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Castles and Space in Malory`s Morte Darthur by Molly A. Martin 9781843845270
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08First 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,... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 3 MS A by Janet M. Bately
Booksplease Price: £109.33The 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: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Arthurian 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Medieval 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: £109.03Renee 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Female 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... -
Wyatt Abroad: Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power William Rossiter 9781843843887
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An examination of Wyatt's translations and adaptions of European poetry yields fresh insights into his work and poetic practice. During the 1520s and 1530s Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet and diplomat,... -
The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60A 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... -
Neo-Historicism - Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics by Robin Headlam Wells
Booksplease Price: £109.33Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method. For nearly two decades, Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various forms of... -
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer`s Troilus and Criseyde by Tison Pugh
Booksplease Price: £96.11New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love... -
The Politics of Pearl - Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II by John M. Bowers
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.18Close analysis of the poem reveals extensive allusion to contemporary social, religious and political events. This is an entirely new and original reading of Pearl, placing the anonymous... -
De Cella in Seculum - Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England by Michael G. Sargent 9780859912686
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.18Essays on the life of Hugh of Avalon "All those concerned with the contribution of monasticism to the devotional life of the external world will find much to inform and stimulate them among these... -
Chretien's Equal: Raoul de Houdenc: Complete Works by Raoul de Houdenc
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75By 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: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.73This 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... -
Robin Hood - The Forresters Manuscript (British Library Additional MS 71158) by Stephen Knight
Booksplease Price: £96.11The major discovery of a late 17c manuscript of Robin Hood ballads is a significant event in the study of early English popular culture: fuller and variant ballad texts introduced with full critical... -
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry by Jennifer Saltzstein
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship... -
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics - An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. by R. M. Liuzza
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future. Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013. Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from... -
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover 9781843842453
Booksplease Price: £27.80Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring... -
The Old English Martyrology - Edition, Translation and Commentary by Christine Rauer 9781843843474
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2015 Publication Prize: Best Edition The Old English... -
Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain Nigel Bryant 9781843842620
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £96.42A 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: £31.89An 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.52New 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... -
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance by Corinne Saunders
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £84.11The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject. The world of medieval... -
The Medieval Literary - Beyond Form by Robert J. Meyer-Lee
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts. The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project... -
The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440) Maya Bijvoet Williamson 9780859914628
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary. Helene Kottanner was servant and confidante of the widowed Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1409-1442). This is her... -
Medieval English Theatre 42 - Religious Drama and Community by Elisabeth Dutton 9781843845942
Booksplease Price: £35.12Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies... -
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse by Yoko Wada 9781843842439
Booksplease Price: £31.89Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for... -
Lancelot-Grail: 6. The Quest for the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £25.72The Quest of the Holy Grail adds a spiritual dimension to the adventures of Arthur's knights. Galahad replaces Lancelot as the central figure, though he appears and disappears so often that many of... -
The Paston Women: Selected Letters Diane Watt 9781843840244
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence,... -
Arthurian Literature XXXI by Elizabeth Archibald
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Arthurian 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... -
The Vision of Christine de Pizan by Glenda McLeod 9781843842989
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time. Christine de Pizan's... -
German Romance IV: Lanzelet by Kathleen J. Meyer
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £87.23Text and facing translation of an important medieval German Arthurian romance. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, dating from the end of the twelfth century, is a verse translation into Middle... -
The Literature and Politics of the Environment Professor John Parham 9781843846970
Booksplease Price: £30.43Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies. Much as the complexities of climate... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10 - The Abingdon Chronicle AD 956-1066 (MS C with ref. to BDE) by Patrick W. Conner 9780859914666
Booksplease Price: £96.11Two further editions bring the number of published volumes of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicleseries to Edition with scholarly introduction, evaluating the relationship of the Abingdon Chronicle to other... -
The High Book of the Grail - A translation of the thirteenth-century romance of Perlesvaus by Nigel Bryant 9781843841210
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40Vivid translation of one of the earliest and most important Grail romances. The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus) is one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances, standing apart... -
Arthurian Literature XIII by James P. Carley
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Latest volume in this series containing the best new work on Arthurian topics. The latest volume of Arthurian Literature includes an edition and study of the widely disseminated Latin translation... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XVII: Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge by Kari Anne Rand Schmidt
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Fifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence. Major religious works among the fifty-five manuscripts... -
Lancelot-Grail: 1. The History of the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £28.10AlthoughThe History of the Holy Grail opens the Vulgate Cycle, it was added after the events described in Lancelot and The Quest of the Holy Grail were already an established part of the Arthurian... -
Historians on John Gower by Stephen Rigby 9781843847014
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.35John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new... -
Marco Polo`s Le Devisement du Monde - Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity by Simon Gaunt 9781843843528
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective. Le Devisement du Monde (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as...