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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 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... -
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,... -
A Companion to Chretien de Troyes by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08One of the most important medieval authors studied in historical and literary context. Chretien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers... -
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio by Carol Falvo Heffernan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions. Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively... -
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries by Dr. Rachel A. Fletcher 9781843846505
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the... -
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory by P. J. C. Field 9780859915663
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The most comprehensive consideration of the competing arguments for Malory's identitu yet undertaken.`A tour de force of historical scholarship and detective work - so good it sets the mind racing... -
The Medieval Romance of Alexander - The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Jehan Wauquelin 9781843845201
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.94Nigel Bryant's is the first translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur. The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the... -
Lancelot-Grail: 3. Lancelot part I and II - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy 9781843842262
RRP: £39.99Booksplease 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 Manuscript and Meaning of Malory`s Morte Dar - Rubrication, Commemoration, Memorialization by K.s. Whetter 9781843845638
Booksplease Price: £31.89An examination of the rubricated letters in the Morte makes a convincing case for the design being by Malory himself. The red-ink names that decorate the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte... -
Essays on Troilus and Criseyde by Mary Salu
Booksplease Price: £29.68`Each essay opens up new directions without ignoring past critical trends...an important guide for new approaches to the text and meaning of Troilus and Criseyde and, as such, an important... -
Chaucer`s Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales by Anne Laskaya
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An original feminist approach, through a study of Chaucer's treatment of masculinity, to the Canterbury Tales This volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the... -
Layamon`s Brut - The Poem and its Sources by Francoise H.M. Le Saux
Booksplease Price: £96.11A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Francoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to... -
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... -
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Peter E. Pormann 9781843843894
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.85The group of Hebrew manuscripts at Corpus Christi College Oxford forms one of the most important collections of Anglo-Jewish manuscripts in the world. Although few in number, the College's holdings... -
The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VI - Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Yorkshire Libraries and Archives by O.S. Pickering
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Yorkshire Libraries and Archives This volume contains indexes to a university library, a monastic library, two cathedral libraries, a... -
Viking America: The First Millennium by Geraldine Barnes
Booksplease Price: £96.11Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the... -
The Arthurian Way of Death - The English Tradition by Karen Cherewatuk
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition. It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional... -
Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England by Emily Dolmans
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.03An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England. The period after the Norman Conquest saw a dramatic reassessment of what it meant to be English, owing to... -
Malory`s Library: The Sources of the Morte Darthur by Ralph Norris
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself. The first book-length study of the sources of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur since 1921 and... -
Early French Tristan Poems: I by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £109.3312th-century French retellings and variations of the story of Tristan and Iseut. The strong and enduring appeal of the Arthurian legends shows no signs of abating, yet many medieval Arthurian... -
A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 700-1100 by Donald Scragg 9781843846178
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50Comprehensive, annotated list of over a thousand Anglo-Saxon scribal hands, linking them to place and manuscript. This book documents the entire corpus of scribal hands writing in the vernacular... -
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena by Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez 9780859914468
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.13Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's... -
Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North by Paul S. Langeslag 9781843845256
Booksplease Price: £27.60A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature. To the cultures of medieval northwestern Europe, the changing of the seasons was a material and economic reality that... -
![The Book of Lancelot - The Middle Dutch "Lancelot" Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles by Bart Besamusca](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/196065/195783/9780859917698__12439.1686823707.jpg?c=1 "The Book of Lancelot - The Middle Dutch "Lancelot" Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles by Bart Besamusca")
The Book of Lancelot - The Middle Dutch "Lancelot" Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles by Bart Besamusca
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75First full-length study in English of the Middle Dutch Lancelot-Compilation, of great significance for Arthurian studies. The Book of Lancelot is a study of the highly intriguing Middle Dutch... -
Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry by Takami Matsuda
Booksplease Price: £109.33The concept of Purgatory in Middle English didactic writings is explored through examination of visions of the afterlife, sermons, homiletic treatises, and lyrics. Purgatory has been the focus of...