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Vox Clamantis by John Gower: "The Voice of One Crying" Robert Robert Meindl 9781843847540
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.49The first English translation into verse of the full Vox Clamantis, with explanatory notes. John Gower's Vox Clamantis is one of the major poetic achievements of the Middle Ages. Its subject... -
Classical Myth in Medieval Ireland Brigid Ehrmantraut 9781843847564
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Explores medieval Irish interest in Classical mythology and historiography and how it could be situated within the framework of Christian salvation history. From allusions to the Olympians in... -
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... -
Gender and Medieval Drama Katie Normington 9781843840275
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An investigation of the public image of women as presented in contemporary drama. The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays, supplemented by other performance practices such as... -
Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance Franc - From Manuscript to Printed Book by Jane H. M. Taylor
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38First comprehensive examination of the ways in which printers, publishers and booksellers adapted and rewrote Arthurian romance in early modern France, for new audiences and in new forms. ... -
Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Me - Texts and Translations, c.1120-c.1450 by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £49.96Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main... -
Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition - Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 by Brycchan Carey 9781843841203
Booksplease Price: £79.80Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection. On 25 March 1807, the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed by... -
Vox Clamantis by John Gower: "The Voice of One Crying" Robert Robert Meindl 9781843847557
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.76The first English translation into verse of the full Vox Clamantis, with explanatory notes. John Gower's Vox Clamantis is one of the major poetic achievements of the Middle Ages. Its subject... -
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... -
God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Cecilia A. Hatt 9781843844198
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are... -
Aldhelm: The Poetic Works Michael Lapidge 9781843841982
Booksplease Price: £27.60Translations from the Latin of the ingenious works of Aldelm, first English man of letters. Introduction, bibliography and notes to the texts included. Aldhelm was the first Latin poet of Europe... -
Managing Language in Piers Plowman by Gillian Rudd
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A fresh approach to ambiguities of language in Piers Plowman. Starting from a consideration of medieval definitions of the word as both logos and verbum, this reading of Piers Plowmanshows that... -
Dutch Romances (3 volume paperback set) by David F. Johnson 9781843843115
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £74.82Parallel texts of key Dutch Arthurian romances in acclaimed translations with notes and introductions. Available for the first time in paperback for the student, scholar or interested general... -
Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from Ancrene Wisse to the Parson's Tale Krista A. Murchison (Contributor) 9781843846086
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception. The "bestseller list" of medieval England would have included many manuals for... -
Chaucer`s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by Frederick M. Biggs 9781843845355
Booksplease Price: £32.13A 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... -
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The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2023 [Exeter Symposium IX] by E A Jones 9781843847427
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The rich tradition of pre-modern mystical writing from England is... -
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... -
Medievalism: a Critical History Professor David Matthews 9781843843924
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.54An 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... -
Gower`s Confessio Amantis - A Critical Anthology by Peter Nicholson
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Eleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism. This collection gathers in one... -
New Directions in Arthurian Studies by Alan Lupack
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture. Eleven essays by leading Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting... -
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography - Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey by Maren Clegg Hyer
Booksplease Price: £109.33Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly. Dedicated to honoring the remarkable achievements of Dr Antonette di Paolo Healey, the... -
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages by Larissa Tracy 9781843843511
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and... -
Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland Dr Evan Bourke 9781843847083
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £72.02Uncovers a vibrant literary culture often overlooked by colonial historiography and Anglocentric critical traditions. Reimagines Spenser's Munster through multilingual networks, bardic poetry, and... -
Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems by Elise Louviot
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry. Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal... -
Romanticism and Gender Anne Janowitz 9780859915267
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93New approaches to women writers and attitudes to women in the Romantic period, principally focused on North America. Focusing on the period from 1770 to 1830, this collection deploys recent... -
Medieval English Theatre 43 Meg Twycross 9781843846307
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.68The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies... -
The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature by Piero Boitani
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings. The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is... -
Norse Romance I - The Tristan Legend by Marianne E. Kalinke 9780859915526
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Bilingual editions of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend, themselves derived from Old French originals. This three-volume set of editions and translations celebrates the literary and... -
Medieval Commentary and Exegesis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Cosima Clara Gillhammer 9781843847670
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £80.21Interdisciplinary study of the medieval commentary tradition, covering a range of sources from the Wycliffite Bible and French Marian Lyric to John Lydgate and Anselm of Canterbury. Textual and... -
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England by Eoin Bentick
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those who did not know their pelican from... -
Festive Drama - Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, by Meg Twycross
Booksplease Price: £109.33Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material. Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and... -
Paganism in Arthurian Romance by John Darrah 9780859914260
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Investigation of literary and archaeological evidence in search of pagan sources for the Arthurian legend. `Darrah makes the valid point that episodes in the Arthurian romances read like motifs... -
Four Musical Romances: Translations of Guillaume de Dole, Le Roman de la Violette, Le Roman de la Poire, La Panthère d’Amours Nigel Bryant 9781843847106
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £96.59Influential medieval romances are translated, with the accompanying music and an absorbing explanatory introduction. The thirteenth century saw the flourishing of a vibrant new literary genre in... -
Motherhood and its Spaces in Medieval Romance Dr Kirsty Bolton 9781843847649
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Discusses the spaces occupied and used by mothers in French and English medieval romance of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. Mothers have tended to be overlooked in romance scholarship, in...