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  • The Arthur of the Low Countries

    The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature

    Edited by Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma ...
    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that ... Read more

    $93.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Phantom Armies of the Night

    The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

    by Claude Lecouteux ...
    An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe• Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons• Explains how this belief was an integral part of the pagan worldview and was thus employed by the church to spread Christian ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Faustus

    The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician

    by Leo Ruickbie ...
    Five hundred years ago the legend was born of a man who sold his soul to the Devil for power, wealth and women. It is a legend that has inspired genius and still inspires high art and popular culture alike. Around the world there are hundreds of nightly performances of Geothe's Faust, as well as actual attempts at soul-selling on eBay. Faustus has rightly been described as an 'icon of modern ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Appearance of Witchcraft

    by Charles Zika ...
    Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika’s groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • From Scythia to Camelot

    A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail

    by C. Scott Littleton, Linda Malcor ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes 19 maps. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Enchanted Europe:Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    by Euan Cameron ...
    Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites.For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Arthurian Handbook

    Second Edition

    by Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra N. Mancoff ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the**Holy ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edited by Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Read more

    $57.99 USD