Medieval

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197225714Author Julius ZupitzaFormat HardbackPage Count 682Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1104g

A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and Felaw, a late fifteenth-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c.1425) by Alain Chartier, is a forceful prose work which laments the ruinous conditions of France caused by the...

This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le Pelerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197222898Author J. AytoFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197222614Author Abbot of Eynsham AelfricFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 828g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197222539Author Professor M. C. SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 374g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197221860Author Nicholas HarpsfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 974g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197220719Author T. F. SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 546Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 966g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197220658Author The Venerable BedeFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 336g

The purpose of the Bibliography of the International Arthurian Society (BIAS), which continues the annual bibliography previously published by the International Arthurian Society since 1949 as Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian...

The purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matiere de Bretagne. The bibliography aims to include all books, reviews and articles published in the year preceding its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950192755Author Anna KlosowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580329Author Manuele GragnolatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580312Author Manuele GragnolatiFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825349653Author Richard J MollFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 3438g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503360713Author M RichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1400g

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Performing Desire examines the intellectual and philosophical complexity of a monument of medieval literature: the mid-thirteenth-century Bestiaire d'amours of Richard de Fournival. Although the Bestiaire was recognized in its time as significant, as...

The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The rich tradition of pre-modern mystical writing from England is explored in this collection of essays from the ninth Exeter...

Since the rediscovery of the Nibelungenlied in the mid-eighteenth century, this medieval German poem has exercised a remarkable fascination, but very little work has been devoted to interpretation according to the methods of modern criticism. Until very...

What lessons did readers take from the Espill (The Mirror)? This book examines key marginalia in sixteenth-century printed copies of the fictional, pedagogic tale about the alleged dangers of earthly women composed by Valencian physician Jaume Roig...

These texts are English versions of romances well known in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, but outside the modern canon of early English literature. Unlike Caxton's other romances, they do not belong to the matters of the Nine Worthies; they are...

Explores the intersections between two fundamental approaches to medieval literature, shedding new light on texts ranging from The Canterbury Tales to Le Morte Darthur. This volume identifies new methods and questions for language-based approaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666949315Author Tovi BibringFormat HardbackImprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802701036Author Rory G. CrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

Offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Games with a medieval setting are commercially lucrative and reach a truly massive audience. Moreover, they can engage their players in a manner that is not...

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and...

This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that...

This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance. In the first volume, the articles unravel the complexities of authority...

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space...

This book explores the rich, complex, literary tradition of the medieval go-between. Idealized going between usually leads to marriage and it develops a new dimension of the much debated question of courtly love and woman's part in it. Chaucer's...

The twentieth-century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an...

Forging Chivalric Communities in Marlory's Morte D'Arthur shows that Malory treats chivalry not as a static institution but as a dynamic, continually evolving ideal. Le Morte D'arthur is structured to trace how communities and individuals adapt or create...

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords...

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and...

This book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read...

The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain,...