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ISBN: 9781843840541
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Cambridge University Library is one of Britain's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. Its two-letter collection (Dd-Oo) includes just over 1,000 medieval western manuscripts, and amongst these may be found examples of every... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199552092
Published by : Oxford University Press
Based on the original edition by F. N. Robinson, this is the fullest, most accessible complete edition of Chaucer's works. The third edition is even fuller with expanded glosses, introductions and bibliographies and a completely re-edited text.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503527550
Published by : Brepols
Series: Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Volume: 15
Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello' traces the dialogic nature of the relationship between the Middle Ages and modernity. Arguing that modern beliefs in the alterity of the Middle Ages stem from the Middle Ages' own processes o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812240306
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812240481
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This challenging study looks at the most popular genre of English book in the Later Middle Ages, the devotional treatise. Jennifer Bryan argues that the widespread dissemination of such texts proves not that English men and women were especiall... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812240511
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Many studies of literacy and liturgy in the late medieval period examine the rise of the vernacular and the shift from orality and the performance of sacred texts to personal reading of written texts. However, this study empahsises the continue... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843841609
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Twelve essays focusing on issues of gender and sexuality in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Through detailed readings of the text the contributors aim to shed light on what it meant to be a man in the Middle Ages, pinpointing issues such as mal... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780708320341
Published by : University of Wales Press
Oxbow says: Ancrene Wisse is an early 13th century vernacular text originally commissioned as a guide to living a reclusive life. However, the book had a much broader significance for a more general readership, especially on aspects of spiritu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199542642
Published by : Oxford University Press
The great households of the nobility remained basic units of economic and political power in the late fourteenth century; the Royal household was also still to a large extent synonymous with the state. Social status was grounded firmly in the i... .... Learn More