Medieval

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal...

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without...

In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with finely detailed and insightful close readings to...

Recent scholarship concerning parish priests in medieval England, their professional training, and their daily pastoral work has produced a more complex and realistic picture of parish clergy in the High and Late Middle Ages which dispels many of the...

Was the Beowulf-poet a Christian or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece...

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman literature. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical...

Propertius: 'Love' and 'War': Individual and State Under Augustus presents a nuanced exploration of the poetry of Propertius, addressing the apparent contradictions within his work and their implications for understanding the interplay between personal...

Propertius: 'Love' and 'War': Individual and State Under Augustus presents a nuanced exploration of the poetry of Propertius, addressing the apparent contradictions within his work and their implications for understanding the interplay between personal...

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman literature. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical...

Virgil's Georgics: A New Interpretation by Gary B. Miles challenges conventional readings of Virgil's agricultural poem by shifting attention away from rustic idealization toward the poem's political and philosophical concerns. Rather than treating the...

Virgil's Georgics: A New Interpretation by Gary B. Miles challenges conventional readings of Virgil's agricultural poem by shifting attention away from rustic idealization toward the poem's political and philosophical concerns. Rather than treating the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503612201Author Daniel ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 325Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the...

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry...

WINNER: AFCEMS Prize 2024 Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814216064Author Evelyn ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859918619Author F.J. FurnivallFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859919593Author A J EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections...

In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell...

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have prompted readers to contemplate leadership and community, love and loyalty, the spiritual realm, and...

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have prompted readers to contemplate leadership and community, love and loyalty, the spiritual realm, and...

In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in general. Shadows of Mary analyses the figure of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological,...

This volume contains ten articles dedicated to the comparative study of emotions in literature. The present anthology titled Emotions on the Fringes: Feelings of the Marginalised from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Literature initially arose from a...

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines...

Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted...

The Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298), a Benedictine/Cistercian nun at the convent of Helfta.

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies.Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama...

An ancient tomb is discovered deep in the foundations of St Paul's. It is decorated with a mysterious inscription in letters of gold. The body within is unblemished, dressed as a judge and with a crown and sceptre. Obviously an important person, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503619736Author Wim VerbaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Although globalism may seem like a modern phenomenon, people of the premodern world were also interconnected, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476696294Author Christopher Lee PipkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802703368Author Zhinan ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project "Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low...

This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the...

Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence...

New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation...

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the...

Examining those medieval texts which were extant for sixteenth-century use and reading, Professor Tuve attempts to discover how certain writers at a given time and for reasons we can trace read the allegorical books of the Middle Ages.Originally...