Sökt på: poetry
Vi gjorde istället en sökning på titeln poetry vilket gav totalt 24 träffar
Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Medieval France
The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the …
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch …
Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France. Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, …
Birds in Medieval English Poetry
First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower. Birds featured in many aspects …
Old Norse Women's Poetry
Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skáldkonur. The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most …
Middle English Biblical Poetry
A new analysis of the neglected genre of medieval Biblical poetry. Medieval England had a thriving culture of rewriting the Bible in art, drama, and literature in Latin, French and …
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The …
Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
English devotional poets of 17c set in a wider European and Catholic context. This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English …
Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the …
Gower's Vulgar Tongue: Ovid, Lay Religion, and English Poetry in the Confessio Amantis
Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the poem are presented here. After establishing his …