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Arthurian Literature XVIIIby Keith Busby
Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 85.00This volume of Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal, combining critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts. Varied in their linguistic and chronological coverage, the articles deal with major areas of Arthurian studies, from early French romance through late medieval English chronicle to contemporary fiction. Topics include Béroul's Tristan, Tristan de Nanteuil, the Anglo-Norman Brut, and the Morte, while an edition of the text of an extrait of Chrétien's Erec et Enide prepared by the eighteenth-century scholar La Curne de Sainte-Palaye offers important insights into both scholarship on Chrétien, and our understanding of the Enlightenment. more...
Medieval Tradition of Thebesby Dominique Battles
Routledge 2004; US$ 123.00The first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages. more...
Merlinby Peter Goodrich; Norris J. Lacy
Routledge 2003; US$ 135.00This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Two of the reprinted essays are translated into English for the first time. more...
Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval Englandby Siegfried Wenzel; Alastair Minnis
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 44.00Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. Based on the extant manuscripts, this is the first systematic description and analysis of such collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. more...
In the footsteps of the ancientsby R.G. Witt
BRILL 2000; US$ 138.00This study shows the stages of intellectual development through which humanism emerged as a European phenomenon. An investigation of humanist culture in Italy between 1260 and 1340 shows how classical Roman rhetorical forms took root in Italy two generations before Petrarch. more...
Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Agesby J. Marenbon
BRILL 2001; US$ 182.00This collection of essays, written to honour Professor Peter Dronke on his retirement, addresses the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. more...
Alcuinby D.A. Bullough
BRILL 2004; US$ 223.00An intellectual biography of Alcuin, the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne. It examines his early years in Northumbria and his time at the Carolingian court, reassessing the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, and the significance of his large output. more...
Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Imageby A.S.Q. Visser
BRILL 2005; US$ 142.00This volume provides the first full study of Sambucus? influential Neo-Latin emblem book. By analysing individual emblems and the historical contexts in which they were shaped, a new picture emerges of the use of the emblem for Renaissance humanists. more...
Covert Gesturesby Vincent Barletta
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 60.00Covert Gestures reveals how the traditional Islamic narratives of the moriscos both shaped and encoded a wide range of covert social activity characterized by a profound and persistent concern with time and temporality. Using a unique blend of literary analysis, linguistic anthropology, and phenomenological philosophy, Vincent Barletta explores the narratives as testimonials of past human experiences and discovers in them evidence of community resistance. more...
Andreas Capellanus on Love?by Kathleen Andersen-Wyman
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00A new look at Andreas Capellanus's "De amore." more...