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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 -
Hermann Potzlinger's Music Book [Hardback]
Ian Rumbold (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781843834632
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Hermann Potzlinger (+ 1469), the university-educated schoolmaster of the monastery of St Emmeram, Regensburg, was the creator of one of the largest and most intriguing collections of late-medieval polyphonic music to have survived from Central Eur... .... Learn More -
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 1: Facsimile [Hardback]
Alan M. Stahl (Editor); David McGee (Editor); Pamela O. Long (Editor)
Regular Price: £57.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780262135030
Published by : MIT Press
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contempo... .... Learn More
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 2: Transcription and Translation [Hardback]
Pamela O. Long (Editor); David McGee (Editor); Alan M. Stahl (Editor)
Regular Price: £62.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780262195904
Published by : MIT Press
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary ... .... Learn More
The Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 3: Studies [Hardback]
Alan M. Stahl (Editor); David McGee (Editor); Pamela O. Long (Editor)
Regular Price: £37.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780262123082
Published by : MIT Press
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary ... .... 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
Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages [Hardback]
Peter Godman (Author)
Regular Price: £67.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780521519113
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and w... .... Learn More
Crossing Borders [Hardback]
Sahar Amer (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812240870
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This ambitious study looks at the interaction between Arabic and French medieval writing and specifically their representation of gender, and female homo-eroticism. Whilst lesbianism is documented within medieval Arab society, and Arabic litera... .... 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
Understanding Plague [Hardback]
Randal P. Garza (Author)
Regular Price: £45.95
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780820463414
Published by : Peter Lang Verlag
The outbreak of the plague in 1347, commonly referred to as the Black Death, was the source of numerous socio-economic changes in the later Middle Ages. Numerous studies have traced the progress and effects of the disease in countries such as Germ... .... Learn More
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