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Kindly Similitude - Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman by M.Teresa Tavormina
Booksplease Price: £109.33The imagery of marriage and the family in Piers Plowmanrelated to contemporary social history. Kindly Similitude is the first study to offer a detailed reading of the many passages in Piers... -
Medieval into Renaissance - Essays for Helen Cooper by Andrew King
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline between the periods commonly termed "medieval" and "Renaissance", or... -
Chretien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages - Papers from an International Symposium by Martin H. Jones
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Studies showing the influence of the French Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes on German medieval literature. The pre-eminent role of Chretien de Troyes in the formation of Arthurian romance... -
Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory`s Morte Darthur by Karen Cherewatuk
Booksplease Price: £96.11An exploration of how Malory deals with the themes of love, marriage and adultery, revealing the socially conservative vantage of the gentry and nobility. Marriage in the Middle Ages encompassed... -
Thinking Through Chretien de Troyes by Zrinka Stahuljak
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An exciting reassessment of the works of Chretien, making use of modern critical theory to test orthodox opinion. This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chretien as the... -
International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to Activism by Mary Boyle 9781843846062
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "Internationally Nationalist", "Someone Else's Past?", and "Activist Medievalism". Medievalism - the reception... -
Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature - Body, Mind, Voice by Frank Brandsma 9781843845003
Booksplease Price: £25.91Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend. Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction... -
Music in the Age of Chaucer - Revised edition, with `Chaucer Songs` by Nigel Wilkins 9780859915656
Booksplease Price: £30.20Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer. An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French... -
The Reception of Chaucer`s Shorter Poems, 1400-1 - Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts by Kara A. Doyle 9781843845904
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women. Readers have disagreed for centuries about the way... -
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance by Neil Cartlidge
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that... -
Women`s Power in Late Medieval Romance by Amy N. Vines
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance. The cultural and social power of women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with... -
Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England by William F. Pollard
Booksplease Price: £109.03Essays on the ways in which the mystical writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth century responded to and influenced each other. Without the theologians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries,... -
Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England: Strange Histories Mike Rodman Jones 9781843846598
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'. Themes and motifs from the... -
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages by Larissa Tracy 9781843845249
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.10Essays 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... -
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... -
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination by David Clark
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination. An excellent collection... breaks... -
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by Phillipa Hardman
Booksplease Price: £96.11Twelve 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... -
Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England Dorothy Haines (Author) 9781843842224
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Edition and translation of Anglo-Saxon text, shedding light on Sunday observance and other issues. Few issues have had as far-reaching consequences as the development of the Christian holy day,... -
The Melusine Romance in Medieval Europe - Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts by Lydia Zeldenrust
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The legend of Melusine examined in a pan-European context. Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Melusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent... -
Fathers and Daughters in Gower`s Confessio Amant - Authority, Family, State, and Writing by Maria Bullon-Fernandez
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Gower's preoccupation with the authority of fathers (and of kings) employed to illustrate his relation to his text. Fathers and daughters are central to some of the most significant tales in... -
National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century: Switzerland and Britain Matthias D Berger 9781843846574
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why. ... -
The Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure - A Translation by Glyn S. Burgess 9781843845430
Booksplease Price: £40.09Winner of the 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. Benoit de... -
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... -
Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity by Alastair J. Minnis
Booksplease Price: £96.11Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan... -
Translating Literature Susan Bassnett 9780859915229
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies. Interest in the issues of translation continues to grow, and is reflected in this... -
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire Hannah Piercy (Person) 9781843846727
Booksplease Price: £27.60This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love,... -
Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance by Geraldine Barnes
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance. By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century... -
Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England - From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas of Erceldoune by Victoria Flood
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite. The period from the twelfth century to the Wars of the Roses... -
The Figure of Minerva in Medieval Literature by William F. Hodapp 9781843845393
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle Ages, giving insights into classical reception. Images of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, appear frequently in medieval... -
The Complete Story of the Grail - Chretien de Troyes` Perceval and its continuations by Chretien De Troyes 9781843844983
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.63The first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chretien's poem and its four Continuations. The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first... -
Medieval English Theatre 41 by Sarah Carpenter 9781843845607
Booksplease Price: £25.72Essays on the performance of drama from the middle ages, ranging from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies... -
Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann 9780859916134
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has... -
Barbour`s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts - Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland by Steve Boardman 9781843843573
Booksplease Price: £96.11Fresh approaches to one of the most important poems from medieval Scotland. John Barbour's Bruce, an account of the deeds of Robert I of Scotland (1306-29) and his companions during the so-called...