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Royal Genealogy in the Age of Shakespeare by Sara Trevisan
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.87First full-length investigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose. Shakespeare lived in an age when royal genealogy mattered... -
Medieval Anchorites in their Communities by Cate Gunn 9781843844624
Booksplease Price: £109.33Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them. Much of the research into medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal... -
Lancelot-Grail: 2. The Story of Merlin - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy 9781843842347
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £42.90The Story of Merlin depicts the role of the seer Merlin in the conception and birth of Arthur, who is to rescue Britain from the Saxons and establish an ideal kingdom. It follows Arthur's career as... -
A Companion to Chretien de Troyes by Norris J. Lacy 9781843841616
Booksplease Price: £27.60A fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chretien's world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE Chretien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that... -
A Perceforest Reader - Selected Episodes from Perceforest - The Prehistory of Arthur`s Britain by Nigel Bryant 9781843842903
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of... -
Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor by Alison Wiggins 9781843841258
Booksplease Price: £109.03The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a... -
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics by Margaret Clunies Ross 9781843842798
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular... -
The Forest of Medieval Romance - Avernus, Broceliande, Arden by Corinne J. Saunders
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Traces the development of the forest as a central literary motif in medieval romance. Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the... -
Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature - Body, Mind, Voice by Frank Brandsma
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend. Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction... -
Malory: Texts and Sources by P. J. C. Field 9780859915366
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur. During the last thirty years, the study of Malory's text and sources has given... -
The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance - Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in memory of Cedric E. Pickford by Alison Adams
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the... -
New Readings of Chaucer`s Poetry by Robert G. Benson
Booksplease Price: £96.11A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of "Chaucerian... -
Lancelot-Grail 10: Chapter Summaries for the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles and Index of Proper Names by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £27.60Chapter by chapter summary of the contents of the Vulgate Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, providing an invaluable outline of them both. The most comprehensive account of the story of Arthur, the... -
Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations Elizabeth Archibald 9780859913164
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A comparative study of one of the most familiar stories in medieval romance (used by Gower, Shakespeare, etc.), from late Antiquity into the Renaissance. The Historia Apollonii is a rare Latin... -
Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse - The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia by Sif Rikhardsdottir 9781843844945
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. Throughout the Middle Ages, many Francophone... -
The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary by Liz Herbert Mcavoy
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. During the Middle... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XVI - The Laudian Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford by S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Archbishop Laud was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1629-1641, during... -
Italian Literature II - Tristano Riccardiano by F. Regina Psaki
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Text with facing translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, providing new evidence for the development of the Tristan strand of the Arthurian legend. This is the first English... -
John Gower in England and Iberia - Manuscripts, Influences, Reception by Ana Saez-Hidalgo
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. ... -
The Stage as Mirror - Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe by Alan E. Knight
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Aspects of medieval theatre examined for reflection of contemporary life. The essays in this volume explore ways in which plays and public spectacles mirrored the beliefs and values of the late... -
The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist IV - Manuscripts in the Douce Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford by Laurel Braswell
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Douce Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford The large and diverse Douce Collection contains fifty four manuscripts containing Middle... -
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain Amanda Hopkins 9781843844440
Booksplease Price: £25.91An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign... -
Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 Dr Mary Bateman 9781843847700
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Winner of the 2024 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies ... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XXII: Manuscripts in Christ`s, Emmanuel, Jesus, Selwyn and Sidney Sussex Colleges, Peterhouse and Trinity by Angela M. Lucas
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Latest volume in a series which is "a monumental achievement" (Review of English Studies) This volume provides detailed descriptions of Middle English prose materials found in the important... -
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain Amanda Hopkins 9781843843795
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign... -
Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature by Rory G. Critten
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book. Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe,... -
The Green Man Kathleen Basford 9780859914970
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Delightful, oft-reprinted guide to the foliate heads so common in medieval sculpture. This was the first-ever monograph dedicated to the Green Man. The Green Man, the image of the foliate head or... -
The Sea and Medieval English Literature by Sebastian I. Sobecki
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in... -
The Alliterative Morte Arthure - A Reassessment of the Poem by Karl Heinz Goller
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Essays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem. The present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in... -
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: 7. MS E Susan Irvine 9780859914949
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Collaborative Series, which now includes editions of the main texts through from A to F. This volume offers a new edition of the E-text of the Anglo-Saxon... -
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy - Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred by Andrew Cowell
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th... -
Translating Beowulf - Modern Versions in English Verse by Hugh Magennis
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions. A senior scholar writing here at the height of his powers and... -
The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII - Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries by James Simpson
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Parisian libraries The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the... -
Ulrich von Zatzikhoven`s Lanzelet - Narrative Style and Entertainment by Nicola McLelland 9780859916028
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Wide-ranging survey of a neglected but significant early German version of the Lancelot legend. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long... -
Lancelot-Grail: 5. Lancelot part V and VI - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy 9781843842361
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.14Lancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur's court come to the fore. These chivalric elements contain the seeds of Arthur's destruction and the... -
The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes by John T. Shawcross
Booksplease Price: £96.11Ambiguity, present in all aspects of the poem, is seen as central to Milton's authorial intentions. Shawcross proposes that the many ambiguities surrounding Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes... -
Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas Dr Laurie Atkinson 9781843846925
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and... -
The Heaven Singing - Music in Early English Religious Drama I by Richard Rastall 9780859915502
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.13Its scope is impressive... a formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama. MEDIUM AEVUM Richard Rastall's two books on music in early... -
A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe by John H. Arnold 9781843842149
Booksplease Price: £27.80Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much... -
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: vol. II (pb) by Robert M. Correale 9781843841906
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £59.34Long-awaited companion to the highly acclaimed first volume. The publication of this volume completes the new edition of the sources and major analogues of all the Canterbury Tales prepared by...