'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance

Patricia E Grieve

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 32
• This comparative study examines Floire and Blancheflor and shows how medieval writers from Spain, France, Italy, England, and Scandinavia reworked thi... Lees meer

Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature

Jane Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 84
• Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the l... Lees meer

From England to Bohemia

Michael Van Dussen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 86
• This is the first book-length study of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and Bohemia following Richard... Lees meer

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 33
• This collection examines the significance of the ways in which writing was used in the Celtic countries between c.400 and c.1500. It is concerned with... Lees meer

Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages

Rita Copeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 44
• This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy,... Lees meer

Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia

Jonas Wellendorf

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 103
• The coming of Christianity to Northern Europe resulted in profound cultural changes. In the course of a few generations, new answers were given to fun... Lees meer

Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages

Isabel Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 62
• Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davi... Lees meer

The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship

Jenni Nuttall

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 67
• The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which developed alongside new expectation... Lees meer

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

Nicolette Zeeman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 59
• This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire... Lees meer

Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature

William E Burgwinkle

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 51
• Shedding new light on the representations of masculinity and same-sex desire in medieval literature, William Burgwinkle offers a historical survey of ... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages

Peter Godman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 75
• The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity an... Lees meer

Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

Emily V Thornbury

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 88
• Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete... Lees meer

Fictions of Identity in Medieval France

Donald Maddox

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 43
• In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of ident... Lees meer

Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy

Alison Cornish

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 83
• Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translat... Lees meer

The Myth of Piers Plowman

Lawrence Warner

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 89
• Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which schol... Lees meer

Middle English Mouths

Katie L Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 105
• The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance t... Lees meer

Poetry and Music in Medieval France

Ardis Butterfield

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 49
• Ardis Butterfield examines the relationship between the poetry and music of medieval France. Beginning when French song was first set into writing in ... Lees meer

Dante and Difference

Jeremy Tambling

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 2
• This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing t... Lees meer

Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun

John M Fyler

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 63
• Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and d... Lees meer

Dante and the Mystical Tradition

Steven Botterill

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 22
• In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest sp... Lees meer

Landscape in Middle English Romance

Andrew M Richmond

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environme... Lees meer

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

Nicolette Zeeman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 59
• This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire... Lees meer

Troubadours and Irony

Simon Gaunt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 3
• From Petrarch and Dante to Pound and Eliot, the influence of the troubadours on European poetry has been profound. They have rightly stimulated a vast... Lees meer

Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400

Katharine Breen

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature | nr. 79
• This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus - that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that resu... Lees meer