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Love`s Masks - Identity, Intertextuality and Meaning in the Old French Tristan Poems by Merritt R. Blakeslee
Booksplease Price: £96.11`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: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08An 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: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An 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: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81An 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.30A 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Collection 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 Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XX: Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge by Kari Anne Rand
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Handlist 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: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.42More 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: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92This 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: £97.47A 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: £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,... -
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... -
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... -
Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes by K. S. Whetter
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again [as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles... -
Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance by Jane Bliss
Booksplease Price: £109.33A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance. Naming and namelessness are among the major themes of medieval romance. Because the... -
Partonopeus de Blois - Romance in the Making by Penny Eley
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French... -
The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland by Dale Kedwards
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the understudied Icelandic mappae mundi. The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn between c. 1225 and c. 1400, are contemporary with the... -
The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn Daniel Anlezark 9781843842033
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant. The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and... -
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... -
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... -
Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative by Ralph O'Connor
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Examinations of the use of classical Latin texts, themes and techniques in medieval Irish narrative. This edited volume will make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of... -
Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards Carol Meale 9781843843757
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It... -
The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector - Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya by Takami Matsuda
Booksplease Price: £45.14New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing. This acclaimed study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books - many items from... -
Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Trista - Papers from an Anglo- North American Symposium by Adrian Stevens 9780859912945
Booksplease Price: £109.33This volume comprises selected papers from a Tristan symposium held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London. The symposium was conceived by the organizers as an experiment in transatlantic... -
Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England by Kathryn Powell 9780859917742
Booksplease Price: £96.41Studies and editions of Anglo-Saxon apocryphal materials, filling a gap in literature available on the boundaries between apocryphal and orthodox in the period. Apocrypha and apocryphal traditions... -
Late-Medieval German Women`s Poetry - Secular and Religious Songs by Albrecht Classen 9781843842965
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.02A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research. Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it... -
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...