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  • The King's Body

    Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England

    de Nicole Marafioti ...
    The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Chaucer's Tale

    1386 and the Road to Canterbury

    de Paul Strohm ...
    A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury TalesIn 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that hehas today—far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    de Robert Irwin ...
    This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edición de Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Edición de Paul Maurice Clogan ...
    Series Libro 35 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Leer más

    $123.99 USD

  • Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign

    The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography

    de Daisy Delogu ...
    Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have more often been read as historical source documents, Daisy Delogu demonstrates how theories of kingship evolved in the ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VII

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

    A Life in Perspective

    de C. Keene ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman. ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare

    de Lisa Lampert ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse

    Edición de Alan T. Gaylord ...
    Series series Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time
    These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Land and Book

    Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England

    de Scott Thompson Smith ...
    In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic

    An Introduction to Narrative Structures

    de Eugene Dorfman ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations by which they can communicate meaning. The author here searches for a minimal structural unit ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD