Romance
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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 -
Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France [Hardback]
Katherine Kong (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842316
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic functions, represen... .... Learn More -
Boccaccio: The Latin Eclogues [Paperback]
David Slavitt (Translator)
Regular Price: £20.50
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9780801895630
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron, but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. David R. Slavitt's English translation makes these important pieces accessible to a new audience of readers. Elegant and engaging, these... .... Learn More -
Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature [Hardback]
E. J. Burns (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780812241549
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This intriguing book looks at the depiction of female silk workers in Old French literature, arguing that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical ... .... Learn More -
Petrarch's Triumphs: Allegory and Spectacle [Paperback]
Konrad Eisenbichler (Editor); Amilcare Ianucci (Editor)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £6.95
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Chartier in Europe [Hardback]
Emma Cayley (Editor); Ashby Kinch (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781843841760
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
"Chartier in Europe" is the first sustained enquiry into the distinctive influence of the fifteenth-century French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, on the reading and writing cultures of England, Italy, Scotland, and Spain, as well as France. Op... .... Learn More -
Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvere Song [Hardback]
Helen Dell (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9781843841647
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
This study brings the songs of the trouveres to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and unconscious desire. In trouvere song desire functions as a means of generic and 'genderic' differentiation. ... .... Learn More -
Collected Works of Gonzalo de Berceo in English Translation [Hardback]
Jeannie K. Bartha (Editor); Annette Grant Cash (Editor); Richard Terry Mount (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780866983730
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
For the first time, the complete works of Gonzalo de Berceo are available to the English reader. Originally written in the Old Spanish of the 13th century, this translation preserves the medieval flavor and imagery of the poems while retelling the... .... Learn More -
Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation [Hardback]
Catherine M. Jones (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843841586
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Over fifty chansons de geste were reworked into prose between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries for patrons and audiences who demanded updated, de-rhymed versions of heroic songs. While most prose translations were commissioned by noble pa... .... Learn More -
Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory [Hardback]
Logan E. Whalen (Author)
Regular Price: £68.50
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780813215099
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
"Marie de France and The Poetics of Memory" presents the first exhaustive treatment of the rhetorical use of description and memory in all the narrative works of the late 12th-century poet, Marie de France - the first woman to compose literary tex... .... Learn More
