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Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales
Av Stephen Knight, Thomas Ohlgren
Häftad, 2000
542 kr
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Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all pre-seventeenth-century Robin Hood tales. The editors …
Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances
Av Alan Lupack
Häftad, 1991
284 kr
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This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. Of the three groups of English Charlemagne romances, the Ferumbras group, the Otuel group, and detached romances, the editor has selected one of …
Testament of Love
Häftad, 1998
542 kr
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Thomas Usk, a fourteenth-century bureaucrat and scrivener, is known primarily for his Testament of Love. Likely composed between 1385–1386 after the author was imprisoned for his political alliances, the Testament follows a personified Love descending into Usk’s prison cell and engaging him in an …
Middle English Marian Lyrics
Av Karen Saupe
Häftad, 1999
356 kr
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Marian devotion flourished as part of the affective piety movement in late medieval Europe. As Karen Saupe notes, “what was most important about Mary was her unique identity as the point of connection between the divine and the human.” Fulfilling the paradoxical roles of virtuous virgin, loving …
Amoryus and Cleopes
Av John Metham, Stephen F Page
Häftad, 1999
219 kr
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In this volume, John Metham's classic romance Amoryus and Cleopes is made available to a wider audience of students and teachers of Middle English with its contextualizing introduction, extensive notes, and helpful gloss. This fifteenth century romance, written by John Metham, creatively reworks …
Four Romances of England
King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston
Av Ronald B. Herzman, Graham Drake m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
531 kr
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The thirteenth-century and fourteenth-century romances in this volume contain some of the finest imaginative work of what has become known as the Matter of England: late medieval, non-Arthurian romances largely dealing with English subjects and locales. Partly based on the English oral folk culture …
Assembly of Gods
Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality
Av Jane Chance
Häftad, 1999
300 kr
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The Assembly of Gods, which was published near the end of the fifteenth century, is an allegorical dream vision poem. It is notable for its strange mixture of both classical and Christian sources, in which the classical pantheon debates over the moral state of an individual, in an attempt to bring …
Regiment of Princes
Av Thomas Hoccleve, Charles R. Blyth
Häftad, 1999
356 kr
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Written in 1410–1411 by Thomas Hoccleve, a clerk of the Privy Seal and a prominent poet of his generation, The Regiment of Princes is a quintessential example in Middle English of the conduct manual genre. While popular during the century of its origin—43 manuscripts still survive today—it fell …
Pearl
Häftad, 2001
223 kr
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Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out …
Trials and Joys of Marriage
Häftad, 2002
532 kr
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The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage. In so doing, according to the Introduction, they allow us to interrogate the traditional …
Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Häftad, 2003
409 kr
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This collection of Middle English hagiographies presents readers with women saints’ lives in multiple retellings from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Frideswide of Oxford was the Anglo-Saxon abbess of a well-endowed monastery who is presented as a victim of male persecution. …
Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger
Av James M Dean
Häftad, 2000
284 kr
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This volume makes available two somewhat neglected yet significant and instructive Middle English alliterative texts that are usually read in conjunction with William Langland's Piers Plowman. The texts, both anonymous, are Richard the Redeless, which concerns the government style of Richard II …
Scale of Perfection
Av Walter Hilton, Thomas H. Bestul
Häftad, 2001
192 kr
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Augustinian canon Walter Hilton’s The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major mystical writings that flourished in fourteenth-century England. Composed between 1380 and 1396, The Scale of Perfection is addressed to a woman who has recently taken her religious vows, and defends …
Ancrene Wisse
Häftad, 2001
472 kr
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The early thirteenth-century devotional guide Ancrene Wisse, or “Anchoresses’ Guide,” is a revision of an earlier work written to instruct three noblewomen enclosed as anchoresses in the West Midlands in their religious devotion; its readership had expanded to more than twenty anchoresses by the …
Siege of Thebes
Av John Lydgate, Robert R. Edwards
Häftad, 2001
278 kr
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John Lydgate, Benedictine monk and prolific author of Middle English poetry, finished writing The Siege of Thebes in the early 1420s. An apocryphal Canterbury Tale, The Siege is Lydgate’s counterpart to Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale and remains the only extant Middle English retelling of the struggle …
Wallace
Selections
Av Anne McKim
Häftad, 2003
329 kr
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The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed in language which seems …
Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London)
Av Richard Maidstone, David R. Carlson
Häftad, 2003
199 kr
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Richard Maidstone, Carmelite friar and anti-Lollard activist, devoted his life to upholding orthodoxy. His Anglo-Latin Concordia, written in the last decade of the fourteenth century, details King Richard II’s royal entry into London, a spectacular event that officially ended his conflict with the …
Three Purgatory Poems
The Gast of Gy, Sir Owain, The Vision of Tundale
Häftad, 2004
356 kr
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Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature of such a place of purgation. Through these fourteenth-century Middle English poems, readers can …
Complete Works (William Dunbar)
Av William Dunbar, John Conlee
Häftad, 2004
526 kr
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Scottish poet William Dunbar is usually considered one of the most important figures of fifteenth-century British literature, and may lay claim to being the finest lyric poet writing in English in the century and half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany in …
Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints
Häftad, 2004
349 kr
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This edition anthologizes four fifteenth-century Middle English poems—three of which were previously attributed to Chaucer—that use dream-vision conventions to explore the theme of romantic love. Each features an unhappy narrator who secretly spies on the speech of lovers to inform his assessment …
Stanzaic Guy of Warwick
Häftad, 2005
231 kr
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The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage, however, he is stricken by remorse for the very …
Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections
Av Anne B Thompson, Robert K Upchurch m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
542 kr
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This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were …
Siege of Jerusalem
Häftad, 2005
223 kr
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The Siege of Jerusalem has long confounded readers with its graphic depictions of violence and the relish with which it describes the suffering of Jewish people. Despite the moral and emotional challenges this text presents, its participation in the longstanding “Vengeance of Our Lord” tradition, …
Confessio Amantis, Volume 3
Av John Gower, Russell A. Peck
Häftad, 2005
421 kr
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Though never quite matching the popularity and scholarly acclaim of his friend and contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet John Gower produced an impressive body of poetry in Anglo-Norman French, Latin, and Middle English and has earned his reputation as one of the great English poets of …
Chaucerian Apocrypha
A Selection
Häftad, 2005
203 kr
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This edition samples from Chaucerian apocrypha, works wrongly attributed to, inspired by, or associated with Geoffery Chaucer, the father of English poetry. These fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English texts reflect the extent of Chaucer’s “brand name” appeal. The sixteen poems, united by …
Minor Latin Works
with In Praise of Peace
Av John Gower, Michael Livingston m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
203 kr
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Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three languages. Certainly there is reason to …
Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
Häftad, 2006
408 kr
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The complete text of John Gower's poem is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components-with translations-of this bilingual text and extensive glosses, bibliography and explanatory notes. Volume 1 contains the Prologue and Books 1 and 8, in effect the overall structure of Gower's poem.
Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers
Häftad, 2006
256 kr
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At the forefront of the medieval wisdom tradition was The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers, a long prose text that purports to be a compendium of lore collected from biblical, classical, and legendary philosophers and sages. Dicts and Sayings was a well-known work that traveled across many …
Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc
Av Ton J Broos, Clifford Davidson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he …
Four Middle English Romances
Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Sir Tryamour
Häftad, 2006
300 kr
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This volume highlights essential examples of Middle English family romance, which typically involves aristocratic families sundered and reunited by a combination of valor, divine favor, and happy chance. Sir Isumbras develops the classic riches-to-rags-to-riches trope, while its …
