Language & Literature

ISBN: 9782503515335
Published by : Brepols
Series: Hagiologia
Volume: 7
Based upon a corpus of nearly five hundred texts from the Southern Low Countries, this study offers a thorough analysis of the history of hagiographic discourse in the Central Middle Ages. The book opens with a theoretical discussion on the histor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503531571
Published by : Brepols
Series: International Medieval Research
Volume: 17
The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. There is almost no Arthurian hero without a phase of madness, and almost no gothic church without mocking misericords, not to speak of the spread of the literature and the iconography of th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503532363
Published by : Brepols
Series: LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Volume: 19
Adapting critical approaches and concepts from New Literacy Studies, historical sociolinguistics, and close reading, Amsler analyses how late medieval writing and literacies in Latin, English, and French 'make people up' to create literate subject... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503530987
Published by : Brepols
The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. Resonances of it appear in other narratives, in poetry, and especially in art in the form of wall paintings, wall hangings, tapestries, bed coverings, tablecloths, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503524313
Published by : Brepols
Series: DISPUTATIO
Volume: 12
There have been many books on the medieval culture of death, but this book is the first devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. Mortality and Imagination is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533391
Published by : Brepols
Series: SERMO
Volume: 8
This volume offers a study of Good Friday preaching and an edition (with modern translation) of five highly imaginative, rhetorically sophisticated macaronic (mixed Latin and Middle English) Good Friday sermons preached in late medieval England (c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533674
Published by : Brepols
Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe
Volume: 26
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846821707
Published by : Four Courts Press
The monastic site af Glendalough in Co. Wicklow is a magic place that captures many hearts. This volume contains 20 papers, some from a conference held by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, others from the IMC at Leeds and elsewhere, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848851894
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Unlike many guides to England's churches, Geoffrey Sharpe's offering focuses firmly on the construction process, from the original planning and preparation to the final construction and decoration. The layout and choice of materials, the constr... .... Learn More