Literatures of the Hundred Years War

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literat... Lees meer

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

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

The Scottish Legendary

Eva Von Contzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the verna... Lees meer

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Nicholas Perkins

• Paperback | 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

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

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

Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture

Bill Burgwinkle, Cary Howie

• Hardcover | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Through readings of texts and images, from premodern France and Italy as well as Anglo-American modernity, Sanctity and pornography in medieval cultur... 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, highly influencing European percepti... Lees meer

Between Earth and Heaven

Johanna Kramer

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examin... 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

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

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

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

The Heat of Beowulf

Daniel C Remein

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The heat of Beowulf develops a new approach to the aesthetics of Beowulf by engaging with the work of twentieth-century poets Robin Blaser and Jack Sp... 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

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

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

Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England

Mary Beth Long

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the... Lees meer

Medieval Literary Voices

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Voice is a fleeting physical phenomenon that leaves behind traces of its existence. Medieval literary voices offers a wide-reaching approach to the co... Lees meer

Difficult Pasts

Mimi Ensley

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literar... Lees meer

Objects of Affection

Myra Seaman

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known a... Lees meer

Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from th... Lees meer

Parlement of Foulys

Geoffrey Chaucer

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This edition of the best of Chaucer' s shorter poems ranges widely over the major concerns necessary to a full understanding of the text, including it... Lees meer