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  • - The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure
     
    349,-

    This edition-with contextualizing introductions, helpful glosses, plentiful notes, and useful glossary-comprises a great introduction to Middle English Arthuriana for students of the Middle Ages.

  • - Volume 1
     
    513,-

    British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.

  • - Volume 3
     
    513,-

    British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.

  • - Volume 2
     
    517,-

    British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.

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    263,-

    The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.

  • - King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston
     
    499,-

    Ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.

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    202,-

    Describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Accessible to students and teachers by including a gloss, introduction, notes, and glossary. This text gives a great introduction to the ethos of mysticism in the middle ages.

  • - The Motets
     
    513,-

    A new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, based on manuscript Paris, Bibliotheque nationale fonds francais 1584, with an introduction presenting a fresh appraisal of these works, an art-historical study of the manuscript illumination that accompanies them, as well as full commentaries for each motet and English translations of their lyrics.

  • - The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour
     
    513,-

    Edition and translation from Guillaume de Machaut's Debate Series, Le jugement dou roy de Behaigne, Le jugement dou roy de Navarre, Le lay de plour.

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    239,-

    A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.

  • - Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality
     
    263,-

    Anonymous English dream vision allegory produced, probably, in the third quarter of the 15th century. Blends didacticism with the mythological and the courtly, and seeks to bring Reson and Sensualyte into accord by means of an assembly of the classical gods that is called to adjudicate the relative merits of Discorde's desire to overthrow Vertu.

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    328,-

    The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone and aesthetic quality. Taken together, they express the full range of a people's effort to voice its anxieties and joys through Mary.

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    237,-

    An excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. This is a valuable introduction to Charlemagne romances and is accessible to beginners in Middle English because of contextualizing introductions and glosses for each text, as well as a helpful glossary.

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    181,-

    An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. Incl. contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; also an extensive glossary for the entire volume. Useful to not only beginning students of Middle English and thos more advanced.

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    196,-

    The Middle English texts of three "Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent". An edition aimed at students and designed for classroom use, with contextual introductions and marginal glosses of unfamiliar words and phrases. Second, revised edition.

  • - Selections
     
    349,-

    "The Wallace" catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed.

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    247,-

    Reflects the wide scope of these "prison poems" by bringing together a new edition of "The Kingis Quair," a selection from Charles d'Orleans' "Fortunes Stabilnes," a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.

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    251,-

    Fascinating first-person account of the visions experienced by the anchoress Julian of Norwich in May of 1373. This practical edition includes a gloss, an introduction, notes, and a glossary, making it valuable to students of Middle English and medieval mysticism alike.

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    210,-

    The poem chronicles a historical war, and it is this historical quality that must stand out: the poem not only has resonances of the bloodshed that battle inevitably brings, but it also is, in a very literal sense, history. That is to say, the war is over. The vengeance of Jesus has been accomplished.

  • - Stephen Scrope's The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod
     
    1 227,-

    Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English translations, Stephen Scrope's precise translation The Epistle of Othea and the anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod, once criticized as a flawed translation. Substantial introductions, comprehensive explanatory notes.

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    242,-

    The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition is an essential resource.

  • - Floris and Blancheflour, Sir Degrevant, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tournament of Tottenham, and The Feast of Tottenham
     
    239,-

    A unique collection of Middle English romances, each with a different view of society, ranging from a tale of oriental wonders ("Floris and Blancheflour") to excellent examples of the burlesque ("The Tournament of Tottenham" and "The Feast of Tottenham").

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    513,-

    Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English readers.

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    1 032,-

    These six poems -- including Sir David Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum and three anonymous works -- explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society.

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    919,-

    The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition is an essential resource.

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    216,-

    Mid-14th-century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur to prove himself worthy of joining Arthur's knights. The young knight is tested in a variety of ways, and learns both chivalric codes of conduct and the truth of his parentage.

  • - Stephen Scrope's The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod
     
    539,-

    Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English translations, Stephen Scrope's precise translation The Epistle of Othea and the anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod, once criticized as a flawed translation. Substantial introductions, comprehensive explanatory notes.

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    296,-

    Four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included.

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    256,-

    This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe.

  • - The Boethian Poems, Le Remede de Fortune and Le Confort d'Ami
     
    1 227,-

    A new edition of two of Machaut's best known dits, the Remede de Fortune (Remedy for Fortune) and the Confort d'ami (Consolation from a Friend), with detailed commentaries on Machaut, these poetical works, the accompanying music, and the art program of the base manuscript.

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