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Studies in Medievalism XII - Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages by Tom Shippey
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.17Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films. The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and... -
Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem by Ann R. Meyer
Booksplease Price: $187.41The concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as realised in architecture and literature, especially Pearl. This book investigates the concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as an... -
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain by Amanda Hopkins 9781843844433
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.07An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This... -
Verginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy: An Edition and Translation of Episodes from Pierre Bersuire’s Tite-Live and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la rose Noah D Guynn 9781843847359
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.90The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page English translation. Livy was famous in the... -
Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Shiloh Carroll (Royalty Account) 9781843844846
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.03Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question. One of the biggest attractions of... -
Beowulf and Grettis saga: From England to Iceland, 1016–1219 Professor Richard North 9781843847632
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $155.01Investigates the relationship between two texts separated by hundreds of years and nearly two thousand miles. In the saga, Grettir fights a giant who wields a hepti-sax; in the poem, Beowulf... -
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature by Dana M. Oswald
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature. Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and his mother in Beowulf to those found in medieval... -
Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context: Essays in Honour of David F. Johnson by Larissa Tracy
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $218.24This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts,... -
Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance by Rosalind Field
Booksplease Price: $187.41Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book. From the insular romance of the twelfth century (vital to an understanding of the literary and historical context of... -
Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works Laura F. Hodges (Royalty Account) 9781843843689
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $160.00An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding of and shedding fresh insights into his work. The use Chaucer made of costume... -
Arthurian Literature XX by Keith Busby
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, and of one important novel by C. S. Lewis. Arthurian Literature continues the policy of alternating... -
German Romance VII - Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban by Ulrich Fuetrer 9781843846215
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41First ever English translation, with facing edition, of an important medieval German Arthurian romance. Composed in the 1480s by the Munich painter and writer Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban is the story of... -
A Companion to the Fairy Tale by Hilda Ellis Davidson 9781843840817
Booksplease Price: $54.21Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. MEDIEVAL REVIEW Introduction by Derek Brewer. This book discusses the... -
Francois Villon in English Poetry - Translation and Influence by Claire Pascolini-campb
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet. Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, Francois Villon, has long captured the imaginations of creative writers. Attracted by... -
Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III by Karl Fugelso 9781843846253
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $160.00Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how... -
Medieval English Theatre 39 - Stagecraft, Performance, Reception by Sarah Carpenter
Booksplease Price: $50.15Newest research into drama and performance of the middle ages. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes... -
Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages Studies presented to A H Diverres by P.B. Grout
Booksplease Price: $187.41This volume, a festschrift for Professor A,H. Diverres, has been included in the Arthurian Studies series because it contains highly important new work on the medieval aspects of Arthurian legend,... -
The Virgin Mary`s Book at the Annunciation - Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England by Laura Saetveit Miles 9781843845348
Booksplease Price: $213.19Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked... -
History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales by Rebecca Thomas
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation. WINNER OF THE FRANCIS JONES PRIZE 2022 Early medieval writers viewed the world as... -
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England Professor Laura Saetveit Miles 9781843846284
Booksplease Price: $53.82Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked... -
Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course Laura Kalas 9781843846840
Booksplease Price: $50.15The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the... -
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge by Prof. R. M. Thomson
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $188.02Founded in 1284, Peterhouse is the University of Cambridge's oldest college. Its stated objective was to forward the study of theology,and before the Reformation it was a small community comprising a... -
Arthurian Literature XXX by Elizabeth Archibald
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Arthurian 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... -
The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman Forgeries Jan Ross (Royalty Account) 9781843846185
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $185.48Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH [Christopher Howse] Thomas Traherne (1637-1674),... -
The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf by Francis Leneghan 9781843845515
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.19A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancient Scandinavian royal legend. But for modern... -
The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf by Francis Leneghan 9781843846291
Booksplease Price: $53.82A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancient Scandinavian royal legend. But for modern... -
Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain - Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey by Tamara Atkin 9781843845317
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.76Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and... -
Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy: Neomedievalism, Video Games, and Vikings Carolyne Larrington 9781843847595
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $139.17Examines the development, nature, and significance of gritty (neo)medievalism in popular culture, from Assassins Creed: Valhalla and Berserk to Robert Eggers' The Northman. Twenty-first-century... -
Victorian Women Poets by Alison Chapman
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $122.66Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers. The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by... -
Medieval English Theatre 40 by Sarah Carpenter
Booksplease Price: $50.15Essays on aspects of early drama. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and... -
Arthurian Literature XXXII by Elizabeth Archibald
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Arthurian 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... -
Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England - Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney by Holly James-maddocks 9781843845751
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $201.10Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly... -
Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England by Sebastian Sobecki 9780198790785
Booksplease Price: $61.46No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise... -
Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England by Sebastian Sobecki
RRP: $157.95Booksplease Price: $153.47No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise... -
Forty Books for Forty Years - An Informal History of The Boydell Press by Richard Barber
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.38Books define the character of a publishing house better than any account of its business transactions or its organisation. This selection of forty books to mark the fortieth anniversary of Boydell &... -
![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... -
Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology: 'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...' Elizabeth S. Dodd 9781138053083
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.26The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He... -
The Middle English Breton Lays by Anne Laskaya
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $29.17This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the... -
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic - Intersections of Literature and Politics by Karl Leydecker 9781571134691
Booksplease Price: $54.21New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability,... -
The Work of Words: Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1940 by Marcus Waithe
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $141.90Explores the connection between writers' desire to prove that they 'work' and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revival Offers the first sustained study of the connection between writers'...