Medieval
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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary [Hardback]
Liz Herbert McAvoy(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845980
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: 4
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular... .... Learn More -
Discourse in Old Norse Literature [Hardback]
Eric Shane Bryan(Author); Sif Rikhardsdottir(Editor); Carolyne Larrington(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845973
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: 8
The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of v... .... Learn More -
Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts [Hardback]
Kathryn Maude(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845966
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: 18
From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. How, then, can we access these women's experiences?
This book argues that by analysing texts deliberately written for and addressed... .... Learn More -
Arthurian Literature XXXVI: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance [Hardback]
Megan G. Leitch(Editor); K.S. Whetter(Editor); Sarah Bowden(Editor); Susanne Friede(Editor); Andreas Hammer(Editor); Kevin S Whetter(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846048
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Literature
Volume: 36
Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and in... .... Learn More -
The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England: The Matter of France in Middle English and Anglo-Norman Literature [Paperback]
Phillipa Hardman(Author); Marianne Ailes(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781843846017
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
Volume: 8
The Matter of France, the legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely unrecognised place in the multilingual culture of medieval England. From the early claim in the Chanson de Roland that Charlemagne held England as his... .... Learn More -
Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity [Hardback]
Juliette Vuille(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845898
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: 17
During the Middle Ages, the lives of saints such as Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt - "holy harlots", women who repented of an early life of licentiousness to become blessed - were hugely popular, for both clerical and laypersons, men an... .... Learn More -
Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: from Henry II to Edward I [Paperback]
Christopher Michael Berard(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783276066
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Arthurian Studies
Volume: 88
The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that wa... .... Learn More -
Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations [Paperback]
Michael J. Warren(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781843845911
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: 2
Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By a... .... Learn More -
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year [Hardback]
Clare Simmons(Author); Clare A. Simmons(Author); Clare A Simmons(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845737
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Medievalism
Volume: 20
What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that nineteenth-century Britons asked themselves: which was more fun: living in their own time, or living in th... .... Learn More -
Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336 [Paperback]
Linda Paterson(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781843846000
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères pres... .... Learn More
