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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

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a k……続きを見る

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This remarkable anthology assembles for the fir……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1……続きを見る

Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for ……続きを見る

Dante e la lingua italiana Nell'anniversario dei 700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri, Fernanda Pugliese raccoglie in questo saggio numerosi argomenti. Da una visione moderna dell'opera dantesca,……続きを見る

One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view of the late Middle Ages in Europe, including notions of moral philosophy and courtl……続きを見る

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes……続きを見る

This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, h……続きを見る

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unifiedーand seeks to challenge what we think we know a……続きを見る

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized b……続きを見る

Shortlisted, 2026 University English Book Prize, University English The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recogni……続きを見る

In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen in einem Korpus mittelhochdeutscher Artusromane mit computergestützten Methoden, insbesondere der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse, untersucht. Die A……続きを見る

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe……続きを見る

A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. When a series of ecological disasters swept medieval England, writers turned to ……続きを見る

Introducing the First English Translation of Servius’ Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid! This edition presents a rough translation of Servius’ insightful commentary, a vital resource for understanding V……続きを見る