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Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.44Eminent French literature professor R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for his insider tours of Paris, given to college students abroad. Long sought after for his encyclopaedic knowledge of French... -
Etymologies and Genealogies R. Howard Bloch 9780226059822
Booksplease Price: £30.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226059822Author R. Howard BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Chicago... -
Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch 9781324094555
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Over the years, R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for the insider tours of Paris that he gives to students abroad. Long sought after by travellers and history buffs for his near-encyclopaedic... -
Rethinking the New Medievalism by R. Howard Bloch 9781421412405
RRP: £52.50Booksplease Price: £38.40In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the... -
Rethinking the New Medievalism by R. Howard Bloch 9781421412412
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period... -
Medieval French Literature and Law by R. Howard Bloch 9780520371095
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The Anonymous Marie de France R. Howard Bloch 9780226059846
Booksplease Price: £36.05"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by... -
Medieval French Literature and Law by R. Howard Bloch 9780520333550
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God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne by R. Howard Bloch
Booksplease Price: £23.87This is an account of Jacques-Paul Migne, an entrepreneur of the 19th century. A priest in Orleans from 1824 to 1833, Migne then moved to Paris, where, in the space of a decade, he built one of the... -
God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne R. Howard Bloch 9780226059709
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30This text provides an account of the abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, one of the great entrepreneurs of the 19th century. A priest in Orleans from 1824 to 1833, Migne then moved to Paris, where, in the space... -
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) 9780871406637
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched... -
A New History of Medieval French Literature by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £39.78Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel... -
The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State by Peter Haidu
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53"This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." -Choice"[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative,... -
Yale French Studies, Number 95: Rereading Allegory: Essays in Memory of Daniel Poirion by Sahar Amer 9780300078923
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.86Guided by the groundbreaking work of the late Daniel Poirion, medievalists have in recent years begun to reconsider assumptions about allegory, asserting that medieval allegory does not contain... -
Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose": Text, Image, Reception by Kevin Brownlee 9780812213959
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as as early as the first half of the... -
The Uses of Literary History by Marshall Brown 9780822317043 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £1.03In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary... -
The Uses of Literary History by Marshall Brown 9780822317142
Booksplease Price: £34.77In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary... -
The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France Penny Schine Gold 9780226300887
Booksplease Price: £28.55Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues... -
The Fabliaux by Nathaniel E. Dubin 9780871403575
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes... -
Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from theTime of the Crusades by Guibert of Nogent
Booksplease Price: £14.52The first Western autobiography since Augustine's "Confessions", "The Monodies" is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval society. As Guibert of... -
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri 9780226145259
Booksplease Price: £27.15Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, "The Man Who Believed He Was King of France" proves the adage that truth is often stranger... -
Medievalism and Orientalism by John M. Ganim 9780230602458
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28This unique study traces fundamental parallels between medieval European and Middle Eastern cultures. By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this book reveals mutual...