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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 Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
Boydell & Brewer 2013;The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical... more...
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
Boydell & Brewer 2013;This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of the century, John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis, alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave,... 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...
Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world. 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...
Mittelalterliche Poetik in Theorie und Praxis
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00For nearly forty years, the theory and practice of medieval poetics have been a central plank of Fritz Peter Knapp's research activity. The present Festschrift celebrating the jubilarian's 65th birthday brings together new studies by renowned scholars inside and outside Germany who carry forward the multi-layered discussion of poetological discourse... more...









