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  • The Court of Sapience

    Edición de Elizabeth Ruth Harvey ...
    Series series Heritage
    The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the poet describes the nature and activities of wisdom in all its aspects. He includes a moving account of the fall of a man and his restoration by divine wisdom; then he leads his dreamer through a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Chaucer's Tale

    1386 and the Road to Canterbury

    de Paul Strohm ...
    A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury TalesIn 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that hehas today—far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and ... Leer más

    Antes $6.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

  • A <I>Perceforest</I> Reader

    Selected Episodes from <I>Perceforest</I>: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

    Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing History for the King

    Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography

    de Charity L. Urbanski ...
    Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace's Roman de Rou (c. 1160–1174) and Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Chronique des ducs de Normandie (c. 1174 ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Outsiders

    The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

    de Sylvia Huot ...
    Series series The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
    Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which ... Leer más

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  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

    History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate

    de Dominique Battles ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles explores the vernacular Theban narratives of the Middle Ages, including the Old French Roman de Thebes (1154), Boccaccio's Teseida , Chaucer's Theban poems (Anelida and Arcite (1370s), the Knights Tale , ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

    From Cædmon to Malory

    de Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Fortune's Faces

    The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency

    de Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

    $43.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    de Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Fairy Tale

    de Hilda R Ellis Davidson, James Riordan, Joyce Thomas, Mary Brockington, Neil Philip, Pat Schaefer, Patricia Lysaght, Reimund Kvideland, Robin Gwyndaf, Ruth Bottigheimer0, T A Shippey1, Anna Chaudhri3, Bengt Holbek4, David Blamires5, David Hunt6, Derek S Brewer7, Graham Anderson8 ...
    Introduction by Derek Brewer.The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD