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Hermann Potzlinger's Music Book [Hardback]
Ian Rumbold (Author)
Regular Price: £75.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 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 -
No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion and the Memory of France [Hardback]
Susan L. Einbinder (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780812241150
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Despite the upheavals of the fourteenth century, the literary productivity of Jews was astonishing. Yet there are few direct references to the catastrophic great expulsion of 1306, even in Jewish liturgical and historiographic texts, where one ... .... 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 -
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
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