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The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales by Charles Abraham Owen
Booksplease Price: £96.11Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question... -
Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England by W Mark Ormrod
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity... -
The Theology of John Donne Jeffrey Johnson (Royalty Account) 9780859916202
Booksplease Price: £29.68John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology. John Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the... -
Three Preludes to the Song of Roland: Gui of Burgundy, Roland at Saragossa, and Otinel Professor William W. Kibler 9781843847373
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52The first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of... -
The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England by Robert Stanton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Most Old English literature was translated or adapted from Latin: what was translated, and when, reflects cultural development and the increasing respectability of English. Translation was central... -
Shakespeare and Machiavelli by John Roe
Booksplease Price: £91.69A detailed comparison of Machiavelli with Shakespeare, grounded in their common use of rhetoric. Although the question of Machiavellian influence on Shakespeare has been thoroughly debated, this... -
English: Shared Futures by Robert Eaglestone 9781843845164
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is... -
Women`s Books of Hours in Medieval England by Charity Scott-Stokes
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by... -
Anglo-Saxon Saints` Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England by Cynthia Turner Camp
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to... -
A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry by Priscilla Bawcutt 9781843842477
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth... -
Slow Scholarship - Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University by Catherine E. Karkov 9781843845386
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.22A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today. This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as... -
Charlemagne in Italy by Professor Jane E. Everson
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £102.83An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and... -
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders by Margaret Clunies Ross 9781843846390
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of... -
Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson by Professor Daniel G. Donoghue 9781843847113
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity. This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies... -
Two Medieval Outlaws - Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn by Glyn S. Burgess 9781843841876
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Fascinating insights into medieval life. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives,... -
Writing Home - Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008 by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 9781843841753
Booksplease Price: £109.33The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day. Ideas of home, place and identity... -
Conquering the Reign of Femeny - Gender and Genre in Chaucer`s Romance by Angela Jane Weisl
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet... -
Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North by Paul S. Langeslag
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A 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 Atom in Seventeenth-Century Poetry Cassandra Gorman 9781843845935
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" - understood as an indivisible particle of... -
Lancelot-Grail: 9. The Post-Vulgate Cycle. The Q - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £27.90The revised version of The Quest of the Holy Grail gives a greater role to Perceval, and introduces a number of knights not found in the Vulgate; but the largest change is that much of the story of... -
Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Centur - Indexes by Tony Hunt 9780859913393
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the... -
Chaucer and his World by Derek Brewer 9780859913669
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Subtle and illuminating life of Chaucer, drawn against the turbulent backdrop of 14th century England. `Brewer brings to his task a full scholarly knowledge of the sources of Chaucerian biography.... -
The Medieval Lyric by Peter Dronke 9780859914840
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22This highly acclaimed introduction to the medieval lyric during the period 850-1300 is now reissued in a third edition, which includes a new preface and substantial new bibliographical indications... -
Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index by Louise Sylvester
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.48A bibliography of studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words offering evidence for word meanings. Although detailed and full bibliographies exist for Old English word studies,... -
Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literatu - A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by Leo Carruthers 9780859914154
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Studies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot. Andre Crepin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and... -
Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings Professor Kirsten Stirling 9781843847076
Booksplease Price: £30.41A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne The five known portraits of John Donne and the many artworks bequeathed in his will bear witness to his interest in painting. His... -
![The Works of Thomas Traherne VI - Poems from the "Dobell Folio", Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the "Early Notebook" by Jan Ross 9781843843825](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2292833/2292183/9781843843825__76508.1710896862.jpg?c=1 "The Works of Thomas Traherne VI - Poems from the "Dobell Folio", Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the "Early Notebook" by Jan Ross 9781843843825")
The Works of Thomas Traherne VI - Poems from the "Dobell Folio", Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the "Early Notebook" by Jan Ross 9781843843825
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH [Christopher Howse] Thomas Traherne... -
Three Preludes to the Song of Roland: Gui of Burgundy, Roland at Saragossa, and Otinel by Professor William W. Kibler 9781843846963
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08The first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of... -
Medievalisms in a Global Age by Professor Angela Jane Weisl 9781843847038
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never... -
Aldhelm: The Prose Works Michael Lapidge 9781843841999
Booksplease Price: £25.72Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity, and his less well-known letters. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne,... -
Ethics in the Arthurian Legend by Professor Melissa Ridley Elmes
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £65.66An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of... -
A Critical Companion to Beowulf by Andy Orchard 9781843840299
Booksplease Price: £38.83A generous, energetic, engaging work... will be important to Beowulf study for years to come. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Beowulf is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from... -
Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies - Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns by Laine E. Doggett
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views... -
A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre by Massimiliano Bampi
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature. We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the... -
The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature by Emily Wingfield
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75First full-length treatment of the Trojan legend in medieval Scottish literature, showing the various uses for, and the ways in, which it was deployed. The Trojan legend became hot property during... -
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Irel - Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 1999 (Exeter Symposium VI) by Marion Glasscoe
Booksplease Price: £109.33Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background. Contemplative life in the middle ages has been the focus of much recent critical attention. The Symposium papers... -
Vision and Gender in Malory`s Morte Darthur by Molly Martin
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte. Skilfully blending analysis of medieval ideas of optics and vision with careful close... -
Marco Polo`s Le Devisement du Monde - Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity by Simon Gaunt
Booksplease Price: £25.91The 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... -
New Medieval Literatures 23 by Philip Knox
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Annual volume on medieval textual cultures, engaging with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual... -
Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England by W Mark Ormrod 9781843847090
Booksplease Price: £25.72Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice...