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  • Pride and Prodigies

    Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript

    de Andy Orchard ...
    Series series Heritage
    Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)

    A Medieval Household Book

    In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Dreaming of Cockaigne

    Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life

    de Herman Pleij ...
    Traducido por Diane Webb ...
    Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • To Follow in Their Footsteps

    The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages

    de Nicholas L. Paul ...
    When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

    de B. Moloney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature

    de Karina Marie Ash ...
    Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Arbitrary Rule

    Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

    de Mary Nyquist ...
    Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The King's Body

    Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England

    de Nicole Marafioti ...
    The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Myth of Morgan la Fey

    de K. Pérez ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth of Morgan la Fey reveals her true identity through a comprehensive investigation of the famed enchantress' evolution - or devolution - over the past millennium and its implications for gender relations today. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

    de J. Ulin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

    Edición de J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Mystical Science of the Soul

    Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method

    de Jessica A. Boon ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD