Medieval 48

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already ……続きを見る

Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence’s free……続きを見る

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts au……続きを見る

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middl……続きを見る

The magical world of Welsh mythology deserves to be better known outside its homeland, with its cast of heroes and tricksters, animals that can talk and change shape, and magicians and witches who c……続きを見る

Emerging from a richly diverse oral narrative tradition, the heroic tale of the young Cid appears in multiple textual manifestations. From its first appearance circa 1300, the dynamic narrative of t……続きを見る

A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated ……続きを見る

'The Danish History, Books I-IX' is an extraordinary historical work authored by Saxo Grammaticus, a renowned Danish historian and scholar. This enchanting book offers a comprehensive account of the……続きを見る

The cycle of narrative poems known as "Idylls of the King" was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of the most renowned writers of the Victorian period. The collection depicts the ascent and fall ……続きを見る

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almos……続きを見る

The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors ……続きを見る

What if there existed a second Voynich Manuscript that continued where the first one left off? The Voynich Manuscript is a real and legendary text, written in a yet-undeciphered language or script, ……続きを見る

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal cas……続きを見る

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the……続きを見る

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructi……続きを見る

Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom li……続きを見る

Johannes von Tepl's 'Der Ackermann aus Böhmen' is a seminal work in medieval German literature, written in Middle High German in the 15th century. The book revolves around a dialogue between Death a……続きを見る

The later Middle Ages in Europe c.1150–c.1500 can be viewed as an extensive scientific laboratory, with scholars and other writers producing texts that sought to define and redefine the human body –……続きを見る

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies th……続きを見る

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve. This original study is both……続きを見る

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many location……続きを見る

Les Aventures du Chevalier Don Quichotte seraient-elles le prétexte pour Miguel de Cervantes de donner à voir le chemin à suivre de tout chevalier chrétien hors temps ? Don Quichotte le Chevalier à ……続きを見る

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth ……続きを見る

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do……続きを見る

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to adv……続きを見る

El libro 'Cuentos de Canterbury' de Geoffrey Chaucer es una obra maestra de la literatura inglesa medieval. Escrito en el siglo XIV, esta colección de cuentos en forma de peregrinación hacia la Cate……続きを見る

Los Cuentos de Canterbury, escritos por Geoffrey Chaucer, son una obra maestra de la literatura medieval inglesa. Este libro recopila una serie de relatos contados por peregrinos que viajan juntos h……続きを見る

Gottfried von Straßburgs "Tristan und Isolde" ist ein Meisterwerk der mittelalterlichen Literatur, das die zeitlose Geschichte der tragischen Liebe zwischen Tristan und Isolde erzählt. Das Buch ist ……続きを見る

Geoffrey Chaucer's Die Canterbury-Erzählungen, auch bekannt als Canterbury Tales, ist eine Sammlung von Geschichten, die von einer Gruppe von Pilgern erzählt werden, die sich auf den Weg nach Canter……続きを見る

Die Aeneis, verfasst von Vergil, ist ein epischer Klassiker der römischen Antike. Das Werk erzählt die Geschichte des trojanischen Helden Aeneas, der nach dem Fall Trojas eine lange Reise unternimmt……続きを見る