Hybrid Healing

Lori Ann Garner

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old ... Lees meer

Rebel Angels

Jill Fitzgerald

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings toge... Lees meer

Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - te... Lees meer

Practising Shame

Mary C Flannery

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against ... Lees meer

Bestsellers and Masterpieces

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those... Lees meer

Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the int... Lees meer

Water and fire

Daniel Anlezark

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book ... Lees meer

Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature

Megan Leitch

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an ... Lees meer

Dating Beowulf

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word 'dating', which usually... Lees meer

Reading Robin Hood

Stephen Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present day has stood up for the values of natural la... Lees meer

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry

Denis Ferhatovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an ima... Lees meer

A Landscape of Words

Amy C Mulligan

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region an... Lees meer

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Nicholas Perkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to ques... Lees meer

Affective Medievalism

Thomas A Prendergast, Stephanie Trigg

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutuall... Lees meer

Performing Women

Susannah Crowder

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female p... Lees meer

Greenery

Gillian Rudd

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Greenery blends current ecological concerns with informed analysis of medieval literature to arrive at new readings of late medieval English texts, so... Lees meer

Gesta Romanorum

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This volume contains an entirely new and accessible translation into modern English of the medieval Latin Gesta Romanorum. Based on the standard Gesta... Lees meer

Affective Medievalism

Thomas A Prendergast, Stephanie Trigg

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutuall... Lees meer

Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval rid... Lees meer

The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture

Laura Varnam

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and... Lees meer

Practising Shame

Mary C Flannery

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against ... Lees meer

Painful Pleasures

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint's Lives and mystical treatises provide evidenc... Lees meer

A Knight's Legacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle-Ages. Translated into many European langua... Lees meer

The Narrative Grotesque in Medieval Scottish Poetry

Caitlin Flynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglas's The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunbar'... Lees meer