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Songbook
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received—a collaboration of artists, performers, live... more...
The Medieval Romance of Alexander
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00First translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur. Jean Wauquelin's work tells the whole story of Alexander's career, from his miraculous birth to his murder at the height of his powers. more...
The Medieval Poet as Voyeur
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 42.00In his new book, leading medievalist A. C. Spearing provides the only study of the many scenes of secret watching and listening in medieval love-stories, and of the way that the central importance of these scenes encourages both the poets and their readers to imagine themselves as voyeurs in relation to what they read. more...
Arminius vs. Siegfried
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 36.37Arminius und Siegfried dienten einst als patriotische Vorbilder und auch heute noch spielen sie im kulturellen Leben Deutschlands eine gewisse Rolle. Es umgibt sie der Mythos des stereotypen germanischen Helden, der sich in mehreren hundert Jahren entwickelte und stets im Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der deutschen Nation, Literatur und des deutschen... more...
Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 40.00A comparative study of Floire and Blancheflor and its versions in medieval and Renaissance Europe. more...
Lyrische Narrationen ? narrative Lyrik
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 182.00The volume is devoted to the relations, interrelations and interferences between narrative and lyric texts. Firstly it contains literary theory chapters on the possibilities of analysing lyric poetry from a narratological perspective, and then it presents and discusses historical case studies from medieval European literature which give a practical... more...
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