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Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio by David Wallace
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.39David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of... -
Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight by Norman Klassen
Booksplease Price: €114.37In this study, Norman Klassen shows how Chaucer explores the complexity of the relationship between love and knowledge through recourse to the motif of sight. The convention of love at first sight... -
The Plays of Henry Medwall by Alan H. Nelson
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28Medwall's two surviving plays are among the few extant examples of 15th century household drama.Book InformationISBN 9780859910545Author Alan H. NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint D.S... -
Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrati - Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr by Robert R. Edwards
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28A collection of essays offering original arguments in a number of areas. Papers cluster around two topics: the writing of Langland and Chaucer, and writing as historical process. These reflect... -
The Gothic Fred Botting 9780859916196
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €80.84The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production. Having endured for over two hundred years... -
Le Roman de Tristan en prose I by Renee L. Curtis
Booksplease Price: €129.75`The publication of this book is an event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristanwas one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written between 1215 and 1235, it... -
Chaucer - Complaint and Narrative by W.A. Davenport
Booksplease Price: €114.37Counters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. `His... -
Malory`s Book of Arms - The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur by Andrew Lynch
Booksplease Price: €114.37This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive... -
Arthurian Literature XVII - Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein by Keith Busby
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an... -
Chaucer`s Book of the Duchess - Contexts and Interpretations by Jamie C. Fumo
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.64The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to late-medieval English textual production; yet in... -
The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist III - Manuscripts in the Digby Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford by Patrick J. Horner
Booksplease Price: €94.61Noteworthy among these texts are scientific treatises such as Chaucer's 'Astrolabe', works of religious devotion such as Richard Rolle's 'Form of Living' and political tracts including Sir John... -
The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version by C. David Benson
Booksplease Price: €81.19The B-version of 'Piers Plowman', perhaps the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem. This catalogue of the extant... -
The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist II - Manuscripts in the John Rylands & Chetham`s Libraries, Manchester by G.A. Lester
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €80.84The John Rylands and Chetham's Libraries, Manchester, were both founded by charitable local magnates and in the course of time have become well known in many parts of the world. Housed in their... -
Arthurian Bibliography II - Subject Index by Cedric Edward Pickford
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28Full indexes by topic, keyword and individual work/author form a complete subject-index, based on the indexes in source bibliographies. This is a complete bibliography of Arthurian literature to... -
Duino Elegies: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.39A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning. Rilke continues to be the most read and... -
Nexus 6: Essays in German Jewish Studies by Professor William C Donahue 9781640141469
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €89.49Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara... -
Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations Ulrike Wiethaus (Royalty Account) 9780859916349
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26This early example of a spiritual diary incorporating the visions of a female mystic offers a glimpse of religious women's daily life and spiritual practices. Agnes Blannbekin was from an Austrian... -
Proteus - Studies in English Literature by D. S. Brewer 9781843842057
Booksplease Price: €37.95Derek Brewer, here on the brink of his long and successful career, takes a look at issues in English literature which were to remain of enduring interest to him. Lecturing in Japan at the time, a... -
New Medieval Literatures 21 by Wendy Scase 9781843845867
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.64New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across... -
The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature by Ellen McClure 9781843845508
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French... -
Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature by Dr Anna McKay 9781843847137
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.39Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages. For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature... -
Medieval English Theatre 44 by Meg Twycross 9781843846499
Booksplease Price: €30.61Newest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest:... -
New Medieval Literatures 24 by Professor Wendy Scase 9781843846888
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on... -
Coventry Leet Book I & II by M. D. Harris 9780859916721
Booksplease Price: €55.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916721Author M. D. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell... -
Pepysian Gospel Harmony by M. Goates 9780859916776
Booksplease Price: €31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916776Author M. GoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Pauline Epistles by M. J. Powell 9780859917438
Booksplease Price: €55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859917438Author M J PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Simon Fish: Supplicacyon by F. J. Furnivall 9780859919586
Booksplease Price: €25.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859919586Author F J FurnivallFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Lincoln Diocese Docs 1450a1544 by A. Clark 9780859916769
Booksplease Price: €55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916769Author A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Child-Marriages Chester 1561a6 by F. J. Furnivall 9780859917209
Booksplease Price: €49.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859917209Author F.J. FurnivallFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Boethius: De Consolatione by M. Science 9780859919081
Booksplease Price: €55.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859919081Author M. ScienceFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
The Northern Passion: Supplement by W. Heuser 9780859916868
Booksplease Price: €25.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859916868Author W. HeuserFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
The Armenian Imaginary in the West, 1100-1900: Crusades, Romances, Missionaries Carolyn P Collette 9781843847045
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26Examines how Armenia has been represented and "imagined" in texts from two periods in its history: the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century. Today most people who think of Armenia associate it with... -
Complete Plays of John Bale Volume 2 by John Bale 9780859912198
Booksplease Price: €114.37Two-volume collection providing the first opportunity to consider Bale's surviving dramatic work as a whole in the original language. His plays explore the theological and political implications of... -
Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard Dr Noëlle Phillips 9781843846987
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.74Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did medieval literary cultures shape, and how were they shaped by, their received... -
A Companion to Wace by Francoise H.M. Le Saux 9781843842491
Booksplease Price: €37.95The twelfth-century writer Wace is best known for his two influential works on the history of England (the Roman de Brut) and on the history of the Normans (the Roman de Rou), but despite this he... -
Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry by Conor McCarthy 9781843842064
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €22.87A remarkable survey of Heaney's work and its debt to medieval poetry. [...]McCarthy has presented a compelling analysis of Heaney's use of medieval poetry. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Seamus Heaney's... -
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry by Julia Boffey 9781843844303
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.73This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English... -
Textual Distortion by Elaine Treharne 9781843844792
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.91"Distortion" is nearly always understood as negative. It can be defined as perversion, impairment, caricature, corruption, misrepresentation, or deviation. Unlike its close neighbour,... -
Lives of Women Saints by C. Horstmann 9780859918459
Booksplease Price: €43.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859918459Author C. HorstmannFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &... -
Robert of Brunne's Handlyng by F. J. Furnivall 9780859918701
Booksplease Price: €64.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859918701Author F.J FurnivallFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell &...