Romance
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Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux [Hardback]
Roy Pearcy (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843841227
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the peripher... .... Learn More -
Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion [Hardback]
Douglas Kelly (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843841111
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This study examines the evolution of Christine's thought on true and false opinion. She reflected deeply on the subject of opinion while analyzing, evaluating, challenging, and changing her own and others' opinions in her lifelong quest for certai... .... Learn More -
Italian Literature II: Tristano Riccardiano [Hardback]
Gina Psaki (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781843840671
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The first English translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Tristano Riccardiano , preserved in MS 2543 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. The translation offers new evidence for the development of the Tristan story in Eu... .... Learn More -
Soundscape in Early French Literature [Hardback]
Brigitte Cazelles (Author)
Regular Price: £37.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780866983396
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Arizona Studies in Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Volume: 17
Soundscape in Early French Literature is a study of how sound is employed in a variety of Latin and early French works. In five chapters, titled to reflect the author’s attention to and interest in sound (“The Big Bang,” “The Blares of Power,” “Th... .... Learn More -
Wace: Le Roman de Brut [Hardback]
Arthur Wayne Glowka (Editor)
Regular Price: £42.00
Special Price: £10.50
ISBN: 9780866983228
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Volume: 279
Wace's Roman de Brut is a wonderful introduction to the medieval world--a world of kings and feudal loyalty, of castles and siege machines, of battles and invasions, of moral and immoral love, of sin and salvation, and of famines and storms. Wace'... .... Learn More -
Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose by Leon Battista Alberti, Bartolomeo Scala, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bernardino Baldi [Hardback]
David Marsh (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780866983037
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
An important genre of Renaissance literature was the philosophical Aesopic fable, a tradition initiated by Leon Battista Alberti, whose Apologi centum, a pithy collection written in just nine days (16-24 December 1437), spawned numerous imitations... .... Learn More -
Pietro Aligheri, Comentum Super Poema Comedie Dantis [Hardback]
Massimilano Chiamenti (Editor)
Regular Price: £51.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780866982894
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Volume: No. 247
This is the first edition of the third and final version of Pietro Alighieri's commentary on his father's Divine Comedy. It is precisely the third version that contains a wealth of material not present in the earlier two versions and demonstrates ... .... Learn More -
The Poetry of François Villon: Text and Context [Hardback]
Jane H. M. Taylor (Author)
Regular Price: £77.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780521792707
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Primarily aimed at readers with a particular interest in 15th-century French verse, this detailed study looks at the many voices that can be found in the ballads of François Villon. Taylor's aim is to show that Villon did not present himself as... .... Learn More -
Antichrist and Judgment Day: The Middle French Jour Du Jugement [Paperback]
David F. Hult (Editor); Richard K. Emmerson (Editor); Keith Glaeske (Editor)
Regular Price: £11.99
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781889818061
Published by : Pegasus Press
Translated for the first time into English, the 14th century French play Jour du Jugement is a fascinating theatrical extravaganza, staging two of the most important events in Christian eschatology: the appearance, deception and persecution of Ant... .... Learn More -
The Comedy of Eros [Paperback]
Norman R. Shapiro (Author)
Regular Price: £11.99
Special Price: £2.95
ISBN: 9780252065811
Published by : University of Illinois Press
A collection of extracts from thirteenth century French poetry offering advice on love, either directly translating or inspired by Ovid's Ars amatoria. .... Learn More
