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A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 80.00This book contains an overview of the current state of scholarship on Beowulf, looking back over the history of the field and suggesting new directions for future research. More than 1,000 books, articles, recordings and websites are surveyed and a nuanced sense is offered of the great variety of views that have been expressed on this greatest of all... more...
'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 135.00Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge?s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300?s. It consists of a dialogue between Metge-the-character and several participants (in fact the book... more...
Moult a sans et vallour
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 112.00William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific... 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...
Adam's Grace
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 99.00The theme of Adam's Grace is the interplay of theology and literature across a wide range of genres and vernaculars: in particular, the use of medieval literary texts to explain the balance of the Fall and Redemption, the universality of original sin, and the identity of mankind with its first parents, Adam and Eve. The process begins with the Christian... more...
Adamgirk'
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 134.99The first English translation of a major work of medieval literature: the Armenian epic poem on Adam and Eve, Adamgirk, composed by Arak`el of Siwnik` in the early fifteenth century. Michael E. Stone also supplies an illuminating introduction. - ;This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el... more...
Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 103.00For centuries, the Arthurian legends have fascinated and inspired countless writers, artists, and readers, many of whom first became acquainted with the story as youngsters. From the numerous retellings of Malory and versions of Tennyson for young people to the host of illustrated volumes to which the Arthurian Revival gave rise. From the Arthurian... more...
Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. This book examines five of Aelfric's saints' Lives in their contemporary political and intellectual setting. more...
Aelfric's Life of Saint Basil the Great
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 99.00Full study, with text and facing translation, of an influential tenth-century work. more...
Aliscans
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 419.00For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served as a template for Wolfram von Eschenbach?s novel in verse, Willehalm, one of the most important works of the German Middle Ages and in world literature. The primary source for the text is the edition based on the Venetian manuscript M... more...









