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Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 34.00This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. 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 Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era. 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...
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his poetry, prose and translations. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work, his relationship to Chaucer, and his central role in the developing literary culture of the fifteenth century. more...
Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 36.00This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Though mosts texts of the period denounce sodomy, this book shows how some also endorse it. more...
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