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Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages Dr. Carsten Selch Jensen (Associate Professor of Church History, University of Copenhagen) 9781580443234
RRP: £92.50Booksplease Price: £87.35This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark,... -
The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages by Cyrilla Barr
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69The study of popular hymnody is remote not only from contemporary experience but also from very many contemporary scholars. A great deal of this remove stems from the complicated origins and history... -
Closure in the Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale by Linda Tarte Holley 9781580440110
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £27.39For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, a last word from a notable maker of words, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in... -
Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Dendle
Booksplease Price: £22.61Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian... -
The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £22.80The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host,... -
Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc by Ton J Broos
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.46Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the... -
Word, Picture, and Spectacle by Davidson Clifford
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £15.85Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic... -
Poetry, Place, and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico Catherine E Karkov 9781580441278
Booksplease Price: £17.91The essays in this collection honor Helen Damico's extensive interests in Old Norse and later medieval literatures as well as her primary focus on Anglo-Saxon studies, embracing Old English poetry,... -
New Directions in Boethian Studies by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. 9781580441001
Booksplease Price: £17.91Continuing work begun by previous scholars, New Directions in Boethian Studies brings together recent studies from the diverse perspective of recent scholarship published during the first decade of... -
The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Barbara D. Palmer 9780918720320
Booksplease Price: £22.22Professor Palmer has systematically surveyed the art of the former West Riding of Yorkshire and has provided an iconographic index of this large region where medieval drama also flourished.About the... -
St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England Kristen Collins 9781580442589
Booksplease Price: £97.03One of the most compelling and provocative books of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140. Heralded as a high point of English... -
Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama Clifford Davidson 9781879288805
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.90Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study that calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic... -
The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems by Mary-Jo Arn
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is... -
The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece by Sheila Campbell
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £69.20During the Frankish Crusader period, Cistercian monks built and developed the monastery of Zaraka in Greece for approximately forty years and were followed first by squatters, then by a... -
John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works by Megan L. Cook
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these... -
Word, Picture, and Spectacle by Clifford Davidson
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.87Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic... -
John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works by Megan L Cook
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.34This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these... -
Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace: Second edition Edward E Foster 9781580441254
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.46In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent. Amis,... -
New Directions in Boethian Studies by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr.
Booksplease Price: £21.92Continuing work begun by previous scholars, New Directions in Boethian Studies brings together recent studies from the diverse perspective of recent scholarship published during the first decade of... -
Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities Konrad Eisenbichler 9780918720450
Booksplease Price: £18.29Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9: The Motets by Jacques Boogaart
RRP: £83.50Booksplease Price: £79.77Guillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This long overdue new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets,... -
Elizabeth I, the Subversion of Flattery, and John Lyly's Court Plays and Entertainments by Theodora A. Jankowski
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.20This study considers how John Lyly's characters who are allegorical representations of Elizabeth validate the queen, but at the same time raise troubling issues as to her true nature. Theodora... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9: The Motets by Jacques Boogaart 9781580442879
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.30Guillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This long overdue new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets,... -
Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance by Jana K. Schulman
Booksplease Price: £22.61This collection of essays is designed to capitalize on the success of Seamus Heaney' prize-winning translation of Beowulf, which bridges the gap between the ivory tower where most who study Beowulf... -
The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing by Alessandra Petrina
RRP: £83.50Booksplease Price: £79.05In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This... -
Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales by Dave Postles 9781580440257
Booksplease Price: £19.21This volume contains collected papers on medieval England's "names and naming patterns - mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names." According to Rosenthal, there... -
On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium by R. F. Yeager
Booksplease Price: £17.61It would not be an exaggeration to observe that in the last two decades Gower studies have developed in response to a widening appreciation of his poetry. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2: The Boethian Poems, Le Remede de Fortune and Le Confort d'Ami by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £83.50Booksplease Price: £80.65Guillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This volume provides a freshly prepared edition based on the... -
Magistra Doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler by Dorsey Armstrong
Booksplease Price: £17.91The editors of this volume use its title to honor Bonnie Wheeler for her many scholarly achievements and to celebrate her wide-ranging contributions to medieval studies in the United States. There... -
The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Jennifer Alexander
Booksplease Price: £17.91The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. This volume seeks to aid those studying the... -
The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Booksplease Price: £24.66Fifteen years in the making, Ann Eljenholm Nichols's The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama is the most comprehensive listing of early... -
Renaissance Retrospections: Tudor Views of the Middle Ages by Sarah A. Kelen
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious,... -
The Miracle of Theophilus by Gautier de Coinci by Jerry Root
RRP: £39.50Booksplease Price: £33.60The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a terrible crisis of conscience, and is saved by the... -
Discovery and Distinction in the Early Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of John J. Contreni by Cullen J. Chandler
Booksplease Price: £17.91Celebrating the career of one of the most prodigious modern scholars of the early Middle Ages, Discovery and Distinction in the Early Middle Ages showcases the vibrancy of early medieval European... -
Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index Thomas H. Ohlgren 9781879288102
Booksplease Price: £40.49Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the... -
The Destruction of Jerusalem, or Titus and Vespasian by Kara L. McShane
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £22.30The Destruction of Jerusalem, also called Titus and Vespasian, is a fifteenth-century fictionalised version of the historical Roman siege of Jerusalem. Marked by antisemitism, Christian nationalism... -
Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis Philip D. W. Krey 9781580447102
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, addressing such important topics as... -
Renaissance Retrospections: Tudor Views of the Middle Ages by Sarah A. Kelen 9781580441735
Booksplease Price: £17.91The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious,... -
The Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield Larry D. Benson 9780918720153
Booksplease Price: £17.91A collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.About the AuthorLarry D. Benson was a professor of English at Harvard... -
Medieval Ecocriticisms Volume 1 (2021) Special Issue: Weather by Heide Estes
Booksplease Price: £76.31In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new approaches, drawing upon the material, spatial and...