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  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

    Emotions, ethics, dreams

    by Megan Leitch ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Chivalry

    by Robert W. Jones, Matthew Woodcock, Megan G. Leitch, Oliver Creighton, Peter Coss, Peter Sposato, Ralph Moffat, Richard Barber, Samuel A. Claussen0, Clare A Simmons1, David Green2, David Simpkin3, Helen J. Nicholson4, Joanna Bellis5, Louise J. Wilkinson6, Matthew Bennett7 ...
    Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as socialhierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere.This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    by Dr. Michael J. Huxtable, Edward Donald Kennedy, Andrew Lynch, Barry A Windeatt, Ad Putter, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge, Venetia Bridges, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Corinne Saunders, Megan G. Leitch, Jordi Sanchez-Marti, A C Spearing ...
    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

    by Victoria Flood, Dr. Rebecca Newby, Venetia Bridges, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Dr. Jan Shaw, Laura Ashe, Megan G. Leitch, Helen Fulton0, Dr Jessica J. Lockhart1, Helen Cooper2, Carl Phelpstead3, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge4 ...
    Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A New Companion to Malory

    by Megan G. Leitch, Lisa G. Robeson, Masako Takagi, Meg Roland, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Robert Gossedge, Sian Echard, Thomas Howard Crofts, Cory Rushton1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Andrew Lynch3, Catherine Nall4, Daniel Glynn Helbert5, Dorsey Armstrong6, Kevin S Whetter7 ...
    Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Hannah Priest, Kristina Hildebrand, Megan G. Leitch, Robert Rouse, Samantha J. Rayner, Yvette Kisor, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne0, Amy N. Vines1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Anna Caughey3, Cynthea Masson4 ...
    It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Middle English Literature

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

    Edited by Marilyn Corrie ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as the religious and historical background to Middle ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

    Allegories of Authority

    by Antony J. Hasler ...
    Series Book 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • William Langland's Piers Plowman

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD