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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “martha bayless”
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  • Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England

    by Martha Bayless ...
    Series series Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
    The people of early England (c. 450–1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such things have made the larger picture challenging to assemble. This volume illuminates the merrier aspects of early English life, extending our understanding of the full range of early medieval English culture. It shows why entertainment and festivity were ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages

    by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, ... Read more

    $81.79 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 Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as fundamental to an understanding of human history.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

    $61.99 USD

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  • Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

    by Alan Ereira, Terry Jones ...
    Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants... and did outlaws never wear trousers?Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Alfred the Great

    Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

    by Asser, Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge ...
    Translated by Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge ...
    Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive religion and learning in his kingdom, this life is among the earliest surviving royal biographies. It is an admiring account of King Alfred's life, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Gilded Page

    The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

    by Mary Wellesley ...
    A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII“A delight—immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description.” –Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesMedieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Medieval Hunting

    by Richard Almond ...
    Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has larged been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond's study brings vividly to life the universality and ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Edward the Confessor

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

    Edited by Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the literature of the period 600 to 1066 in the context of how Anglo-Saxon society functioned. New ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Edited by Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... Read more

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  • King Lucius of Britain

    by David J Knight ...
    While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few will have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history. Examining the primary sources as well as the archaeological evidence for this second century king, David Knight convincingly refutes the generally accepted view expounded at the beginning of the twentieth century that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus