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ISBN: 9780708321515
Published by : University of Wales Press
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Brittaniae was a medieval bestseller, and has remained popular ever since, thanks in no small part to its Arthurian material. In this introductory exploration of his work Karen Jankulak draws out some of G... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409407515
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterb... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521111379
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503524702
Published by : Brepols
Series: Disputatio
Volume: 13
The essays collected here represent the current state of research into the works of John Gower, poet, philosopher, and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. They assess Gower's literary output within the context of manuscript production and readership... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897754
Published by : The Exeter Press
A new annotated translation of the early thirteenth century guide for women religious recluses, designed to accompany the recent and definitive Middle English text published by the Early English Text Society. The introduction sets the work in i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897761
Published by : The Exeter Press
A new annotated translation of the early thirteenth century guide for women religious recluses, designed to accompany the recent and definitive Middle English text published by the Early English Text Society. The introduction sets the work in i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521841672
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nations leading literary language in the fourteen... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521602587
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nations leading literary language in the fourteen... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859898171
Published by : The Exeter Press
The 24 short lyrics known as the Digby Poems are part of a manuscript dating from the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The represent a challenge to the theory that vernacular religious writing was successfully stifled by the Church in t... .... Learn More