Language & Literature
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Strategies and Tactics in Medieval Hagiography: Discourse, Church and Society in the Southern Low Countries, c. 920-c. 1320 [Hardback]
Jeroen Deploige (Author)
£62.00ISBN: 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 -
Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books [Hardback]
L Perry (Editor);A Schwartz (Editor)
£68.00ISBN: 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 -
Retext: Late Medieval Literacies and Multilingualism [Hardback]
Mark Amsler (Author)
£62.00ISBN: 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 -
Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances [Paperback]
SC Van D'Elden (Author)
£88.00ISBN: 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 -
Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval and Renaissance Literature [Hardback]
K Rooney (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 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 -
Grammar of Good Friday: Macaronic Sermons of Late Medieval England [Hardback]
H Johnson (Author)
£79.00ISBN: 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 -
Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200) [Hardback]
Ildar H Garipzanov (Editor)
£76.50ISBN: 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 -
Glendalough: City of God [Hardback]
Charles Doherty (Author);Linda Doran (Author);Mary Kelly (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Historic English Churches [Paperback]
Geoff Sharpe (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 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 -
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library [Hardback]
Maria Politi (Editor); Eleni Pappa (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9789608696075
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Gennadius Monograph
Volume: VI
Among the collections of the Gennadius Library in Athens are over 300 Greek manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th to the 19th century. This book presents a collection of studies of various aspects of the collection written by leading paleogra... .... Learn More

