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131 produkter
Parlement of Foulys
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, D. Brewer
Häftad, 1972
236 kr
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This edition of the best of Chaucer' s shorter poems ranges widely over the major concerns necessary to a full understanding of the text, including its occasion, literary tradition, sources, rhetoric, language, metre, mythology and themes. It is an edition which will appeal both to students and to …
Water and Fire
The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England
Inbunden, 2006
1264 kr
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Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our …
Water and Fire
The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2013
427 kr
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Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our …
Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
Av J. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
414 kr
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This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert …
Greenery
Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature
Av Gillian Rudd
Inbunden, 2007
1411 kr
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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called ‘green’ terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety …
Greenery
Ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature
Av Gillian Rudd
Häftad, 2010
427 kr
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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called ‘green’ terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety …
Knight’S Legacy
Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2010
1411 kr
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The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle-Ages. Translated into many European languages and widely circulating in both manuscript and printed forms, the pseudo English knight’s account had a lasting influence on the voyages of …
In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife
Essays in Memory of J. J. Anderson
Inbunden, 2010
1366 kr
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These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval …
Between Earth and Heaven
Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Inbunden, 2014
1411 kr
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Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences. This book argues that Anglo-Saxon authors …
Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
Av Eva von Contzen, Anke Bernau
Inbunden, 2015
1366 kr
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This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for …
Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida
Av Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1493 kr
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This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own …
Transporting Chaucer
Av Helen Barr
Inbunden, 2014
1264 kr
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Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others. Chaucer’s playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later – …
Reading Robin Hood
Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth
Inbunden, 2015
1411 kr
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This book explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present day has stood up for the values of natural law and true justice. Analysing the whole sequence of Robin Hood adventures, it begins with the medieval tradition, including early poems and the …
Scottish Legendary
Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration
Inbunden, 2016
1411 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the …
Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
1997–2010
Av Mark Allen, Stephanie Amsel
Inbunden, 2015
1411 kr
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Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, …
Gesta Romanorum
A New Translation
Inbunden, 2016
1411 kr
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This volume contains an entirely new and accessible translation into modern English of the medieval Latin Gesta Romanorum. Based on the standard Gesta edition by Hermann Österley, it is the first such translation to appear since 1824, and the first to take appropriate account of modern scholarly …
Aspects of Knowledge
Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages
Av Marilina Cesario, Hugh Magennis
Inbunden, 2018
1493 kr
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This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline, establishing connections and cross-sections …
The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
Inbunden, 2019
1411 kr
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Le Chevalier au barisel is an established part of the Old French literary canon, but up to now it has not been available in English. This translation offers a vibrant but scholarly version of the exciting short story, suitable for a wide readership including university students, scholars of …
Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
Av James Paz
Inbunden, 2017
498 kr
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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory’ and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and …
Performing Women
Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz
Inbunden, 2018
1291 kr
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This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female …
Rethinking the South English Legendaries
Av Heather Blurton, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Häftad, 2017
386 kr
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The South English Legendary is the major collection of saints’ lives in medieval English. A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, …
Practising Shame
Female Honour in Later Medieval England
Inbunden, 2019
1381 kr
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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to …
Practising Shame
Female Honour in Later Medieval England
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to …
Practising Shame
Female Honour in Later Medieval England
E-bok, 2019
328 kr
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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to …
Practising Shame
Female Honour in Later Medieval England
E-bok, 2019
328 kr
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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to …
Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
Av James Paz
E-bok, 2017
64 kr
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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory’ and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and …
Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
Av James Paz
E-bok, 2017
64 kr
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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory’ and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and …
Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England
Inbunden, 2018
1411 kr
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This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from …
Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England
E-bok, 2018
64 kr
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This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from …
Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England
E-bok, 2018
64 kr
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This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from …
