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Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences. For many, Martin Luther’s tran……続きを見る

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two ver……続きを見る

Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. St……続きを見る

Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats meto……続きを見る

Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the speci……続きを見る

Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex ……続きを見る

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origin……続きを見る

Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-centu……続きを見る

In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde**, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's poetic vision.** Using as a starting point Chaucer's profound admiration for the a……続きを見る

In Obscene Pedagogies**, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexua……続きを見る

Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the B……続きを見る

Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of ……続きを見る

In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet**, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between** Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherite……続きを見る

In A Diabolical Voice**, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the** Mirror of Simple Souls**, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy ……続きを見る

The Erotics of Griefconsiders how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues ……続きを見る

In Experimental Histories**, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolationーinserting material from one text into anotherーwhich is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthen……続きを見る

Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in ……続きを見る

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewi……続きを見る

Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Pol……続きを見る

In Virgin Whore**, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary's sexuality**. Although history is ……続きを見る

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" b……続きを見る

In Staging Harmony**, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more modera……続きを見る

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gi……続きを見る

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspectiveーthe baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, a……続きを見る

Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based o……続きを見る

Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns……続きを見る

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the dipl……続きを見る

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspire……続きを見る

Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship. E……続きを見る

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of spaceーthe everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we moveーunderwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centu……続きを見る