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Annes Bohemia
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 84.00Considers the development of Czech literature and society from the election of Count John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1310 to the year 1420, when the papacy declared a Catholic crusade against the Hussite reformers. This period is of particular relevance to the study of medieval England because of the marriage of Richard II to Anne of Bohemia,... more...
Tradition and Belief
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 72.00In this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious texts?sermons, homilies, and saints? lives written in Old English?Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England. By placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature... more...
Andreas Capellanus on Love?
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00A new look at Andreas Capellanus's De amore. more...
Amoral Gower
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 72.00Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gower?s writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to... more...
Leiden lesen
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 182.00This study isan analysis of the facets of compassion in Wolfram's Parzival, which was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century. In order to grasp the actual meaning of compassio during this time, the analysis of the epic poem is preceded by additional examples from the High Middle Ages. These examples consist of excerpts taken from clerical... more...
Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century. more...
The Origins of Beowulf
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 149.99This fascinating study suggests that the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. The place of composition is given as the minster of Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire (now Derbyshire) and the poet as Eanmund, abbot of Breedon. -... more...
Tiere und Fabelwesen im Mittelalter
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This volume aims to take an interdisciplinary cultural studies approach to the animal in its various medieval manifestations - in science, religion, history, pictorial art and literature - and to define its significance in the cultural life of the age. Important differences from modern viewpoints will emerge, but there are also commonalities and continuities,... more...
The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England. more...
A - K
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 503.00The two-volume reference work is an important part of the renowned Verfasserlexikon zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters [Author Lexicon of German Literature of the Middle Ages], and, using the established systematics of the main work, documents and presents bio-bibliographical articles from Latin literature and science in the German-speaking area... more...









