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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Character of King Arthur in Medieval
Book SynopsisDr Morris examines how the legend grew through the retelling of what medieval writers believed was the story of an historical figure, based not on some lost Welsh biography, but on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings ofBritain, the `authorised' version of Arthur's career. She looks at his antecedents, the story of his conception and birth, and his accession, moving on to discuss his warfare, his role in peacetime, his relationships with hisfamily, his personal attributes, and his problematical death, showing how Arthur remains a distinct character in medieval literature despite appearing in an infinite variety of guises. Arthur appears in medieval literature in an infinite variety of different guises, yet remains a distinct character. Medieval writers, however freely they treat their sources, respected the traditions of the past, and Dr Morris, in writing the 'biography' of Arthur, isconcerned to show the complex intelinking of different versions of his story. Her approach is through the sequence of events which make up Arthur's career. She looks in turn at his antecedents, the story of his conception and birth, and his accession, the initial 'facts' and the discusses his warfare, his role in peacetime, his relationships with his family, and his personal attributes. The problems surrounding Arthur's death are examined in the finalchapter. Throughout the book, Dr Morris is concerned to 'use Arthur tro find out about the sources rather than vice versa' and in so doing illustrates both how medieval writers retold what they believe to be the story of a real historical figure and how the familiar story of Arthur gradually took shape over the centuries, based not on some lost Welsh biography, but on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain the 'authorised' version of Arthur's career for almost all medieval writers
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D. S. Brewer Three Tudor Classical Interludes Thersites Jacke Jugeler Horestes
Book SynopsisIntended for dramatisation by young scholars, these three interludes blend boisterous English comedy with humanist interest in the classical world.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity
Book SynopsisProfessor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems, Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, belong to the literary genre known as the `romance of antiquity' (which first appeard in the mid 12th century), in which the ancient pagan world is shown on its own terms, without the blatant Christian bias against paganism characteristic of works like the Chanson de Roland, where the writer is concerned with present-day rather than classical forms of paganism. Chaucer's attitudes to antiquity were influenced, but not determined, by those found in the compilations, commentaries, mythographies and history books which we know that he knew. These sources illuminate the manner in which he transformed Boccaccio. Much modern criticism has concentrated on the medieval veneer of manners and fashions which are ascribed to the heathen protagonists of Troilus and The Knight's Tale; Dr Minnis examines the other side of the coin, Chaucer's historical interest in cultures very different from his own. The paganism in these poems is not mere background and setting, but an essential part of their overall meaning.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Bibliography II Subject Index
Book SynopsisFull indexes by topic, keyword and individual work\author form a complete subject-index, based on the indexes in source bibliographies. This is a complete bibliography of Arthurian literature to 1978, the result of five years' work by Professor Cedric Pickford and Dr Rex Last of the University of Hull. It consists of a complete alphabetical author-listing, with key numbers for each item, of all critical material recorded in the standard Arthurian bibliographies (Bruce, Modern Languages Quarterly, BBSIA and various other minor lists) with full indexes by topic, keyword and individual work,/author. The total is over 10,000 main entries, with all recorded reviews listed after each entry. Where summaries exist in BBSIA, this is indicated in the main entries. The computer programs have been specially devised and written for this bibliography by Dr Last, and programming and editing of the material has taken morethan two years. Updating volumes are planned to appear at five-year intervals.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucer and the Poems of CH
Book SynopsisTranslation of fifteen lyrics marked "Ch" found in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15, along with a detailed inventory of the contents and a study of English and Chaucerian connections. When Chaucer began his service inthe English courts in the late 1350s, the French lyric in the formes fixes of ballade, rondeau, virelay, and chant royal was the poetry of the court. Chaucer no doubt composed such poetry. Among extant anthologies of lyricsin the fixed forms from that time, University of Pennsylvania MS French 15, comprising 310 poems of which about half are anonymous, seems the most likely to contain works written by Chaucer. To add to the likelihood, fifteen of the best anonymous poems - ten ballades, four chants royaux, and a rondeau - have the intriguing initials "Ch" entered just beneath the rubrics. Besides editions and translations of the fifteen lyrics, Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch" provides a record of the numerous filiations of the Pennsylvania MS collection with Chaucer and England. This record includes text of a fascinating exchange of poems between Chaucer's early contemporaries, Philippe de Vitry and Jean de la Mote, the text of Granson's Cinq Balades Ensievans in the closest version extant to Chaucer's Complaint of Venus, and an analysis of the contents of the MS as they relate to Chaucer. Chaucerand the Poems of "Ch" concludes with a detailed inventory of this little-studied MS with particular note of Chaucerian aspects of it.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume, a festschrift for Professor A,H. Diverres, has been included in the Arthurian Studies series because it contains highly important new work on the medieval aspects of Arthurian legend, ranging from Rachel Bromwich's essay on the Celtic elements in Arthurian romance and A.O.H Jarman's study of Arthurian allusions in the Black Book of Carmarthen to examinations of the Spanish and French romances of the 15th century. There are five papers on theromances of Chretien de Troyes, including pieces by Tony Hunt, Kenneth Varty and Charles Foulon, two on Welsh and German romances associated with Chretien's work, while other studies are on the Breton lais and on the English romances. In all, this is a wide-ranging and valuable collection, and a welcome addition to the series.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Return of King Arthur British and American
Book SynopsisThe revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the presentday, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets. The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: The Waste Land, David Jones's In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in Finnigan's Wake are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court to T.H. White's serio-comic The Once and Future King and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler. The Return of King Arthurincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from1800 to the present day.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Gowers Confessio Amantis Responses and
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature III
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England III
Book SynopsisThese papers are the proceedings of the third international Exeter symposium, and promote an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the medieval mystical tradition in England. This is an area of study which does not fruitfully lend itself to any single academic discipline in isolation; here, theologians, historians, literary crtitics, textual scholars, those engaged in the study of semiotics and those involved in the practice of psychiatric medicine exchange ideas and explore together the differing aspects which engage them in this field of study. CONTRIBUTORS: R. BRADLEY, R. ALLEN, R. COPELAND, M. MOYES, J. HOGG, F. WOHRER, A. BALDWIN, S. DICKMAN, D. WALLACETable of ContentsForeword - Marion Glasscoe The Speculum Image in Medieval Mystical Writers - Ritamary Bradley 'Singuler Lufe': Richard Rolle and the Grammar of Spiritual Ascent - R. S. Allen Richard Rolle and the Rhetorical Theory of the Levels of Style - The Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions of Richard Rolle's Expositio Super Novem Lectiones Mortuorum - Malcolm Moyes The Latin Cloud - James Hogg An Approach to the Mystographical Treatises of the Cloud-Author through Carl Albrecht's 'Psychology of Mystical Consciousness' - Franz Wohrer The Tripartite Reformation of the Soul in The Scale of Perfection, Pearl and Piers Plowman - A Baldwin Margery Kempe and the Continental Tradition of the Pious Woman - Susan Dickman Mystics and Followers in Siena and East Anglia: A Study in Taxonomy, Class and Cultural Mediation - David Wallace
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature IV
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Spirit of the Court Selected Proceedings of
Book Synopsis42 papers on all aspects of court-orientated culture, ranging from the period of the earliest troubadour, William of Poitiers, in the twelfth century, to the Renaissance and beyond.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Introduction to Chaucerian English
Book SynopsisThere is fairly general agreement that the modern reader's appreciation of Chaucer's writings can be enhanced by providing the reader with guides to `Chaucerian background' - literary, historical and cultural - and students of Chaucer are fortunate in having at their disposal a large number of books covering various aspects of Chaucerian background. One field which is less well covered is Chaucer's language: it is true that certain aspects of Chaucer's syntax and lexis have been dealt with in fairly recent years, but other subcategories of Chaucerian English, such as phonology and morphology, deserve more attention. The absence of readily available guides to these aspects of Chaucer's English has placed the linguistically-oriented student at a considerable disadvantage compared with his more literary-minded colleague, but the latter is also in need of a more detailed and reliable guide to Chaucerian Englishthan the somewhat scant notes often included in editions of Chaucerian texts. The present book is intended to meet this need. It is largely limited to Chaucerian phonology and morphology, and assumes some familiarity with the rudiments of linguistics, but the technical terminology has been kept to a minimum.
