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  • Verse and Virtuosity

    The Adaptation of Latin Rhetoric in Old English Poetry

    by Janie Steen ...
    While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric. Verse and Virtuosity demonstrates how Old English poets imitated and adapted the methods of Latin literature, and, in particular, the works of the Christian Latin authors they had studied at school. It is the first full-length study ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

    Edited by Clare A. Lees ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of English Literature
    Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Emily V. Thornbury ...
    Series Book 88 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Studies in English Language and Literature

    Doubt Wisely

    Edited by M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyler ...
    This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributors illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Punishment and Medieval Education

    by Ben Parsons ...
    What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?, asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features of medieval education is its reliance on flogging. Throughout the period, the rod looms large in literary and artistic depictions of the schoolroom: it appears in teaching manuals, classroom exercises, and even in the iconography of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England

    Language Choice and Literary Meaning

    by Susan E. Deskis ...
    Medieval England’s specific political and linguistic history encompasses a great number of significant changes, some of the most disruptive of which were occasioned by the Norman Conquest. The alliterative proverb, with roots in Old English and continued vitality in Middle English, serves as a unique verbal icon allowing exploration of cultural conditions both before and after the Conquest. As a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A New Critical History of Old English Literature

    by Stanley B. Greenfield, Daniel G. Calder ...
    Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period including Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer. The coherence and beauty of these notions make heaven one of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture

    The Devil in the Latrine

    by Martha Bayless ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as fundamental to an understanding of human history. This theological significance explains the prominence ... Read more

    $64.99 USD