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Book SynopsisNewest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious plays , and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. The papers in this volume explore richly interlocking topics. Themes of royalty and play continue from Volume 43. We have the first in-depth examination of the employment of the now-famous Black Tudor trumpeter, John Blanke, at the royal courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. An entertaining survey of the popular European game of blanket-tossing accompanies the translation of a raucous, sophisticated, but surprisingly humane Dutch rederijkers farce. The Towneley plays remain fertile ground for further research, and this blanket-tossing farce illuminates a key scene of the well-known Second Shepherd's Play. New exploration of a colloquial reference to 'Stafford Blue' in another Towneley pageant, Noah, not only enlivens the play's social context but contributes to important current re-thinking of the manuscript's date. Two papers bring home the theatrical potential of food and eating. We learn how the Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau dramatises the preparation and provision of food from the Genesis story. Serving and eating meals becomes a means of social, theological, and theatrical manipulation. Contrastingly, in the N. Town Last Supper play and a French convent drama, we see how the bread of Passover, the Last Supper, and the Mass could be evoked, layered and shared in performance. In both these plays the audiences' experiences of theatre and of communion overlap and inform each other.Table of ContentsJohn Blanke's Wages: No Business Like Show Business - Nadia van Pelt Perpetually Editing Towneley: A Speculative Textual Note on Mrs Noah's 'Stafford Blue' - Pamela M. King Understanding the Blanket-Toss in Medieval Drama: The Case of Een Cluijt van Lijsgen en Jan Lichthart - Ben Parsons and Bas Jongenelen Alimentary Address and the Management of Appetite and Hunger in Jacob and Esau - Ernst Gerhardt Last Supper, First Communion: Some Staging Challenges in N. Town and the Huy Nuns' Play based on Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine - Elisabeth Dutton and Olivia Robinson

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Book SynopsisAn exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel 1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry 1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell 2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Victoria Condie 3 Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton's Wulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo 4 Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in Museums - Fran Allfrey II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction 5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel 6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake (2014) - Judy Kendall 7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly 8 Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson III Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English 9 Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler 10 Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old English Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatović 11 The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual IV Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom 12 Mitchell & Robinson's Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy - Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany 13 The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele Knappe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - a monstrous creature swapped for a human child by malevolent powers - is an enduring image in the popular imagination; dubbing a child a changeling is traditionally understood as a way to justify the often-violent rejection of a disabled or ailing infant. Belief in the reality of changelings is famously attested in Stephen of Bourbon's disapproving thirteenth-century account of rites at the shrine of Saint Guinefort the Holy Greyhound, where sick children were brought to be cured. However, the focus on the St. Guinefort rituals has meant some scholarly neglect of the wealth of other sources of knowledge (including mystery plays and medical texts) and the nuances with which the changeling motif was used in this period. This interdisciplinary study considers the idea of the changeling as a cultural construct through an examination of a broad range of medical, miracle, and imaginative texts, as well as the lives of three more conventional Saints, Stephen, Bartholomew and Lawrence, who, in their infancy, were said to have been replaced by a demonic changeling. The author highlights how people from all walks of life were invested in both creating and experiencing the images, texts and artefacts depicting these changelings, and examines societal tensions regarding infants and children: their health, their care, and their position within the familial unit.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Study 1: Health and Changelings 2: Care of Changelings 3: Neglecting the Baby Conclusion Part II: Manuscript and Visual Sources Corpus of Non-Hagiographic Changeling Sources Corpus of Hagiographic Changeling Sources Notes to the Corpus of Hagiographic Changeling Sources Part III: Edited Texts and Translations Notker's Commentary on Psalm 17, verse 46 Saint Stephen Saint Bartholomew Saint Lawrence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOld English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history but, this book argues, the upheaval inspired them to produce some of the most famous landmark texts in early Old English studies. England in the 1640s and 1650s experienced civil wars, regicide, and unprecedented debate over religious and social structures, but it also saw several milestones in the field of early medieval English studies. This book argues that the scholars of Old English who produced these works did so not in spite but because of the intense political upheaval surrounding them. The opening chapters examine the book collecting and lexicographic endeavors of the Parliamentarian Simonds D'Ewes, sponsor of the professorship of "Saxon" at Cambridge University, and Abraham Wheelock's pro-Stuart "Old English" poetry and the puritan overtones of his edition of the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica. It then moves on to consider the constitutionalist Roger Twysden's depiction of early English laws as the cornerstone for English identity in his edition of Archaionomia and the Leges Henrici Primi; and the royalist and Laudian bent of both William Somner's chorographic work and his Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, the first printed dictionary of Old English. It concludes by an exploration of the way in which William Dugdale deployed early medieval events to comment on his present day in his monumental county history, Antiquities of Warwickshire. The volume as a whole suggests that the crises through which these scholars lived and worked spurred their research to engage with both the past and present, using Old English texts as a lens through which to view understand and contribute to contemporary debates about the English church and state.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Medieval Studies in a Time of Crisis Chapter One: Medievalism, the Self, and the World: Simonds D'Ewes and His Books Chapter Two: Abraham Wheelock's Godly Historian: The 1643 / 1644 Bede Chapter Three: The Law's Deep Roots: Roger Twysden's Edition of William Lambarde's Archaionomia and Leges Henrici Primi Chapter Four: Monuments and Memory: William Somner's Antiquities of Canterbury and Poems on the Regicide Chapter Five: "The Saxons Live Againe": William Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum Chapter Six: The Echoing Past: William Dugdale and Early Medieval Warwickshire Epilogue: Texts in Conversation: John Milton's Paradise Regained and the Old English Christ and Satan

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Place and the defence of Arthur 1. 'Thise were his places and his habitacions': Arthur in situ in the fifteenth century 2. Contentious places: Reconciling Arthurian places in the fifteenth century 3. The Best of the West: John Leland's West Country Arthur 4. Locating Arthur in England and Wales: John Leland, John Prise, and Elis Gruffydd 5. Placing Arthur in William Camden's Britannia Coda: Arthur's local renaissance?

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Book SynopsisEssays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.Table of ContentsPreface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker by Shannon Murray and Anne Savage Introduction: Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence - CATE GUNN, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY and NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA PART I: THE WOOING GROUP: SILENCE AND ARTICULATION Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde - ANNIE SUTHERLAND Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd - DENIS RENEVEY Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya and the Wooing Group - AYOUSH LAZIKANI PART II: DEVOTIONAL TEXTS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God - MARGARET HEALY-VARLEY Speaking beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living - JENNIFER N. BROWN 'Speech is silver, silence gold': Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women - ANNE MOURON Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late-Medieval Religious Imaginary - LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY PART III: HEARING AND SPEAKING: UNCOVERING THE FEMALE READER Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized - NICHOLAS WATSON Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford - KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON A Ladder for Sisters - MICHAEL SARGENT PART IV: MANUSCRIPTS SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERS Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director - JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children - MICHELLE M. SAUER Cecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety - NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA Envoi: 'Þis seli stilðe': Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World? - CATE GUNN Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker Index Tabula in Memoriam

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Book SynopsisArgues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen post-classical sagas.

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Book SynopsisEssays bringing out the richness of the hitherto neglected Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland. The reception of the Charlemagne legends among Nordic and Celtic communities in the Middle Ages is a shared story of transmission, translation, an exploration of national identity, and the celebration of imperialism. The articles brought together here capture for the first time the richness of the Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland and its coherence as a series of adaptations of Old French chansons de geste. Emerging from the French sources is a set of themes which unite the linguistically different Norse and Celtic Charlemagne traditions. The ideology of the Crusades, the dichotomy of Christian and heathen elements, the values of chivalry and the ideals of kingship are among the preoccupations common to both traditions. While processes of manuscript transmission are distinctive to each linguistic context, the essential function of the legends as explorations of political ideology, emotion, and social values creates unity across the language groups. From the Old Norse Karlamagnús saga to the Irish and Welsh narratives, the chapters present a coherent set of perspectives on the northern reception of the Charlemagne legends beyond the nation of England. Contributors: Massimiliano Bampi, Claudia Bornholdt, Aisling Byrne, Luciana Cordo Russo, Helen Fulton, Jon Paul Heyne, Susanne Kramarz-Bein, Erich Poppe, Annalee C. Rejhon, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Hélène Tétrel.Table of ContentsGeneral Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon, Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett Maps Introduction: Transmission of Charlemagne in Scandinavia,Wales, and Ireland, Helen Fulton and Sif Rikhardsdottir PART I: THE NORSE CHARLEMAGNE 1. Transmission, Translation, and Manuscript History, Susanne Kramarz-Bein 2. The Cultural and Ideological Function of Charlemagne, Massimiliano Bampi 3. The Norse Roland in Context, Sif Rikhardsdottir 4. The Impact of Charlemagne on the Native Literary Tradition in the North, Claudia Bornholdt and Jon Paul Heyne 5. Unger's Karlamagnús saga: A Modern Composition?, Hélène Tétrel PART II: THE CELTIC CHARLEMAGNE 6. Charlemagne in Ireland: Manuscripts and Audiences, Aisling Byrne 7. Irish Charlemagne Texts: Narratives, Poems, and Genealogies, Erich Poppe 8. Translating Charlemagne for Welsh Audiences: The Case of Rhamant Otuel, Luciana Cordo Russo 9. The Reception of the French Charlemagne Epic in Medieval Wales: The Case of Cân Rolant and Pererindod Chiarlymaen, Annalee C. Rejhon 10. Charlemagne in Wales: Imperialism in Medieval Welsh Poetry, Helen Fulton Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams of medieval texts are devoted to horrified or fascinated references to men's deviant intimacies with men. Yet women - despite the best efforts of recent scholars - remain at the margins of this picture, especially in studies of literature. This book aims to re-centre female desire. Identifying a feminine or lesbian hermeneutic in late-medieval English literature, it offers new approaches to medieval texts often denigrated for their omissions and fragmentation, their violence and uneven poetic texture. The hermeneutic tradition Chaucer inherited, stretching from Jerome to Jean de Meun, represents female bodies as blank tablets awaiting masculine inscription, rather than autonomous agents. In the Legend, Chaucer considers the unspoken problem of female desires and bodies that resist, evade, and orient themselves away from such a position. Can women take on hermeneutic authority, that phallic capacity, without rendering themselves monstrous or self-defeating? This question resonates through three Middle English romances succeeding the Legend: the alliterative Morte Arthure, the Sowdone of Babylon, and Undo Your Door. With combative innovation, they repurpose the hermeneutic tradition and Chaucer's use of it to celebrate an array of audacious female desires and embodiments which cross and re-cross established categories of masculine and feminine, licit and illicit, animate and inanimate. Together, these texts make visible the desires and the embodiments of women who otherwise slip out of visibility, in both medieval and post-medieval contexts.Trade ReviewLucy M. Allen-­Goss has given us a book that we need. ...I finished the book even more convinced that Chaucer's text is an essential tool in understanding the development of femininity, female desire, and medieval feminisms. Her applications to other romances demonstrate how this view works outside a Chaucerian framework. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *This study is groundbreaking for its willingness to rethink how overlooked genres-romance and legend-might admit female same-sex desires that are usually proscribed or overwritten. ...I view Allen-Goss's call to consider feminine desire outside or beyond the structures of masculine fantasies as one of the most important interventions in feminist critical thought for late medieval English literary studies. * ARTHURIANA *Allen-Goss has produced exciting and important work, which makes a convincing case for re-evaluating these understudied texts and their explorations of female desires. -- Hannah Piercy * Nottingham Medieval Studies *Throughout, Allen-Goss shows how incomprehensible or unspeakable female desire typically and systematically receives articulation vis-à-vis masculine desire. Consequently, her arguments will interest Chaucerians, medievalists, and other scholars of literature and literary theory with special interests in sexuality and gender studies. -- Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College * Journal of British Studies *Lucy Allen-Goss's far-ranging and exciting monograph offers a provocative way of recuperating the often-occluded representation of female desire in medieval texts. -- Elizaveta Strakhov * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Origins of Female Desire A Note on Terminology List of Abbreviations The Silencing of Female Desire in the 'Legend of Philomela' The Traumatised Narrative of the Alliterative 'As Matter Appetiteth Form': Desire and Reciprocation in the 'Legend of Hipsiphyle and Medea' Stony Femininity and the Limits of Desire in The Sowdone of Babylon Veiled Interpretations and Architectures of Desire in the 'Legend of Thisbe' and the 'Legend of Ariadne' Opening Mechanisms, Enclosing Desire: The Erotic Aesthetics of Undo Your Door Conclusion: The Ends of Desire Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field.

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Book SynopsisHandlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in five major libraries across New York, giving a full account of their provenance. This volume provides detailed descriptions of Middle English prose materials found in the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The New York Public Library, The New York Academy of Medicine Library, and New York University Bobst Library (Special Collections). The manuscripts tend to be less well known than those in English libraries, with overlooked texts such as the Pseudo-Hildegard Anti-Mendicant Prophecy; The Book of Palmistry; a subject index of legal statutes; culinary and medical recipes; and English instructions to Latin prayers in Books of Hours. Other manuscripts of note include Trevisa's translation of De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, used as a copy-text for Wynkyn de Worde's first edition printed ca. 1495; and deluxe illustrated manuscripts of The Pilgrimage of the Soul and Ordinances of Chivalry. The introduction to the volume highlights the particular interests of the various collectors and the influences and characteristics underpinning their acquisitions. All but one of the manuscripts described from Columbia University were acquired by George A. Plimpton (1855-1936), whose firm, Ginn and Co., published spelling books. His collection records an interest in the history of education, with MS 258, a primer probably compiled for an English schoolchild, being a highlight. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) specialized in expensive, illustrated manuscripts, aided in his purchases by Belle da Costa Greene, who became the first director of the Morgan Library as a public institution under J.P. Morgan, Jr. Curt F. Bühler became the Keeper of Printed Books at the Morgan in 1934, bequeathing to the Library the manuscripts that he had bought over the years. James Lenox and John Jacob Astor established the New York Public Library, with Lenox donating two Wycliffite Bibles and Astor a third. The New York Academy of Medicine owns two manuscripts relating to the work of the French surgeon Guy de Chauliac.

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Book SynopsisAn investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design.

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Book SynopsisThe first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle of the King. In addition to reworkings of the Song of Roland in Old French and other medieval languages, these poems are devoted to the numerous military campaigns of Charlemagne against the Muslims before and after the tragic Battle of Roncevaux. These texts provide valuable insights into the medieval reception of the Roland material, exemplifying the process of cycle formation and attesting to the diversity of the Romance epic. Far from presenting a simplistic view of the clash of civilizations, these chansons de geste display a web of contradictions, offering both a glorification and a critique of hatred and violence. This volume offers English translations of the three epic poems whose action directly precedes the events of the Song of Roland. Gui of Burgundy extends the period of time spent in Spain by Charles and his army from seven to twenty-six years, which gives the sons of the Twelve Peers the opportunity to reach adulthood and come to the rescue of their fathers. Roland at Saragossa, composed in Occitan, takes place in the days immediately preceding the decisive defeat and relates in an heroi-comic manner how Roland sneaks into Saragossa at the request of the pagan Queen Braslimonda, who has been enraptured by his strength and beauty. Finally, Otinel tells of a Saracen envoy who comes to Paris to challenge Charlemagne on behalf of the Emir Garsile, who has his capital in Lombardy. The action takes place in France and northern Italy in a lull between the capture of Pamplona and the defeat at Roncevaux. The translations are presented with notes, and the volume includes an introduction placing the poems in their wider historical and cultural contexts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction The chansons de geste The Battle of Roncevaux Prequels to the Song of Roland Perspectives on Charlemagne Women's Roles Muslim Warriors Translating the chansons de geste Gui of Burgundy Roland at Saragossa Otinel Glossary Select Bibliography Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisJohn Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new insights. The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender (masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett, Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson, Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.Trade ReviewA rich and substantial addition not only to Gower scholarship but also to our knowledge of late fourteenth-century England. * SEHEPUNKTE *Historians on John Gower provides a superb reassessment of how Gower's work might be read in its historical context. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *These original and focused essays will be of great interest to both students and scholars of Gower. * MEDIUM AEVUM *[T]his is an impressive collection that contributes substantially to Gower studies, and to our understanding of the historical contexts for much late medieval English literature generally. * SPECULUM *The fourteen essays (plus a calendar of life records) are informed by consistent awareness of parallels between Gower's works, on the one hand, and chronicles and documentary records on the other, accompanied by careful attention to previous scholarship, judicious cross-referencing between the essays, a comprehensive index, and illustrative figures in color and black and white. The John Gower that emerges from the essays is not an unfamiliar one-a traditionalist moral poet-but one that is more nuanced and more ambivalent in his outlooks, perhaps, than is usually observed. * JOHN GOWER NEWSLETTER *Historians on John Gower [...] is a major contribution to Gower studies as well as to researchers interested in the pivotal historical moment in which the poet lived and worked. This is a collection that brings "imaginative literature" together with historical documentation to provide a more comprehensive view of one of the most important public voices of the time. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *It is not an exaggeration to say that this will immediately be a requisite volume for anyone working on Gower. [...] [I]t provides such rich ground to explore. * THE YEARBOOK OF LANGLAND STUDIES *Historians on John Gower, a large, sturdy, and often foundational (or, at times, re-foundational) set of essays on Gower's life, works, contexts, and outlooks demonstrates many of the virtues of the disciplinary crossover into "history" that literary scholars often invite or instigate but that rarely come from the other side. [...] The results here are excellent. * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Gower in Context - Sian Echard and Stephen Rigby Chronology of Gower's Life Records - Martha Carlin Gower's Life - Martha Carlin Gower's Works - Stephen Rigby Nobility and Chivalry - David Green The Peasants and the Great Revolt - Mark Bailey Towns and Trade - James Davis Men of Law - Anthony Musson The Papacy, Secular Clergy and Lollardy - David N Lepine Monastic Life - Martin Heale The Friars - Jens U. Rohrkasten Women and Power - Katherine J. Lewis Masculinity - Christopher Fletcher Political Theory - Stephen Rigby Gower, Richard II and Henry IV - Michael J Bennett Natural Sciences - Seb Falk Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.

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Book SynopsisEdition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain", attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin, describe ancient heroes' burial places. Like the "Triads of the Island of Britain", they are an indispensable key to the narrative literature of medieval Wales. The heroes come from the whole of Britain, including Mercia and present-day Scotland, as well as many from Wales and a few from Ireland. Many characters known from the Mabinogion appear, often with additional information, as do some from romance and early Welsh saga, such as Arthur, Bedwyr, Gawain, Owain son of Urien, Merlin, and Vortigern. The seventh-century grave of Penda of Mercia, beneath the river Winwæd in Yorkshire, is the latest grave to be included. The poems testify to the interest aroused by megaliths, tumuli, and other apparently man-made monuments, some of which can be identified with known prehistoric remains. This volume offers a full edition and translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects.Table of ContentsPart I Study INTRODUCTION 1. SERIES I, SERIES III, AND THE SO-CALLED 'SERIES II' AND 'SERIES IV' 2. DATING ENGLYNION Y BEDDAU 3. THE GROWTH, RELATIONSHIP, AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXTS 4. THE REDISCOVERY AND STUDY OF ENGLYNION Y BEDDAU 5. EDWARD LHWYD'S INDEX TO ENGLYNION Y BEDDAU 6. METRICS Part II Editions, Translations, and Commentary List of the Englynion 7. SERIES I 8. SERIES III

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Book SynopsisNew and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.

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Book SynopsisUncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages.For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they have been little explored. Drawing upon the burgeoning field of medieval textile studies, as well as contemporary theories of gender, materiality, and eco-criticism, this study illustrates how textiles provide a hermeneutical alternative to the patriarchally-dominated written word. It puts forward the argument that women's devotion during this period was a "fabricated" phenomenon, a mode of spirituality and religious exegesis expressed, devised, and practised through cloth. Centred on four icons of female devotion (Eve, Mary, St Veronica, and - of course - Christ), the book explores a broad range of narratives from across the rich tapestry of medieval English literature, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.

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Book SynopsisSituates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research.Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.

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Book SynopsisOffers insights into sources and inspirations, authorship and authorial style, and patterns of separation and convergence across versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important documents to survive from early medieval England. Written in Old English, it was first created during the reign of King Alfred the Great (871-899). Up to Alfred's reign, and then in multiple continuations extending into the twelfth century, the Chronicle versions often provide a unique record of events, at times reported in the barest style, at others with passionate commentary.This book is the first to tell the story of how the Chronicles came to be, providing a clear but detailed account of the development of its various versions. It starts with an examination of the textual and manuscript evidence, then explores the work of the two chroniclers first responsible for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's creation in the late ninth century, arguing that the first made a set of annals from disparate sources. The author then contends that a later reviser aligned with the Alfredian political programme wrote the annals for Alfred's reign, and at the same time also revised earlier entries, including the famous story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard. This book also sheds new light on the annals of Æthelred the Unready, arguing that Archbishop Wulfstan of York is likely to have authored some these, together with some tenth-century annals. Its final chapter provides the first comprehensive study of all the Chronicles' poetry.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first in-depth study of the earliest attempts to make the sacred words of the Bible available to English readers, clerical and lay, in prose writing."This is a hugely valuable study - deeply informative about an important tradition of biblical translation from the early medieval period, bringing together material that has previously been considered in isolation, and drawing out a big-picture account of the ebb and flow of biblical translations into the vernacular. Will be a useful point of reference for any interested reader and includes surprises and delights for even the most specialist readers." Professor Jonathan Wilcox, University of IowaThe story of the English Bible begins not with the King James Version or Wycliffe but in the Old English period. Between the ninth and eleventh centuries, a remarkably diverse corpus of biblical translations, paraphrases, adaptations and summaries were produced in Old English. Yet while Old English biblical verse has been extensively studied, the much larger corpus of vernacular biblical prose remains neglected by historians of the Bible and medievalists. This book provides the first in-depth study of the genre. Dispelling the notion that access to the Bible was restricted to the Latinate clergy in the early medieval period, it demonstrates how Old English biblical prose made key elements of Scripture available and meaningful to laypeople. Through case studies of the Prose Psalms, Mosaic Prologue to the Domboc, Wessex Gospels, Heptateuch and Treatise on the Old and New Testaments, as well as many other works, it highlights the crucial contributions of well-known figures such as King Alfred and Ælfric of Eynsham while also showcasing the work of anonymous authors who translated, adapted and interpreted the Bible, sometimes in creative and surprising ways. Cumulatively, these case studies show how vernacular biblical prose played a central role in the emergence of English national identity before the Norman Conquest.This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND.

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Book SynopsisA detailed literary study of fourteenth-century poetry composed in honour of a controversial thirteenth-century bishop.Vernacular poetry was a powerful influence in fourteenth-century Icelandic elite literary culture, even to the extent of providing the means of elevating a local bishop, Guðmundr Arason, to sainthood. Three Icelandic poets, Abbots Arngrímr Brandsson and Árni Jónsson, and Lawman Einarr Gilsson, composed impressive encomia of Guðmundr, with the intention of recording the holy bishop's sanctity in the language of contemporary religious devotion and to persuade Church authorities in both Scandinavia and the wider Christian world to canonize him. While the local campaign ultimately failed to sway the Catholic Church, it did succeed in producing a significant corpus of vernacular religious poetry, unmatched in combining the traditional diction and metres of Old Norse skaldic verse with the vernacular poetics of affective piety and Christian hermeneutics. This important group of poems is examined here for the first time as literary works. The manuscript context of the Guðmundr poetry is investigated in the first chapter. The next three chapters offer a detailed analysis of the poems themselves while the final chapters situate the Guðmundr poetry within the milieu of the vernacular learning that flourished particularly in mid-fourteenth-century Icelandic bishoprics and monasteries. They also explore the relationship between contemporary prose sagas of Guðmundr Arason and the poetry composed in his honour, which, it is argued, offers figural interpretations of the substance of the prose texts.

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Book Synopsis"THIS WAS DRAWYN BY A KNYGHT PRESONER, SIR THOMAS MALLEORE, THAT GOD SENDE HYM GOOD RECOVER." In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian of Winchester College realize that he had discovered a hitherto unknown version of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a work known to all previous readers only through Caxton's 1485 edition. For it was known that Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel had been imprisoned on numerous occasions between the 1450s and his death in 1471 by Lancastrians and Yorkists. But who was Malory? Why did successive authorities want to lock him up? How did he come to write the Morte d'Arthur? And why has that text been so persistent a presence in English culture? Going in quest of Malory and of the meaning of the Morte the author addresses the text's central preoccupations violence, desire, and the nature of Englishness. Malory is placed in his social context, at a time of unprecedented national and regional unrest. Lustig traces the connections between writers and commentators from Tennyson to T.S. Eliot who have been fascinated by Malory's work. A prime purpose of the volume is to reveal the Morte's extraordinary ability to move its readers intensely, to become part of their lives. Accordingly, the author delves into his own boyhood fascination with the stories of King Arthur, exploring their influence on him both then and now. The Morte d'Arthur was one of the last great literary works of the Middle Ages. But it was also one of the first to articulate a distinctively modern set of concerns particularly with the nature of identity, both personal and national. Knight Prisoner: Thomas Malory Then and Now will send readers back to Malory's work with renewed enjoyment and understanding.

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Book SynopsisJohn Scattergood's 'The Complete English Poems of John Skelton', originally published in 1983 and long out of print, was the leading academic edition with comprehensive notes. Students are currently limited to searching for Skelton's poems in anthologies. This new, revised edition contains the poems, accompanied by around 150 pages of revised notes. There is an entirely new introduction, covering all developments in Skelton scholarship since the early 1980's, and an updated reading list. Scattergood also reproduces much of the Latin paratexts, considered by readers to be so essential to Skelton - and therefore to scholars of his work. Reviews of previous edition: 'Skelton's greatest poems are learned, difficult, allusive, multilingual, intensely self-conscious and self-reflexive. With their verbal play and many-layered meaning they demand careful and repeated reading; and the most important reason why Skelton's reputation [...] does not correspond to the reality of his work is that there has been no complete edition of the authentic text of his poems since that of Alexander Dyce in 1843. [...] Scattergood's is a splendid achievement: it must be the product of many years of learned and intelligent labour, and it is likely to be the standard edition of Skelton for many years to come.' The Cambridge Review '[Skelton] sits in an awkward historical corner beween the regular "middle ages" and the Shakespeare epoch; and is not nearly well-enough known today. Splendid then, to have [...] this new, complete edition of his works with both the original spellings and explanatory notes, indeed the only such edition since 1843.' The Morning StarTable of Contents Introduction Acknowledgements Table of Dates Further Reading The Poems - Upon the Dolorus Dethe and Muche Lamentable Chaunce of the Mooste Honorable Earle of Northumberlande - Manerly Marjery Mylk and Ale - Agaynste a Comely Coystrowne - Dyvers Balettys and Dyties Solacyous - The Bowge of Courte - Ware the Hauke - Phyllyp Sparowe - Epitaphe - A Lawde and Prays Made for Our Sovereighn Lord the Kyng - Calliope - A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge - Agaynst the Scottes - Agenst Garnesche - Against Dundas - Magnyfycence - Elynour Rummynge - Speke Parott - Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? - Garlanda or Chapelet of Laurell - A Couplet on Wolsey's Dissolution of the Convocation at St Paul's - Howe the Douty Duke of Albany - A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scholars Abjured of Late Notes Appendix: A Descriptive list of Latin Poems not included in this edition Glossary

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Book SynopsisFor students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems - the best known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The near-literal translations are intended to facilitate understanding of the four poems - to lead readers to, rather than away from, the original texts. The translations are based faithfully on Andrew and Waldron’s fifth edition of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Translations: Pearl Cleanness Patience Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Book SynopsisThe twelfth-century Anglo-Norman verse Life of King Edward the Confessor is presented here in modern English for the first time, and with a full introduction and notes. Its author, an anonymous Nun of Barking Abbey, offers a many-faceted and absorbing portrait of the celebrated king and saint, together with legendary material found in no other version of this hagiographic narrative. There is also a wealth of detail about Edward’s times as well as about the twelfth-century context in which the Nun was writing, making the poem of great interest to historians as well as to literary scholars. This is among the earliest texts in French known to be by a woman, and so will also be of great value to scholars investigating medieval female authorship. Long neglected, perhaps because mistakenly thought to be a mere translation of Aelred of Rievaulx’s Vita in Latin, it proves to be remarkably independent of its main source and raises questions about the freedom and originality of medieval ‘transposition’ or translation.Trade ReviewIn addition to providing greater access to this text for English-speaking readers, especially those who are less familiar with Anglo-Norman, the main advantages of this translation lie in its easy use (especially keeping the division in short chapters, each preceded by a critical introduction) and the long and dense introduction of more than fifty pages which offers a thorough and exhaustive discussion of all the questions related to this text, in particular those of his originality in relation to its Latin source, its date of writing or the possible identity of its author. (Translated from French)Olivier de Laborderie, Le Moyen geTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Edward the Confessor - La Vie d’Edouard - The Three Principal Manuscripts The Poem’s Themes - Edward: Holy Warrior, Royal Saint - Historical and Legendary Women - Chaste Marriage - The Nun as a Mystical Writer - From Latin to Medieval French Sources - Earlier Lives of Edward - Rewriting Aelred - The Nun and English Literature - Other Sources - Barking Abbey’s Books The Nun and her World - Barking Abbey - The Poem’s Date - The Nun’s Identity as Author of Edouard - The Poem’s Audience - Later Lives of Edward Translation and Presentation The Life of Edward the Confessor Appendix Glossary Bibliography - Primary Texts - Secondary Texts Indexes - Bible References - Proper Names in Text - General Index

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Book SynopsisAlongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture. Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students. These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original. He makes us look again at their novels to address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of literature in political as well asliterary terms. They will appeal not only to his international band of supporters. They will also introduce his views to young people discovering African and Caribbean literature. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Ngugi is renowned for his essays, including the seminal Decolonising the Mind (James Currey 1986); his plays, which led to his detentionin Kenya; his novels - the most recent works being The Wizard of the Crow (2007, translated into English from Gikuyu) and his memoirs Dreams in a Time of War and In the House of the Interpreter East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEPTrade ReviewThis is vintage Ngugi, plain-spoken, intensely committed, and passionate about the values of freedom and struggle in which he still profoundly believes. -- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of OxfordThis collection is various and wide-ranging. Above all it is demonstrably the product of a mind which has remained determinedly open and receptive to the ideas and fortunes of contemporaries, throughout the turbulent years of his own misfortunes and triumphs. -- Keith SambrookTable of ContentsPreface Birth of a Literature: Heinemann, African Writers Series & I In the Name of the Mother: Lamming & the Cultural Significance of 'Mother Country' in the Decolonisation Process Freeing the Imagination: Lamming's Aesthetics of Decolonisation Nation in the Underground: Alex la Guma In the Fog at the Seasons' End Dialectics of Hope: Sembene's God's Bits of Wood Voices & Icons: The Neocolonial in Emergent African Cinema Birth of a Nation: Narrating the National Question in Pepetela's Mayombe Orature, Class Struggle & Nationalism: Vieiera's Luaanda & Domingos Xavier Writing a National Agender: Patriarchy as Domestic Colonialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London. His Liber Reuelationum (Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51), dated to the year 1200, is a compilation of over 1,100 chapters, excerpted from some 275 Latin texts, dealing with visions of the otherworld and revelatory appearances of God, Christ, Mary, angels, saints, devils, and revenants. Peter collected the material from saints’ lives, chronicles, and free-standing vision texts from the first century AD through to his own day – for the purpose of providing evidence of the existence of God, the soul, and life after death to unbelievers. Accounts of new visionary experiences circulating in England in the 1190s doubtlessly prompted his collection. Like his other large-scale work, Pantheologus, Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations was intended to assist preachers with propagating the fundamentals of the faith. This volume introduces Peter’s life and writings and presents editions with parallel English translations of those parts of the Lambeth manuscript that Peter composed himself. A detailed description of the manuscript is included, and a Calendar identifies the source for each of Peter’s chapters. A bibliography and indices complete this volume, which provides a marvellous resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of medieval dreams, visionary experience, and the eschatological concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement of the soul.

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Book SynopsisFrom King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great’s global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This book provides an engaging, scholarly and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Romance’s conjunctions of chivalric violence, love and piety, and its openness to the miraculous, monstrous or bizarre mark it out as the most fertile narrative form of the Western Middle Ages. This book examines the development of romance as a literary genre, its place in medieval culture, and the scribes and readers who copied, owned and commented on romance books – from magnificent illuminated manuscripts to personal notebooks and chance survivals. It also explores the complex anatomy of human desire in romance, as portrayed by writers including Dante, Chaucer and Thomas Malory. Medieval romance was hugely popular after the Middle Ages. Shakespeare, Spenser and Walter Scott imbibed its motifs, Mark Twain parodied them, and the Pre-Raphaelites based an aesthetic movement around them. The Romance of the Middle Ages traces the influence of the genre to the twentieth century and beyond, encompassing the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, the Jedi knights of Star Wars and Monty Python’s Knights who say ‘Ni!’.Trade ReviewA richly woven tapestry of image and text. A great resource and a wonderful read. -- Simon ArmitageThis is an altogether delightful book. It is hard to imagine a book that does its job, of introducing medieval romance and its after-life to the general reader, more perfectly. -- Derek PearsallEvangelicals and literary critics have looked sternly askance at medieval romance for about six hundred years. Entirely undaunted, medieval romances pass insouciantly across borders of time, geography, social class and gender with their passports of pleasure. Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins here allow us to join those journeys of romance. Their lightly worn, precise scholarship takes us inside the books of these marvellous stories. This is a gorgeous, utterly delightful book. -- James SimpsonThis book is at once an informative and lively introduction to all aspects of romance -- medieval and modern, its writers and readers, in manuscript and print -- and a treasure-trove of some of the Bodleian's visually most remarkable holdings. Newcomers to the subject will find it easily accessible, and scholars will discover new and intriguing things. -- Helen Cooper'A stimulating journey through the subject that will foster interest and inclination to pursue study of it beyond the exhibition and this book. Highly recommended.' -- A. P. Church * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Bodleian Library possesses a significant collection of Latin medieval manuscripts from Germany, most of them acquired and donated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s. They are precious survivals from the period of the Thirty Years’ War. Their significance arises not just from the number of individual manuscripts but from the fact that they represent substantial portions of the libraries of ecclesiastical houses in Würzburg, Mainz and Eberbach. This book presents a detailed description of the fifty-six manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian, most of them from the cathedral chapter (the Domstift St. Kilian). The majority date from the ninth century, and are extremely important from a textual and palaeographical point of view: they constitute the most important single library of Carolingian manuscripts in the British Isles. Würzburg was one of the leading Anglo-Saxon foundations on the continent of Europe, planting cultural roots which are manifested in almost every aspect of the manuscripts themselves. The catalogue provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions of these manuscripts in all their aspects, especially their texts – there are many important early copies of the texts of the Church Fathers – and their scripts, some of whose forms are unique to Würzburg. Detailed attention is also paid to the physical characteristics of the manuscripts, their decoration, binding, and provenance. Each of the manuscripts is illustrated.

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Book SynopsisThe Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years’ War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical houses in the Rhine-Main area, that is Würzburg, Mainz, and Eberbach. Their potential contribution to the religious and intellectual history of these foundations and to the study of German medieval culture as a whole is immeasurable. This book contains descriptions of over one hundred medieval, manuscripts, mostly Latin, from the Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz, founded in the early 1320s. Dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, they reflect the spirituality and literary interest of the Carthusian order. This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION • The Laud collection • Archbishop Laud, the manuscripts from Germany, and their journey to England • The Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz: i) Foundation ii) History until 1781 iii) The library Editorial conventions Acknowledgements ABBREVIATIONS
 Bibliographical Abbreviations General Abbreviations List of manuscripts List of figures Concordance of Mainz Charterhouse shelfmarks CATALOGUE INDICES
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Book SynopsisA medieval Catalan verse fantasy by Bernat Metge, the most important Catalan writer of the fourteenth century, Written around 1381 by Bernat Metge, the most important Catalan writer of the fourteenth century, the Llibre de Fortuna i Prudència is a fantasy in verse, drawing on learned sources, principally The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Early one morning, Bernat, the protagonist and narrator, decides to alleviate his sorrows by strolling around the harbour of Barcelona. He meets an old man, apparently a beggar, who tricks him into getting into a boat which, despite the absence of sails and oars, conveys him to an island where the goddess Fortuna appears to him. In a heated discussion, Bernat blames her for all his misfortunes. His next meeting is with Prudenciawho is accompanied by seven maidens representing the liberal arts. Prudencia is able to lessen his despair, and exhorts him to trust in providence and renounce material possessions. When she considers him cured, she and the maidens send him sailing back to Barcelona, where he quickly goes home to avoid gossiping townsfolk. Published in association with Editorial Barcino, Barcelona. DAVID BARNETT, whose doctorate is from Queen Mary, University of London, continues to be involved in research on medieval Catalan literature.Trade ReviewThe exceptionally clear presentation of the volume facilitates comparison of the two languages and Barnett is to be congratulated on his very readable translation. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES, December 2013 *

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Book SynopsisThis book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medievalIberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in orderto avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.Trade ReviewGatland shows herself a balanced, observant, and entertaining interpreter of this material, which, perhaps more than any other medieval subject-matter, is still rendered acutely difficult by unresolved textual indeterminacy. THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, February 2014 * . *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Vision Language Performativity Conclusion Appendix Works Cited

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Book SynopsisA thorough examination of the making of, transmission, and scholarly engagement with one of the most famous poems in the Spanish language. Completed shortly before Jorge Manrique's death in 1479, the Coplas por la muerte de su padre is arguably the most famous poem in the Spanish language. Since its first circulation in the same era, the text has occupied a prominent place in the Spanish literary tradition, becoming, along with its author, a cultural icon. This book explores the ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have engaged with the poem. It also contextualizes the Coplas, Manrique's life, and his enduring reputation. The book is divided into four chapters. The first provides information about the historical setting of the Coplas and its earliest transmission. A chronological survey of the poem's reception comprises chapter 2 (the Renaissance and Baroque eras) and chapter 3 (literary reception in the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries). Chapter 4, "Shifting Literary Perspectives", examines how different perceptions of the meaning and form of the text have changed over the centuries, and the way in which translations have also revealed a variety of interpretations and transformations. Nancy Marino is Professor of Spanish, Adjunct Professor of History, and Consultant to the Vice President for Research at Michigan State University.Trade ReviewThis book is not only an excellent piece of research, in the strictest sense of the word . . . but also one of those magnificent companions to medieval Spanish literature that we are used to seeing from Tamesis Books and which will delight both students and professors alike. * ANUARIO DE ESTUDIOS MEDIEVALES *In sum, this is a well researched study that will undoubtedly appeal to scholars whose research focuses on Manrique's masterpiece as well as students who seek a guide to the poem's reception over the centuries. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsPreface The Author and His Work The Life and times of Jorge Manrique and His Coplas The Death of Jorge Manrique, the So-called coplas póstumas. and the Date of the Coplas The Earliest Transmission: Manuscripts and Printed Editions Renaissance and Baroque Eras Glosses The Coplas in Early Spanish Literary Works The Coplas in Early Didactic Works Early Musical Reception The Visual Reception of the Coplas in the Sixteenth Century The Coplas in Portuguese Literature Reception in the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries The Coplas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Coplas in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Literary Responses since 1800 Shifting Literary Perceptions The Question of Genre Observations on Meter On the Structure of the Coplas On the Sources of the Coplas Ubi sunt and the Coplas Rewriting the Coplas: Translations Afterword Appendix A: Five Centuries at a Glance: A Selection of Comments about the Coplas Appendix B: Additional Literary Responses since 1800 Bibliography Editions Cited Translations Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers. Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world. There were several tributes to his work published during his lifetime, and it is fitting that this one, in his memory, should be produced by Tamesis, the publishing house that he helped establish and to which he contributed so much as author and editor right up to his death. The contributors to this volume are some of Professor Deyermond's former colleagues, doctoral students, and members of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. Given Professor Deyermond's breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies. The volume opens with a personal memoir of her father by Ruth Deyermond, and closes with the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers, and edited by his literary executor, Professor David Hook. Andrew M. Beresfordis Reader and Head of Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham. Louise M. Haywood is Reader in Medieval Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge. Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Hispanic Studies at King's College London.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword: Alan Deyermond: A Memoir - Ruth Deyermond Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Alan Deyermond, 1932-2009 - Andrew M. Beresford and Louise M. Haywood and Julian Weiss Sanctity and Prejudice in Medieval Castilian Hagiography: The Legend of Saint Moses the Ethiopian - Andrew M. Beresford The Image of the Phoenix in Catalan and Castilian Poetry from Ausiàs March to Crespí de Valdaura - Roger Boase On the Frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor - Louise M. Haywood Memory as Mester in the Libro de Alexandre and Libro de Apolonio - Geraldine Hazbun Advancing on 'Álora' - David Hook Time is of the Essence: Essence, Existence and Reminiscence in Two Portuguese Poets - Stephen Reckert Gómez Manrique's Exclamación e querella de la governación: Poem and Commentary - Nicholas G. Round The Misa de Amor in the Spanish Cancioneros and the Sentimental Romance - Dorothy S. Severin Manus mee distillaverunt mirram: The Essence of the Virgin - Lesley Twomey "Nos soli sumus christiani": Conversos in the Texts of the Toledo rebellion of 1449 - Rosa Vidal Doval Vernacular Commentaries and Glosses in Late Medieval Castile, II: A Checklist of Classical Texts in Translation - Julian Weiss Games of Love and War in the Castilian Frontier Ballads: El romance del juego de ajedrez and El romance de la conquista de Antequera - Sizen Yiacoup "Esta tan triste partida" (Conde Dirlos, v. 28a): maridos y padres ausentes - Alan Deyermond Index Tabula in memoriam

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Book SynopsisThe Vita Christi, written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work in Catalan to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It represents a fascinating re-evaluation of the role women played inthe life of Jesus Christ. The Life of Christ (Vita Christi), written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work to have been preserved in Catalan and to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It was composed to provide spiritual direction for the nuns within the community of Poor Clares which Sor (i.e. Sister) Isabel oversaw at the Convent of the Holy Trinity in Valencia. The work was only able to emerge from obscurity by accident. In 1497 Queen Isabel of Castile, the wife of Ferdinand of Catalonia-Aragon, who had heard news of the book's existence, asked Sor Isabel's successor for a copy. The new Abbess, Sor Aldonça, responded by bringing the work to press. Queen Isabel's interest in Sor Isabel's book was understandable. The former abbess had been the daughter of the refined and restless Marquess of Villena, and was herself educated at Court, a milieu with which she maintained very positive relations throughout her life. As an abbess, what's more, she carried out important reforms at the convent and became a valued and respected figure within the dynamic cultural world of the Valencia of her day. Isabelde Villena's Vita Christi has often been interpreted as a response, delivered from the serenity of the cloister, to the misogyny and satire against the female gender emanating from certain books written at that time. Sor Isabel's work is a re-evaluation of the role women played in the life of Jesus Christ, a role at variance with the subsidiary one ascribed to them by the majority of commentators. Published in association with Editorial Barcino, Barcelona.

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Book SynopsisThe author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity. This book examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, all part of the new "boom" of the Cuban novel in the 1990s. It analyses how in undermining monolithic representations of reality these texts employ discursive techniques that question absolute truths, defy established boundaries of literary genres and challenge concepts of national, gender and individual identity. The authors studied in this book---Reinaldo Arenas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Abilio Estévez, Daína Chaviano, Yanitzia Canetti, and Zoé Valdés---are placed beyond the dichotomy of outside and inside Cuba in order to focus on the fluidity and heterogeneity of Cuban culture displayed in its literature. This study establishes similarities and differences in the way these authors create polyphonic texts that question whether notions of country and nation coincide in novels that respond to economic hardship, political and social changes, issues of cubanía, and exile. Ángela Dorado-Otero is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Iberian and Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University of London.Trade ReviewThe critical apparatus in [Dorado-Otero's book] is impressive for its detail and complexity. One need not know the history of Cuban literature to see how these novels fit into Cuban reality today. It is interesting to read Dorado-Otero's analysis of women's literary expression vis-à-vis that of the male writers. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Carnival and Simulacra in Reinaldo Arenas's El Color del Verano Transposed Words: Mapping Intertextuality in Leonardo Padura Fuentes's Novel Máscaras The Palimpsestuous (Re)Writing of the Island as a Dialogic Practice: Literature in the Second Degree in Abilio Estévez's Tuyo es el Reino Erotic Discourse: From the Semiotic to the Symbolic in Daína Chaviano's Casa de Juegos (Re)Writing the Body as a Feminine Strategy: Yanitzia Canetti's Al Otro Lado Language Unbound: Zoé Valdés's La Nada Cotidiana Conclusion Appendix 1: First Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes (8 March 2004) Appendix 2: Second Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes (18 July 2006) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEste libro reúne las últimas investigaciones de los máximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultivó todos los géneros literarios. Contains the latest research by the most important scholars of the Castilian author Mosén Diego de Valera. Esta obra colectiva reúne las últimas investigaciones de los máximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultivó todos los géneros literarios. En este volumen monográfico Guido Cappelli escribe sobre Valera y el Humanismo; Federica Accorsi analiza la relación de Valera con los judíos conversos; Florence Serrano estudia la presencia de Diego de Valera en Borgoña y en su literatura; Gonzalo Pontón se centra en las cartas escritas por Diego de Valera; Jesús Rodríguez Velasco analiza a Diego de Valera como artista microliterario; Cristina Moya analiza la influencia de la crónica Valeriana entre 1482 y 1567; Fernando Gómez Redondo explica las palabras que Juan de Valdés dedica a Valera en su Diálogo de la lengua; José Julio Martín Romero analiza la influencia de Diego de Valera en el Nobiliario Vero de Hernán Mexía y, finalmente, Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio prueba que mosén Diego de Valera no escribió el Origen de la Casa de Guzmán. Cristina Moya García es profesora en la Universidad de Córdoba. This collection contains the latest research by the most important scholars of this fifteenth century Castilian author who cultivated all literary genres. Guido Cappelli writes about Valera and Humanism; Federica Accorsi analyzes the relationship between Valera and the converted Jews; Florence Serrano studies the presence of Diego de Valera in Burgundy and in its literature; Gonzalo Pontón focuses on the letters written by Diego de Valera; Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco studies Diego de Valera as micro-literary artist; Cristina Moya examines the influence of the Valeriana between 1482 and 1567; Fernando Gómez Redondo explains the words dedicated to Diego de Valera by Juan de Valdés (Diálogo de la lengua); José Julio Martín Romero discusses the influence of Diego de Valera in Nobiliario Vero of Hernan Mexía; and, finally Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio proves that Mosén Diego de Valera did not write the Origen de la Casa de Guzmán. Cristina Moya García is a profesora at the Universidad de Córdoba. Contributors: Federica Accorsi, Guido Cappeli, Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio, Fernando Gómez Redondo, José Julio Martín Romero, Cristina Moya García, Gonzalo Pontón, Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, Florence SerranoTable of ContentsPrólogo - Cristina Moya García "Informe Valera": Fichas y acotaciones sobre Humanismo y política - Guido Cappelli El Espejo de verdadera nobleza y la cuestión de los conversos - Federico Accorsi La ficcionalización de Diego de Valera en la literatura borgoña - Florence Serrano Las Cartas de Diego de Valera - Gonzalo Pontón Diego de Valera, artista microliterario - Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco La suerte de la Valeriana (1482-1567) - Cristina Moya Diego de Valera, "hablistán y parabolano" - Fernando Gómez Redondo Diego de Valera y su influencia en el Nobiliario Vero de Hernán Mexía - José Julio Martín Romero La atribución a mosén Diego de Valera del Origen de la Casa de Guzmán - Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio

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Book SynopsisA study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina. Since Carajicomedia was published in 1519, it has been largely ignored by critics because of its strong sexual content. The author of Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain believes that it is a sophisticated and complex composition that provides as good a vantage point from which to examine the ideology of the period as does La Celestina. In their poems, the writers of Carajicomedia inadvertently reveal thedeep worries of the knights and nobles who opposed the regencies of Ferdinand the Catholic and Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros pending the arrival of Charles V. Carajicomedia is therefore a harbinger of the War of the Comuneros, the great popular revolt that convulsed Spain in 1520. In this book's chapters, the author examines the parodic relationship between the text of Juan de Mena's El Laberinto de Fortuna, the glosses of Hernán Núñez's Las Trezientas, and Carajicomedia. He then turns to its actual writers and their settings, and shows how their satirical attitudes towards males, females, and conversos reveals the failure of the societal mechanisms in place to control desire and miscegenation. Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain concludes with a paleographic edition of the text and appendices that contain a modern Spanish version and its Englishtranslation, as well as examine Carajicomedia's language. Frank A. Domínguez is a professor of medieval Spanish literature and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Trade ReviewFrank Domínguez's book is, in short, the most complete, systematic, and exhaustive study of the Carajacomedia, as well as an attempt to remove the old text from the estate of philology or literary archeology and give it a modern patina that makes it attractive to the contemporary community of experts. * IBEROAMERICANA *Carajicomedia emerges as a very interesting and complex text. [Domínguez's] rich and deep contextualization of the poem, his incisive close readings . . . along with his meticulous commentary, and very useful translation, will make this book the standard study and edition of this important and provocative work. The book will be indispensable for specialists in the literature of medieval and early modern Iberia, as well as for historians, and for literary and cultural scholars of other periods and traditions, particularly non-Spanish readers, who will now have access to the text thanks to this translation. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Las Trezientas and Carajicomedia The Model and the Parody: Las Trezientas and Carajicomedia Authorship and Setting: The Fictional Narrators and the Real Author(s) Part II: Cultural Ideology: Gender Roles Women and Power: El Laberinto de Fortuna's Divina Providencia and Carajicomedia's María de Vellasco Men and Power: El Laberinto de Fortuna's Juan II and Carajicomedia's Diego Fajardo Part III: Political Satire and Ideology Carajicomedia's Satire of Individuals Propaganda and Its Uses Conclusion: The Purpose and Fate of Carajicomedia Part IV: A Paleographic Edition and Translation of Carajicomedia Appendix A: Carajicomedia: A Modern Spanish Edition Appendix B: The Erotic Language of Carajicomedia Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the importance of intertextuality, in particular hypertextuality, in the poetics of Castilian romances of chivalry. Runner-up for the 2015 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and the Spanish Embassy Castilian romances of chivalry were the dominant form of fiction in Europe during the peak of the Spanish Empire in the the sixteenth century. Whilst the material traits of chivalric romances have been thoroughly studied, Don Quijote's shadow has often resulted in the neglect of the literary aspects and influence of the genre, thus hindering our understanding of Golden Age and Spanish fiction. Conversely, this book examines the literary transformation of the genre throughout the sixteenth century from the perspective of intertextuality. In particular, this book focuses on the literary practices central to the craft and development of the genre: the rewriting of previous romance, the writing of sequels, and the formation of narrative cycles. These three processes defined the poetics of the genre and set the bases and literary techniques for other fictional genres and works, including Don Quijote itself. Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga is Associate Professor in Research Methodologies (Hispanic Literature) at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Trade ReviewGutiérrez Trápaga is to be congratulated for his contribution to the study of this statistically and culturally significant form, the best parallel for which is the modern fantasy romance (think Game of Thrones). * MEDIUM ÆVUM *Scholars will welcome Gutiérrez Trápaga's study. He has set forth an interesting perspective/vision in terms of intertextuality and cyclical characteristics of a literary genre, using a significant number of romances, increasing our understanding of both writers and readers of sixteenth-century Peninsular literature. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction From Arthur to Amadís: Medieval Romance Cycles and the Foundation of the libros de caballerías After Montalvo: The Development of the Amadís Cycle The Espejo de príncipes y caballeros Cycle Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters, a multilingual process involving not only Latin and Catalan, but also neighbouring vernaculars like Aragonese,Castilian, French, and Italian. The authors survey the development of classical literacy from the twelfth-century Aragonese royal courts until the arrival of the printing press and the dissemination of Italian Humanism. Aimed atstudents and scholars of medieval and early modern Iberia - and anyone interested in medieval Romance literatures and the classical tradition - this volume also provides a concise introduction to the medieval Crown of Aragon, a catalogue of translations into Catalan of texts from classical antiquity through the Italian Renaissance, and a critical study of the influence of the classics in five major works: Bernat Metge's Lo somni, Joanot Martorell'sTirant lo Blanc, the anonymous Curial e Güelfa, Ausiàs March's poetry, and Joan Roís de Corella's prose. Lluís Cabré is associate professor of medieval Catalan literature at the Universitat Autònoma dercelona; Alejandro Coroleu is ICREA research professor of Renaissance Humanism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Montserrat Ferrer is a research associate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Albert Lloret is associate professor of Spanish and Catalan at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Josep Pujol is associate professor of medieval Catalan literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Trade ReviewEssential not only for Catalan and Catalan literature but also for peninsular letters as a whole...It's an excellent study which brings together the advantages and amenity of the essay, and the virtues and rigor of an encyclopedic manual or reference book. * BOLETIN DE LA REAL ACADEMIA ESPANOLA *This book fills a significant gap by bringing together a huge mass of research carried out from the beginning of the twentieth century but most notably in recent years. The authors provide a nuanced assessment of the impact of the classical tradition and of humanism in medieval Catalan, providing a highly engaging account in the first part of the book and a helpful research tool in the second, thus making the volume valuable reading for the specialist and the non-specialist alike. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL TRADITION *The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500: Translation, Imitation, and Literacy is a well-constructed volume of exceptional scholarly value. * CATALAN REVIEW *Scholars interested in the admiration with which Humanist writers looked upon Ovid, Livy, Cicero and other greats of Classical antiquity will appreciate the insights offered in this compelling book. The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500, is a remarkable product of shared skills, combined resources, and complementary effort. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Las dos partes de la monografía constituyen una visión muy completa del conocimiento que había de los clásicos en la Corona de Aragón durante la Edad Media, del motivo de interés por las obras y de cómo se accedía a ellas en cada momento, ya sea a través de originales o de traducciones a las lenguas románicas. * ExClass *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Historical Background Literacy: Translations and Royal Patronage Imitation: The Classical Tradition in the Works of Five Major Authors Printing: Humanism and the Renaissance List of Authors and Works Appendix Bibliography Index of Manuscripts General Index

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Book SynopsisLa primera monografía académica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopátrico en la cultura española. The first thorough study of the history of the Cleopatra icon in Spanish culture. Estetizar el exceso: Cleopatra en la cultura hispánica medieval y del Siglos de OroTrade ReviewPresents valuable material on other portrayals of the Egyptian - in paintings, prints, weavings, and so on - which circulated in the Spanish market and made their way into influential and prestigious private collections. This study more than fills the lacuna identified by the author...putting the study of Cleopatra in pre-modern Spain on an equal footing with that of other European cultures. * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroducción Mordeduras: Cleopatra en la cultura medieval hispánica Orientes: Cleopatra en la historiografía y literatura de conducta del XVI Híbridos: Cleopatra y los poetas Tablas: un imperio cleopátrico de los sentidos Lujos: Cleopatra y el coleccionismo aurisecular Epílogo Obras citadas

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Book SynopsisEvidence of the spread of the cults of English saints in medieval Scandinavia is revealed by detailed detective work in fragmentary manuscripts. The process of Christianising the Scandinavian countries in the tenth to the thirteenth centuries was spearheaded in the earliest phases by missionaries from Anglo-Saxon England. It is likely that such missionaries took with themthe books that would have been essential for church services - Bibles, Gospel-books, Psalters, Breviaries - along with saints' relics, thus introducing the cults of the saints venerated at the time in England. A remarkable quantity of mainly fragmentary manuscripts have survived from this activity and from Scandinavia manuscripts produced in imitation of the imports. Almost all of them were gathered together at the Reformation as redundant and used mainlyto provide covers and bindings for provincial accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they are preserved largely in the National Archives in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. Materials for some seventy-fourEnglish saints are recorded in this volume, giving an idea of the extent of their presence in the liturgies of medieval Scandinavia. They include all occurrences of the saints in surviving liturgical calendars, martyrologies, missals, breviaries, etc; where the texts are not otherwise attested, they are reproduced in full. It will be an essential point of reference for all scholars working on the English saints and on the spread of Christianity in the middle ages.Trade ReviewLiturgical specialists will be well served. Inimitable in its completeness [this volume] is a valuable contribution to English and Scandinavian hagiography and liturgical studies. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *An unusual and surprisingly valuable addition to the publications of the Henry Bradshaw Society. [...] Toy has gathered and condensed such a wealth of information that this small book presents virtually all the recoverable evidence for Scandinavian liturgical commemoration of no fewer than 75 English or Insular saints. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsRegister of Manuscripts English Saints in the Medieval Liturgies of Scandinavian Churches Appendix Bibliography Index of Saints Index of Liturgical Forms General Index

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Book SynopsisThe twin themes of punishment and penance considered through both historical and literary medieval German texts. The supposed brutality of medieval punishment looms large in the popular contemporary imagination, yet this perception can obscure the diverse and nuanced reactions of medieval society to violent or criminal acts. This collectionaddresses the ways in which different approaches to punishment are depicted and discussed in written texts, focusing in particular on the often complex intersection - semantic, theoretical and theological - between punishment andpenitential practices, both self-imposed and imposed by others. Often in dialogue with theoretical approaches (for example, those of René Girard or Michel Foucault), individual essays explore a range of themes: the intersection ofthe literary representation of acts of punishment and penance with historical experience; the ways in which acts of punishment and penance engage the wishes and desires of those inflecting or witnessing them; legal and theological implications; the symbolic and communicative capital of the body. They focus on a range of texts (romance, lyric, mystical writing, saints' lives) written in German, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Sarah Bowden is Lecturer in German at King's College London; Annette Volfing is Professor of Medieval German Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College. Contributors: Sarah Bowden, Björn Buschbeck, Sebastian Coxon, Racha Kirakosian, Andreas Kraß, Henrike Manuwald, Katharina Mertens-Fleury, Jamie Page, Aimut Suerbaum, Annette Volfing.

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Book SynopsisFirst edition of a lively medieval romance. The author of the fifteenth-century Older Scots romance of Rauf Coilyear may be unknown, but the popularity of this comic king-in-disguise tale is undisputed; it is cited by William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas at the turn of the century, and again in the mid-sixteenth century Complaynt of Scotland. The disguised king in this case is Charlemagne, and the hero a bluff collier called Ralph, who unwittingly plays host to him for one stormy night and teaches his bemused guest some rough lessons in his own version of courtesy. When Ralph is lured to court, the mistaken identities continue as he encounters the great Sir Roland and battles Saracens. Throughout, the scrappy hero maintains his dignity, as indeed does his king: both parties finish the tale immensely pleased with each other and with the bond they have forged. The text survives only in a 1572 print by Robert Lekpreuik (whose own career seems tohave been only marginally less exciting than Rauf's: he printed it in St Andrews while attempting to evade imprisonment in Edinburgh, ultimately without success). It is edited here with an introduction and notes. RALPHHANNA is Emeritus Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewThe extensive scholarly resources provided in addition to the poem will make this a valuable edition for scholars and students alike. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Text Notes Bibliography Glossary Index of Proper Names

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