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The Liturgy of the Medieval Church by Thomas Heffernan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.30This volume seeks to address the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various... -
The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse: Medieval Texts in Translation by Francis X. Gumerlock
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.46Filling today's religious book market are Apocalypse commentaries teaching that the seven seals of Revelation 5-8 describe tragedies that are to take place in the last days. Medieval Europeans, on... -
The Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs by Mary Dove
Booksplease Price: £21.00In this translation of glosses on the Song of Songs, Mary Dove offers a readily accessible and inexpensive resource for students and scholars. Anselm of Laon, possibly assisted by his brother Ralph,... -
Commentary on the Book of Jonah: Haimo of Auxerre by Deborah Everhart
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.05Haimo of Auxerre's Commentary on the Book of Jonah was probably written as a study text for scholars in the monastery. His basic method is to present a verse from the Book of Jonah, then offer... -
The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies by Derek Pearsall
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.04An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores... -
Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England: Performance, Authority, Devotion by Charlotte Steenbrugge
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.86This full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays... -
The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection Kathleen Forni 9781580440967
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.04The poems in this volume were prized and preserved because of their association with Chaucer's name and have been, paradoxically, almost entirely ignored by modern readers for the same reason. Many... -
Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe: Social Identity and Familial Structures George T Beech 9781580440639
Booksplease Price: £13.75This collection of essays was the first published in North America that sought to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise hailed in the preface to the volume as one of the... -
The Temple of Glas by John Lydgate
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £12.66The Temple of Glas takes the form of an elusive and suspenseful-but for that reason all the more sensational-dream vision that demands close attention to detail and the dynamic way in which the... -
The Final Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle Rala Diakite 9781580442176
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle traces the history of Florence, Italy, and Europe over a vast sweep of time - from the destruction of the Tower of Babel to the outbreak of the Black Death. This... -
Oton de Granson, Poems by Peter Nicholson
Booksplease Price: £41.55Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of... -
The Cloud of Unknowing by Patrick J. Gallacher
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.46The Cloud of Unknowing describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Meanwhile, despite the... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2: The Boethian Poems Le Remede de Fortune and Le Confort d'Ami by Domenic Leo
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.80This volume is the second of the thirteen in preparation that will offer the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost practitioner of these... -
On the Truth of Holy Scripture by John Wyclif
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Wyclif sought the restoration of an idealized past even if that meant taking revolutionary steps in the present to recover what had been lost. His 1377-78 On the Truth of Holy Scripture represents... -
The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers John William Sutton 9781580441056
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46At the forefront of the medieval wisdom tradition was The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers, a long prose text that purports to be a compendium of lore collected from biblical, classical, and... -
Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art Clifford Davidson 9781580440288
Booksplease Price: £17.61Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and... -
Croxton Play of the Sacrament by John T. Sebastian
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.67The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a... -
Medieval Notaries and Their Acts: The 1327-1328 Register of Jean Holanie by Kathryn L Reyerson
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.46The book explores the beginnings of the continental European notarial tradition, acquainting readers with the format of notarial documents, the books containing notarial acts, and with the variety of... -
King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure by Larry D. Benson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.55Professor Benson's edition of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure has been long out of print. Benson's edition of these important Middle English poems is here revised and... -
Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away by James A. Rushing
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than... -
The Towneley Plays Garrett P. J. Epp 9781580442831
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.80The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a... -
Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe by Kathleen Biddick
Booksplease Price: £22.07In bringing together these papers, Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and... -
Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050-1150: Das Ezzolied, Das Annolied, Die Kaiserchronik, vv. 247-667, Das Lob Salomons, Historia Judith by James A Schultz
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning, yet written... -
Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis by Dr Constant J. Mews
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10) differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of the various tones into which chant was traditionally... -
Aedificia Nova: Studies in Honor of Rosemary Cramp by Catherine E. Karkov
Booksplease Price: £17.91While the essays offered in this collection vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they center on the interpretation of the material world, whether that materiality appears in... -
John Stone's Chronicle: Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472 by Meriel Connor
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own monastic community-obituaries of monks, the celebration of the... -
Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum Rhiannon Purdie 9781580443425
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.20These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as... -
The Wallace: Selections Anne McKim 9781580440769
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.55The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions by John M Bowers
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete... -
Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe by Kathleen Biddick 9780918720528
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.99In bringing together these papers, Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and... -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2 by Susanna Fein
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.80British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled... -
Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation by Matthew Cheung Salisbury
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £22.00In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized... -
The Northern Homily Cycle by Anne Booth Thompson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.55Composed in rhyming English verse, the Northern homily cycle is the earliest and most complete work of its kind (Gospel paraphrases with homilies on the theme of the Gospel texts), its widespread and... -
Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston by Ronald B. Herzman
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.30Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the... -
The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L. McDaniel
RRP: £83.50Booksplease Price: £79.35In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of... -
The Hands of the Tongue: Essays on Deviant Speech by Edwin D Craun
Booksplease Price: £21.15What destructive powers did the tongue and its speech have for medievals? It could damn humans through blasphemy. It could occlude penitential knowledge of the self, especially of the misdirected... -
Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales by Derek Pearsall 9780918720412
Booksplease Price: £17.61Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales, in the stories as well as the links between them. Characters seem always ready to dispute, contradict, declaim, and contend about... -
Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation Matthew Cheung Salisbury 9781580443005
Booksplease Price: £61.48In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized... -
The Towneley Plays by Garrett P. J. Epp 9781580443043
RRP: £83.50Booksplease Price: £79.05The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a... -
A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by Robert A. Taylor
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.80Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from...