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The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance : Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in Memory of Cedric E. Pickford
Alison Adams
Hardcover - $163.95
These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chrtien de Troyes to the end of the mediev ...
An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry
Barbara K. Altmann
Library Binding - $82.95
This very first anthology of medieval love debate poems--comprising five masterpieces of the genre--explores the many compelling mysteries raised by the experience of romantic love. Some have been translated into modern English for the first time. Wi ...
Andreas Capellanus on Love? : Desire, Seduction, and Subversion in a Twelfth-Century Latin Text
Kathleen Andersen-Wyman
Hardcover - $142.95
This book argues that "De amore, the classic text by Andreas Capellanus, is not so much a work about courtly love, as it is an exegetical tool for undermining authorities and institutions.
Morkinskinna : The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157)
Theodore Murdock Andersson
Hardcover - $184.95
Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chronicle tradition. Based ultimately on an original from ca. 1220, the single defective manuscript was w ...
Poems of the Pearl Manuscript : Pearl, Cleanness, Patience Gawain and the Green Knight
Malcolm Andrew
Paperback - $54.95
Incest and the Medieval Imagination
Elizabeth Archibald
Hardcover - $336.95
Incest was a social problem in the Middle Ages, and also a popular literary theme. This wide-ranging study is the first survey of medieval incest stories in their cultural context. Did they reflect real life situations? How was incest defined in the ...
Teaching Chaucer
Gail Ashton
Hardcover - $184.95
This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education from a range of scholars and practitioners experienced in dealing with students often made anxious by poetry perceived as textually, linguistically and culturally differ ...
Louis XIV, and the Writers of His Age
J. F. Astie
Paperback - $61.95
CONTENTS: Introduction The Age of Louis XIV Pascal's Provincial Letters Corneille Fenelon La Fontaine Boileau Racine Moliere Pascal's Thoughts
Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books : About 1430-1450
Thomas Austin
Hardcover - $56.95
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional ...