A study of the relationship between people and animals in the Middle Ages. What did medieval people call the animals the......more
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of......more
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ag......more
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of Englis......more
This book is a scholarly analysis of Chaucer’s The House of Fame, a Middle English poem that explores the nature of fame......more
Exploring a seldom-studied corner of medieval poetry, this fragment of a semi-Saxon poem discovered in the archives of W......more
Renowned literary scholar Edgar Finley Shannon sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic works of medieval literature......more
This book is a comprehensive study of John Lydgate’s literary canon, including a critical analysis of his poetry, prose,......more
Experience a classic piece of French literature with this edition of ’Des XXIII Manières de Vilains’, a dramatic work fr......more
A scholarly investigation into the literary techniques used in the epic poem ’Rolandslied’, with a particular focus on t......more
English Literature: Chaucer / Selected References is a comprehensive and enlightening guide to the works of Geoffrey Cha......more
This book is a scholarly study of the manuscript collections of the Italian poet and humanist Petrarch. Pierre de Nolhac......more
This book provides a comprehensive index of all of the rhyming words used in Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous poem, Troilus and......more
This book provides a scholarly examination of the history and evolution of the ballad form during the medieval period. T......more
A comprehensive study of the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer, this volume offers a fresh perspective on one of the mos......more
This groundbreaking work presents the earliest known examples of Gothic literature, the Rigs-Mal poems, in their origina......more
This study by Walter William Skeat examines the history of the text of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the changes it und......more
This seminal work of literary criticism examines one of the greatest works of Scottish medieval poetry, The Kingis Quair......more
A wide-ranging account of the fox in medieval culture. By turns enchanting and erudite, Introducing the Medieval Fox tra......more
The Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. T......more
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central ......more
"One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic poems in the English lang......more
This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range ......more
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From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classi......more
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English writers have a way of invoking paternal imagery when thinking of Chaucer. The Medieval word for a Poet, was a M......more
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The first collection of Joseph Campbell s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central ......more
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Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flaminin......more
A lively, concise biography of the father of English literature and the tumultuous year that led to The Canterbury Tales......more
The book is virtually unique in providing: the full text in Middle English, an interlinear translation, introductory cha......more
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C. S. Lewis s Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of whi......more
The two texts of the Dialogue presented here, a Latin version printed ca. 1488 and a Middle English translation printed ......more
Is your life filled with passionate escapades and fashionable parties? And do you look and feel fantastic all the time? ......more
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The CliffsNotes study guide on Malory s Le Morte D Arthur (The Death of Arthur) supplements the original literary work, ......more
The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background ......more
Dante For Beginners takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introducti......more
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