Medieval Literature - English
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Julian of Norwich's Showings
by Denise Nowakowski Baker
A thoughtful examination of Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings, which is ascribed to a female anchorite, writing in the last decade of the fourteenth century. Baker studies Julian's thought in the context of medieval theology, presenting her ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £15.95, Our Price GB £8.00
Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
by Edwin D. Craun
Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy attempted to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how some modes of speech were portrayed as deviant and destructive, labelled as lying, slander and ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray
edited by Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone
This book is a companion to Douglas Gray's Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose which transformed critical appreciation of English and Scottish literature from the death of Chaucer to the Reformation. The fourteen papers in this volume ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £68.00, Our Price GB £20.00
Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus
by W. Burgwinkle
Polemical reading of a large body of troubadour songs. It focuses on Uc de Saint Circ, whose arrival in Italy in the 1220s, with material on and by his fellow poets, was a crucial moment in the elaboration of a popular genre of lyric poetry. Issues of ...
Hardback. Price GB £56.00
Malory's Book of Arms
by Andrew Lynch
This study focuses on the description of armed combat in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Lynch takes knightly combat as Malory's chief expressive medium and examines the power of 'name' as public reputation and the narrative vision and thematics of ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
The Mary Play from the N.Town Manuscript
edited by Peter Meredith
The Mary Play is a late 15th century text which comes from Norfolk and concerns the Virgin, appropriately considering its proximity to the shrine at Walsingham. It deals with the parents of the Virgin, her early life and it centres on the Ave ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99
Medieval Welsh Literature
by Andrew Breeze
A history of Welsh literature from the earliest written texts and including the Aneirin, the Taliesin and the Mabinognian up to the 14th century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym. It has been written for "newcomers to the subject" but Breeze's ...
Hardback. Price GB £27.50
Piers Plowman: The C Version
edited by George Russell and George Kane
The definitive edition of the C version of Piers Plowman. The C version presents the poem in its second, uncompleted revision. The correction and restoration are described in an extensive introduction, and there is a full apparatus of variant ...
Hardback. Price GB £130.00
Retelling Tales
Hahn, Thomas
Using specific works as examples, the essays in this volume explore the transformation which occurs through the successive retellings of stories. Contents include: Chaucher's Adams; Sacred and secular exegesis in the Wyf of Bath's Tale; The Wycliffite ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales
edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren
A collection of the early material on Robin Hood found in chronicles, ballads and popular plays from before 1600, a full text of Antony Munday's The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntingdon (1598-99) and a selection from his The Death of Robert, ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.00
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