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Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue by Kathleen E Kennedy 9781843847472
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67The first complete descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in Bristol area collections. Bristol has a rich but unsung body of manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages: an especially... -
![Two Aelfric Texts - "The Twelve Abuses" and "The V-An Edition and Translation of AElfric`s Old English Versions of De duodecim abusivis and De oc by Mary Clayton](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/488671/488387/9781843843603__54528.1687222470.jpg?c=1 "Two Aelfric Texts - "The Twelve Abuses" and "The V-An Edition and Translation of AElfric`s Old English Versions of De duodecim abusivis and De oc by Mary Clayton")
Two Aelfric Texts - "The Twelve Abuses" and "The V-An Edition and Translation of AElfric`s Old English Versions of De duodecim abusivis and De oc by Mary Clayton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Text with facing translation of two important Old English texts. The texts edited in this volume are AElfric's vernacular versions of two highly influential early medieval ethical treatises. The... -
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature by Haki Antonsson
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A full survey of the "Last Things" as treated in a wide range of Old Norse literature. The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, ... -
Women and Magic in Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality and Power Dr Jane Elizabeth Bonsall 9781843846659
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular late medieval English romances. The... -
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... -
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... -
Illuminating the Roman d`Alexandre: Oxford, Bodl - The Manuscript as Monument by Mark Cruse
Booksplease Price: £96.41Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most... -
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... -
The Making of Restoration Poetry by Paul Hammond
Booksplease Price: £96.41A survey of Restoration poetry, from the forms in which it was disseminated to studies of important texts. This book explores the complex ways in which authors, publishers, and readers contributed... -
The Saint and the Saga Hero - Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature by Sian E. Gronlie
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.17A compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages. The... -
Writing Europe, 500-1450: Texts and Contexts Aidan Conti 9781843844150
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.17Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This... -
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library Rodney M Thomson 9780859916189
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £96.42Collection of 277 litle-known medieval manuscripts, second only in number to Durham; special strengths are scholastic theology, biblical studies and sermons 13c-15c, and early music. Worcester... -
The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare by Robert Hornback 9781843843566
Booksplease Price: £25.91A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence. From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical... -
Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great - Transnational Texts in England and France by Venetia Bridges 9781843845027
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe. How was Alexander the Great - controversial king, conqueror, explorer, and pupil... -
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... -
Textiles and Textile Imagery in Early Medieval English Literature: Traditions and Contexts Maren Clegg Hyer 9781843847441
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Identifies and analyses a wide range of textile metaphors and imagery from peace-weaving in Beowulf to word-crafting in Elene. Textile metaphors, or metaphors involving the process and product... -
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick 9781843847786
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming. Medievalism - the ways in which post-medieval societies perceive, interpret, reimagine, or... -
A Critical Companion to John Skelton Sebastian Sobecki 9781843847816
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a... -
Lancelot-Grail: 4. Lancelot part III and IV - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
Booksplease Price: £33.77Lancelot 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... -
Women, the Book, and the Worldly - Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda`s Conference, Oxford, Volume II by Lesley J. Smith
Booksplease Price: £96.11Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature. This second volume of proceedings from the `Women and the Book'... -
The Grail Legend in Modern Literature by John B. Marino
Booksplease Price: £96.11The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here. This study shows how modern (including... -
Old English Biblical Prose: Translation, Adaptation, Interpretation Francis Leneghan 9781843847601
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.49Provides the first in-depth study of the earliest attempts to make the sacred words of the Bible available to English readers, clerical and lay, in prose writing. "This is a hugely valuable study... -
Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse - The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia by Sif Rikhardsdottir
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. Throughout the Middle Ages, many Francophone... -
Alfred the Wise - Studies in Honour of Janet Bately on the occasion of her 65th birthday by Jane Roberts
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Alfred's life, work and influence studied through writings of his age. Alfred and the great achievements of his reign are once more at the centre of scholarly discussion, and the studies in this... -
Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain by D. A. Trotter 9780859915632
Booksplease Price: £96.41Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing... -
The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Ital - Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio by Laura Chuhan Campbell
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Ideas of translation and adaptation in the middle ages investigated through the lens of the Merlin tradition. The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XIV: Manuscripts in The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth by William Marx
Booksplease Price: £96.11`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES This is the first volume in the series to deal with a national library. Llyfrgell... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XXIII - The Rawlinson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford by Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92A series which is "a monumental achievement" (Review of English Studies). In 1755 Richard Rawlinson bequeathed his vast collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library. The manuscripts... -
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - A Florilegium of her Works by Katharina M. Wilson 9780859914895
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.44Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was... -
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media - Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century by Andrew B. R. Elliott
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.14An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication. In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade"...