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Vernacular Edens
Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487558307
Pub Date: December 2024
This book examines the literary representation of gardens – a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction – and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
Price:
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: July 2024
Exploring the work of Chaucer and Boccaccio, Tropes of Engagement redefines our understanding of textual influence by examining modes, rather than evidence, of authorial engagement.
In the Doorway of All Worlds
Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487547875
Pub Date: May 2024
In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vernacular culture of thirteenth-century Iberia.
The Crusades
A Reader, Third Edition
Price:
$54.95
ISBN: 9781487525781
Pub Date: May 2024
This collection of medieval primary sources provides a comprehensive view of the Crusades from multiple perspectives.
Truth Is Trickiest
The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487552527
Pub Date: May 2024
Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers.
Portraying Authorship
Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
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$90.00
ISBN: 9781487553234
Pub Date: April 2024
This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual authorship.
Nothing Pure
Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487550677
Pub Date: January 2024
Drawing on a wide range of Old English literary and religious texts, Nothing Pure explores the cultural translation of Jewish law in pre-Conquest England.
Love at a Crux
The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487547271
Pub Date: December 2023
Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance.
Speaking Truth to Power
The Legacy of the Young Cid
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487506872
Pub Date: November 2023
This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo.
Humour in Old English Literature
Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545307
Pub Date: October 2023
This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the heroic, the hagiographic, and more.
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487548179
Pub Date: March 2023
On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Price:
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487509033
Pub Date: July 2022
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales proposes a new way to understand the correlation between love and philosophy in Chaucer’s famous collection of stories.
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487540494
Pub Date: June 2022
This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the Decameron.
The Politics of Language
Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487547479
Pub Date: May 2022
Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style.
Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing
Price:
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487529536
Pub Date: April 2022
This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.
Vernacular Edens
Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487558307
Pub Date: December 2024
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: July 2024
In the Doorway of All Worlds
Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487547875
Pub Date: May 2024
In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vernacular culture of thirteenth-century Iberia.
The Crusades
A Reader, Third Edition
$54.95
ISBN: 9781487525781
Pub Date: May 2024
Truth Is Trickiest
The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487552527
Pub Date: May 2024
Portraying Authorship
Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487553234
Pub Date: April 2024
Nothing Pure
Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487550677
Pub Date: January 2024
Love at a Crux
The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487547271
Pub Date: December 2023
Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance.
Speaking Truth to Power
The Legacy of the Young Cid
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487506872
Pub Date: November 2023
This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo.
Humour in Old English Literature
Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545307
Pub Date: October 2023
This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the heroic, the hagiographic, and more.
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487548179
Pub Date: March 2023
On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487509033
Pub Date: July 2022
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales proposes a new way to understand the correlation between love and philosophy in Chaucer’s famous collection of stories.
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487540494
Pub Date: June 2022
This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the Decameron.
The Politics of Language
Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487547479
Pub Date: May 2022
Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style.
Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487529536
Pub Date: April 2022
This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.