Medieval 45

I Carl Gustaf Estlanders akademiska avhandling 'Folksångerna om Robin Hood' utforskar författaren den populära legenden om Robin Hood genom en litteraturkritisk lins. Estlander analyserar de olika f……続きを見る

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of si……続きを見る

Het boek 'Een abel spel ende een edel dinc van den Hertoghe van Bruyswijc' geschreven door R. J. Spitz is een meeslepend verhaal dat liefde, moed en verraad verkent in een middeleeuwse setting. De a……続きを見る

Het boek 'Een abel spel van Esmoreit, sconics sone van Cecilien' is een voorbeeld van een middeleeuws toneelstuk geschreven door verschillende auteurs. Het verhaal volgt de avonturen van Esmoreit, d……続きを見る

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that ……続きを見る

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It ar……続きを見る

Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, t……続きを見る

Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, ‘The Prose Edda’ is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Ed……続きを見る

**A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book his……続きを見る

A compilation of insightful essays and speeches by the renowned abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass. This collection brings together some of his most powerful and eloquent writings on the is……続きを見る

A compelling biography of one of the most controversial and significant figures in American history. John Brown was a white abolitionist who led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859……続きを見る

A powerful and inspiring biography of one of the most remarkable figures in American history. Written by Sarah H. Bradford, a friend and contemporary of Tubman, the book chronicles the life of a wom……続きを見る

Le 'Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri' di Jacopo Alighieri sono un'opera fondamentale per la comprensione dell'Inferno dantesco. Con uno stile letterario ricco e preciso, le chiose……続きを見る

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and et……続きを見る

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as th……続きを見る

Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation. The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy c……続きを見る

Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity th……続きを見る

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante’s mod……続きを見る

An edition with facing annotated translation of the twelfth-century Medieval French popular romance Guillaume d’Angleterre. The claim to fame of this verse narrative is to have had its authorship at……続きを見る

This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as ‘The Exeter Book’. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, ……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

Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess*: Textuality and Reception* is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and……続きを見る

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Penins……続きを見る

Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing. The act of reading engages deeply with our emotions and psychology, and this book broadens our understanding of that process by the s……続きを見る

King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know somethin……続きを見る

What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase ‘swan song’. This book explo……続きを見る

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clo……続きを見る

From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dut……続きを見る

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities ……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types. Based on an intimate knowledge of t……続きを見る