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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.79She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of... -
Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays: Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays by Various
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the InnocentsMiracle Plays were a popular form... -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.09'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is... -
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 Richard Barber 9780851157535
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $26.79A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique... -
Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic Amy Jeffs 9781529416619
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw... -
Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text by William Langland
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of... -
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: $46.89Booksplease Price: $46.34For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30... -
The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.64'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and... -
The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne by Simon Gaunt
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39Charles the king, our emperor great, Has been a full seven years in Spain. As far as the sea he conquered this haughty land. Not a single castle remains standing in his path Charlemagne... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as... -
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight/Pearl/Cleanness/Patience by J. J. Anderson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literatureNow a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev PatelFrom the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and... -
The Original Robin Hood: Traditional ballads and plays, including all medieval sources by Thor Ewing 9781910075135
Booksplease Price: $17.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910075135Author Thor EwingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Galateo: Or, the Rules of Polite Behavior by Giovanni Della Casa
Booksplease Price: $19.94Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old... -
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee Milton Hollander
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five... -
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Thomas G. Duncan 9781843843412
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $36.13A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature... -
Miracles of the Virgin in Middle English (c.1280-c. 1500) by Adrienne Williams Boyarin 9781554812561
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $22.75During the Middle Ages, Mary was the most powerful of saints, and the combination of her humanity and her proximity to the divine captured the medieval imagination. Her importance is nowhere more... -
Older Scots - A Linguistic Reader by Jeremy J. Smith 9781897976340
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $24.20A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to... -
Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter by Sharon L. Jansen 9781843842934
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $30.44Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics. First English...