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  • Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy

    par Laura Ashe ...
    Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer anticipates modern philosophical debates, using his fictions to explore the ethics of subjectivity and recognition, agency and moral ... En savoir plus

    $26.79 CAD

  • Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Brittle Glory

    par Laura Ashe ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Early Fiction in England

    From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer

    Modifié par Laura Ashe ...
    A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and many others, in new translations and with illuminating introductions.Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

    par Laura Ashe ...
    Collections series Oxford English Literary History
    The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and ... En savoir plus

    $37.59 CAD

  • Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

    par Victoria Flood, Dr. Rebecca Newby, Venetia Bridges, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Dr. Jan Shaw, Laura Ashe, Megan G. Leitch, Helen Fulton0, Dr Jessica J. Lockhart1, Helen Cooper2, Carl Phelpstead3, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge4 ...
    Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Failed King?

    par Rosemary Horrox ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers.In ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Crusader King

    par Thomas Asbridge ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but ... En savoir plus

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  • Henry III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Simple and God-Fearing King

    par Stephen Church ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time England was transformed from being the private play-thing of a French speaking dynasty into a medieval state in which the king answered for his actions to an English parliament, which emerged during Henry's lifetime.Despite Henry's central ... En savoir plus

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  • Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs)

    par James Ross ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always ... En savoir plus

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  • Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Daughter of Time

    par John Edwards ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province ... En savoir plus

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  • James I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Phoenix King

    par Thomas Cogswell ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    James's reign marked one of the very rare major breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland and a highly experienced ruler who had established his authority over the Scottish Kirk, he marched south on Elizabeth I's death to become James I of England and Ireland, uniting the British Isles for the first time and founding the Stuart dynasty which would, with several lurches, reign for ... En savoir plus

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  • Edward I (Penguin Monarchs)

    A New King Arthur?

    par Andy King ...
    Collections series Penguin Monarchs
    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern France, he ruled with ruthlessness and confidence, undoing the chaotic failure of his father, Henry III's reign. He reshaped England's legal system ... En savoir plus

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