Romance
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Chretien Continued [Hardback]
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Author)
£87.00ISBN: 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 [Hardback]
E. J. Burns (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 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 -
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 2: Transcription and Translation [Hardback]
Pamela O. Long (Editor); David McGee (Editor); Alan M. Stahl (Editor)
Regular Price: £51.95
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780262195904
Published by : MIT Press
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments... .... Learn More -
Petrarch and Dante [Paperback]
Zygmunt G. Baranski (Editor); Theodore J. Cachey (Editor)
Regular Price: £52.50
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780268022112
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and his predecessor Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question o... .... 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 -
Queen Isabel I of Castile [Hardback]
Barbara Weissberger (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781855661592
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Isabel I of Castille was the most powerful of female medieval monarchs and played a crucial role in the final conquest of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, in expelling the Jews from Spain and in financing the voyages of Christopher Col... .... Learn More -
Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature [Hardback]
Simon Gaunt (Author)
£67.00ISBN: 9780521861755
Published by : Cambridge University Press
French was the most influential of vernacular literary languages, and many of the great works of the Middle Ages appeared first in French, including the Chanson de Roland, the Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Roman de la Rose and ... .... Learn More -
Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature [Paperback]
Simon Gaunt (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9780521679756
Published by : Cambridge University Press
French was the most influential of vernacular literary languages, and many of the great works of the Middle Ages appeared first in French, including the Chanson de Roland, the Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Roman de la Rose and ... .... Learn More -
Crossing Borders [Hardback]
Sahar Amer (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780812240870
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This ambitious study looks at the interaction between Arabic and French medieval writing and specifically their representation of gender, and female homo-eroticism. Whilst lesbianism is documented within medieval Arab society, and Arabic litera... .... Learn More -
Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France [Hardback]
Rebecca Dixon (Editor); Finn E. Sinclair (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843841777
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The volume reveals the interplay between poet, te... .... Learn More
