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The Book of Memory
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars …
The Beginnings of Medieval Romance
Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The …
The Medieval Manuscript Book
Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the …
Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and …
Dante and Difference
This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text.
The First English Bible
The Bible was translated into English for the first time in the late 1300s by John Wyclif and his supporters. In the first study of the Wycliffite Bible for nearly a century, Mary …
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly …
Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry
Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of deeply-felt religious devotion centuries before it is commonly said to arise. Her ground-breaking study establishes the hybrid poetics …
Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England
Lisa H. Cooper offers new insight into the relationship of material practice and literary production in the Middle Ages by exploring the representation of craft labor in England …
From England to Bohemia
This is the first book-length study of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and Bohemia following Richard II's marriage to Anne of …
Piers Plowman and the New Anticlericalism
This book is an extended investigation of the anticlericalism of the medieval English poem Piers Plowman.
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for private readers. This book …