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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller's Guide ... Ian Mortimer's... more...
The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. more...
Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1976; US$ 158.00Anglo Saxon Poetry
Orion 2012; Not AvailableMistaking The Whale for a longed-for piece of land, a group of worn-out sailors disembark and light warming fires on it... more...
Arbitrary Rule
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule , Mary Nyquist... more...
The Beginnings of Medieval Romance
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 40.00Until the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, but the second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre consciously conceived as fictional, the romance. Dennis Green explores how and why this shift occurred. more...
Medieval Texts in Context
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 145.00This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors?... more...
Print Culture and the Medieval Author
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 124.99Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.... more...
Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 110.00This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of Medieval Britain. more...









