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A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by Robert A. Taylor
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.96Although 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... -
Books Most Needful to Know: Contexts for the Study of Anglo-Saxon England by Paul E. Szarmach
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $34.03"Books Most Needful to Know" is the newest edition in the Richard Rawlinson Center's OEN Subsidia series. It includes essays covering topics such as Old English, Old Norse, Anglo-Latin literature,... -
Love & Marriage in Late Medieval London Shannon McSheffrey 9781879288539
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $22.35Depositions (or testimony) in marriage cases brought before fifteenth-century English church courts reveal the attitudes and feelings of medieval people towards the marital bond.About the... -
Medieval Translators and Their Craft by Jeanette Beer
Booksplease Price: $42.28At no time in the history of the West has translation played a more vital role than in the Middle Ages. Centuries before the appearance of the first extant vernacular documents, bilingualism, and... -
Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon by Bernard S Bachrach
Booksplease Price: $34.92The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux,... -
The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34): Religious Writings for Women in Medieval England Emily Rebekah Huber (Assistant Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College) 9781580442480
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $55.19The Katherine Group brings together for the first time newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but... -
The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf: A Dual-Language Edition from Latin and Middle English Printed Editions by Nancy Mason Bradbury
RRP: $22.43Booksplease Price: $19.58The two texts of the Dialogue presented here, a Latin version printed ca. 1488 and a Middle English translation printed in 1492, preserve lively, entertaining, and revealing exchanges between the Old... -
Medieval English Political Writings by James M Dean
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.17This volume collects poems and historical documents relevant to understanding the political climate of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Britain, many of which have been out of print for a century... -
Sources for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $22.35The material contained here derives from a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources, chosen to give some idea of the rich diversity of evidence available to the historian of English medicine... -
The Trials and Joys of Marriage by Eve Salisbury
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.59The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage... -
Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum Rhiannon Purdie 9781580443326
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $29.17These 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... -
Early Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Francis X. Gumerlock
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.58Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the seventh and eighth centuries. On the Mysteries of... -
Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London) by Richard Maidstone
RRP: $22.43Booksplease Price: $19.58The poem that Richard Maidstone wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports information about the royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail than any other source. The poem is not... -
The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark by Robin Waugh
Booksplease Price: $34.92The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark brings together studies concerning heroes and heroisms in Old English, Old Icelandic, Middle English, and modern literature as... -
Sir Torrent of Portingale James Wade (Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge) 9781580442503
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $23.13Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with action-packed tales of love and adventure. It is a story about the lovers Torrent, a young knight from... -
The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law by Harold J Johnson
Booksplease Price: $34.34This anthology aims to add flesh to the bones and the supplements, reservations, and alternatives for a deeper understanding of the tradition of natural law throughout the medieval period. It runs... -
The French Balades by John Gower
RRP: $26.33Booksplease Price: $22.35Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitie employs the French poetic form of balade, typically... -
Honorius Augustodunensis, Exposition of Selected Psalms by David Welch 9781580445528
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $47.58The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (ca. 1070 - ca. 1140)-a redaction of his own, much larger commentary on the entire Psalter-participates in a long tradition of Christian... -
Siege of Jerusalem by Michael Livingston
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $23.13The fourteenth-century Siege of Jerusalem has been called by Ralph Hanna "the chocolate-covered tarantula of the alliterative movement" for its apparent anti-Semitism and is, as Livingston notes in... -
Lybeaus Desconus Eve Salisbury 9781580441957
RRP: $26.33Booksplease Price: $23.91Lybeaus Desconus (the Fair Unknown) is the mid-fourteenth-century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur... -
The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken van Nieumeghen by Michael Livingston
Booksplease Price: $22.70Like the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The Paraphrase is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the... -
Ten Bourdes by Melissa M. Furrow
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $28.59A bourde is an English comedic poem similar to a French fabliau but with a moralizing element and less of an emphasis on violence. In this fresh edition of ten Middle English bourdes, Melissa M... -
Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency, Commentaries on Amos and Jonah (With Selections from Isaiah and Ezekiel) by Robert A. Harris
RRP: $51.68Booksplease Price: $42.90Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer completely abandoned traditional rabbinic midrash in... -
The Palis of Honoure by Gavin Douglas
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $22.35This volume serves as an excellent introduction to Middle English, Scottish poetry. Gavin Douglas's The Palis of Honoure is a dream poem from early sixteenth-century Scotland. It operates within the... -
Shakespeare's Play Within Play: Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear by Cherrell Guilfoyle
Booksplease Price: $25.94In his foreword to the volume, Clifford Davidson praises Guilfoyle's application of the concept of scenic form in her study of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and her exposition of Shakespeare's... -
Prose Merlin by John Conlee
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.07With its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this edition makes the Prose Merlin available to any student of Arthurian legend, no matter their level of proficiency in Middle English... -
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich by Georgia Ronan Crampton
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $28.59This fascinating first-person account of the visions experienced by the anchoress Julian of Norwich in May of 1373 is remarkable for its vivid prose and as an example both of early autobiographical... -
Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth by Lesley Smith
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $15.70This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical... -
Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem by Alan Lupack 9781879288508
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.59This new edition makes available to students of English romance and of the Matter of Britain two significant Middle English Arthurian romances: Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem. The former, a... -
Mummings and Entertainments by John Lydgate
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $28.59John Lydgate is known as the most distinguished poet of fifteenth-century England. This volume presents his brilliant and underappreciated dramatic texts written for both private and public... -
Eye and Mind: Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman Adam S Cohen 9781580441216
Booksplease Price: $35.90Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings... -
Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany Ann Marie Rasmussen 9781580441513
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $30.15This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking... -
Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater by Michael Norton
RRP: $162.83Booksplease Price: $154.73The expression "liturgical drama" was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category only later in the nineteenth century. Prior to this invention, the medieval rites and... -
Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron Caroline M. Barron 9781580442565
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $206.91Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Lynn Staley
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $39.18In this fresh, classroom-friendly volume, Margery Kempe, a married woman from fifteenth-century England, dictates her remarkable life story. Far from provincial, this extraordinary woman tells us... -
Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints Dana M. Symons 9781580440875
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.17"On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems... -
Mankind by Kathleen M. Ashley
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $23.48Mankind is at once conventional in its adherence to morality and extraordinary in its effervescence and wit. The text is a morality play warning Mankind how it may be led astray by temptation, while... -
Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Sir Tryamour by Harriet Hudson
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $30.15"Sir Isumbras," "Octavian," "Sir Eglamour of Artois," and "Sir Tryamour" are important works in a major literary development of the fourteenth century: the flourishing of Middle English popular... -
The Glossa Ordinaria on Romans Michael Scott Woodward 9781580441094
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.59The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for its inconsistencies. And this is what gives the Gloss much of its charm ... The twelfth century was an... -
The Minor Latin Works: with In Praise of Peace by John Gower
Booksplease Price: $35.22Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final...