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  • The Medieval Python

    The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

    Edited by R. Yeager, T. Takamiya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by Homer ...
    The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to the poet Homer and are the earliest surviving works of Western literature. Composed sometime around the eighth century BC, the ancient Greek poems has since been translated into many languages and serves as an important source of information on ancient Greek culture and mythology.In the Iliad it is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have ... Read more

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  • Eyrbyggja Saga

    by Hermann Palsson ...
    Translated by Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards ...
    An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ... Read more

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  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    by Robert Irwin ...
    This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Read more

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  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Mythology

    Edited by Carolyne Larrington, Paul L. Acker ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Chapters on Jewish Literature

    by Israel Abrahams ...
    Chapters on Jewish Literature is a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. After teaching for several years at Jews' College, London, Abrahams was appointed reader in Talmudics (rabbinic literature) at the University of Cambridge, a post he retained until his death. Although of strict Orthodox upbringing, Abrahams was among ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

    Volume One

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edited by Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Arthurian Drama: An Anthology

    Edited by Alan Lupack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England

    Divina in Laude Voluntas

    by Patrick McBrine ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and subsequently in Old English, biblical versification has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims of medieval Christian readers.Biblical Epics in ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    by T. Tinkle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD