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Reading and Writing in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Mary C. Erler [Hardback]
Martin Chase (Editor); Maryanne Kowaleski (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273553
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered social and intellectual links and networks between individuals, particularly among women: these are subjects which the pioneering w... .... Learn More -
Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations [Hardback]
Michael J. Warren (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843845089
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: v. 2
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Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By a... .... Learn More -
Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems [Hardback]
Julia Boffey (Editor); Christiania Whitehead (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843844976
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The body of short Middle English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once attractive and challenging for m... .... Learn More -
Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama [Paperback]
Eleanor Johnson (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780226572178
Published by : University of Chicago Press
What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the... .... Learn More -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4: C Passus 15-19; B Passus 13-17 [Hardback]
Traugott Lawler (Author)
£72.00ISBN: 9780812250268
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation ... .... Learn More -
Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations [Hardback]
Jamie Fumo (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843845041
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to late-medieval English textual production; yet in comparison with other works, its treatment has been somew... .... Learn More -
Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions [Hardback]
Katie L. Walter (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108426619
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 105
The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the human being. Where scholars have traditionally focuse... .... Learn More -
Chaucer and the Subversion of Form [Hardback]
Thomas A. Prendergast (Editor); Jessica Rosenfeld (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781107192843
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 104
Responding to the lively resurgence of literary formalism, this volume delivers a timely and fresh exploration of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Advancing 'new formalist' approaches, medieval scholars have begun to ask what happens when structure ... .... Learn More -
The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives [Paperback]
Susanna Fein (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781903153789
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
Volume: v. 7
Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range of secular romance and chro... .... Learn More -
Myth and Materiality [Paperback]
John Waddell (Author)
£15.99ISBN: 9781785709753
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 4
The aim of this book is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myt... .... Learn More
