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ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781843844976
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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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

ISBN: 9781785709753
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insight in Archaeology
Volume: 4
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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

ISBN: 9780812250268
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
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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

ISBN: 9781843845041
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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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

ISBN: 9781108426619
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 105
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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

ISBN: 9781107192843
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 104
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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

ISBN: 9781903153789
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
Volume: v. 7
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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

ISBN: 9782503568478
Published by : Brepols
Series: Texts and Transitions
Volume: 12
These fifteen essays, all published here for the first time, explore issues related to the editing and interpretation of Middle English literature. These include the treatment of all types of evidence (variant readings; punctuation; capitalization... .... Learn More