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Ben Parsons
Introducing Medieval Animal Names

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary, documentary a…

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Elizabeth Chadwick
The Crownless Queen

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on dut…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Heather O'Donoghue
Beowulf

The Old English epic poem Beowulfhas an established reputation as a canonical text.And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book aims to pre…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland

"This open-access book fills a huge gap in the study of classical reception in Irish literature by making accessible in translation selections from a wide variety of C10th-C15th texts. These texts ar…

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Elizabeth Chadwick
The Crownless Queen

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland , has died on du…

lieferbar ab 9.4.2026.

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Patricia Lovett
The Art of the Scribe

Exploring the art of medieval and Renaissance calligraphy, The Art of the Scribe offers a hands-on guide with over twenty projects inspired by historical manuscripts, and includes stunning imagery and ste…

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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisati…

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the…

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Richard Cullen
Winter Warrior

The exciting new adventure in the Wolf of Kings series of historical adventures by Richard Cullen. England, 1069. King William has finally stamped his authority on this conquered kingdom. His lands are he…

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Rime

For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante's and Petrarch's lyric poetry has…

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Simone Marchesi
Vernacular Edens

This book examines the literary representation of gardens - a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction - and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.

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Natalia I Petrovskaia
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino ,…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publicat…

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Brenda Deen Schildgen
Boccaccio Defends Literature

This book unveils Boccaccio's defence of literature against claims of immorality by showcasing how both pagan and Christian literary works serve to heal, console, and provoke thoughtfulness.

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Alan Lupack (Director, The Robbins Library, and Adjunct Professor of English, University of Rochester), Alan Lupack (Director, The Robbins Library and Adjunct Professor of English, University of Rochester)
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of …

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Kathy Lavezzo
Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

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Kathy Lavezzo
Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

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