Romance
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French Romance of the Later Middle Ages [Hardback]
Rosalind Brown-Grant (Author)
Regular Price: £87.00
Special Price: £24.95
ISBN: 9780199554140
Published by : Oxford University Press
Whilst French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central rol... .... Learn More -
Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation [Hardback]
Catherine M. Jones (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781843841586
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Over fifty chansons de geste were reworked into prose between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries for patrons and audiences who demanded updated, de-rhymed versions of heroic songs. While most prose translations were commissioned by noble pa... .... Learn More -
Chartier in Europe [Hardback]
Emma Cayley (Editor); Ashby Kinch (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843841760
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
"Chartier in Europe" is the first sustained enquiry into the distinctive influence of the fifteenth-century French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, on the reading and writing cultures of England, Italy, Scotland, and Spain, as wel... .... Learn More
Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvere Song [Hardback]
Helen Dell (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843841647
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
This study brings the songs of the trouveres to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and unconscious desire. In trouvere song desire functions as a means of generic and 'genderic' differentiat... .... Learn More
The Making of Poetry: Late-Medieval French Poetic Anthologies [Hardback]
J Taylor (Author)
£51.00ISBN: 9782503520728
Published by : Brepols
Series: Texts and Transitions
Volume: 1
In this ground-breaking book, Jane H. M. Taylor explores late-medieval lyric anthologies. Taking a cue from the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, she sets poetic creation in the context of an understanding of the structures of court society, and... .... Learn More
Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Epic by Walter of Chatillon [Paperback]
David Townsend (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9781551116761
Published by : Broadview Press
Walter of Châtillons Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century "best-seller:" scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through hi... .... Learn More
The Place of Thought [Hardback]
Sarah Kay (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780812240078
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine de Pizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed to impart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify their thought, and to make its outline visible to re... .... Learn More
Garland of Satire, Wisdom and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth Century France [Paperback]
Jan M. Ziolkowski (Author); Bridget K. Balint (Author)
£27.95ISBN: 9780976547273
Published by : Harvard University Press
This book presents a remarkably thorough edition of each of the previously unpublished poems from an anthology (MS Lat 300) held in the Houghton Library. The latin text of the poems is transcribed and a full English translation and commentary ... .... Learn More
Troubadour Poems from the South of France [Hardback]
W. D. Paden (Author); Frances Freeman Paden (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781843841296
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This attractively designed volume collects 126 of the poems of the troubadours, presenting them in lively modern verse translations. The selection conveys well the incredible range of the poets from the tender love poetry of Bernart de Ventador... .... Learn More
Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux [Hardback]
Roy Pearcy (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £4.95
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