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The Knight without the Sword - A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry by Hyonjin Kim
Booksplease Price: $123.98Behind the chivalrous facade of Malory's work Kim detects the anxieties and aspirations of the real fifteenth-century aristocracy. The question of how far the society in which Malory lived... -
Tennyson's Philological Medievalism Sarah Weaver 9781843846611
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. How do words come to mean what they mean, and how... -
The Anglo-Norman Lay of Haveloc - Text and Translation by Glyn S. Burgess 9781843844136
Booksplease Price: $123.98New edition and modern English translation of the Anglo-Norman version of the story of Haveloc - one of the most popular of the Middle Ages. The story of Haveloc first appears in the oldest... -
Unsettling Montaigne - Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings by Elizabeth Guild
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance. Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance... -
Arthurian Literature XXI - Celtic Arthurian Material by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46A special number devoted to Celtic material. This special number of the well-established series Arthurian Literature is devoted to Celtic material. Contributions, from leading experts in Celtic... -
The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature by Rosemary Morris
Booksplease Price: $123.98Dr Morris examines how the legend grew through the retelling of what medieval writers believed was the story of an historical figure, based not on some lost Welsh biography, but on Geoffrey of... -
Comic Drama in the Low Countries, c.1450-1560 - A Critical Anthology by Ben Parsons
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Text and translation of comic plays sheds light on a fascinating era of theatrical production. `[Opens] up an entirely new corpus of texts for scholars and readers familar with and interested in... -
Milton and the Terms of Liberty by Graham Parry
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime. In his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his career... -
Chaucer`s Religious Tales by C. David Benson
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of... -
Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues by Christine Rauer
Booksplease Price: $123.98This first comprehensive study of the dragon-fight in Old English and related literatures casts fresh light on Beowulf's last battle. The vivid depiction of a dragon-fight in the Old English poem... -
Early Modern Military Identities, 1560-1639 - Reality and Representation by Matthew Woodcock 9781843845324
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves. Within the large-scale historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern... -
Camelot Regained - The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849 by Roger Simpson
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88`Roger Simpson['s] finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked... -
The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages: Maritime Narratives, Identity and Culture Sebastian Sobecki 9781843842767
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English. Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and... -
The Role of the Poet in Early Societies by Morton W. Bloomfield
Booksplease Price: $38.29This study draws on a wide range of texts - early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English -to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as... -
The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling by Professor Siân E. Grønlie 9781843847120
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature. The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 17 - The annals of St Neots with Vita Prima Sancti Neoti by David Dumville 9780859911177
Booksplease Price: $141.04Latin translation, uncorrupted by the chronological dislocation which has affected every other text. Edition of an important witness to the development of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, preserving in... -
Le Roman de Tristan en prose III by Renee L. Curtis
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.38Renee Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristan is the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only... -
Chivalry in Twelfth Century Germany - The Works of Hartmann von Aue by W.H. Jackson
Booksplease Price: $141.04The first book in English to cover the whole production of Hartmann von Aue (fl.1180-1203), a figure of paramount importance in the history of medieval German literature... His book is refreshing..... -
The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters - Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia by Eva Dolezalova
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.28Women in 15c Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations. The letters of the Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anezka, give a vivid insight into how... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 8: MS F Peter Stuart Baker (Customer) 9780859914901
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Eighth volume in the collaborative edition - early 12C Canterbury manuscript. The introduction details other work by the same hand and his role in re-shaping Anglo-Saxon history. This edition... -
Arthurian Literature I by Richard Barber 9780859910811
Booksplease Price: $123.98`[The series] epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today.' ZEITSCHRIFT FUER ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE Since the first volume in 1982, edited by Richard Barber, Arthurian Literaturehas... -
A New Companion to Malory Megan G Leitch 9781843846758
Booksplease Price: $37.11A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a... -
Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England - Texts, Hierarchies, Economies by Catherine A. M. Clarke
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46New study of the complexities of how power operates in a number of Anglo-Saxon texts. A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts... -
Love`s Masks - Identity, Intertextuality and Meaning in the Old French Tristan Poems by Merritt R. Blakeslee
Booksplease Price: $123.98`Love's Masks raises provocative questions about the Old French Tristan poems and their context and provides some suggestive answers.' Donald Hoffman, QUONDAM ET FUTURUS, Vol. I, No 1 Spring 1991 `-a... -
War and Combat, 1150-1270: the Evidence from Old French Literature Catherine Hanley 9780859917810
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49An investigation of the depiction of warfare in contemporary writings, in both fictional narratives and factual accounts. War and combat were significant factors in the lives of all conditions of... -
Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures. From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of... -
Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems Dr Steven J.A. Breeze 9781843846451
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $108.11An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant... -
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year Clare A Simmons (Contributor) 9781843846826
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $19.74A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages. What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All... -
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents by Vera Morton 9781843842958
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in... -
The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century - A Revolution in English Writing. With an annotated edition of Bradford, West Yorkshire Archives MS 32 by Mary-Rose McLaren
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88The first attempt by ordinary lay people - merchants, scriveners, craftsmen - to write their own history, and its effect on the growth and development of London. The early fifteenth century... -
Lancelot-Grail: 7. The Death of Arthur - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: $33.18The Death of Arthur brings the Vulgate Cycle to its tragic ending. It opens with the aftermath of the Grail quest, and the king's attempts to revive the much depleted Round Table. But at this point... -
A Companion to the Middle English Lyric by Thomas G. Duncan 9781843840657
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most important forms of medieval literature. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies... -
Arthurian and Other Studies presented to Shunichi Noguchi by Takashi Suzuki 9780859913805
Booksplease Price: $141.04Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and textual studies of Gower and others. These essays for Shunichi Noguchi, by scholars from Britain, the USA and Japan, reflect... -
Saint Bride and her Book - Birgitta of Sweden`s Revelations by Julia Bolton Holloway 9780859915892
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.88A modern English version of the Middle English text of Birgitta's Revelations made at the Birgittine Syon Abbey in England, in which the scribes extracted their favourite episodes from the longer... -
Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from The Flowing Light of the Godhead by Elizabeth A. Andersen 9781843842972
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe. Here is one of the great surprises of German medieval... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XX: Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge by Kari Anne Rand
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.84Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with full indices. The majority of the medieval manuscripts in Corpus Christi which contain Middle... -
The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 10 - Index, Undated Letters, and Bibliography by William E. Fredeman
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $145.02More than an index to the nine volumes of letters, this volume is a concise guide to an entire cultural era seen through the lens of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Volume 10 of The Correspondence of... -
The Works of Thomas Traherne V: Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations Jan Ross (Royalty Account) 9781843843276
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.38This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of... -
A New Companion to Malory by Megan G. Leitch 9781843845232
Booksplease Price: $125.74A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and... -
Castles and Space in Malory`s Morte Darthur by Molly A. Martin 9781843845270
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49First full-length study of these crucial buildings in the Morte, looking at the interplay between characters and space. Castles play an integral part in Malory's Morte Darthur; Camelot, Tintagel,...