Literatures of the Hundred Years War

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted th... Lees meer

Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the t... Lees meer

Hybrid Healing

Lori Ann Garner

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative method... Lees meer

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Nicholas Perkins

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging fr... 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

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Nicholas Perkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging fr... Lees meer

Painful Pleasures

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier ... 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

A Landscape of Words

Amy C Mulligan

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years... Lees meer

Dating Beowulf

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they orga... Lees meer

Between Earth and Heaven

Johanna Kramer

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic as... Lees meer

Bestsellers and Masterpieces

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the 'modern canon' of medieval literatur... Lees meer

Rebel Angels

Jill Fitzgerald

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book examines the 'fall of the angels' tradition in early medieval sermons, saints' lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It ar... Lees meer

The Heat of Beowulf

Daniel C Remein

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, ar... Lees meer

Practising Shame

Mary C Flannery

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

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry

Denis Ferhatovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia - creative transformations ... 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

Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature

Megan Leitch

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres... 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

Difficult Pasts

Mimi Ensley

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

Medieval Literary Voices

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices ev... Lees meer

Objects of Affection

Myra Seaman

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English... Lees meer

Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France

• Hardcover | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship be... Lees meer

The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture

Laura Varnam

• Paperback | Engels | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• This book places us at the heart of medieval religious life, standing inside the church with the medieval laity in order to ask what it meant to them ... Lees meer