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Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of histor……続きを見る

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneere……続きを見る

Qual era il Cesare che Dante conosceva? Cosa vi ha aggiunto di suo? Come si concilia un tale impianto ideale incentrato sull’idea di impero con l’enfasi ammirativa riservata da Dante al nemico giura……続きを見る

Il personaggio di Alessandro Magno è una delle grandi figure storiche che abbandonano presto il palcoscenico della storia per raggiungere la sfera del mito. E tuttavia, questa mitizzazione del conqu……続きを見る

Il concetto storiografico di Dolce stil novo risale alla Storia della letteratura italiana di Francesco De Sanctis, che per primo lo formulò nel 1870. E tuttavia, benché accolto da molti tanto da fi……続きを見る

Nella Divina Commedia, sublime resoconto di un viaggio salvifico dalla selva oscura del peccato alla beatitudine paradisiaca, Dante per la prima volta nella storia della letteratura universale tenta……続きを見る

Le epidemie, come le carestie e le guerre, sono un ricorrente flagello del genere umano, eppure “non tutto il male viene per nuocere”. Sono antiche compagne e, per certi aspetti, anche e soprattutto……続きを見る

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew. French came into contact with……続きを見る

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

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. Th……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

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a cultur……続きを見る

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even ferv……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

“Adds to the body of contemporary versions of the Inferno . . . [includes] detailed textual notes . . . [and] critical essays by the leading Dante scholars.” ーLibrary Journal This new critical edit……続きを見る