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Chaucer, Gower and the Vernacular Rising [Hardback]
Lynn Arner (Author)
Regular Price: £53.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780271058931
Published by : Penn State University Press
Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, while literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling ... .... Learn More -
John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame [Hardback]
Mary C. Flannery (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843843313
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to overshadow his contributions to English literature. Here, "fame" is i... .... Learn More -
Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text [Paperback]
A. C. Spearing (Author)
Regular Price: £33.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780268017828
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobio... .... Learn More -
Shakespeare's London Theatreland [Paperback]
Julian Bowsher (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781907586125
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
This guide to the unique theatrical venues of London, from 1567, when the first playhouse was built, to 1642, when Cromwell closed them down, sets out the rich dramatic history of this period in relation to the latest exciting archaeological e... .... Learn More -
Prik of Conscience [Paperback]
James H. Morey (Editor)
Regular Price: £23.50
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781580441728
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
In the first modern edition of the poem since 1863, James H. Morey presents The Prik of Conscience to a new audience of students of the Middle Ages. The famous fourteenth century poem leads its audience on a path of penance. Attributed to the myst... .... Learn More -
The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell [Paperback]
Lynn Staley (Author)
Regular Price: £40.50
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780268041403
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
For centuries England’s writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests th... .... Learn More -
Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge [Paperback]
Clifford Davidson (Editor)
Regular Price: £19.50
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9781580441711
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, composed in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, is the "chief surviving antitheatrical document from the Middle Ages", generally considered to be a Lollard attack on the stage. The Middle English text ... .... Learn More -
Gower's Vulgar Tongue: Ovid Lay Religion and English Poetry in the Confessio Amantis [Hardback]
T. Matthew N. McCabe (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842835
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
After establishing his reputation as a literary author by means of his French and Latin verse, Gower came to recognize the possibilities which English held for serious poetry only in the 1380s. This book gives sustained attention to the implicatio... .... Learn More -
The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament [Paperback]
Michael Livingston (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.50
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781580441506
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Like the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The Paraphrase is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal ... .... Learn More -
John Gower: The French Balades [Paperback]
R.F. Yeager (Editor)
Regular Price: £15.50
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781580441551
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Gower’s imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower’s Traitié employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtu... .... Learn More
