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Middle English by Paul Strohm 9780199287666
Booksplease Price: £100.23These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,'... -
Conscience: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Strohm
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly... -
Theory And The Premodern Text by Paul Strohm 9780816637751
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46A major reconsideration of relations between new theories and old texts.Medieval Studies/Literary Theory A major reconsideration of relations between new theories and old texts. The work of Paul... -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Paul Strohm
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93In this book Paul Strohm shifts his recognized talent for textual and cultural analysis to the later fifteenth century, arguing that England experienced its own "pre-Machiavellian" moment between... -
The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the year that made The Canterbury Tales by Paul Strohm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.37As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool trade. When... -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Paul Strohm 9780268041137
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268041137Author Paul StrohmFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Notre Dame... -
England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimacy 1399-1422 by Paul Strohm 9780300198706
Booksplease Price: £30.79After the dethronement and subsequent murder of Richard II, the usurping Lancastrian dynasty faced an exceptional challenge. Interrupting a long period of Plantagenet rule, Henry IV and Henry V... -
Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings, No. 1, 1984: Reconstructing Chaucer by Paul Strohm 9780933784079
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.21Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their... -
Middle English: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature by Paul Strohm 9780199559398
Booksplease Price: £64.03These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,'... -
England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422 by 9780268041212
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93After the dethronement and subsequent murder of Richard II, the usurping Lancastrian dynasty faced an exceptional challenge. Interrupting a long period of Plantagenet rule, Henry IV and Henry V... -
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages Liza Picard 9781780228907
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's... -
Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrati - Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr by Robert R. Edwards
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A 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... -
Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University) 9780631231486
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.37This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and... -
Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context by Barbara A. Hanawalt 9780816620203
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Chaucer's England presents new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society through a unique combination of historical inquiry and literary analysis. Beginning with the turbulent reign... -
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War by Susan Crane 9780812218060
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture... -
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Gillian Adler
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.51Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to 'atoms' or 'droplets' and... -
Bodies And Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England by Barbara Hanawalt 9780816627158
Booksplease Price: £26.56Brings the insights of cultural studies to medieval studies.Centered on practices of the body-human bodies, the "body politic"-Bodies and Disciplines considers a fascinating and largely uncanonical... -
Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane 9780691606149
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.05In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and... -
Transporting Chaucer by Helen Barr 9780719091490
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £62.19Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's... -
Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-200 by Asa Briggs 9780300082630
Booksplease Price: £16.10As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a "sense of an ending"? In this timely... -
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory by Andrew Cole 9780822346524
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his... -
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory by Andrew Cole
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his... -
John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England by 9780268041151
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.65Essays in this volume argue that it is time for a powerful reassessment of John Lydgate's poetic projects. The pre-eminent poet of his own century, Lydgate (c. 1370-1449) addressed the historical... -
John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England by 9780268041168
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42Essays in this volume argue that it is time for a powerful reassessment of John Lydgate's poetic projects. The pre-eminent poet of his own century, Lydgate (c. 1370-1449) addressed the historical... -
The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon 9780199270828
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £109.03The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms,... -
The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon 9780199230396
Booksplease Price: £56.67The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms,... -
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction by David Wallace
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the... -
Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England by Ingrid Nelson
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they... -
Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty... -
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet by Michelle R. Warren
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned... -
Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning by Robert M. Stein 9780268041113
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.39This collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century... -
Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180 by Robert M. Stein
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42It has long been a commonplace of literary history that in the twelfth century, first in the French-speaking territories controlled by the Anglo-Norman and Capetian ruling families, and especially... -
Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities-dissident and orthodox-in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both...