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Excavations at Portchester Castle, Vol II: Saxon [Hardback]
Barry Cunliffe (Author)
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Volume: 33
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Later Prehistoric and Romano-British Burial and Settlement at Hucclecote, Gloucestershire [Paperback]
Alan Thomas (Author)
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ISBN: 9780952319672
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Excavation in advance of a link road at Hucclecote in Gloucestershire revealed a series of alluvial deposits and occupation evidence from the Middle Bronze Age through to medieval period. The results of the excavation, radiocarbon dates, finds... .... Learn More -
Sanglax: A Persian Guide to the Turkish Language [Hardback]
Gerard Clauson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094310
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Sanglax begins with a grammar of the variety of Turkish known as Catagay but the bulk of the work consists of a Turkish-Persian dictionary. Facsimile text in Persian and Turkish. .... Learn More -
The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark [Hardback]
Robin Waugh (Editor); James Weldon (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580441544
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Essays on the heroic in medieval literature. Among the texts which are studied are Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, the Passio Sancti Edwardi, Hrafnkels saga Freysgoda, Vatnsdaela saga, the Exeter Book riddles and Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica. .... Learn More -
Love, War and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance 1150-1500 [Paperback]
Helen Nicholson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780391042186
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An interesting study of the role of the Military Orders in medieval fictional literature that examines the continued support for the Orders' cause but also the medieval convention that fiction should be `realistic'. Instead of examining the mys... .... Learn More -
Italian Literature II: Tristano Riccardiano [Hardback]
Gina Psaki (Author)
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The first English translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Tristano Riccardiano , preserved in MS 2543 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. The translation offers new evidence for the development of the Tristan story in Eu... .... Learn More -
Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut [Hardback]
Francoise Le Saux (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859914123
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Seventeen papers, from a 1992 conference, investigate the difficulties a modern reader faces when encountering this text. Contributors discuss Layamon's atypical syntax, the origins of his metre, marginal glosses in manuscripts, the implied aud... .... Learn More -
The Maid and the Queen [Hardback]
Nancy Goldstone (Author)
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ISBN: 9780670023332
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A popular and dramatic history, which narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin's party from their lowest ebb to the revival of the French monarchy. In particular Nancy Goldstone focuses on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, and the Dau... .... Learn More -
Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [Paperback]
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy (Author)
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ISBN: 9780708317426
Published by : University of Wales Press
Eighteen papers, presented at a conference held in Cardiff in 2000, examine perceptions and representations of the human body, particularly female, in literature and in medieval and early modern ideology in general. Women, foreigners and other ... .... Learn More -
The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt [Hardback]
sean L. Field (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780268044039
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Agnes of Harcourt is an important though little known thirteenth-century author. Born into a leading Norman noble family, she became an abbess at the new royal Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, founded just outside of Paris by Isabelle of France, sis... .... Learn More
