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Middle English Literature: A Cultural History [Paperback]
Christopher Cannon (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 9780745624426
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history,... .... Learn More -
Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries [Hardback]
Samantha J. Rayner (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843841746
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The reign of Richard II saw an extraordinary flowering of literary achievement, and its major poets Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Gawain Poet, are often discussed together as a discrete literary period. Through detailed examination of tthe ... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Julian of Norwich [Hardback]
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781843841722
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the firs... .... Learn More -
Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde [Hardback]
Edward I Condren (Author)
Regular Price: £43.50
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9780813032412
Published by : University of Florida Press
Through a close reading of Chaucer's three Dream Visions and his early masterpiece, Troilus and Criseyde, Edward Condren traces Chaucer's early development as a poet, his engagement with contemporary literary styles, and the evolution of his ow... .... Learn More -
Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer [Hardback]
Andrew Cole (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780521887915
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The teaching and very public condemnation of John Wyclif emerged at almost exactly the same time as the English literary tradition of Langland and Chaucer, continued by Lydgate, Hoccleve and others. Andrew Cole argues that this is no coincidenc... .... Learn More -
Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition [Hardback]
Jennifer Fellows (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781843841739
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Sir Bevis of Hampton is one of the most widespread and important Middle English romances. This book - the first ever full-length study to be devoted to it - considers it in its historical and literary contexts, and its Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Iri... .... Learn More -
Julian of Norwich: The Influence of Late-Medieval Devotional Compilations [Hardback]
Elisabeth M. Dutton (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843841814
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Compilation and miscellany manuscripts were widely owned in the late middle ages, by both the laity and the clergy. Here, their possible influence on Julian of Norwich's "Revelations" is explored. This book argues that ... .... Learn More -
The High Book of the Grail: Perlesvaus [Paperback]
Nigel Bryant (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9780859915106
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Translation of Perlesvaus , which is one of the earliest and most important of the Gothic romances. Written in the first half of the 13th century, it takes a markedly different tack to the main arc of Arthurian tales which would eventually resu... .... Learn More -
Medieval English Comedy [Hardback]
P Hardwick (Editor);S Hordis (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9782503524276
Published by : Brepols
Series: Profane Arts of the Middle Ages
Volume: 3
Contents: Martha Bayless, Merriment and Entertainment in Anglo-Saxon England: What is the Evidence?; Christopher Crane, Taking Laughter Seriously: The Rhetoric of Humor in Middle English Drama, Sermon Exempla and Spiritual Instruction; Paul Hardwi... .... Learn More -
Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560 [Hardback]
Thomas H. Ohlgren (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780874139648
Published by : University of Delaware Press
Professor Ohlgren contends that of the evidence for the Robin Hood legend, the poems Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter and A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, all dating from the late 15th and early 16th century should be accorded mu... .... Learn More