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  • Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature

    Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson

    by Jennifer Jahner, Ingrid Nelson, C. David Benson, Pamela J. Benson, Julia Boffey, Kate Crassons, A. S. G. Edwards, Roberta Krueger, Robert Pasnau0, Ad Putter1, James Simpson2, Stephanie Trigg3, Amy N. Vines4 ...
    Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

    Edited by Roberta L. Krueger ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the Mediterranean world, race, gender and the emotions, among many ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

    Edited by Roberta L. Krueger ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Jean de Saintré

    A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry

    by Antoine de La Sale ...
    Translated by Roberta L. Krueger, Jane H. M. Taylor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older and much more experienced lady, Madame des Belles Cousines, the youth grows into an accomplished knight, winning numerous ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Jean de Saintré

    A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry

    by Antoine de La Sale ...
    Translated by Roberta L. Krueger, Jane H. M. Taylor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older and much more experienced lady, Madame des Belles Cousines, the youth grows into an accomplished knight, winning numerous ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    The Calamitous 14th Century

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August*Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street JournalThe fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Accursed Kings Series Books 1-3

    The Iron King, The Strangled Queen, The Poisoned Crown

    by Maurice Druon ...
    “This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.A collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings.“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Duel

    A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat

    by Eric Jager ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando SentinelThe basis for the major motion picture starring Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver, now streaming on Hulu!The gripping true story of the duel to end all duels in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife’s honor against the man she accuses of a heinous crimeIn ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Royal Succession

    by Maurice Druon ...
    Series Book 4 - The Accursed Kings
    “This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.'No woman shall succeed in Salique land'Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d’Artois. Her plan is simple – to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence and her unborn child.As the country is thrown into turmoil, Philippe of Poitiers must use any ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • Blood Royal

    A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

    by Eric Jager ...
    A riveting true story of royal murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by the New York Times– bestselling author of The Last Duel ."Jager's book skillfully proves that a well-told work of history may resemble nothing so much as a detective story punctuated with footnotes." —David Lehman, author of The Perfect MurderOn a chil... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Iron King

    by Maurice Druon ...
    Series Book 1 - The Accursed Kings
    ‘This is the original game of thrones’ George R.R. MartinFrom the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work.France became a great nation under Philip the Fair – but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign characterised by violence, the scandalous adulteries of his daughters-in-law, and the ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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  • The Poisoned Crown

    by Maurice Druon ...
    Series Book 3 - The Accursed Kings
    “This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown…Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen.However, though the matter of the succession should be assured, it is far from so, as Louis embarks on an ill-fated war against Flanders ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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