John Benjamins, 2024. — xviii, 706 p. — (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 34). The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors...
An edition with translation and notes by Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan. — Edinburgh; London; New York; Melbourne, 2007. — 804 p. — (Canongate Classics 78). These are some of the most famous lines in Scottish literature. They were written c.1375 by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, as a celebration of the Age of Chivalry - an age of bravery, valour, and above all...
Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University; Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. — 299 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 58). In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the...
Aldershot; Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited; Routledge, 2008. — 212 p. Looking at late medieval Scottish poetic narratives which incorporate study of the amorousness of kings, this study places these poems in the context of Scotland's repeated experience of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance.The focus of this study is the amatory in poetry of a...
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971. — 226 p. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 311 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 323 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). After the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of...
Justice Steven (ed.). — Routledge, 2013. — 302 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies 1022). Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations...
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 150 p. — (Medieval Media and Culture). The discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments. Beginning with an extensive contextual...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 247 p. — (Arthurian Studies 90). The writers of later romances deemed Raoul's work worthy of memory on a par with the Prose Lancelot, and placed Raoul and Chrétien on the same level in terms of authority. Raoul de Houdenc was a major and innovative figure in 13th-century French literature. His surviving works are unusually diverse: they include an...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. — 261 p. — (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures). Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agency in the making.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. — 176 p. — (Arthurian Studies 78). In the middle of the fifteenth century two anonymous writers `translated' into prose Chr?tien de Troyes's first verse romances, Erec and Clig?s (dating from the twelfth century), for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. For a long time unfairly dismissed as trite and slavish renderings of Chr?tien's...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. — 319 p. — (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures). This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. — 276 p. — (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures). Andersen-Wyman's book undoes most scholarly uses and understandings of De amore by Andreas Capellanus. By offering a reading promoted by the text itself, Andersen-Wyman shows how Andreas undermines the narrative foundations of sacred and secular institutions and renders their power...
Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2012. — 256 p. — (Arthurian Studies 79). The notion of Continuation in medieval literature is a familiar one - but difficult to define precisely. Despite the existence of important texts which are commonly referred to as Continuations, such as Le Roman de la Rose, Le Chevalier de la Charrette and, of course, the Perceval Continuations, the mechanics and...
Bryant Nigel (Translator). — Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. — 352 p. — (Arthurian Studies 5). The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends. Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval is the most important single Arthurian romance. It contains the very first mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and the focal point of the...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009. — 282 p. — (Arthurian Studies 74). It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in England and America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics...
D.S.Brewer, 2015. — 634 p. — (Arthurian Studies 82). The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — xi, 319 p. — (Cambridge studies in Medieval literature 98). In this fascinating study, Geoffrey Russom traces the evolution of the major English poetic traditions by reference to the evolution of the English language, and considers how verse forms are born, how they evolve, and why they die. Using a general theory of poetic form employing...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982. — 188 p.— (Arthurian Studies 4). Dr. Morris examines how the legend grew through the retelling of what medieval writers believed was the story of an historical figure, based not on some lost Welsh biography, but on Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain", the 'authorised' version of Arthur's career. She looks at his antecedents,...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 265 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 107). Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for investigating the intersection of body and mind that late Middle English literatures evoke....
Cambridge University Press 2024. — 264 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 125). Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto...
Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2002. — 468 p. — (Medieval European Studies 1). This book originated as a series of papers delivered at a Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture in Honor of J. E. Cross, held in conjunction with the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 1996. The purpose of that symposium was to bring...
Brepols, 2023. — 460 p. — (Studies in Old English Literature 2). Sources of Knowledge positions source studies in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature within a range of theoretical and methodological approaches as varied as disability studies, feminist theory, history of science, and network analysis, tracing how ideas move across cultures and showing how studying sources...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1929. — XXIII, 516 p. Table of contents Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Hauptvertreter Und Grundzüge Der Neulateinischen Lyrik Italiens Im 15. Und 16. Jahrhundert Erstes Kapitel. Rückblick auf das 14. Jahrhundert Zweites Kapitel. Die großen Humanisten des 15. Jahrhunderts Drittes Kapitel. Pontanus und die neapolitanische Akademie Viertes...
