Romance
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John Gower: The French Balades [Paperback]
R.F. Yeager (Editor)
Regular Price: £14.99
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9781580441551
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Gower’s imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower’s Traitié employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the ... .... Learn More
Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature [Hardback]
Alison Cornish (Author)
Regular Price: £62.00
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ISBN: 9781107001138
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting ... .... Learn More
Medieval Romance Medieval Contexts [Hardback]
R. Purdie (Editor); Michael Cichon (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843842606
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the sp... .... Learn More
Thinking Through Chretien de Troyes [Hardback]
Peggy McCracken (Author); Sharon Kinoshita (Author); Sarah Kay (Author); Virginie Greene (Author); Zrinka Stahuljak (Author)
£60.00
Ramon Llull [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
Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France [Hardback]
Katherine Kong (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843842316
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic f... .... Learn More
Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot [Hardback]
Frank Brandsma (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781843842576
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Thematically and as a narrative technique, interlace, the complex weaving together of many different story-telling strands, comes to its full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. The Grail appears on the... .... Learn More
Boccaccio: The Latin Eclogues [Paperback]
David Slavitt (Translator)
Regular Price: £20.50
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ISBN: 9780801895630
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron, but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. David R. Slavitt's English translation makes these important pieces accessible to a new audience of readers. Elegant and engaging, these... .... Learn More
Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' [Hardback]
Suzanne Kocher (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 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
int... .... Learn More
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