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  • The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature

    The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin

    de Siân Echard ...
    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that there was a Latin Arthurian tradition which extended beyond Geoffrey. This collection of essays will ... Leer más

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  • A New Companion to Malory

    Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... Leer más

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  • The Book Unbound

    Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

    Edición de Stephen Partridge, Siân Echard ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - ... Leer más

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  • Historians on John Gower

    The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards.These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including ... Leer más

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  • Printing the Middle Ages

    de Siân Echard ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she ... Leer más

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  • The Book in Britain

    A Historical Introduction

    Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future statusPresented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Texts in Context

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edición de Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
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