Medieval 42

Sophist by Plato The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stra……続きを見る

The Analects by Confucius is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believe……続きを見る

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman. The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life o……続きを見る

First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the……続きを見る

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Anfänge der deutschen Dichtkunst in der Zeit vom späten 8. bis zum frühen 10. Jahrhundert. Es präsentiert die zwölf überlieferten poetischen Werke der Epoche i……続きを見る

Bestiaries. Lapidaries. Lunaries. Inventories and household vocabularies. Lists are everywhere in medieval and early modern texts––evidence of the need to manage and order knowledge and experience. ……続きを見る

In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential elemen……続きを見る

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring ph……続きを見る

A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval lon……続きを見る

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: f……続きを見る

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, ……続きを見る

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures. The "Viking Age" of medieval Scandinavia, wit……続きを見る

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most c……続きを見る

In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing a……続きを見る

In 'An Outline of Russian Literature' by Maurice Baring, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions and major works of Russian literature. Baring delves into the histori……続きを見る

Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics ty……続きを見る

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contribution……続きを見る

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than everーthanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

O estudo definitivo das obras jurídicas de Afonso X aplicadas aos seus poemas sobre milagres. Embora seu meio tivesse semelhanças impressionantes com o Velho Oeste, o povo da Espanha medieval estava……続きを見る

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranea……続きを見る

Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those who did not know their pelican from the……続きを見る

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, th……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

Wie kann man das Nibelungenlied in einem modernen Deutschunterricht vermitteln? Dieses Buch gibt vielfältige Antworten auf diese Frage. Ausgehend von der These, dass Schülerinnen und Schüler nur für……続きを見る

Der Band möchte nachweisen, dass es einen inhaltlichen Zusammenhang von Prolog und Haupttext in Gottfrieds ‹Tristan› gibt. Die Autorin macht dies insbesondere an Wortpaaren des Prologs fest, die im ……続きを見る

Le projet de cet ouvrage est de montrer l'influence de l’œuvre de Dante dans le courant de pensée qui va trouver son essor à la Renaissance, en particulier en Vénétie, et qui aboutira aux Lumières. ……続きを見る

A Saxon of St. Boniface’s acquaintance in England observed that the two peoples, the English and Saxons, were of the same bone and blood. Certainly Boniface himself noted the similarities in languag……続きを見る

Der «Willehalm» Wolframs von Eschenbach erzählt von einem der großen Konflikte des Mittelalters. Dieser Band zeigt, wie systematisch sich Wolfram verschiedener Diskurse seiner Zeit bedient, um eine ……続きを見る