Romance
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Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France [Hardback]
Tracy Adams (Author)
Regular Price: £58.95
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ISBN: 9780271050713
Published by : Penn State University Press
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dis... .... Learn More -
The Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville [Hardback]
Marco Nievergelt (Editor); Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843843344
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
New essays on the unjustly neglected Pèlerinage works by de Guileville, showing in particular its huge contemporary influence.
The fourteenth-century French pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville (or "Digulleville") shaped lat... .... Learn More -
Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature [Paperback]
Pina Palma (Author)
Regular Price: £45.50
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ISBN: 9780268038397
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Pina Palma’s Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature is an innovative look at the writings of five important Italian authors—Boccaccio’s Decameron, Pulci’s Morgante, Boiardo’s Innam... .... Learn More -
Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World [Hardback]
Noah D. Guynn (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843843375
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain bu... .... Learn More -
French Arthurian Literature V: The Lay of Mantel [Hardback]
Glyn S. Burgess (Editor); Leslie C. Brook (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843843382
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late twelfth or thirteenth century. These short narratives vary in tone and usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in an aristocratic, courtly se... .... Learn More -
Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner [Hardback]
Daniel E. O'Sullivan (Editor); Laurie Shepard (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843843351
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, ... .... Learn More -
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry [Hardback]
Julie Singer (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781843842729
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orleans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoral theory depends up... .... Learn More -
Partonopeus de Blois: Romance in the Making [Hardback]
Penny Eley (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842743
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde). Ho... .... Learn More -
Chretien de Troyes in Prose: the Burgundian Erec and Cliges [Hardback]
Joan Tasker Grimbert (Editor); Carol J. Chase (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9781843842699
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In the middle of the fifteenth century two anonymous writers 'translated' into prose Chretien de Troyes's first verse romances, Erec and Cliges (dating from the twelfth century), for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. For a long time... .... Learn More -
John Gower: The French Balades [Paperback]
R.F. Yeager (Editor)
Regular Price: £15.50
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ISBN: 9781580441551
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Gower’s imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower’s Traitié employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtu... .... Learn More
