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'Beowulf', one of the earliest poems in the English language, recounts a tale of heroism played out against the backdrop of Scandinavia in the 5th to 6th centuries AD. And yet, this Old English vers……続きを見る

The book reviews scholarly literature and archival sources including maps and diagrams, to better situate Siena's achievement in urban history and broadens our understanding of medieval technology a……続きを見る

La "Storia della letteratura italiana" di Francesco De Sanctis è la prima grande sintesi organica di tutta la letteratura italiana, dagli inizi, le prime opere in volgare di Ciullo d'Alcamo e Folcac……続きを見る

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. T……続きを見る

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological trans……続きを見る

What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the mete……続きを見る

Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine’s premodern world to today’s postm……続きを見る

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the……続きを見る

La formazione culturale di Dante e in particolare il ruolo dei mistici sulla sua opera è oggetto da anni di attenzione da parte degli studiosi: nonostante gli sforzi compiuti, la critica ha più volt……続きを見る

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the ……続きを見る

Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first ……続きを見る

Heinz Mosmanns umfassende Studie zu Wolframs "Parzival" erschließt systematisch die rätselhafte Bilderwelt dieses großartigen mittelalterlichen Epos und führt dabei an die Grenzen eines imaginativen……続きを見る

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, ……続きを見る

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature……続きを見る

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the sc……続きを見る

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecol……続きを見る

In 1994, Debora K. Shuger published her field-changing study, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity. Shuger’s book offers a wide-reaching and intellectually ambitious explor……続きを見る

Sarà egli superfluo, parrà anzi quasi un abusare dell'altrui pazienza, questo tornare ancora una volta a discorrer di Dante? Ma, oltre la fiducia nella benignità vostra, due considerazioni hanno, se……続きを見る

A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII “A delightーimmersive, conversational, and intensely visual, ……続きを見る

Luigi Valli (1878 – 1931) è stato un critico letterario, docente universitario. Prima discepolo poi amico fraterno di Giovanni Pascoli, si distingue come filosofo, poeta e studioso di Dante Alighier……続きを見る

Throughout the Middle Ages, great intellectuals from Jerome to Jean Gerson all commented on education. What was its purpose? What practices best achieved the intended aims? This volume introduces th……続きを見る

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61……続きを見る

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materi……続きを見る

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since……続きを見る

Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages. Milagros de Nuestra S……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall; A steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily bestrides Dat……続きを見る

This book argues that Paradiso – Dante’s vision of Heaven – is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy a……続きを見る

Charles Moorman reexamines several major works of the western heroic tradition: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, the Norse sagas, and the Arthurian cycle. Dis……続きを見る

Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s courtーWilliam Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglasーin an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular tradit……続きを見る