Romance
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Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought [Hardback]
Emma Gilby (Editor); Paul White (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975363
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
French philosophical and scientific writers of the early modern period made various use of forms of narrative — language that aims to tell a story — in their texts. Equally, authors of fiction often sought to appropria... .... Learn More -
Conseils pour l'edition ... fasc 2 [Paperback]
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"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English [Hardback]
Jody Enders (Author)
£32.50ISBN: 9780812243239
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Presents, for the first time in English translation twelve bawdy French farces from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Blending slapstick, satire, scatological humour and dirty jokes, they offer a unique insight into everyday life in the la... .... Learn More -
Ramon Llull: A Contemporary Life [Paperback]
A. Bonner (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9781855661998
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In 1311 at the end of his life, the Catalan thinker and missionary Ramon Llull, dictated this extraordinary and self-justificatory autobiography, which explains his philosophical technique, and recounts the various disputations with which he ha... .... Learn More -
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Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' [Hardback]
Suzanne Kocher (Author)
£51.00ISBN: 9782503519029
Published by : Brepols
Series: Medieval Women Texts and Contexts
Volume: 17
Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls , dating probably to the 1290s, is the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. This volume analyses its use of
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Chretien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations [Hardback]
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780199557219
Published by : Oxford University Press
A detailed study of all four verse continuations of Chretien's Conte du Graal, which examines the ways in which they engage in dialogue with the original, and in so doing provide information on what medieval readers perceived as the key ideas, ... .... Learn More -
Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature [Hardback]
E. J. Burns (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780812241549
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This intriguing book looks at the depiction of female silk workers in Old French literature, arguing that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical ... .... Learn More -
Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 [Hardback]
Rhiannon Daniels (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540494
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 19
As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gr... .... Learn More -
The Poet's Notebook: The Personal Manuscript of Charles d'Orléans (Paris, BnF MS fr. 25458) [Hardback]
Mary-Jo Arn (Author)
£68.00ISBN: 9782503520704
Published by : Brepols
Series: Texts and Transitions
Volume: 3
This study of Charles d'Orléans personal manuscript of his poetry - the first in nearly a century - paves the way not only for a new edition of the duke's uvre (by Mary-Jo Arn, John Fox, and R. Barton Palmer) but for a new view of it. Following th... .... Learn More