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Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation and synthesis of medieval authorial roles. In the man……続きを見る

The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the……続きを見る

Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, acr……続きを見る

Nelle dense pagine del Decameron si intrecciano vari e importanti livelli di lettura: la definizione del quadro storico di riferimento, dominato, a livello europeo, da una grande crisi demografica, ……続きを見る

Since its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt cover the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern a……続きを見る

Sir Lancelot du Lac is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend and King Arthur's greatest companion, the lord of Joyous Gard and the greatest swordsman and jouster of the age. ……続きを見る

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insu……続きを見る

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women’s medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous translators reduced the remedies to a general categor……続きを見る

In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's literary career in its rich context. Dante and His Circ……続きを見る

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings n……続きを見る

In "Bemerkungen zu Gregor von Tours kleineren Schriften" beleuchtet Georg Osterhage die vielschichtige Literatur des merowingischen Historikers Gregor von Tours. Osterhage analysiert die weniger bek……続きを見る

In "Die Nibelungen" interpretiert Heinrich Pröhle das mittelalterliche Heldenepos neu und entführt den Leser in eine Welt von Intrigen, Ruhm und tragischen Schicksalen. Pröhles Prosa verbindet sich ……続きを見る

In "Pfalzgräfin Mechthild in ihren litterarischen Beziehungen" untersucht Philipp Strauch die vielfältigen Einflüsse und literarischen Verbindungen der Pfalzgräfin Mechthild, einer schillernden Pers……続きを見る

Un poeta impegnato e profondo come Dante può considerare i bambini nella sua opera? Con quale sguardo li osserva? Ci sono, all'interno della Divina Commedia, immagini o scene in cui il protagonista ……続きを見る

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in……続きを見る

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spi……続きを見る

A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel liter……続きを見る

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval c……続きを見る

"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best……続きを見る

While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. T……続きを見る

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a ……続きを見る

What have the Middle Ages got to do with us? For Jung, it seems, quite a lot, after all, he tells us: “I must catch up with a piece of the Middle Ages ー within myself,” adding: “We have only finish……続きを見る

In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the reviva……続きを見る

Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Polish literature and reveals its enduring impact on European identity from the M……続きを見る

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the m……続きを見る

This biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert’s lifeーand inner life. It follows Rickert’s own writing and draws attention to her life as a writer. Rickert has been long remembered as……続きを見る

Tales of xenoglossiaーthe instantaneous ability to read, to write, to speak, or to understand a foreign languageーhave long captivated audiences. Perhaps most popular in Christian religious literatu……続きを見る

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of ……続きを見る

Acclaimed for centuries as the “Father of English Literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise for his classic Canterbury Talesーand rightfully so. Still, even the greatest of……続きを見る

This is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western medieval literature from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, spanning both the Latinate and Germanic traditions. Type-scenes……続きを見る