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  • Gender and Holiness

    Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

    Edited by Sam Riches, Sarah Salih ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Julian of Norwich

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Ena Jenkins, John Sexton, Book Reviews Editor, Kim M Phillips, Laura Saetveit Miles, Marleen Cre, Sarah Salih, Vincent Gillespie, Annie Sutherland, Barry A Windeatt0, Cate Gunn1, Denise N Baker2, Diane Watt3, E A Jones4, Elisabeth Dutton5, Elizabeth Robertson6 ...
    Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Middle English Hagiography

    by Sarah Salih, Anke Bernau, Claire M Waters, Katherine J Lewis, Mary Beth Long, Matthew Woodcock, Samantha Riches ...
    The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until ... 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

  • Medieval Texts in Context

    Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey ...
    This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s ... Read more

    $109.99 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

  • The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England

    Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation

    Edited by Andrew Gordon, Thomas Rist ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts ... Read more

    $109.99 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism

    Edited by Samuel Fanous, Vincent Gillespie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

    by Susan S. Morrison ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
    This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature

    by Nicole R. Rice ...
    Series Book 73 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In late-fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and Chaucer; however, they have not received the critical ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Edited by Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... Read more

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