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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... -
Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth- Century France - Translation, Appropriation, Transformation by Jennifer Rushworth
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese. Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to... -
Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts: Essays in Honour of Professor Helen Fulton by Victoria Flood 9781843847212
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has... -
Women, the Book, and the Godly Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda`s Conference, 1993 - Volume 1 by Lesley J. Smith
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the papers in Women, the Book and the... -
Arthurian Literature XL Megan G Leitch 9781843847403
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical... -
Bad Poetry? New Perspectives on the Value of Sixteenth-Century Literature Prof Richard Danson Brown 9781843847229
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £80.21An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers an invitation to read widely, question deeply and think critically. In the wake... -
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"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by G - A Newly Uncovered Manuscript Source for Shakespeare`s Plays by Dennis McCarthy
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £64.04A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for Shakespeare do not turn up every day... This is a... -
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy - From Tolkien to Game of Thrones by Kellyann Fitzpatrick
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The 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... -
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... -
Medieval Romance and Material Culture by Nicholas Perkins
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and... -
Medieval English Theatre 46 Meg Twycross 9781843847519
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of... -
New Medieval Literatures 19 by Philip Knox
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08An 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... -
The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 by Victoria Blud
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer. Amid saints and sinners, open secrets and queer codes, the... -
The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image by Jerry Root
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting... -
Marie de France: A Critical Companion by Sharon Kinoshita
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to... -
Studies in Medievalism XXIV - Medievalism on the Margins by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages. This volume not only defines medievalism's margins, as well as its role in marginalizing other fields, ideas, people,... -
Marie de France: A Critical Companion by Sharon Kinoshita 9781843843733
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to... -
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... -
John the Baptist's Prayer or The Descent into Hell from the Exeter Book: Text, Translation and Critical Study M.R. Rambaran-Olm 9781843843665
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time. The Old English poem known popularly as the Descent into Hell, found... -
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England - Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 (Exeter Symposium 8) by E. A. Jones
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries... -
Mobility and Identity in Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales by Sarah Breckenri Wright
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by pilgrims... -
Symbolic Stories: Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature by Derek Brewer
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Analysis of the structure of traditional stories and fairytales, bringing out their shared characteristics, and showing why they remain so powerful and resonant today. Many famous stories, from... -
Hoccleve: New Approaches by Dr Jennifer Nuttall
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of... -
Studies in Medievalism XIX - Defining Neomedievalism(s) by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions. The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on... -
The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance by Robert Allen Rouse
Booksplease Price: £73.97Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition Peter J C Field 9781843844600
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.63Peter 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... -
Studies in Medievalism XXIII: Ethics and Medievalism Karl Fugelso (Author) 9781843843764
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the central theme of the ethics of medievalism. Ethics in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this... -
Chaucer and Religion by Helen Phillips
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view... -
Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism by Katie Wales
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism. One of the major problems in feminist literary criticism is the tendency to generalise when... -
The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript: Interpreting MS Bodley 851 Thomas C. Sawyer 9781843847465
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning through a detailed investigation of a MS Bodley 851. How do you read a medieval book? And what is the... -
The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles by C. E. Dale
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology. Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book... -
New Medieval Literatures 18 by Laura Ashe
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An 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... -
Comic Medievalism - Laughing at the Middle Ages by Louise D'Arcens 9781843844785
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism. The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received... -
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... -
Arthurian Literature XVIII by Keith Busby
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today. ZEITSCHRIFT FUER ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE This latest issue of Arthurian Literaturecontinues the tradition of the journal, combining critical... -
The Pelerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguil - Tradition, Authority and Influence by Marco Nievergelt
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75New essays on the unjustly neglected Pelerinage works by de Guileville, showing in particular its huge contemporary influence. The fourteenth-century French pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de... -
The Figure of Beatrice - A Study in Dante by Charles Williams 9780859914451
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.44Reappearance of a classic work of Dante criticism interpreting the central female image of Beatrice. Dante is unequalled among poets in conveying an extraordinary intensity of thought and...