Language & Literature
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Bede's Latin Poetry [Hardback]
Michael Lapidge (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9780199242771
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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Although his historical and exegetical works are better known, Bede's small corpus of Latin poetry was widely read and imitated throughout the Middle Ages. Yet in spite of its importance as a keystone in medieval Latin literature, there has not pr... .... Learn More -
Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders [Hardback]
Gareth Lloyd Evans (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780198831242
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford English Monographs
This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders-and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works-it comprehe... .... Learn More -
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas [Paperback]
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780198701293
Published by : Oxford University Press
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. ... .... Learn More -
The Saga of the Jomsvikings: A Translation with Full Introduction [Hardback]
Alison Finlay (Editor); Thordis Edda Johannesdottir (Editor)
£64.00ISBN: 9781580443111
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Series: The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe
Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress off the Baltic coast, and launched and ultimately lost their hero... .... Learn More -
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature [Hardback]
Haki Antonsson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843845072
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: v. 3
The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, this topic has received limited attention in the study of Old Norse literature.This book addresses this lacuna in the scholarship, from tw... .... Learn More -
In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400-1500 [Hardback]
Erin Sebo (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781846826344
Published by : Four Courts Press
In enigmate is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late-antique riddle text Aenigmata Symphosii, In enigmate charts an arc through the extraord... .... Learn More -
How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems [Hardback]
Daniel Donoghue (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9780812249941
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scr... .... Learn More -
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture [Hardback]
Susan Irvine (Editor); Winfried Rudolf (Editor)
£61.99ISBN: 9781487502027
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their e... .... Learn More -
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature [Hardback]
Irina Dumitrescu (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108416863
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 102
Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that reve... .... Learn More -
Old Norse Mythology: Comparative Perspectives [Paperback]
Pernille Hermann (Editor); Stephen A. Mitchell (Editor); Jens Peter Schjodt (Editor)
£21.95ISBN: 9780674975699
Published by : Harvard University Press
Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages... .... Learn More
