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Medieval Literature

Augustine: De Civitate Dei Books I & II
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by P G Walsh
This edition of Books I & II of St Augustine's City of God is the only edition in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the ...
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Augustine: De Civitate Dei VI & VII
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by P G Walsh
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.

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Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1798-1948
by R. Utz
In her magisterial study, Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900, Caroline Spurgeon stated that 'The work done on Chaucer by scholars in modern Germany is so vast that it would need a volume to itself to deal adequately with it'. This study fills this scholarly desideratum by surveying the genesis and development of the largest body of non-Anglophone Chaucer criticism from the beginning of the nineteenth century to ...
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Imperial Lives and Letters of the 11th Century
translated by Theodore E Mommsen and Karl F Morrison
A selection of texts that provide valuable insights into the lives of secular leaders in Germany during the 11th and early 12th century. The sources, Wipo's The Deeds of Conrad II, the anonymous Life of the Emperor Henry IV and the Letters of Henry IV, are preceded by a useful introduction by Karl Morrison which, in addition to textual matters, discusses the kingship of the Salians and their conflict with the papacy. 223p ...
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The Book of Alexander (Libro de Alexandre)
edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Such and Richard Rabone
The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna vía verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang. The poem conveys the grim message of Alexander's life, the sense of hubris and the horror of ...
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Ireland and the Grail
by John Carey
This is the first book-length study of the origins of the Grail legend to have been undertaken by a specialist in medieval Irish literature. Drawing on a detailed reexamination of the relevant texts in Irish, Welsh, Latin and French, extensive sections of which are presented in new translations, the author argues that the roots of the Grail legend are to be sought in the lost Old Irish manuscript known as the Book of Druimm Snechtai. ...
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Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose
Translated by Danuta Shanzer and Ian Wood
The first complete English translation of the `letter-collection' of Avitus, Bishop of Vienne, whose works provide an important source for the Burgundian kingdom, and western Europe, during the 6th century. The letters, which discuss theological and legal matters as well as more personal concerns, reflect the great changes and perils that faced the Roman empire during the late 5th and 6th centuries. 450p (Translated Texts for Historians 38, ...
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Christus und die minnende Seele: An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography
by Amy Gebauer
The late medieval verse dialogue Christus und die minnende Seele portrays the journey of the soul as the bride of Christ toward mystical union in a series of 20-24 individual scenes. This study provides for the first time a comprehensive examination of all manuscripts and prints containing the work, dating from the late 14th through the mid-16th centuries. This paleographic investigation not only makes it possible to determine the ...
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The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance
by Elina Gertsman
This book introduces readers to the texts and imagery of the Dance of Death, a subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the late medieval era. Depicting a long procession of representatives of different classes and ages, seized by prancing skeletons, the Dance eloquently communicated the message of the inevitability of death and the futility of human ambition. The image was frequently accompanied by verses, written in ...
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Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect
by Jeremy Tambling
This volume provides an advanced survey of Dante studies and offers a new, detailed, and accessible reading of his Purgatorio, making this very rich text freshly available to an English-speaking readership. Through analysis of a variety of emotional states across Dante's three major works - the Purgatorio, Inferno, and Paradiso, and in his minor works, such as the Rime and the Convivio, Dante in ...
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