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Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspec - A Doctrinal Approach by Judith N. Garde
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Dr Garde questions modern interpretations of the nature and purpose of Old English religious poetry. In this doctrinal appraisal Dr Garde contends that English religious poetry in the early... -
Plant Names of Medieval England by Tony Hunt
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.38` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.'... -
Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture by Emily Kesling 9781843845492
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that these... -
Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts Dr Michael Bintley 9781843847809
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.39WINNER: 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... -
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... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 3 MS A by Janet M. Bately
Booksplease Price: $141.04The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the backbone of Anglo-Saxon history, an almost contemporary record of events for about five hundred years, and a vital resource for Anglo-Saxon historians. This... -
Arthurian Literature XXXIII by Elizabeth Archibald
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical... -
Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and M - Selections from Cause et Cure by Margret Berger 9780859915519
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.23Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in... -
Le Roman de Tristan en prose II: 13 by Renee L. Curtis 9780859911825
Booksplease Price: $140.65Renee Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristanis the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only... -
Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations by Ulrike Wiethaus 9781843842927
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weithaus identifies her visions as "street mysticism". This early... -
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... -
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England by Rosalind Field
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character. The relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its... -
Parzival - With Titurel and the Love Lyrics by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.38Wolfram's Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto... -
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... -
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... -
Chretien's Equal: Raoul de Houdenc: Complete Works by Raoul de Houdenc
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46By his contemporaries, Raoul de Houdenc was 'mentioned in the same breath as Chretien de Troyes as one of the masters of French poetry' (Keith Busby, The New Arthurian Encyclopaedia). The writers... -
Aspects of Malory by Toshiyuki Takamiya
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $106.72This volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader, but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an... -
Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain Nigel Bryant 9781843842620
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $124.38A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described... -
A Companion to Gower by Sian Echard 9781843842446
Booksplease Price: $41.14An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis. Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the three... -
Literature and Ageing: 73 by Elizabeth Barry 9781843845713
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.82New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature. The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in... -
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...