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'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance
This comparative 1997 study examines a medieval love story, Floire and Blancheflor, and shows how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and Scandinavia reworked the story from …
'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Nicolette Zeeman traces the …
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of …
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of …
Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes
Chretien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative.
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 …
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England
Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what …
Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript sources, this study uncovers the culture of experimentation that surrounded biblical exegesis in fourteenth-century England. In an …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich …
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also …
Cantar de mio Cid
Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy, then into genealogical values.
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs …