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First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and …
A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature.The first volume of this set views the development of writing in …
Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "e;Internationally Nationalist"e;, "e;Someone Else's Past?"e;, and …
An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and …
Essays discussing the medieval book, its owners and its readers.Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered …
Unspoken desire in trouvere song.This study brings the songs of the trouveres to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and …
Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those who did not know …
Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere.Early medieval …
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.The contemporary fascination with the …
First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the …