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Del 29 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Rebels and Rivals
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
AvPeter C Braeger,Susanna Greer Feinm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
291 kr
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Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales, in the stories as well as the links between them. Characters seem always ready to dispute, contradict, declaim, and contend about almost anything. A competitive spirit suffuses the work, from the tale-telling among pilgrims and the personal rivalries that develop on the pilgrimage to the conflicts, beguilings, and one-uppings that go on in the tales. By understanding the rivalries of the Canterbury world, we may then recognize why Chaucer so insists on the individuality of the characters he creates, why so many characters (rightly or wrongly) resist structures, and why they challenge or reject social dogmas, often overturning them. The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies. As Chaucer's poem displays the contestive spirit of human affairs, so the collective spirit of these essays reflects vigorous debate and multi-faceted challenge.
Del 18 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe
AvKathleen Biddick
Häftad, Engelska, 1984
506 kr
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In bringing together these papers, Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and interpretations of material culture in the Middle Ages. It celebrates the coming of age of historical archaeology, of which medieval archaeology is a subdiscipline. The papers collected are striking for their diversity of approaches and subject matter. They reflect the spirit of an open area excavation where specialists from many disciplines with diverging methodologies meet and work side by side. No paper is specifically devoted to an excavation report, although the majority of contributors made use of data from such reports. The collection is intended primarily as a sampler, but a thematic unity emerges around the potential of archaeological approaches to contribute to a political ecology of the medieval period. The volume is an indispensable offering for archaeologists and historians of the Middle Ages seeking an appraisal of the state of the young discipline of medieval archaeology.
Del 19 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography
AvErnst Breisach
Inbunden, Engelska, 1985
332 kr
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While the study of rhetoric has received a much-needed revival dating from about 1945, historical writing was not a favored object of scrutiny among the many studies of rhetoric's influence on medieval literature, education, and preaching (from the introduction). By 1978, some scholars had resolved to rectify this problem, and organized sessions at the thirteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies. This volume stands as a selection of works presented there, helping to fortify the strength of interest and inquiry directed toward rhetoric's symbiosis with historiography in centuries past (from the introduction).
Del 22 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Medieval Tradition of Natural Law
AvHarold J Johnson
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
322 kr
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This anthology aims to add flesh to the bones and the supplements, reservations, and alternatives for a deeper understanding of the tradition of natural law throughout the medieval period. It runs contrary to the opinion so commonly held since the Renaissance, that any tradition deemed medieval has little or even nothing to offer to contemporary needs and interests. The essays contained herein put to bed such a notion with fresh and interesting takes on Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, natural law in the traditions of Golden Age Spain, and more.
Del 23 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan
AvJohn J Contreni,Thomas FX Noble
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
491 kr
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Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg. Like the scholarship of the man who inspired the essays (Richard Sullivan) the essays are broad and incisive.
Del 24 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Romance Epic
Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre
AvHans-Erich Keller
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
370 kr
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The collection of essays in Romance Epic expertly examines the Romance epic as a genre, delving into its ever-changing period, audience, and region. The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic at all, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through centuries, and topics specific to certain works, such as problems in the Chanson de Roland and the El Cantar de Mio Cid.
Del 25 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Medieval Translators and Their Craft
AvJeanette Beer
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
332 kr
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At no time in the history of the West has translation played a more vital role than in the Middle Ages. Centuries before the appearance of the first extant vernacular documents, bilingualism, and preferably trilingualism, was a necessity in the scriptorium and chancery; and since the emergence of Romance had rendered the entire corpus of classical literature incomprehensible to all but the literati, both old and new worlds awaited (re)discovery or, to use Jerome's metaphor, conquest. The diversity of medieval translation is illustrated, although not encompassed, by the diversity of chapters in the present volume. Authors treat the methods and reception of translators of vernacular to Latin and vernacular to vernacular, texts of a variety of genres and many different languages and periods. The collection will present a welcome offering of different scholarly approaches to the critical issue of medieval translators and their craft.
Del 26 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
John Gower
Recent Readings
AvR F Yeager
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
461 kr
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In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer's good will toward the moral friend and fellow author into whose tutelary watchfulness he commended Troilus and Criseyde-and easier to assess the positive value Chaucer's adjective must have borne. The thirteen essays included here all represent a fresh approach, an effort by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower's work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.
Teaching “Beowulf”
Practical Approaches
AvLarry Swain,Ophelia Eryn Hostetter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 227 kr
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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of attention and interest in the Old English epic has led to a myriad of new and varying translations of the poem published every year, the production of several mainstream film and television adaptations, and many graphic novel versions. More and more teachers in all sorts of classrooms, with varying degrees of familiarity and training are called upon to bring this ancient poem before their students. This practical guide to teaching Beowulf in the twenty-first century combines scholarly research with pedagogical technique, imparting a picture of how the poem can be taught in contemporary American institutions.
Del 66 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book
