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Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 30.00Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacular in the literature of late-medieval England. more...
Philosophical Chaucer
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00This innovative study argues that the Canterbury Tales represents Chaucer's most extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. Mark Miller uncovers Chaucer's debt to Boethius, Augustine, and other philosophers and shows how Chaucer's literary experiments represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains relevant to today's... more...
Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland shows how how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. more...
The Wycliffite Heresy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 35.00A study of the Wycliffite heresy, otherwise known as Lollardy, which flourished in England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Kantik Ghosh shows that, whatever the fate of Lollardy as a religious movement, the debates it initiated changed the intellectual landscape of England. more...
Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. In this, the first study of its kind in English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts. more...
Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England
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...
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...
Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Maddox considers the construction of identity in a range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood. more...
The Early History of Greed
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00In this first full study of the early history of greed Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for possessions, was increasingly dominant in a wide range of theological and literary texts from the first century CE to the end of the tenth century. more...
London Literature, 1300-1380
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding, with a strongly local focus. Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing and shows how romance, administrative and theological writing underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman. more...









