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Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions: Volume I. Text by A V C Schmidt
Booksplease Price: €29.75This work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent... -
Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600 by Jeanette Beer
Booksplease Price: €26.91Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and their Craft (1989) and, like Medieval Translators, its aim is to provide the modern... -
Troy Book: Selections by John Lydgate
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.68To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual... -
The Complete Works Robert Henryson 9781580441391
Booksplease Price: €32.31In this new edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, David Parkinson offers editions of Henryson's "Fables," "The Testament of Cresseid," "Orpheus and Eurydice" and twelve shorter poems, grouped... -
Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest) by Marion Gibbs
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.72Friedrich Neumann described Thomasin's Der Welsche Gast as a linguistic phenomenon without comparison within the corpus of German literature of the Hohenstaufen period. In the didactic literature of... -
The King of Tars by John H. Chandler
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.11The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and... -
Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire Elizabeth Baldwin 9781580440400
Booksplease Price: €21.91In Paying the Piper Elizabeth Baldwin studies the early music situation in a single county, Cheshire, from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Civil War, focusing on music outside the... -
Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions: Volume I. Text by A V C Schmidt 9781580441582
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €20.30This work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent... -
John of Garland, "Integumenta Ovidii": Text, Translation, and Commentary by Kyle Gervais 9781580445269
RRP: €38.68Booksplease Price: €33.32The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this... -
Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B. by Joel T Rosenthal 9781879288652
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €41.17The eleven essays offered in Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom reflect the spirit and originality of Father Michael M. Sheehan, for whom the volume was collected. The essays... -
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches by Rebecca Barnhouse
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €27.98Cotton 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: €20.83Booksplease Price: €17.45This 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: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.69This 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... -
Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae by Noel Harold Kaylor
Booksplease Price: €27.45Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's "De consolatione philosophiae" provides an overview of the widespread reception and influence of Boethius's masterpiece in England and Germany, as well as in the... -
The English Apocalypse: A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03 by Ethan Campbell 9781580446990
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €90.57Before the Wycliffite Bible in the 1380s, one of the only complete books of the Bible to be translated into Middle English was the Book of Revelation. 'The English Apocalypse', translated from the... -
John of Garland's 'Integumenta Ovidii': Text, Translation, and Commentary by Kyle Gervais 9781580445276
RRP: €79.14Booksplease Price: €75.40The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this... -
Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger by James M Dean
Booksplease Price: €25.92This volume makes available two somewhat neglected yet significant and instructive Middle English alliterative texts that are usually read in conjunction with William Langland's Piers Plowman. The... -
Middle English Marian Lyrics by Karen Saupe
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.07Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels... -
The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented by J. Ambrose Raftis by Edwin Brezette DeWindt
Booksplease Price: €27.50The essays within this volume, produced in honor of J. Ambrose Raftis, are united by two themes significant in Raftis's career: a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and... -
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches by Rebecca Barnhouse 9781580440240
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €30.19Cotton 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... -
Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253 by Susanna Fein
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €19.35Studies in the Harley Manuscript is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature. In an Introduction and fifteen... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1: The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.27Guillaume de Machaut is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. His unique and inventive output is the subject of this new, integrated edition of Machaut's complete poetry and... -
The Complete Works by William Dunbar
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.27Scottish poet William Dunbar is usually considered one of the most important figures of fifteenth-century British literature, and may lay claim to being the finest lyric poet writing in English in... -
The Scale of Perfection by Walter Hilton
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.47Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books... -
Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253 by Susanna Fein 9781580440608
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €17.45Studies in the Harley Manuscript is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature. In an Introduction and fifteen... -
Music, Dance, and Society: Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Memory of Ingrid G. Brainard by Ann Buckley
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €30.19Just as Brainard's interests and scholarship crossed several disciplines, the essays collected here acknowledge her range of influence and her inclusive spirit. Performative dance and dance history,... -
My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay by Susanna Fein
Booksplease Price: €21.31The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in The Counsel of Conscience to the... -
Church and Society in Late Byzantium by Dimiter G. Angelov
Booksplease Price: €26.55It has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent... -
Chester Art: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Sally-Beth MacLean
Booksplease Price: €27.11This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history,... -
Malory and Christianity: Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur by D. Thomas Hanks 9781580441759
Booksplease Price: €22.05As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest... -
The Testament of Love by Thomas Usk
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.68Shoaf here presents a hitherto neglected Middle English text for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms: Thomas Usk's The Testament of Love. Left unpublished since the nineteenth century, Usk's... -
Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan John J Contreni 9780918720849
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.94Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris,... -
Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene by Judith H. Anderson
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €85.73Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance... -
The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352 by Richard H Osberg
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.11This fresh classroom edition of the Middle English poems of Laurence Minot, with its introduction, gloss, notes, and glossary, enables students of all levels to encounter Minot's poetry. A difficult... -
The English 'Loathly Lady' Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs by S. Elizabeth Passmore 9781580441230
Booksplease Price: €27.10Whereas some literary motifs such as the tyrant, the beggar, and the crone have equivalents in the real world, the Loathly Lady is a creature of the imagination. Yet she is not merely a whimsical... -
Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. 9781580441209
Booksplease Price: €43.45The twelve essays in this volume proceed from a modern fantasy-epic back in time to oral epics that have been transmitted through the technology of manuscripts, and central in the collection are two... -
Blandin de Cornoalha, a Comic Occitan Romance by Wendy Pfeffer
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €29.04This volume presents the first widely available edition in English of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, accompanied by a translation and introduction to the work. Composed in the second half... -
Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics by Rupert T. Pickens
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €23.97Essays on many aspects of medieval French and Occitan literatures and Romance linguistics in tribute to Hans-Erich Keller, one of our most productive and wide-ranging scholars. As a group, the essays... -
Matthew Parker and His Books: Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 by RI Page
Booksplease Price: €29.62Three lectures, initially presented before the University of Cambridge and now collected here, examine Matthew Parker as a noted collector of books, an avid annotator, and a keen student of Old... -
Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 by Clifford Davidson
Booksplease Price: €21.31This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in...