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  • Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture

    Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

    The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of ... Leer más

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  • Through A Classical Eye

    Transcultural & Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee

    As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced greatly by the work of peers that crossed historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries. Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late medieval period, and examines medieval ... Leer más

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  • Studies in the Age of Gower

    A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

    The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

    The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious ... Leer más

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  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

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    Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

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  • The Earliest English Poems

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