University of Exeter Press, 2005. — 416 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). The present volume contains an English translation of the Navigatio sancti Brendani and of the eight most significant vemacular versions of the legend, translated from the Anglo-Norman, Dutch, German, Italian, Occitan, Catalan, Norse and Middle English. Of particular interest is the presence here...
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. — 286 p. — (Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5). The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular medieval attitudes towards the female body. This study examines the extent to which they make use of such attitudes in their writing, and investigates the...
Routledge, 2012. — 363 p. — (Garland reference library of the humanities 2034; Garland medieval casebooks 21). These essays-written specifically for this book-provide a rich evaluation of this late 14th and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations and considers the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary and intellectual...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. — 486 p. — (Brepols Medieval Women). Julian of Norwich (c. 1343-c. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as "a simple creature unlettered," Julian is now widely recognized as one of the great speculative...
Boydell and Brewer Group, 2008. — 265 p. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature....
University of Exeter, 1979. — 73 p. — (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies). The essay on Julian of Norwich was first published in The English Way, Sheed and Ward, London, 1933, and that on Margery Kempe in Poets and Mystics, Sheed and Ward, London, 1953. Reissued with revisions. Both essays deal briefly and comprehensively with relevant biographical material. This is...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. — 343 p. Table of contents Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Erstes Kapitel. Vorklänge Zweites Kapitel. Johannes Secundus Und Dessen Brüder Drittes Kapitel. Zwischenspiel Viertes Kapitel. Leiden; Janus Dousa, Vater Und Sohn Fünftes Kapitel. Justus Lipsius Und Dessen Schüler Sechstes Kapitel. Domenicus Baudius Siebentes Kapitel. Daniel Heinsius...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. — 427 p. Inhaltsverzeichnis Erstes Kapitel. Der Erfurter Kreis Zweites Kapitel. Wittenberg Drittes Kapitel. Versuch einer Neubelebung der christlichen Poesie Viertes Kapitel. Einzelne Landschaften Fünftes Kapitel. Der preußische Schülers und Freundeskreis des Sabinus. Sechstes Kapitel. Die Frankfurter Schüler des Sabinus Siebentes Kapitel...
Brepols, 2024. — 292 p. — (Medieval Narratives in Transmission 3). 1066 is one of the most well-known dates in English history: but how far do we understand the mental and emotional lives of those who experienced it? In just over a month, England was rocked by two separate invasions, multiple pitched battles, and the deaths of thousands. The repercussions of these traumatic...
Boydell & Brewer, 2017. — 226 p. — (Gallica 42). The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. A character who is half-man, half devil, he possesses supernatural prophetic powers that allow him to know the entirety of the plot before it happens. This book examines translation in the French and Italian Merlin romances through Merlin's...
D.S. Brewer, 2012. — 294 p. — (Gallica 23). Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century 'Conte du Graal' has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. — 208 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance 6). A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval...
Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. — 311 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance). Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 386 p. — (Trends in Medieval Philology 36). Der Vater-Tochter-Inzest gehört zum Kernbestand kultureller Tabus und ist zugleich ein ausgesprochen produktives Thema in der Literatur. Die Studie widmet sich der Zeit von 1200 bis 1600, in der Inzest aus kirchenrechtlicher Perspektive primär juridische und theologische Fragen tangiert, und richtet ihren Fokus auf...
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1979. — pp. 303-401. — Gonda Jan (ed.). — (A history of Indian literature; Vol. V, Scientific and technical literature; Fasc. 4). — ISBN 3-447-02010-5. Introduction Characterization of Indian lexica Vācaspati's Śabdārnava, Vyāḍi's Utpalinī, Vikramāditya's Saṃsārāvarta Weber Fragment No. 6 Amarasiṃha's Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana Śāśvata's Anekārthasamuccaya...