The Power of Paratexts
AvRosalind Brown-Grant,Patrizia Carmassim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 799 kr
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This collection, which brings together scholarsfrom the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishingauthority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shapingreader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscriptculture.
Del 80 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient
Other Encounters
AvLiliana Sikorska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 650 kr
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Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and travel accounts.
Del 69 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser
AvJennifer C. Vaught
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 015 kr
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This book discusses how Shakespeare and Spenser configure the body and mind as a besieged castle or house; a walled city vulnerable to ruin; oras a built environment surrounded by the elements of earth, air, fire, or water. Building on current approaches to the subject of place and movement in terms of cognitive theory, ecocriticism, and posthumanism, Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber.
Del 72 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric
Scève's "Délie"
AvAlison Baird Lovell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 677 kr
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Scholars generally consider the sequence ofdense, epigrammatic dizains that compriseMaurice Scève's lyric sequence Délie to be anearly example of French Renaissanceimitation of Petrarch's lyric poetry. WhilePetrarch's Canzoniere is an important sourcefor Scève's Délie, both works are part of along poetic lineage that includes Occitantroubadours. The book argues that the 'Petrarchan' label is problematic for Scève'sDélie, and reveals Dante Alighieri as arelevant predecessor and source.
Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art
The Influence of Marcia Hall
AvArthur J. DiFuria,Ian Verstegen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 425 kr
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Del 70 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Horse in Premodern European Culture
AvAnastasija Ropa,Timothy Dawson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 197 kr
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This volume features approaches to equine studies from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. This volume explores the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse in medieval culture, where it was simultaneously a treasured animal and a means of transport, a military machine and a loyal companion. The contributors, many of whom have practical knowledge of horses, are drawn from established and budding scholars working in their areas of expertise.
Del 76 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Dante's Dream
A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach
AvGwenyth E. Hood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 293 kr
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An artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, investing considerable energy in establishing and alluding to its dates (starting Good Friday, 1300). Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche.
Del 79 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's "New Chronicle"
AvMatthew Sneider,Rala Diakité
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 949 kr
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Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several famous chapters describing the city’s income, expenses, and magnificence. The dramatic account follows Florence’s internal affairs as well as its conflicts with powerful lords like Castruccio Castracani and Mastino della Scala. The chronicler’s perspective, however, ranges beyond his city, as he documents such events as the imperial coronation of Louis of Bavaria, the penitential pilgrimage of Venturino da Bergamo, and the first campaigns of the Hundred Year’s War.
Living on the Edge
Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
AvDelfi I. Nieto-Isabel,Laura Miquel Milian
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 641 kr
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This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.
Emotion and Genre in Medieval European Literature
AvMassimiliano Bampi,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 556 kr
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This volume explores the interaction between emotion (as a literary phenomenon) and genre in medieval European literature. It draws on the field of the history of emotion to consider how the representation of emotion in literary works shapes generic expectations and signals generic frameworks. Alternatively, it considers how generic perceptions and conventions modulate or impact the emotive codes or styles used to convey the narrative matière.The volume presents a cross-cultural analysis of the various generic forms and their emotive codes in the linguistic and cultural traditions of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. In combining the methodological and theoretical perspectives of genre criticism and emotion studies for the first time in a systematic way, this volume is meant to fill a major gap in scholarship.Ranging across a wide array of literatures, including religious writings in Latin and Middle English, Old French lais, Old Norse saga literature, Middle High German Minnesang, and the medieval romance writ large, it aims to give insight into the ways in which generic frameworks and emotive codes interacted in giving shape to literary texts across medieval Europe.
Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
AvRebecca Menmuir
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 661 kr
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What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or Early Modernity was no less of a complex task, albeit framed in ways different to today’s concept of authenticity as an individualistic or capitalistic venture (think ‘being true to oneself’ or ‘brand authenticity’). This volume examines a range of medieval and early modern approaches to authenticity in literature, asking how authenticity was defined, privileged, constructed, and contested in the periods covered. Essays trace the shifting status of authenticity across four literary categories which most test the concept of premodern authenticity: forgeries, histories, translations, and continuations. Contributions engage with works across Latin, Greek, English, French, and Irish, and set authenticity in conversation with medieval and modern perspectives on authority, truth, and morality.
Living on the Edge
Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
AvDelfi I. Nieto-Isabel,Laura Miquel Milian
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
308 kr
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This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.
Del 41 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Closure in the Canterbury Tales
The Role of The Parson's Tale
AvLinda Tarte Holley,David Raybin
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
428 kr
