William - Medieval 1

Understanding a medieval poetry genre through modern translations, commentary, and the role of performance Middle English lyrics are anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and ……続きを見る

The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medi……続きを見る

The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life’s work will take. Piers Plowman is a sin……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

Commencèrent, à partir du printemps 1984, les réunions du Comité de préparation pour lesquelles déjà Strasbourg - ville des routes, croisée des chemins - méritait son nom puisque de Milan, de Liège,……続きを見る

Les œuvres littéraires médiévales restent, pour la plupart, méconnues du public cultivé, qui les considère volontiers comme un domaine réservé aux érudits et aux spécialistes. C'est là une situation……続きを見る

In 'The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations)', readers are immersed in the enchanting world of the celebrated English poet and artist, William Blake. This comprehen……続きを見る

L'épopée vise donc à un but, qu'il soit purement narratif, ou qu'il se double d'une valeur morale. La marche du temps est ressentie comme la force qui nous en rapproche ; le récit est fortement marq……続きを見る

Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) fait représenter en novembre 1668 son avant-dernière tragédie, Pausanias, écrite à la hâte en sorte de combler une lacune dans le répertoire de la troupe de l’Hôtel de ……続きを見る

Bellérophon, seizième pièce de Quinault, marque l'apogée de sa carrière propement théâtrale ; ensuite, il écrira surtout pour les musiciens. Comme l'écrit Étienne Gros - et la chose est vraie surtou……続きを見る

Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a ……続きを見る

The play is a wonderful mix of history and ironic commentary, one of two plays of Shakespeare's that is entirely in verse (the other one is RICHARD II, which he wrote just before KING JOHN), and it'……続きを見る

As you like it follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and, eventually, love, in t……続きを見る

The action picks up shortly after the conclusion of Richard II (after Bolingbroke has deposed the now dead Richard and become King Henry). It still has a serious side, but this play subverts the leg……続きを見る

Twelfth Night is a frenetic comedy of tomfoolery and excess. Everything is purposefully ridiculousーa satire of previously written farces, reveling in itself. While in As You Like It Shakespeare giv……続きを見る

It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic con……続きを見る

Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of……続きを見る

"The Black Death: Unraveling Europe's Medieval Catastrophe" In the tumultuous landscape of medieval Europe, the Black Death emerged as a cataclysmic force, reshaping societies, economies, and the ve……続きを見る

The heroes of early narrative are the faces of an older world. In constant retellings, their stories hold the memory like members of an extended family. Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Beowulf, Gawain, Roland,……続きを見る

This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have……続きを見る

An early African American novel that tells the story of a young woman named Clotel, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a slave. It follows her journey as she navigates the complexities of her iden……続きを見る

This detailed biography offers a reappraisal of the career of Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son and duke of Normandy from 1087 to 1106, locating the duke's career in the social, cu……続きを見る

Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadou……続きを見る

The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultura……続きを見る

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they f……続きを見る

Chronicle of the Kings of England comprehensively details the history of the English people from their earliest days to the middle of the 12th century. Borrowing largely from Bede, William details E……続きを見る

Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of……続きを見る

This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from a……続きを見る

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of lit……続きを見る

In "Chaucer," Sir Adolphus William Ward provides a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer, hailed as the Father of English literature. Ward employs a meticul……続きを見る