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Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 9781501740473
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"-the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of... -
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages by Glending Olson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure-one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in... -
Dante for Beginners by Joe Lee
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389676Author Joe LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
New Troy: Fantasies Of Empire In The Late Middle Ages by Sylvia Federico
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40Examines the political and literary uses of the Trojan legend in the medieval periodEngland in the late fourteenth century witnessed a large-scale social revolt, a lingering and seemingly hopeless... -
Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances by Susan Wittig
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic... -
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction by Jesse Gellrich
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and... -
The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages by Peter Haidu
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $36.06This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation ... -
The Vikings and the Victorians - Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Andrew Wawn 9780859916448
Booksplease Price: $47.02The first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the... -
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses by Niklaus Largier
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic... -
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner 9780691206035
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73From 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... -
The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays by C. W. Sullivan 9781138854840
RRP: $62.97Booksplease Price: $58.88The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and a selection of the best... -
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature by Barbara Newman
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $35.67Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by... -
Judith Mark Griffith (University of Oxford, New College (United Kingdom)) 9780859895682
Booksplease Price: $41.75Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem JUDITH the most stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the past thirty years it has attracted a wide range of... -
Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature by Brian O. Murdoch 9781873982020
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873982020Author Brian O. MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Lancelot-Grail: 4. Lancelot part III and IV - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: $47.44Lancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur's court come to the fore. These chivalric elements contain the seeds of Arthur's destruction and the...
The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement by Dorothy L Sayers 9781597524933
RRP: $45.56Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597524933Author Dorothy L SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage by Maria Rosa Menocal
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $35.27Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking...
The Auchinleck Manuscript - New Perspectives by Susanna Fein 9781903153789
Booksplease Price: $36.98Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National...
30 Great Myths about Chaucer Thomas A. Prendergast 9781119194057
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $21.69The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? ...
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover 9781843842453
Booksplease Price: $37.25Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring...![Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance by Kathryn Schwarz 9780822326021 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9918908/10935439/9780822326021__52383.1786484552.jpg?c=1 "Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance by Kathryn Schwarz 9780822326021 [USED COPY]")
Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance by Kathryn Schwarz 9780822326021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $31.68In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender...
Readings in Medieval Rhetoric by Joseph M. Miller 9780253348791
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98This authoritative anthology will put to rest the general impression that traditional rhetoric had little impact during the years between the death of St. Augustine and Bracciolini's rediscovery of...
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature - Negotiations of National Identity by Larissa Tracy 9781843843931
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $30.36An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit and no excessive relish. These needs are richly satisfied in Larissa Tracy's bold and important...