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  • Tristan and Isolde

    A Casebook

    Edited by Joan Tasker Grimbert ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays are a mix of new, new English, revised, and 'classic'. It contains an extensive bibliography. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

    Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England

    by Theresa Coletti ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

    by S. Hutton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet

    by Piotr Spyra ...
    Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • From Literacy to Literature

    England, 1300-1400

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

    Development, Duplication, and Gender

    by R. Waugh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Stag of Love

    The Chase in Medieval Literature

    by Marcelle Thiébaux ...
    A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies.While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Merlin and Legendary Romance

    by Carol Harding ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    An indepth work on the origins of the Merlin of Arthurian legend, this book examines early texts, thirteenth century romances focusing particularly on Merlin as a character, rather than those where Merlin is a background cast member. The outline here starts with looking at the genre and the place of fantasy, moving on to consider the attitudes towards magic and magic-users in medieval times. Main ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Poetics of the Incarnation

    Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love

    by Cristina Maria Cervone ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD