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Illuminating the 'Roman d'Alexandre': Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 99.00Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations... more...
The Song of Roland
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 10.95Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to the nuance and detail of the narrative and the poetry of the original text. more...
Cultural Performances in Medieval France
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 99.00A celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of Nancy Freeman Regalado in the field of medieval French literature. more...
A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00This study of the Holy Grail, drawing on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, argues that the Grail should be read as a symptom of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation. more...
Miraculous Rhymes
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00This study of wordplay and rhetorical style in the highly individualistic Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236), monk and musician, offers an introduction to readers who have hitherto had little access to him in English, and a detailed analysis and appraisal of more...
Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00The Roman de Perceforest explores issues of ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity in an imaginary pre-Arthurian Britain, ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. more...
A Companion to Wace
Boydell & Brewer 2005; US$ 90.00Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in his historical and cultural context. more...
A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes
Boydell & Brewer 2005; US$ 90.00One of the most important medieval authors studied in historical and literary context. more...
Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Daniel Sipe focuses on the persistent afterlife of utopias in works by artists and writers who include François-René de Chateaubriand, Etienne Cabet, J.J. Grandville, Charles Barbara, Auguste Villiers de lIsle-Adam, Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, and Charles Baudelaire. By juxtaposing these works with those of social scientists such... more...
Medievalist Enlightenment
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 85.00The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out. more...









