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  • Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

    Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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    Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating...
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  • The Complete Works Robert Henryson 9781580441391

    The Complete Works Robert Henryson 9781580441391

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    In this new edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, David Parkinson offers editions of Henryson's "Fables," "The Testament of Cresseid," "Orpheus and Eurydice" and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson,...
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  • The Medieval Pig by Dolly Jørgensen 9781837651689

    The Medieval Pig by Dolly Jørgensen 9781837651689

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    Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might be in the street, with the swineherd close behind at...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions by Leslie Lockett

    Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions by Leslie Lockett

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    Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning...
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  • Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian by David Alan Parnell 9780197574706

    Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian by David Alan Parnell 9780197574706

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    A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the...
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  • The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter

    The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514001646Author Jason M. BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...
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  • The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard

    The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard

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    Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would...
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  • Experiencing Medieval Art by Herbert L. Kessler 9781442600713

    Experiencing Medieval Art by Herbert L. Kessler 9781442600713

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    Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as paintings and sculptures; the circumstances, processes, and materials of production; the conflictual...
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  • The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727

    The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727

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    A detailed and passionate argument suggesting that Beowulf originated in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia. Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first...
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  • How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

    How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

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    From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was...
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  • The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515

    The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515

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    Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of...
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  • Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

    Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

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    'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening...
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  • The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition by Saint Thomas More

    The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition by Saint Thomas More

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    The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a...
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  • Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268

    Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268

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    'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to...
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  • From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Pamela H. Smith 9780226818245

    From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Pamela H. Smith 9780226818245

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    How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices...
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  • The Life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous

    The Life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous

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    'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a...
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  • Chaucer's Language by Simon Horobin 9780230293793

    Chaucer's Language by Simon Horobin 9780230293793

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    The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students...
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  • The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic by David Townsend 9780812233476

    The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic by David Townsend 9780812233476

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    Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a...
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  • The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation Neil Cartlidge (Department of English Studies, Durham University (United Kingdom)) 9780859896900

    The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation Neil Cartlidge (Department of English Studies, Durham University (United Kingdom)) 9780859896900

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    The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been...
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  • New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives by Catherine Sanok

    New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives by Catherine Sanok

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    In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England: the sudden fascination with the Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints...
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  • The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) by Kazutomo Karasawa 9781843845997

    The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) by Kazutomo Karasawa 9781843845997

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    First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year. WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition The late tenth-century Old English Metrical...
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  • Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

    Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

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    Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le...
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  • Instructions of Saint Louis: A Critical Text by David O'Connell 9780807892169

    Instructions of Saint Louis: A Critical Text by David O'Connell 9780807892169

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807892169Author David O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina...
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  • King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure by Larry D. Benson

    King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure by Larry D. Benson

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    Professor Benson's edition of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure has been long out of print. Benson's edition of these important Middle English poems is here revised and updated by Professor Edward E. Foster, taking into account...
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  • Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles Jennifer Neville 9781487552527

    Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles Jennifer Neville 9781487552527

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    At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles. They are notable for many reasons, but one feature in particular has challenged modern readers: their lack of solutions. In Truth Is...
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  • Siege of Jerusalem by Michael Livingston

    Siege of Jerusalem by Michael Livingston

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    The fourteenth-century Siege of Jerusalem has been called by Ralph Hanna "the chocolate-covered tarantula of the alliterative movement" for its apparent anti-Semitism and is, as Livingston notes in his introduction, "simply difficult for...
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  • Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante by Intelligent Education 9781645420743

    Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante by Intelligent Education 9781645420743

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645420743Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...
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  • Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023

    Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023

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    This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the...
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  • Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley

    Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley

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    An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often...
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  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 9780393930719

    The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 9780393930719

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    The Consolation of Philosophy occupies a central place in the history of Western thought. Its author, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (ca. 476-526 c.e.), was a Roman philosopher, scholar, and statesman who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in...
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  • Journeys to the Underworld and Heavenly Realm in Ancient and Medieval Literature John C. Stephens 9781476674513

    Journeys to the Underworld and Heavenly Realm in Ancient and Medieval Literature John C. Stephens 9781476674513

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    The idea of heaven and hell is one of the oldest and most widespread religious beliefs of human civilization. In the history of western literature, this spiritual concept was frequently embedded in stories of underworld and heavenly journeys.A variety of...
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  • Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

    Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

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    Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his...
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  • Introducing the Medieval Ass by Kathryn L. Smithies 9781786836229

    Introducing the Medieval Ass by Kathryn L. Smithies 9781786836229

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    Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass’s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond. In the Middle Ages, the ass became synonymous with human idiocy, a comic...
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  • Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts for the Orlando Furioso by Mario Casari

    Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts for the Orlando Furioso by Mario Casari

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    Among the most dynamic and influential literary texts of the European sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532) emerged from a world whose horizons were rapidly changing. The poem is a prism through which to examine various links in...
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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535

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    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by...
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  • Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course Laura Kalas 9781843846840

    Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course Laura Kalas 9781843846840

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    The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical...
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  • From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Christopher Cannon

    From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Christopher Cannon

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    The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first...
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  • Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne

    Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne

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    This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or...
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  • The Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria, with the Festal Index and the Historia Acephala David Brakke 9781802076820

    The Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria, with the Festal Index and the Historia Acephala David Brakke 9781802076820

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    Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and historians alike as a champion of orthodoxy against the 'Arian' heresy and a proponent of the ascetic life...
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  • A Sacred City: Consecrating Churches and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy by Louis I. Hamilton 9780719080265

    A Sacred City: Consecrating Churches and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy by Louis I. Hamilton 9780719080265

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    The so-called Investiture Conflict was a watershed moment in the political life of the Latin West and the history of the papacy. Occurring at a time of rapid social change and political expansion, the eleventh-century reform movement became a debate...
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