Medieval 33

Distinguishing figural or typological allegoryーa method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testamentーfrom the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in rep……続きを見る

Monumento della letteratura tedesca, il Nibelungenlied racconta di amori e tradimenti, di intrighi e vendette. Composto probabilmente agli inizi del XIII secolo, il poema è la più antica testimonian……続きを見る

The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and go……続きを見る

Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providin……続きを見る

Pensato da un veneziano (Marco Polo) e scritto da un pisano (Rustichello) in una prigione genovese alla fine del XIII secolo, Il Milione diventa presto un vero e proprio best seller dell'epoca. Esso……続きを見る

The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically ……続きを見る

Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your kno……続きを見る

Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries. This Reader's Guide provides a much-needed overview……続きを見る

The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children’s literature. Over the past century and a half, more than 150 new version……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, ……続きを見る

William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works. This comprehensive, readable guide leads the student chronologically through the entire text……続きを見る

This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, L……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri’s long poem The Divine Comedy has been one of the foundational texts of European literature for over 700 years. Yet many mysteries still remain about the symbolism of this richly lay……続きを見る

People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern……続きを見る

To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues th……続きを見る

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of ‘encounter’ – textual, internal, external and performative – the……続きを見る

Raymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry responds to the general consensus that Philip Marlowe represents a chivalric knight out of romance. The book argues that th……続きを見る

Robert de Reims, also known as “La Chievre de Rains,” was among the earliest trouvèresーpoet-composers who were contemporaries of the troubadours but who wrote in the dialects of northern France. Th……続きを見る

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and o……続きを見る

Francesco Petrarca è considerato il fondatore della lirica italiana, così come la vediamo ancora oggi: il suo sistema culturale ruota attorno alla centralità dell'uomo e la sua opera poetica è una l……続きを見る

In pressappoco sette giorni di viaggio narrati nella Divina Commedia, l'anima umana, sotto forma del corpo di Dante, compie i più diversi, sterminati itinerari: dalla storia lontanissima al presente……続きを見る

Extrait : Le bonheur, qui jadis inspirait mes accents, A fait place aux sombres alarmes ; C’est une Muse en deuil qui me dicte ces chants, Aujourd’hui trempés de mes larmes. Oui, les Muses, du moins……続きを見る

Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the Frenc……続きを見る

The Roman de Renart was for long little known, even in France, in its original mediaeval version, but the reputation of the wily fox was widespread, in large measure because of his fame in the Middl……続きを見る

Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the stu……続きを見る

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion……続きを見る

The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse persp……続きを見る

In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience eve……続きを見る

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in ……続きを見る

Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadou……続きを見る