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Language, Linguistics and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honor of Karla Taylor by Elizabeth Allen 9781843847397
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79Explores the intersections between two fundamental approaches to medieval literature, shedding new light on texts ranging from The Canterbury Tales to Le Morte Darthur. This volume identifies... -
Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature: The Human and Beyond Adèle Kreager 9781843848080
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Investigates 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... -
Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England by Elizabeth Dearnley
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.17An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue. The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels "wide yond thas... -
The Poetic Voices of John Gower - Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis by Matthew W. Irvin
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and the way he treats politics. Gower's use of the persona, the figure... -
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... -
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... -
Chaucerian Realism by Robert Myles
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language. NB DSB BLURB ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS What is the difference between saying... -
The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England - Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English by Rebecca Brackmann
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way... -
Studies in Medievalism XXI - Corporate Medievalism by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate... -
Emotion in Old Norse Literature - Translations, Voices, Contexts by Sif Rikhardsdottir
Booksplease Price: £96.11Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon. Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their... -
Arthurian Literature XV by James P. Carley
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75`[The series is an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library.' NOTES AND QUERIES This latest issue of Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal in combining... -
The Text and Tradition of Layamon`s Brut by Francoise H.M. Le Saux
Booksplease Price: £109.33Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research. This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader... -
John Gower - Others and the Self by Russell A. Peck 9781843844747
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond. The topics of "selfhood" and "otherness" lie at the heart of these new assessments of John Gower's poetry... -
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 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... -
Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature - Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald by A.s.g. Edwards
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection. The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two... -
Studies in Medievalism XXII - Corporate Medievalism II by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. In the wake of the many passionate responses to... -
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... -
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... -
Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern Emma Nuding 9781843847892
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37The first radically longitudinal study of a saint who had a significant cultural presence in early medieval England. What happens when the Life of a medieval Fenland hermit is read (and... -
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... -
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... -
Medievalism - a Critical History by David Matthews
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies. The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages... -
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend by John McKinnell
Booksplease Price: £109.33Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and...