
'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide by Jenni Nuttall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.70'Troilus and Criseyde', Geoffrey Chaucer's most substantial completed work, is a long historical romance; its famous tale of love and betrayal in the Trojan War later inspired William Shakespeare... -
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29In 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... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they... -
Dialect Variation in Northern Middle English: Scribal Language and Dialect in Northern Manuscripts of The Pricke of Conscience by Jay Gilbert 9781911694045
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The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign... -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.65Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of... -
The Golden Legend by Jacobus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious... -
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and... -
Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney by Taylor Cowdery 9781009223744
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19It is New Year at Camelot and a mysterious green knight appears at King Arthur's court. Challenging the knights of the Round Table to a Christmas game, he offers his splendid axe as a prize to... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature by Hugh Magennis
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.99An approachable and stimulating introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature, this book provides indispensable guidance for students on this important and rewarding area of literary studies. The chapters... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.48John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death... -
Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination by Ebrahim Moosa 9780807856123
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text by William Langland
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of... -
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.58For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30... -
Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition) by Tom Shippey 9781961361157
Booksplease Price: £19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961361157Author Tom ShippeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint -
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend by Alan Lupack 9780199215096
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive... -
Reading Horace's Lyric: A Late Tenth-Century Annotated Manuscript from Bavaria (British Library, Harley 2724) by Paulina Taraskin 9781897747353
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £52.39First full examination of the annotations to Horace found in an early medieval manuscript reveals much about his reception. Horace was a cornerstone of the medieval academic curriculum and a major... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers... -
Dante Erich Auerbach 9781590172193
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172193Author Erich AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Heimskringla: Volume I by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521949
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521949Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780199540419
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the...
Woden: A Historical Companion by Stephen Pollington 9781961361072
Booksplease Price: £23.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961361072Author Stephen PollingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprin
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley 9780268002671
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond 9780199554935
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation...
Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson: Volume III by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521932
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521932Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine 9780674055582
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the...
The Tain by Ciaran Carson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.72The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb...
Seven Viking Romances by Hermann Palsson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse...
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Richard Beadle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are...
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet by Derek Brewer 9780859915298
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.99The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis...