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Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature: The Human and Beyond Adèle Kreager 9781843848059
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments. What happens to the category of the "human" in a... -
The Paganesque and The Tale of Vǫlsi by Professor Merrill Kaplan 9781843847021
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.44Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Volsi, via the concept of the "paganesque". A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new... -
John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books by Martha Driver 9781843845539
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in which Gower's works were first transmitted, whether in print of... -
Romance in Medieval England by Maldwyn Mills
Booksplease Price: £96.11Essays dealing with the cultural and linguistic diversity of the romance form from 12c-15c in England. These papers, presented at the first meeting of the society for the Study of Medieval Romance... -
Reconstructing Camelot - French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition by Michael Glencross
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Study exploring the treatment of the Arthurian legends by the French Romantic movement. French Romanticism was a widespread movement, as apparent in the works of historians and scholars as in the... -
Fashion in Medieval France by Sarah-Grace Heller
Booksplease Price: £96.97Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously accepted birth of Western fashion in the mid-fourteenth century. ... -
Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend by Antonina Harbus
Booksplease Price: £96.11The first study to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of the legend of St Helena, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England onwards. St... -
Charlemagne in the Francophone World and Occitania Philip E Bennett 9781843847342
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £95.74Explores the transmission and reception of the medieval legends of Charlemagne in the literatures of the French-speaking areas of France, Burgundy and England, and Occitania. The spread of... -
Italian Literature III - Il Tristano Corsiniano by Gloria Allaire
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Text and facing English translation of a version of the Tristan story from north-east Italy. The Tristano Corsiniano is preserved in a unique manuscript of the Biblioteca Corsiniana housed at the... -
Studies in Medievalism VII - Medievalism in England II by Leslie J. Workman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Twelve essays discuss how the middle ages are reflected in English culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom,... -
New Medieval Literatures 25 Laura Ashe 9781843847410
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field. Essays in this volume deal with texts from the... -
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... -
Malory and his European Contemporaries - Adapting Late Medieval Arthurian Romance Collections by Miriam Edlich-Muth
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A reconsideration of Arthurian compilations in the late middle ages, looking at the complex ways in which they reshape their material for new audiences. The late-medieval adaptions and... -
Dickens and Modernity Juliet John 9781843843269
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.54Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1 MS F - Facsimile Edition by David Dumville
Booksplease Price: £96.11Facsimile edition of an important witness to the impact of the Normans on the ecclesiastical culture of England. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS F [London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A.viii,... -
Studies in Medievalism XXV - Medievalism and Modernity by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Essays examining the complex intertwining and effect of medievalism on modernity - and vice versa. The question of how modernity has influenced medievalism and how medievalism has influenced... -
New Medieval Literatures 16 by Laura Ashe 9781843844334
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.49An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English... -
New Medieval Literatures 20 by Kellie Robertson 9781843845577
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature, emphasising the vibrancy of the field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage... -
The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau: The 'Stanzas of the Graves', or 'Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain', attributed to Taliesin Patrick Sims-Williams 9781843847793
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.10There is no question that this book is one of the most important studies of early Welsh literature published in this generation. The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the... -
The Old English Martyrology - Edition, Translation and Commentary by Christine Rauer 9781843844310
Booksplease Price: £33.52New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. The Old English Martyrology is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in... -
A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre Massimiliano Bampi 9781843847656
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.10A 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... -
Aelfric`s De Temporibus Anni by Martin Blake
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24A new and comprehensive edition and translation of a key Anglo-Saxon text De temporibus anni, a concise handbook of calendar and computus, astronomy and natural science, dates from the late tenth... -
Marguerite de Navarre: A Critical Companion by Emily Butterworth 9781843846260
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of... -
Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography by Matthew Bailey
Booksplease Price: £96.11New examinations of the figure of Charlemagne in Spanish literature and culture. The historical point of departure for this volume is Charlemagne's ill-fated incursion into Spain in 778. After an... -
The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337-1600 by Joanna Bellis
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century. The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history,... -
British Literature and Print Culture by Sandro Jung
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.54The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of... -
Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550 Professor Kate Ash-Irisarri 9781843846772
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Considers how Anglo-Scottish conflict was memorialised, reimagined and embedded by later writers. The Anglo-Scottish Wars of Independence are often treated in historical and poetical works... -
Chaucer`s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by Frederick M. Biggs 9781843844754
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.88A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possible direct link between the two greatest... -
Music, Politics and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: The Peterhouse Partbooks in Context Scott Mandelbrote 9781843844396
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79This major study of the famous seventeenth century music manuscripts at Peterhouse sets them in the context of the religious and political movements leading to the Civil War. The Peterhouse... -
Old Norse Women`s Poetry - The Voices of Female Skalds by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skaldkonur. The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and... -
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... -
England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer by Professor Peter Brown 9781843845799
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married... -
Studies in Medievalism XXXV: Medievalism in Theory and Politics Karl Fugelso 9781843847823
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Essays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political movements. Two vital, increasingly intertwined areas of interest are... -
Studies in Medievalism XVIII - Defining Medievalism(s) II by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores... -
John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England by David R. Carlson
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of...