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  • Medieval Sexuality

    A Casebook

    Edited by April Harper, Caroline Proctor ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Casebooks
    Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook is a fascinating collection featuring both new and established experts in the field. The volume includes 11 original essays by Ross Balzaretti, Philip Crispin, Dominic Janes, Hugh Kennedy, A. Lynn Martin, Kim M. Phillips, Samantha J. E. Riches, Joyce E. Salisbury, David Santiuste, and the volume editors, April Harper and Caroline Proctor. The authors explore a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Night & Horses & The Desert

    An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature

    Edited by Robert Irwin ...
    This collection of Arabic literature is "a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page" ( Financial Times).Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

    by E. Upton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Imaginary Animals

    The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human

    by Boria Sax ...
    Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations – deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world with names, categories and scientific knowledge.This book traces the history of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Decadence

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Weir ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Book Unbound

    Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

    Edited by Stephen Partridge, Siân Echard ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Weaving Narrative

    Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance

    by Monica L. Wright ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in twelfth-century French romance? This interdisciplinary book explores how writers of this era used ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

    Edited by 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. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Medievalism: a Critical History

    by David Matthews ...
    The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Word and Image in Arthurian Literature

    Edited by Keith Busby ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    Originally published in 1996, the articles in this book are revised, expanded papers from a session at the 17th International Congress of the Arthurian Society held in 1993. The chapters cover Arthurian studies’ directions at the time, showcasing analysis of varied aspects of visual representation and relation to literary themes. Close attention to the historical context is a key feature of this ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

    by Anne McTaggart ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD