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Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the CanterburyTales [Hardback]
Frederick M. Biggs (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843844754
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Not yet published - available for pre-order
A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed i... .... Learn More -
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English [Paperback]
Greg Walker (Editor); Elaine Treharne (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9780198798088
Published by : Oxford University Press
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts... .... Learn More -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur [Paperback]
P. J. C. Field (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9781843844600
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Malory completed his Morte Darthur before March 1470. The manuscript is lost, but the two most important surviving witnesses to its text were both produced shortly afterwards: Caxton’s edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have e... .... Learn More -
The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale [Hardback]
Hannah Johnson (Author); Heather Blurton (Author)
£72.95ISBN: 9780472130344
Published by : University of Michigan Press
Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the anti-semitism of the story it t... .... Learn More -
Le Bone Florence of Rome: A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale [Paperback]
Jonathan Stavsky (Editor)
£39.99ISBN: 9781786830630
Published by : University of Wales Press
Series: New Century Chaucer
Le Bone Florence of Rome is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, it follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassme... .... Learn More -
Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna [Hardback]
Simon Horobin (Editor); Aditi Nafde (Editor)
£68.00ISBN: 9782503566702
Published by : Brepols
Series: Texts and Transitions
Volume: 10
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This volume brings together essays by leading authorities on the production, reception, and editing of medieval English manuscripts in honour of Ralph Hanna, on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxfor... .... Learn More -
Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader [Hardback]
Rebecca Krug (Author)
£53.50ISBN: 9781501705335
Published by : Cornell University Press
Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her f... .... Learn More -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman: C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8: Volume 2 [Hardback]
Ralph Hanna (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9780812248913
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and... .... Learn More -
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology [Hardback]
Curtis A. Gruenler (Author)
£77.95ISBN: 9780268101626
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era's most enduring literature, from the riddles of... .... Learn More
