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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 …
Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "e;Internationally Nationalist"e;, "e;Someone Else's Past?"e;, and …
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 …
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 …
A range of manuscripts and texts from various social contexts studied for what they reveal of that social background.Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of …
An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin …
New and fresh assessments of Malory's Morte Darthur.The essays here are devoted to that seminal Arthurian work, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Developments of papers first …
A rigorous investigation of Socrates' early education, pinpointing the thought that led Socrates to turn from natural science to the study of morality, ethics, and politicsPlato's …