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  • Complete Lakeland Fells

    Over 130 Classic Walks to all Fell Tops

    by Mr Thomas William Birkett ...
    Discover 130 inspiring routes to every Lakeland fell over 1000ft with this fully updated classic from Bill Birkett.First published in 1994, Complete Lakeland Fells remains the only guide to cover every one of the Lake District's fells above 1000ft. In it, Bill Birkett identified 541 summits - now affectionately known as 'Birketts' in his honour - making this an essential companion for anyone ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry

    by Thomas Birkett ...
    Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Treasure of the City of Ladies

    Or the Book of the Three Virtues

    by Christine de Pizan, Sarah Lawson ...
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    Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a ... Read more

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  • Orpheus

    The Song of Life

    by Ann Wroe ...
    "[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today" ( Library Journal).For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing ... Read more

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  • The Worlds of Petrarch

    by Giuseppe Mazzotta ...
    Series Book 14 - Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
    At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Chaucer and the Jews

    Edited by Sheila Delany ...
    This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Promised Bodies

    Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts

    by Patricia Dailey ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture

    Edited by Samantha Zacher ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their ... Read more

    $69.19 USD

  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VII

    Edited by Michael D.C. Drout, Douglas A Anderson, Verlyn Flieger ...
    Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields. ... Read more

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  • Nidrstigningar Saga

    Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”

    by Dario Bullitta ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as ... Read more

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  • Medieval Theory of Authorship

    Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages

    by Alastair Minnis ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Alastair Minnis asks, "Is it not better to search again ... Read more

    $31.49 USD