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Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann [Hardback]
Christopher Cannon (Editor); Maura Nolan (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842637
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Jill Mann's writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking... .... Learn More -
Medieval Romance Medieval Contexts [Hardback]
R. Purdie (Editor); Michael Cichon (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843842606
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specifi... .... Learn More -
A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert [Hardback]
Denis Renevey (Author); Christiania Whitehead (Author)
Regular Price: £85.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780859898218
Published by : The Exeter Press
This volume accompanies the University of Exeter Press' new critical edition of the middle English "Doctrine of the Hert", a devotional text which circulated widely in later medieval Europe, both in its Latin original and in various vernacular ... .... Learn More -
John Gower, Trilingual Poet [Hardback]
Elisabeth M. Dutton (Editor); John Hines (Editor); R. F. Yeager (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842507
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
John Gower wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their considerable and sometimes competing significance in fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays collected in this volume start from Gower as trili... .... Learn More -
Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the "Nun's Priest's Tale [Paperback]
Peter W. Travis (Author)
Regular Price: £43.50
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780268042356
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is one of the most popular of "The Canterbury Tales". It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. There have been countless attempts to articula... .... Learn More -
William Caxton: The Game and Playe of the Chesse [Paperback]
Jenny Adams (Editor)
Regular Price: £15.50
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781580441308
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Despite its title, Caxton's "Game and Playe of the Chesse" does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it. Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to ... .... Learn More -
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature [Hardback]
Kathleen E. Kennedy (Author)
Regular Price: £69.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780230606661
Published by : Palgrave
Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was depicted in literature by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate. Kennedy uses close readings and medieval letter colle... .... Learn More -
Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch" [Paperback]
James I. Wimsatt (Editor)
Regular Price: £15.50
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ISBN: 9781580441322
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer’s French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant o... .... Learn More -
Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England [Hardback]
Jennifer Bryan (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780812240481
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This challenging study looks at the most popular genre of English book in the Later Middle Ages, the devotional treatise. Jennifer Bryan argues that the widespread dissemination of such texts proves not that English men and women were especiall... .... Learn More -
Singing The New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England [Hardback]
Katherine Zieman (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812240511
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Many studies of literacy and liturgy in the late medieval period examine the rise of the vernacular and the shift from orality and the performance of sacred texts to personal reading of written texts. However, this study empahsises the continue... .... Learn More
