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  • Alain Chartier

    The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy

    Edited by Joan E. McRae ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Texts
    Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies

    by Christine Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Vita Nuova

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Barbara Reynolds ...
    A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Treasure of the City of Ladies

    Or the Book of the Three Virtues

    by Christine de Pizan, Sarah Lawson ...
    Translated by Sarah Lawson ...
    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

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White ...
    A cornerstone of ancient Greek religious poetry, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter offers a profound exploration of divine power, maternal devotion, and the mysteries of life and death.Composed in the 7th century BC, this foundational text centers on the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, whose abduction by Hades catalyzes the seasonal cycle and the origin of the Eleusinian Mysteries-one of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

    by Susan Wittig ...
    This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Looking Into Providences

    Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

    by Raymond Waddington ...
    What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or ‘designs’ that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the ‘trials,’ or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters.Waddington ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Sanctity in the North

    Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia

    Edited by Thomas DuBois ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia.For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral traditions ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Biblical Dante

    by V. Stanley Benfell ...
    Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Imaginary Animals

    The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human

    by Boria Sax ...
    Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations – deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world with names, categories and scientific knowledge.This book traces the history of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

    by Mehl Dieter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edited by Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD