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An Index of Themes and Motifs in Twelfth-Century French Arthurian Poetry by E.H. Ruck
Booksplease Price: $155.03Index of themes in 12c French Arthurian verse romances from literary themes to everyday motifs. There has long been a need for an index of the themes in the French Arthurian verse romances. E.H... -
The Vikings and the Victorians - Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Andrew Wawn 9780859916448
Booksplease Price: $68.43The first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the... -
The Role of the Poet in Early Societies by Morton W. Bloomfield
Booksplease Price: $57.88This study draws on a wide range of texts - early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English -to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as... -
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover 9781843842453
Booksplease Price: $54.21Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring... -
Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter by Sharon L. Jansen 9781843842934
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.07Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics. First English... -
The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters - Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia by Eva Dolezalova
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.26Women in 15c Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations. The letters of the Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anezka, give a vivid insight into how... -
New Readings of Chaucer`s Poetry by Robert G. Benson
Booksplease Price: $187.41A 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... -
Localizing Christopher Marlowe: His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575-1593 by Professor Arata Ide 9781843847533
Booksplease Price: $72.09This study punctures the stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, first created by his rival Robert Greene, and, yet, which still colour our view. In doing so, Ide reveals the social and cultural... -
A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 700-1100 by Donald Scragg 9781843846178
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $147.23Comprehensive, 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 Paston Women: Selected Letters Diane Watt 9781843840244
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.07The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence,... -
Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Centur - Glosses by Tony Hunt
Booksplease Price: $187.41Here 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... -
Readings in Medieval Textuality - Essays in Honour of A.C. Spearing by Cristina Maria Cervone
Booksplease Price: $213.19Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form. The insight that "the implications of textuality as such" can and must underlie our interpretations of... -
Charlemagne in Italy by Professor Jane E. Everson
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $200.52An 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... -
Two Medieval Outlaws - Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn by Glyn S. Burgess 9781843841876
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $37.48Fascinating 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,... -
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by Phillipa Hardman
Booksplease Price: $187.41Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin and... -
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend by John McKinnell
Booksplease Price: $213.19Close 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... -
Lancelot-Grail: 4. Lancelot part III and IV - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: $69.03Lancelot 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... -
Vox Clamantis by John Gower: "The Voice of One Crying" Robert Robert Meindl 9781843847540
Booksplease Price: $212.61The 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... -
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography - Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey by Maren Clegg Hyer
Booksplease Price: $213.19Essays 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... -
Medievalism in Japanese Manga: From Vikings to Samurai by Minjie Su 9781843848196
Booksplease Price: $174.56Examines how the Middle Ages is reimagined in Japanese manga and related media, from berserkr and Bushido baseball to Arthurian knights and Valkyries. While the modern fascination with the... -
Constructing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles by Daniel Anlezark 9781843847489
Booksplease Price: $186.73Offers insights into sources and inspirations, authorship and authorial style, and patterns of separation and convergence across versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle... -
Contextualising Gower: Texts, Books, Heritage by Professor Alastair J Minnis (Customer) 9781843847854
Booksplease Price: $177.61Essays illuminating Gower's work, the transmission and reception of Gowerian manuscripts and early printings, and his afterlife in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition Peter J C Field 9781843844600
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $55.83Peter Field's new edition of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as "our standard critical edition of Malory". This paperback of Vol 1 only makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition... -
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Thomas G. Duncan 9781843843412
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $52.57A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature... -
Mandeville's Travels: Race, Religion, Reception by Sarah Salih (Contributor) 9781843848165
Booksplease Price: $159.41Offers new readings of Mandeville's Travels in its original historical context, in its textual history and in the present day. Mandeville's Travels was a medieval bestseller. Originally written... -
Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw's Legend in the Later Middle Ages by Stephen H Rigby 9781843848226
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $72.60Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives. By the fifteenth century, churchmen... -
![The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2795050/2794386/9781551115603__60275.1714851621.jpg?c=1 "The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603")
The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $49.45The Distaff Gospels (Les Evangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval women's wisdom... -
The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century Ge - War, Death, Morality by Brian O Murdoch 9781640141179
Booksplease Price: $187.41Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. ...