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Love Visions
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableSpanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of... more...
Thomas Matthews's Welsh Records in Paris
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 75.00This book is the first republication since 1910 of this important work by Thomas Matthews. It contains a series of documents and background information which provide a fascinating glimpse into selected aspects of Wales rich medieval history. more...
Pearl
Carcanet 2011; US$ 14.51In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ?my pearl, my girl?. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance. Its account of loss and consolation retains its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new translation... more...
Pearl
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 15.95One of the great treasures of the British Library, this 14th-century poem is a work of brilliance. This new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original, in which a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river in a dream landscape radiant with jewels. An account of loss and consolation that retains its force across... more...
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes , a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience... more...
John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to overshadow his contributions to English literature. Here, "fame" is identified as the key to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning in Chaucer's wake. The... more...
Guy of Warwick
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. more...
Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis , the most popular Middle English romance. more...
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 90.00A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. more...
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: vol. II
Boydell & Brewer 2005; US$ 130.00Long-awaited companion to the highly acclaimed first volume. more...