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For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, a last word from a notable maker of words, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. This volume rejects the tradition that assumes the tale to be of questionable literary value. The studies included span the range of Parson's Tale criticism from the textual, to the philological, to the hermeneutical. What they share is the assumption that if one is to understand the role of The Parson's Tale, one must begin by accepting the language and method by which Chaucer fashioned it. This rethinking of traditional scholarship on this crucial aspect of The Canterbury Tales will be of great interest to Chaucer scholars and students of medieval literature.
Del 43 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe
Social Identity and Familial Structures
AvGeorge T Beech,Monique Bourinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
250 kr
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This collection of essays was the first published in North America that sought to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise hailed in the preface to the volume as one of the most vibrant, innovative, and productive movements in medieval scholarship at the present time.Under the direction of Monique Bourin an international team of scholars has been considering onomastics from the perspective of history rather than that of linguistics or philology. By examining data on both the micro and macro levels, researchers are beginning to describe how medieval patterns of naming have implications for our understanding of family relationships, kinship, and larger social structures that were not fully realized by earlier scholars.
Del 46 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
On John Gower
Essays at the Millennium
AvR F Yeager
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
291 kr
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It would not be an exaggeration to observe that in the last two decades Gower studies have developed in response to a widening appreciation of his poetry. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium represents the third volume of essays originating from sessions of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. The contributions here and in the previous volumes provide insight into the shifts and trends in Gower studies over time. This collection offers a vibrant and fresh view of the field of Gower studies today, making it and its companion volumes an essential set for Gower scholars.
Del 48 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
English 'Loathly Lady' Tales
Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs
AvSusan Carter,S Elizabeth Passmore
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
472 kr
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Whereas some literary motifs such as the tyrant, the beggar, and the crone have equivalents in the real world, the Loathly Lady is a creature of the imagination. Yet she is not merely a whimsical fantasy. This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, which develop the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. One of the primary agendas of this collection is to promote the non-canonical Loathly Ladies as worthwhile subjects for scholarly consideration. The examinations here of the medieval English Loathly Lady tales engage with a myriad of concerns, including anxieties about virginity and sex, power and assimilation, beauty and beastliness. These broad examinations of this enigmatic literary motif are an excellent contribution to the field and will be of great interest to scholars.
Del 49 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Church and Society in Late Byzantium
AvDimiter G Angelov
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
401 kr
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It has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent. The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late Byzantine society, especially on the relationship between the church and the lay world and the response of individuals to the challenges faced by Orthodoxy. The volume is divided into three sections: (1) Politics, Society, and the Economy; (2) Intellectual Life and Ideology; and (3) The Church and the Turkish Conquests. By exploring these different areas, the essays in this volume contribute to scholarly understanding of how the church was embedded into the fabric of late Byzantine society and intellectual life.
Del 52 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Renaissance Retrospections
Tudor Views of the Middle Ages
AvSarah A. Kelen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
370 kr
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The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious, and cultural landscape of medieval England through their more present ideological concerns. From Shakespeare's manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, this collection of essays explores the ways that early modern English writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, intertextuality, and cultural history.
Del 51 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Malory and Christianity
Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
AvD. Thomas Hanks Jr.,Janet Jesmok
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
291 kr
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As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest for maturity and fulfillment and those uncontrollable forces that undermine the quest and destroy the dream. Malory's use of myth and magic to explore these themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look."
Del 58 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing
AvAlessandra Petrina,Ian Johnson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 720 kr
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In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and fecund. The flowering of Scottish writing owed itself to a subtle combination of literary praxis, the ideal of eloquentia, and ideological deftness, which enabled writers to service a burgeoning national literary tradition.
Del 54 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea
Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages
AvCarsten Selch Jensen,Tracey Sandsm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 638 kr
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This volume addresses the history ofsaints and sainthood in the Middle Agesin the Baltic Region, with a special focuson the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia,Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, andLatvia (Livonia). Essays explore suchtopics as the introduction of foreign (and"old") saints into new regions, thecreation of new local cults of saints innewly Christianized regions, the role ofthe cult of saints in the creation ofpolitical and lay identities, and thepotential role of saints in times of war.

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture – serie

Rebels and Rivals

Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe

Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography

Medieval Tradition of Natural Law

Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages

Romance Epic

Medieval Translators and Their Craft

John Gower

Teaching “Beowulf”

Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric

Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art

Horse in Premodern European Culture

Dante's Dream

Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's "New Chronicle"

Living on the Edge

Emotion and Genre in Medieval European Literature

Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Living on the Edge

Closure in the Canterbury Tales

Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe

On John Gower

English 'Loathly Lady' Tales

Church and Society in Late Byzantium

Renaissance Retrospections

Malory and Christianity

Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea