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Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men? If you would review your history books, you will notice the great difference in status, rank and role in society. In thi……続きを見る

History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present. By understanding history, we can better understand where we are now and what is going to happen in the fu……続きを見る

Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; t……続きを見る

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-S……続きを見る

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three p……続きを見る

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a……続きを見る

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they……続きを見る

Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Ch……続きを見る

Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from ……続きを見る

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the e……続きを見る

This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus……続きを見る

In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender……続きを見る

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approache……続きを見る

The Letter to Sigeweard, also known by the title it bears in one of the manuscripts, Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, is Ælfric's response to a request from an Anglo-Saxon nobleman to provide ……続きを見る

Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and perfor……続きを見る

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the ……続きを見る

Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thou……続きを見る

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a virtually u……続きを見る

Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John CapgraveーAustin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in Ea……続きを見る

Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the 'advice to princes' ……続きを見る

La presente edición de la Historia del abad don Juan de Montemayor rescata una de las leyendas medievales de mayor fama y difusión en las relaciones literarias de España y Portugal, gestada en una f……続きを見る

Esta obra se propone estudiar las ideas geográficas en la España medieval, con particular atención a los siglos XIII, XIV y XV y en sus relaciones con las fuentes griegas y latinas del período clási……続きを見る

Este ebook presenta "Cantar de mío Cid" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El cantar de mío Cid es una obra épica y se supone que fue escrita alrededor del año 1.200. Se considera como la primera ……続きを見る

Este ebook presenta "Los cuentos de Canterbury" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Geoffrey Chaucer escribió, a finales del siglo XIV, una recopilación de relatos en verso titulados Cuentos de Can……続きを見る

From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of i……続きを見る

This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas ……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte des Nibelungen avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! L'origine du terme «Nibelungen» est loin d'être claire. Dans la première partie de la Chanson des Nibelungen, il désigne les……続きを見る

Este ebook presenta "El Libro de buen amor", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El Libro de buen amor, también llamado Libro de los cantares, es una obra del maestra de clerecía del siglo XIV. Es ……続きを見る

This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle Engl……続きを見る

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with oth……続きを見る