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  • Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance

    Typologies of violence and desire

    by Hope Doherty-Harrison ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Love and anti-Judaism is a new examination of medieval romance for the questions it poses of the most significant events in Christian history. Providing new readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther and Sir Amadace, the book argues that romance explores depictions of love—and the sacrifices it may necessitate—in the Hebrew Bible, especially where they do not easily fit ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

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    A New Biography

    by Philip C. Almond ...
    "Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or imagined without him, that he was a part of the everyday, continually present in nature and history, and active at the depths of our selves, has been all but forgotten. It is the aim of this work to ... Read more

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  • Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries

    by Eric S. Christianson ...
    Series Book 37 - Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
    Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries“A rich tour down many significant streams of Western interpretation of this fascinating biblical book… Heartily recommended, without reservation.”Bible and Critical Theory“A fundamental resource on biblical interpretation, especially in the modern world, this book is a winner.”International Review of Biblical Studies“The introduction and commentary proper cover ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • The Monstrous Middle Ages

    Edited by Bettina Bildhauer, Robert Mills ...
    The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as simply an unintelligible and abject other. This text looks at both the representation of literal ... Read more

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  • The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336

    by Caroline Walker Bynum ...
    Series series American Lectures on the History of Religions
    A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

    Edited by Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland ...
    Series Book 76 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-centuryIncludes introductory sections to each ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Reading Piers Plowman

    by Emily Steiner ...
    Series series Reading Writers and their Work
    Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy ...
    During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities.This study focuses on the more ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Signifying Power of Pearl

    Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre

    by Jane Beal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Feeling Persecuted

    Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages

    by Anthony Bale ...
    The medieval Christian attitude towards Jews included a pervasive fear of violence enacted against Christians. Many Christians believed that Jews committed crimes against Christian children, Christ’s body and the Eucharist, leading them to conclude that Jews were out to destroy their religion and way of life. They retaliated with expulsions, riots and murders that systematically denied Jews the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Poems of MS Junius 11

    Basic Readings

    Edited by R. M. Liuzza ...
    Series series Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England
    Taken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf, the Junius 11 poems-Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan-comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their ... Read more

    $77.99 USD