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"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

Premier recueil de nouvelles en langue française, les Cent nouvelles nouvelles, rédigées par un auteur anonyme, ont été contées en 1458-1459 à la cour du duc de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon, qui en est……続きを見る

Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that ……続きを見る

Longtemps conçu comme un déclin ou un « automne » (Johan Huizinga), le Moyen Âge tardif se pense aujourd’hui plutôt comme un moment de transformation profonde des catégories de pensée, en continuité……続きを見る

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in……続きを見る

This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally. Focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500, this comprehensive reference work addresses a long-sta……続きを見る

Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern world In this fourth volume of The Masks of God ー Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology ー the pre-emin……続きを見る

The second half of the fourteenth century was an important transition period both in the spheres of literary form and message, and of social, economic, and political power. First published in 1981, ……続きを見る

Das Narrenschiff (1494) zeigt in satirisch-didaktischen Episoden eine Gesellschaft von Narren, die, je einer Torheit zugeordnet, nach Narragonia segeln. In pointierten Knittelversen verbindet Brant ……続きを見る

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian poets, bringing their verse and expression to English readers. Thirteenth- and fourtee……続きを見る

Tommaso Ventura was a distinguished Italian jurist, lawyer, and Freemason. His legal training is clearly evident in the analytical rigor he applied not only to his technical legal texts but also to ……続きを見る

Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are transmitted from one person to another. These examples capture the contagion-like ……続きを見る

Providing the first edited text, translation and commentary of two Renaissance dream-narrative satires, this edition sheds light on the period's literary history and reception of classical texts. Cl……続きを見る

This two-volume study traces developments in English narrative structure from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, building on the theses set out in Monika Fludernik’s award-winning Towa……続きを見る

Mujeres soñadas no es solo un libro de mitos. Su intención es mostrar la eficacia del mito como proyección de experiencias humanas, pero en esta ocasión a partir de la perspectiva de las mujeres. Lo……続きを見る

Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical records Medieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, ……続きを見る

The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader studies and studies of nature. The volume addresses encounters with, responses……続きを見る

Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing critical overviews of the whole poem*.* This unique collaborative volume, written b……続きを見る

Un viaggio intimo dietro il sipario della figura pubblica, svelando le fragilità, le amicizie e le passioni nascoste di un gigante della letteratura. Attraverso lettere mai pubblicate prima, emerge ……続きを見る

In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belo……続きを見る

Scoprite i segreti più intimi e i tormenti nascosti di una delle figure letterarie più imponenti attraverso le sue lettere private, mai destinate al pubblico. Questo epistolario rivela un animo vuln……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

The Mabinogion Set is a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. It is also a book about a mathematical phenomenon: fractals. Fractals are mathematica……続きを見る

The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B. W. Matz offers a fascinating exploration of the inns, taverns, and local settings that appear in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The book combines litera……続きを見る

The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended u……続きを見る

Since the Middle Ages, bears have most frequently been seen as objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears as pests to be eradicated because of the danger they posed to human beings and li……続きを見る

First published in 1971, Form and Style in Early English Literature critically investigates the main literary genres and styles of Old and Middle English, illustrated by close reference to the major……続きを見る

Books and How to Make the Most of Them by James Hosmer Penniman is a thoughtful and enriching guide that transforms the simple act of reading into a powerful journey of intellectual and personal gro……続きを見る

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming, Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to ……続きを見る

En este fascinante volumen, se presenta una síntesis exhaustiva de la historiografía medieval, destacando tanto los autores más relevantes como las estructuras de los géneros literarios de la Alta E……続きを見る