Investigations into the heroic or not behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance.Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of...
Catalogue and scholarly consideration of these vital manuscripts.Following her vital cataloguing of the surviving 200+ manuscripts of the Historia Regum Britanniein Volume III, Julia Crick...
Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the firstknown woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage,...
Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the firstknown woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage,...
The essays in this volume, from the 1992 J.A.W. Bennett Symposium, explore varied aspects of the interpretation of texts in middle English literature, and, in...
There is fairly general agreement that the modern reader's appreciation of Chaucer's writings can be enhanced by providing the reader with guides to Chaucerian background'...
The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 25.This book considers the professional contribution of...
An examination of the subject of 'fame' in Lydgate, showing it as central to his work.John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenthcentury...
Despite the strange and distant nature of her life and subjectmatter, the works of Julian of Norwich remain immediate and compelling. Her Revelations are recorded...
Despite the strange and distant nature of her life and subjectmatter, the works of Julian of Norwich remain immediate and compelling. Her Revelations are recorded...
Renee Curtis's threevolume critical edition of the Prose Tristan is the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume...
Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.During the last thirty years, the study...
New critical edition of complete work of 12c Occitanian troubadour Marcabru, crucial figure in development of European courtly lyric.One of the earliest troubadours, Marcabru was...
A fresh reading of Marvell's most important works, exploring the variety and complexity of his approaches to contemporary religious and political events.Andrew Marvell's celebrated poetic...
Historicist readings of the politics and ethics exhibited in a range of medieval texts including Chaucer, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays.Critical historicist readings...
Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.This book uses literary texts to trace the development of medieval thinking about...
Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.This book uses literary texts to trace the development of medieval thinking about...
The significance of Old French hagiography in current theoretical debates in medieval studies and the humanities.Contending that the study of hagiography is significant both for...
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What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.An important and...
What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.An important and...
Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.One of the major problems in feminist literary criticism is the tendency...
An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism.Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their...
Essays on festive drama plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies of the European middle ages, with comparative material.Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and folkcustoms...
An investigation of the public image of women as presented in contemporary drama.The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays, supplemented by...
This collection gathers in one place the essays that have done most to shape the modern critical discussion of the Confessio Amantis, and illustrates, by...
Collection Of Letters And Texts Offering Guidance For Nuns, And Including Selections From Abelard'S Letters To Heloise.These Translated Letters And Texts Composed For Younger And...
Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise.These translated letters and texts composed for younger and...
The first study to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of the legend of St Helena, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from...
Investigations into the heroic or not behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance.Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of...
Catalogue and scholarly consideration of these vital manuscripts.Following her vital cataloguing of the surviving 200+ manuscripts of the Historia Regum Britanniein Volume III, Julia Crick...
Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the firstknown woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage,...
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