Language & Literature
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Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus [Hardback]
Juanita Feros Ruys (Author)
Regular Price: £64.99
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ISBN: 9780312240028
Published by : Palgrave
The great medieval thinker Peter Abelard is renowned for his uncompromising and radical approach to ethics and theology, a towering public figure in twelfth-century schools and monasticism. The Repentant Abelard argues, however, that later in his ... .... Learn More -
Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity [Hardback]
Kurt Flasch (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780300204865
Published by : Yale University Press
Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and post... .... Learn More -
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
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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
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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 medieva... .... 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 Sc... .... Learn More -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Susanna Greer Fein (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.50
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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
