Medieval 28

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of t……続きを見る

Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic r……続きを見る

In "The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts," M. R. James embarks on a meticulous exploration of the journeys, provenance, and preservation of medieval manuscripts, showcasing his exceptional comman……続きを見る

In "From Chaucer to Tennyson," Henry A. Beers embarks on an insightful literary journey, tracing the evolution of English poetry through the lens of its most significant contributors. Through a mast……続きを見る

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fal……続きを見る

Como de forma explícita recoge su título, Revisitando a Berceo: lecturas del siglo XXI, este volumen reúne un total de quince artículos de la pluma de otros tantos reconocidos investigadores de la l……続きを見る

Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing pri……続きを見る

First Published in 1993. The present volume covers the currently identified Christian visions of heaven and hell (excluding D ante’s Divine Comedy) from western Europe during the Middle Ages from th……続きを見る

First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a pr……続きを見る

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This ……続きを見る

Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to ……続きを見る

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Ea……続きを見る

In "Walther von der Vogelweide: Ein altdeutscher Dichter" entführt Ludwig Uhland die Leser in die faszinierende Welt des mittelalterlichen Dichters Walther von der Vogelweide, dessen Werk und Einflu……続きを見る

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstr……続きを見る

The gentle gentleman, William Shakespeare pokes glorious fun at customs, marriages , greed and scoundrels, especially pretentious men and women. .. A practical joke can be carried to the extreme, in……続きを見る

A dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It centres on the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles ……続きを見る

In "Chaucer," Sir Adolphus William Ward provides a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the Father of English literature. Ward employs a meticul……続きを見る

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has been published. Its title evokes the moment when Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, th……続きを見る

The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of Shakespeare's plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a central role in ……続きを見る

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases b……続きを見る

In "Chaucer and His Times," Grace E. Hadow masterfully navigates the rich historical, cultural, and literary landscape of medieval England, delving into the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Hadow……続きを見る

The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and a selection of the best es……続きを見る

Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; ……続きを見る

The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist?……続きを見る

Analyse du roman de Tristan et Iseut de Joseph Bédier. Liste des chapitres analysés : Les enfances de Tristan, Le Morholt d'Irlande, Le Philtre d'amour, Le grand Pin, Le saut de La Chapelle, La forê……続きを見る

Analyse du roman Yvain ou le chevalier au lion pour le collège : analyse des passages clés. Une méthode simple pour construire ton commentaire ou ta fiche de lecture, quel que soit ton niveau en fra……続きを見る

Analyse du roman Le Chevalier au bouclier vert pour le collège : analyse des passages clés. Une méthode simple pour construire ton commentaire ou ta fiche de lecture, quel que soit ton niveau en fra……続きを見る

This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century – Dante, Petrarch, and B……続きを見る

Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete edition. Working in the late 1370s, Danie……続きを見る

This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature……続きを見る