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  • - Essays in Honor of Otto Grundler
     
    237,-

    A university exists to make known what can only be revealed by consistent, dedicated effort. Ultimately, a university exists in order to understand the things that are hidden from ordinary, casual view. This is a message that is subtly reinforced by all of the articles in this volume.

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    243,-

    Essays in this volume offer non-Italian scholars a representative sample of current European research and a summary of recent debates regarding the historical evolution of those republics that posed the most formidable obstacles to the extension of Florentine hegemony.

  • - Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre
     
    260,-

    The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic at all, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through centuries and topics specific to certain works.

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    260,-

    This anthology aims to add to a deeper understanding of the tradition of natural law throughout the medieval period. It runs contrary to the opinion so commonly held since the Renaissance, that any tradition deemed medieval has little or even nothing to offer to contemporary needs and interests.

  • av Jeanette Beer
    296,-

    Collection of essays derived from a symposium conducted as part of the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 6-9,1993

  • - The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
     
    260,-

    The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies.

  • - Studies in Medieval Woman's Song
     
    260,-

    Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This is not an attempt to completely cover the field but to offer an introduction and guide to those who are not familiar with woman's song, and a stimulation to those who are.

  • - Essays in Honor of Otto Grundler
     
    263,-

    A university exists to make known what can only be revealed by consistent, dedicated effort. Ultimately, a university exists in order to understand the things that are hidden from ordinary, casual view. This is a message that is subtly reinforced by all of the articles in this volume.

  • - Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
     
    251,99

    Malory's use of myth and magic to explore his themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look.

  • - Pilgrimage and Crusade
     
    349,-

    Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays explores the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought.

  • - Essays on Deviant Speech
     
    239,-

    Together the essays present a clear picture of what we know about deviant speech in medieval culture, a picture that has begun to achieve the depth and richness of scholarship on slander in the early modern period, exploring what speech acts can tell us about gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics and literary craftsmanship.

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    262,-

    As a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds-the world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Ages-and his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both.

  • - Essays at the Millennium
     
    241,-

    The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. As well as place, the political element in Gower's writings has been subject to fruitful recent scrutiny; and again, there are important linkages and overlaps among these essays on such matter too.

  • - Social Identity and Familial Structures
     
    210,-

    This collection of essays is the first published in North America that seeks to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise that is hailed in the preface to the volume as "one of the most vibrant, innovative, and productive movements in medieval scholarship at the present time."

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    239,-

    This volume contains collected papers on medieval England's names and naming patterns--mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names.

  • - Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World
     
    977,-

    Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu.

  • - Tudor Views of the Middle Ages
     
    239,-

    From Shakespeare's manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, essays explore the ways that early modern writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, intertextuality and cultural history.

  • - Essays at the Millennium
     
    262,-

    The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. As well as place, the political element in Gower's writings has been subject to fruitful recent scrutiny; and again, there are important linkages and overlaps among these essays on such matter too.

  • - Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis
     
    296,-

    Throughout the career of Ambrose Raftis two themes or convictions have been in evidence: a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and women and a belief in their ability to make choices.

  • - Essays on Translation and Performance
     
    332,-

    "Beowulf at Kalamazoo" is of interest to Anglo-Saxonists, translation theorists, linguists, oral and performance theorists, and anyone anywhere in an English department who teaches Beowulf in translation.

  • - Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan
     
    510,-

    Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg.

  • - The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
     
    260,-

    The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies.

  • - Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon
     
    237,-

    The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable impact on medieval studies as a whole.

  • - Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages
     
    237,-

    Thirteen essays, constituting a series of chapters in the history of preaching. The essays present a diversity of historical periods, audiences, and methodologies. Ranging in time from the 700s to 1511, from Johannes Herolt's Germany to Ramon Llull's Mallorca, from Bede's England to the Italy of Bernadino of Siena and Egidio da Viterbo.

  • - Recent Readings
     
    269,-

    The 13 essays included here all represent a fresh approach by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower's work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.

  • - Pilgrimage and Crusade
     
    471,99

    Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays explores the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought.

  • - Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs
     
    517,-

    This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.

  • - Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
     
    1 361,-

    collection represents most of the papers delivered on the conference theme of the Fifth Meeting (1991) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, which was the first ISAS meeting in the United States.

  • - Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle
     
    452,-

    Collection of essays in honor of John Leyerle. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. Essays reflect his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, international contributors.

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