Medieval
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French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture [Hardback]
Sofia Loden(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845829
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: 7
Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious sources, rather than in their place as part of a broader range of complex and wider European... .... Learn More -
Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings [Hardback]
Kathy Cawsey(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845720
Published by : D.S. Brewer
In the Middle Ages, English did not have any explicit theory or philosophy of language: philosophers wrote in Latin. This book addresses the issue. By closely analysing the images and metaphors used to describe language in MiddleEnglish texts, it ... .... Learn More -
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance [Hardback]
Lucy M. Allen-Goss(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845706
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: 15
In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams of medieval texts are devote... .... Learn More -
Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes [Hardback]
Mary-Jo Arn(Editor); R.D. Perry(Editor); Ad Putter(Contributor); Andrea Denny-Brown(Contributor); B. S. W. Barootes(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845676
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orléans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most o... .... Learn More -
The Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Volume I: Introduction and Commentary [Hardback]
Priscilla Bawcutt(Editor); Ian Cunningham(Editor); Ian Cunningham(With)
$99.00ISBN: 9781897976425
Published by : Scottish Text Society
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
Volume: 17
Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 15... .... Learn More -
The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland [Hardback]
Dale Kedwards(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845690
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: 6
The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn between c. 1225 and c. 1400, are contemporary with the breathtaking rise of its vernacular literary culture, and provide important insights into the Icelanders' capacious geographical aw... .... Learn More -
Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From the Gesta Herwardi to Richard Coer de Lyon [Hardback]
Emily Dolmans(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845683
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The period after the Norman Conquest saw a dramatic reassessment of what it meant to be English, owing to both the advent of Anglo-Norman rule and increased interaction with other cultures through trade, travel, migration, and war. While cultural ... .... Learn More -
Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature [Hardback]
Christina M. Heckman(Author); Christina Christina Heckman(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845652
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 41
In early English literature ca 700-1000 C.E., demons are represented as teachers who use methods of persuasion and argumentation to influence their "pupils". By deploying these methods, related to the liberal arts of rhetoric anddialecti... .... Learn More -
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey [Hardback]
Maren Clegg Hyer(Editor); Haruko Momma(Editor); Samantha Zacher(Editor); Andy Orchard(Contributor); Christine Rauer(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845614
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 40
Dedicated to honoring the remarkable achievements of Dr Antonette di Paolo Healey, the architect and lexicographer of the Old English Concordance, the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, and the Dictionary of Old English, the essay... .... Learn More -
Masculinities in Old Norse Literature [Hardback]
Gareth Lloyd Evans(Editor); Jessica Clare Hancock(Editor); Alison Finlay(Contributor); Asdis Egilsdottir(Contributor); Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845621
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: 4
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of... .... Learn More
