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  • The Mirroure of the Worlde

    A Middle English Translation of the Miroir de Monde

    Edited by Robert Raymo, Ruth Sternglantz, Elaine Whitaker ...
    Series series Medieval Academy Books
    The allegories of the virtues and vices were a common teaching tool in the Middle Ages for both religious and lay audiences to learn the basic tenets of the Christian faith. The Mirroure of the Worlde makes available for the first time the unique text in the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS. Bodley 283, which is among the last and largest works in the tradition of lay religious instruction ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies

    by Christine Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Serious Play

    Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

    by Robert Hanning ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Thor

    Myth to Marvel

    by Martin Arnold ...
    The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries. ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Disney Middle Ages

    A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past

    Edited by T. Pugh, S. Aronstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature

    An Evolutionary, Cognitivist Approach

    by M. Drout ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Connecting the theory of tradition with the phenomenon of influence, Drout moves beyond current theories. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Medieval Romance

    The Aesthetics of Possibility

    by Peggy Knapp, James Knapp ...
    Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility.Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre’s fictional worlds. James F. Knapp and ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    by George Antony Thomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz examines the role of occasional verse in the works of the celebrated colonial Mexican nun. The poems that Sor Juana wrote for special occasions (birthdays, funerals, religious feasts, coronations, and the like) have been considered inconsequential by literary historians; but from a socio-historical perspective, George Antony Thomas argues they ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Songs of a Friend

    Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal

    Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl’s love for an absent lover ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Profound Sayings for the executive witch

    Book 2 The ultimate in corporate gifts.

    by Lynne Pickering ...
    Series Book 2 - Profound Sayings for the executive witch
    A collection of sayings some profound and true. There are full wonderful pictures opposite the sayings from anonymous authors. I have been collecting them for some time. They will bring a smile to your fellow associates faces when the day becomes boring a little humour goes a long way to brighten the day. A great corporate gift. ... Read more

    $2.90 CAD

  • The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II

    Edited by P. Cefalu, G. Kuchar, B. Reynolds ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • A Knight at the Movies

    Medieval History on Film

    by John Aberth ...
    Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, offering estimations ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD