Language & Literature
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Middle English Romances in Translation: Amis and Amiloun | Athelston | Floris and Blancheflor | Havelok the Dane | King Horn | Sir Degare [Paperback]
Kenneth Eckert (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088903397
Published by : Sidestone Press
The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and m... .... Learn More -
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints [Hardback]
Renata Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780812247152
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman called Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and papal schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved throu... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya [Paperback]
Takami Matsuda (Editor); Richard Linenthal (Editor); John Scahill (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781843844051
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing.
Essays focus on the study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books. Many concern items in Professor Takamiya's own collectio... .... Learn More -
Lybeaus Desconus [Paperback]
Eve Salisbury (Editor); James Weldon (Editor)
Regular Price: £15.50
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9781580441957
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Lybeaus Desconus (the Fair Unknown) is the mid-fourteenth-century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur to prove himself worthy of joining Arthur’s knigh... .... Learn More -
The End and Beyond [Hardback]
John Carey (Editor); Emma Nic Cárthaigh (Editor); Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Editor)
£59.95ISBN: 9781891271205
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieval Irish inherited... .... Learn More -
Viking Language 2 [Paperback]
Jesse L. Byock (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781481175265
Published by : Jules William Press
Series: Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series
Volume: 2
Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (the 2nd book in the Viking Language Series) immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, ... .... Learn More -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Susanna Greer Fein (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.50
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9781580441988
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contempora... .... Learn More -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 3 [Paperback]
Susanna Greer Fein (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.50
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9781580441995
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contempora... .... Learn More -
John Wyclif on War and Peace [Hardback]
Rory Cox (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780861933259
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
John Wyclif (c.1330-84) was the foremost English intellectual of the late fourteenth century and is famed as an ecclesiastical reformer who was instrumental in the creation of the first English Bible and the spread of the Lollard heresy. But at ti... .... Learn More -
Holy Treasure and Sacred Song: Relic Cults and their Liturgies in Medieval Tuscany [Hardback]
Benjamin Brand (Author)
Regular Price: £43.49
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780199351350
Published by : Oxford University Press
In the Middle Ages, relic cults provoked rich expressions of devotion not only in hagiographic literature and visual art but also in liturgical music and ritual. Despite the long-recognized inter-play between these diverse media, historians of the... .... Learn More
