Medieval

Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894715Author Jean AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not...

Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "The Passing of Arthur", a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986. No Arthurian story is experienced without some foreknowledge of its end,...

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon. The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection...

The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales. These texts are appropriate for undergraduates and general readers and were edited carefully to ensure that references and allusions are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978599Author Lisa M RuchFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 476g

New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle. Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894142Author Leah TetherFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics...

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish...

First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval...

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This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503528816Author T HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2260g

Adam of Saint-Victor's (+ 1146) sequences are recognized as sophisticated liturgical poetry, the highest development of this literary genre. In addition to their merit as unique medieval cultural sources, they offer an expression of the lived theology of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859919944Author W W SkeatFormat HardbackPage Count 870Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916714Author A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm *...

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three...

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503780030Author Pf GanzFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 269mm * 211mm * 15mm

What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be 'authentic' in the Middle Ages or Early Modernity was no less of a complex task, albeit framed in ways different to today's concept of authenticity as...

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the most influential Roman poets, providing a selection of his sharp, satirical, and often provocative works. Martial, known for his witty and biting commentary on...