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Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
Jane Bliss
Hardcover - $187.95
A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.
The Anonymous Marie de France
R. Howard Bloch
Hardcover - $96.95
This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. "The Anonymous Marie de France is the fir ...
The Anonymous Marie de France
R. Howard Bloch
Paperback - $67.95
This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. "The Anonymous Marie de France" is the fi ...
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Heather Blurton
Hardcover - $136.95
From "Beowulf" through the literature of the crusades and beyond, cannibals haunt the texts of medieval England. "Cannibal Narratives" attempts to explain their presence. It explores the relationship between the literary trope of cannibalism and the ...
English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Piero Boitani
Paperback - $103.95
This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Piero Boitani describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and ...
The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature
Piero Boitani
Hardcover - $201.95
The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experienc ...
Merlin and the Grail : Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval
Robert Borgon
Paperback - $54.95
It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of prose romances in the development of the legend of the Holy Grail and in the evolution of Arthurian literature as a whole. They give a crucial new impetus to the story of the Grail by establis ...
The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil
Giraut De Borneil
Paperback - $180.95
Among the troubadour poets, those writers of courtly love poetry who flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the south of France, Giraut de Borneil was one of the most important and influential. This is the first serious consideration o ...
Traditions and Renewals : Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, & Beyond
Marie Borroff
Hardcover - $130.95
Literary critic, poet and philologist as well as medievalist, with a particular interest in the powers and effects of poetic language, Marie Borroff brings the full range of her expertise to bear on problems of central importance in the poetry of Cha ...
Eighteenth-Century Modernizations from the Canterbury Tales
Betsy Bowden
Hardcover - $201.95
This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Taleswhich appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studyingthe history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so preciseand extensi ...