Virgil in Medieval England

Christopher Baswell
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What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among new institutions and readerships? In this study Christ ...

Virgil in Medieval England : Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer

Christopher Baswell
Hardcover - $275.95

What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among new institutions and readerships? In this study Christ ...

Masculinities in Chaucer : Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Peter G. Beidler
Hardcover - $201.95

How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such a thing as a distinct Chauce ...

Arthurian Literature XVII : Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

Bart Besamusca
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This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein (Gawain)) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recentl ...

Arthurian Literature : The European Dimensions of Arthurian Literature

Bart Besamusca
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The European dimensions of Arthurian literature form the focus of this special issue of Arthurian Literature, derived from sessions held at the International Conference in Utrecht (2005). It brings out in particular the supranational coherence of the ...

The Book of Lancelot : The Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles

Bart Besamusca
Hardcover - $170.95

The Book of Lancelot is a study of the highly intriguing Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation, a collection of ten Arthurian verse romances, compiled around 1320. Although the compilation is one of the most important Middle Dutch works, and has importan ...

Chaucer and the Late Medieval World

Lillian M. Bisson
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Lillian M. Bisson examines the societal issues that the poet explored in his work. She focuses on three major areas of medieval life--religion, class/commerce, and gender--all of which were experiencing considerable change in the fourteenth century.< ...

A Beowulf Handbook

Robert E. Bjork
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The most revered work composed in Old English, "Beowulf" is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition.

Each chapter provide ...

Woman Defamed and Woman Defended : An Anthology of Medieval Texts

Alcuin Blamires
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"It is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves." Behind the words of Chaucer's Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular lite ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A Reference Guide

Robert J. Blanch
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This book is a selective and thorough survey of Gawain scholarship from 1824 through 1978.