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The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
Booksplease Price: £20.01One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen... -
Three Purgatory Poems: The Gast of Gy, Sir Owain, The Vision of Tundale by Edward E Foster
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.55Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature... -
Anglo-Saxon Books and Their Readers: Essays in Celebration of Helmut Gneuss's Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts by Thomas N. Hall
Booksplease Price: £17.61The collection opens with Gneuss's Rawlinson Center lecture, delivered just a few months prior to the Handlist's publication. The lecture is followed by essays by Donald Scragg and Thomas N. Hall... -
Prik of Conscience by James H. Morey
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.96In the first modern edition of the poem since 1863, James H. Morey presents The Prik of Conscience to a new audience of students of the Middle Ages. The famous fourteenth century poem leads its... -
Early Prose in France: Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority by Jeanette Beer
Booksplease Price: £22.61It is fast becoming dogma that French prose emerged out of poetry by a process of deversification in the thirteenth century. Since the earliest extant example of written French prose dates back to... -
Fools and Folly Clifford Davidson 9781879288690
Booksplease Price: £19.03The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial... -
Lydgate's Fabula duorum mercatorum and Guy of Warwyk by Pamela Farvolden
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66The Fabula Duorum Mercatorum, a romance that in its Boethian sensibility and treatment of love and friendship bears comparison to Chaucer's great works Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, is... -
Anthony Munday: The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, and Glossary by Leticia Alvarez-Recio 9781580444811
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.00This volume contains the first critical edition of The Honourable, Pleasant and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos (London, 1589), a chivalric romance translated into English by Anthony Munday. The... -
The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle by James F Burke 9781879288294
Booksplease Price: £32.59This collection of essays was released in honor of John Leyerle, a scholar to whom all medievalists in North America, and many beyond, owe a great debt. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator,... -
The Minor Latin Works: with In Praise of Peace by John Gower
Booksplease Price: £18.06Gower'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... -
Nicholas of Lyra's Apocalypse Commentary Philip D W Krey 9781879288782
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46Surveys of the history of biblical exegesis and, in particular, the history of Apocalypse commentaries rarely fail to allude to Nicholas of Lyra O.F.M. (1270-1349) as the greatest biblical exegete of... -
From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage by Lisa Hopkins
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.90This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest... -
Two Middle English Prayer Cycles: Holkham, "Prayers and Meditations" and Simon Appulby, "Fruyte of Redempcyon" by Ben Parsons 9781580446815
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.25This volume presents the first critical editions of two fascinating but overlooked medieval prayer sequences: the Holkham "Prayers and Meditations" (c. 1400-1420), a rare example of medieval... -
Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour by David John Parkinson
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's... -
The Regiment of Princes by Thomas Hoccleve
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.55Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the... -
Sentimental and Humorous Romances: Floris and Blancheflour, Sir Degrevant, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tournament of Tottenham, and The Feast of Tottenham by Erik Kooper
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66This volume presents a unique collection of Middle English romances, each with a different view of society. One of the oldest English romances, Floris and Blancheflour, presents a tale of oriental... -
Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse by Russell A Peck
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46Written in the fifteenth century by anonymous authors, these four Middle English poems demonstrate admiration towards Old Testament Jewish heroines, during a time of antisemitic sentiment in England... -
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales by Thomas Hahn
Booksplease Price: £39.25This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. These... -
Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform by Constance H Berman
Booksplease Price: £15.84A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities -... -
Accessus ad auctores: Medieval Introductions to the Authors (Codex latinus monacensis 19475) by Stephen M. Wheeler
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.00Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the twelfth century these introductions were anthologised, referred to now as Accessus ad... -
Middle English Legends of Women Saints Sherry L. Reames 9781580440462
Booksplease Price: £31.50Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends,... -
The Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66John Lydgate's The Siege of Thebes, written c. 1421-22, is the only Middle English poetic text that recounts the fratricidal struggle between Oedipus's sons Eteocles and Polynices as they contend for... -
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales by Stephen Knight
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.80Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy... -
Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages by Warren Ginsberg
Booksplease Price: £15.75This edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Both combine two genres of... -
Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) by Susanna Fein
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.30Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful... -
Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren Dorsey Armstrong 9781580442190
RRP: £67.50Booksplease Price: £63.20The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical... -
The World and the Chylde by Peter Happe
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £22.15The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the... -
Chaucer and the Poems of 'Ch' by James I. Wimsatt
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46On 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... -
The Middle English Breton Lays by Anne Laskaya
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.96This 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... -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3 by Susanna Fein
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.00British 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... -
Six Ecclesiastical Satires by James Dean
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66This volume would comprise a great unit on anticlerical poetry in late medieval England, collecting Piers the Plowman's Crede, The Plowman's Tale, Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, Upland's Rejoinder,... -
Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgement in Medieval Art and Drama David Bevington 9780918720603
Booksplease Price: £23.75The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this... -
Nicholas of Lyra, Literal Commentary on Galatians by Edward Naumann
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £22.00Though little-known today, Nicholas of Lyra's commentaries are arguably among the most widely-read and influential commentaries of all time. For more than two hundred years, from the time of their... -
Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse George Shuffelton 9781580441292
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.80Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of... -
John Gower: Recent Readings by R F Yeager
Booksplease Price: £22.61In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as... -
Anthony Munday: The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, and Glossary by Leticia Alvarez-Recio
Booksplease Price: £55.15This is the first critical edition of The Honourable, Pleasant and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos (London, 1589), a chivalric romance translated into English by Anthony Munday. The original... -
Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations by Timothy S. Jones 9781580440660
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.20This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods... -
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches by Rebecca Barnhouse
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £23.51Cotton Claudius B.iv, an illustrated Old English Hexateuch that is among the treasures of the British Library, contains one of the first extended projects of translation of the Bible in a European... -
Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances by Alan Lupack
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.66This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. Of the three groups of English Charlemagne... -
The Saint Play in Medieval Europe by Clifford Davidson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.99This illustrated volume intelligently provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative...