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The Complete Works Robert Henryson 9781580441391
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.93In 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... -
Selected Poems Robert Henryson 9780856353017
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Robert Henryson is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the 'Moral Fables'is distinctively that of his place - Scotland - and his chosen... -
The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson 9781107636262
Booksplease Price: $29.26Originally published in 1926 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of The Testament of Cresseid by fifteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson. A short... -
The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Robert Henryson 9780374532451
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532451Author Robert HenrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Lives of Scottish Worthies: James I Pt. 2. Robert Henryson. William Dunbar. Gavin Douglas. Sir David Lindsay. Antiquarian Illustrations by Tytler Tytler 9780371310618
Booksplease Price: $23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371310618Author Tytler TytlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume III, Nos 7-11: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages by N. F. Blake
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Authors of the Middle Ages is a series designed for research and reference. The aim is to combine, in one compact work, a biography of a medieval author with all the information needed for further... -
English Literature in the Age of Chaucer by Prof Dr. Dieter Mehl
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier... -
English Literature in the Age of Chaucer Dieter Mehl 9780582492998
Booksplease Price: $46.88Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.69What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.47A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to... -
Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative by John M. Ganim 9780691613116
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of... -
The Story of Troilus by R. K. Gordon 9780802063687
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66Originally published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1934. In this volume Gordon presents the four great medieval versions of the love of Troilus and Criseida: Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie,... -
Chaucerian Tragedy by Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly 9780859916042
Booksplease Price: $39.23A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists. This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted... -
The Liminality of Fairies: Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance by Piotr Spyra 9780367521653
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies... -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393927559
Booksplease Price: $35.94The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also... -
Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse by Joseph Glaser
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.27This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted... -
Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse by Joseph Glaser 9780872208803
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $38.36This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted... -
Rhetoric, Royalty and Reality: Essays on the Literary Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by A. A. MacDonald 9789042915862
Booksplease Price: $78.14This volume contains twelve studies, all dealing with aspects of the literature and culture of Scotland during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Most of these contributions began life as papers... -
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty... -
The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca 1150-1530 by Anne L. Klinck 9780773558823
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $38.34What was the medieval English lyric? Moving beyond the received understanding of the genre, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric explores, through analysis, discussion, and demonstration, what the... -
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community by Lianna Farber
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $58.95Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core... -
How to Read Middle English Poetry by Daniel Sawyer 9780198895244
Booksplease Price: $28.32How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from... -
From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain by Jill Mann 9780199217687
Booksplease Price: $145.32What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life - and especially human language - that emerge from narratives in which the... -
How to Read Middle English Poetry by Daniel Sawyer 9780198895237
Booksplease Price: $112.78How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from... -
Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science by Matthew Boyd Goldie 9781501734045
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $54.88Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space-the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move-underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth... -
Scottish Poems by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38Scotland, like so many other nations, has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters...