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The Chronicle of Duke Erik

A Verse Epic from Medieval Sweden

Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are accompanied by prose renditions and commentary, making the work enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts. A valuable source ... Leer más

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Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are accompanied by prose renditions and commentary, making the work enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts. A valuable source
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Gaimar's <I>Estoire des Engleis</I>: Kingship and Power

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Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is its author's sole surviving work. His translation and adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, expanded with a number of lengthy interpolations which appear to draw upon oral traditions and other, unknown written sources, is all that remains of an ambitious history which once reached back as far as Jason and the Golden Fleece. However, the extent of Gaimar's ... Leer más

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In the Doorway of All Worlds

Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints

de Robin M Bower ...

Series Libro 89 - Toronto Iberic
The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the mester de clerecía.In the Doorway of All Worlds focuses on the four hagiographies Berceo produced as a unified body of poetic expression and world-building. Robin M. Bower traces the poet’s intricate ... Leer más

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Discourse in Old Norse Literature

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The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of verbal exchanges in Old Norse sagas presents the modern reader with the opportunity to speak face-to-face, as it were, with these great voices of the past ... Leer más

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The Art of Allusion

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Series series Material Texts
At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the ... Leer más

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Uncertain Refuge

Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

de Elizabeth Allen ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary was upheld under both canon and common law, and up to five hundred people sought sanctuary every year. What ... Leer más

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The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

de Kathryn Kerby-Fulton ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of English writing, in part as a result of the mass underemployment of clerks originally trained for the church but unable to find steady positions in it ... Leer más

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Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition

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de R. D. Perry ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods created a profusion of coterie forms as they sought to navigate their relationships with their contemporaries and ... Leer más

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Medieval Boundaries

Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature

de Sharon Kinoshita ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland, the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of ... Leer más

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Edición de Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...

Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
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Legally Absent, Virtually Present

de M. Krummel ...

Series series The New Middle Ages
Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England. ... Leer más

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Astralabe

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Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

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Series series The New Middle Ages
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Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

de Linda Marie Rouillard ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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de Michele Campopiano ...

Series series The New Middle Ages
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Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England

de Christopher M. Roman ...

Series series The New Middle Ages
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Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds

de Donald J. Kagay ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales

de Shawn Normandin ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

de B. Findley ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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The Chronicle of Duke Erik

Gaimar's <I>Estoire des Engleis</I>: Kingship and Power

In the Doorway of All Worlds

Discourse in Old Norse Literature

The Art of Allusion

Uncertain Refuge

The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition

Medieval Boundaries

Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World

The Black Death and its Impact on the Church and Popular Religion

La critique poétique des Arabes jusqu’au Ve siècle de l’Hégire (XIe siècle de J.C.)

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England

Astralabe

Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

Writing the Holy Land

Queering Richard Rolle

The Lesbian Premodern

Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375

Chaucerian Ecopoetics

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative