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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 our range of timeless literary classics. A green horse great and tall; A steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily bestrides Dating from around……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

People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literary texts, but in the world in which those texts were composed and copied. The a……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of ……続きを見る

The culture of medieval Spain was anything nut homogeneous. It varied not only through time, with the approach of the Renaissance, but also geographically, with great differences between north and s……続きを見る

Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance. It discusses the ideas of literature then current in England, as revealed in contemporary theorizing an……続きを見る

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent acad……続きを見る

Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America Winner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society Winner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study……続きを見る

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argu……続きを見る

In "From Ritual to Romance," Jessie Laidlay Weston embarks on a seminal exploration of the intersections between ancient ritual practices and medieval romance literature. Her incisive analysis delve……続きを見る

This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the……続きを見る

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In The P……続きを見る