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D. S. Brewer Le Roman de Tristan en prose I
Book Synopsis`The publication of this book is an event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristanwas one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written between 1215 and 1235, it continued to be copied until the end of the Middle Ages and its popularity lasted another hundred years in printed editions. It was in fact in prose rather than in poetic form that the legend was known - Dr Curtis is to be warmly congratulated on undertaking this important task.' ERASMUS [BRIAN WOLEDGE]This three volume critical edition of the Prose Tristan, based on a complete collation of all the manuscripts with the Carpentras manuscript (404), is the first edition of this important medieval work ever published. Renée Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristanis the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume (now reprinted with corrections) appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form of a few fragments which had been edited and a summary of the romance made by E. Löseth in 1891. Dr Curtis's edition is based on a complete collation of all the manuscripts, and this led her to choose the Carpentras manuscript (404) as the basis of her edition. Professor Brian Woledge, the eminent medievalist, wrote of this first volume in Erasmus:`The publication of this book is an event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristanwas one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written between 1215 and 1235, it continued to be copied until the end of the Middle Ages and its popularity lasted another hundred years in printed editions. It was in fact in prose rather than in poetic form that the legend was known -Dr Curtis is to be warmly congratulated on undertaking this important task.'
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D. S. Brewer Le Roman de Tristan en prose II
Book SynopsisRenée Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristanis the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form ofa few fragments which had been edited and a summary of the romance made by E. Lö
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Le Roman de Tristan en prose III
Book SynopsisRenee Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristan is the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form of a fewfragments which had been edited and a summary of the romance made by E. Loseth in 1891. Dr Curtis's edition is based on a complete collation of all the manuscripts and this led her to choose the Carpentras manuscript 404 as thebasis of her edition. This second volume appeared in1976. Professor Brian Woledge, the eminent medievalislt, wrote of the first volume in Erasmus: "The publication of this book is an event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristan was one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written between1215 and 1235, it continued to be copied until the end of the Middle Ages and its popularity lasted another hundred years in printededitions. It was in fact in prose rather than in poetic form that the legend was known.... Dr Curtis is to warmly congratulated on undertaking this important task"
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Personification in Piers Plowman
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIntelligent, discriminating, and sophisticated. SPECULUM, April 1987 * . *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio
Book SynopsisDavid Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer's work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity for himself as an illustrious vernacular author. Chaucer recognised that both the Filostrato and Teseida derived their basic narrative capabilities from popular tradition analogous to that of the English tail-rhyme romance. Following a detailed analysis of Chaucer's translation practice in Troilus and Criseyde, Wallace concludesthat it was Boccaccio's attempt to develop a narrative art occupying the middle ground between popular and illustrious, domestic and European traditions that Chaucer found so uniquely congenial and instructive.Trade ReviewWelcome new contribution to a critical trend which may well change the traditional view of a purely `insular' or at most `francophile', and exclusively `medieval' Chaucer. N & CL, 33, 2; 6/86. * . *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature V
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Book SynopsisA fine research tool which has so many applications. SPECULUMTrade Review'A fine research tool which has so many applications.' * SPECULUM *Voila une importante contribution aux etudes sur Geoffroy. * ETUDES CELTIQUES *Table of ContentsLists of manuscripts of the Historia. Appendices: manuscripts in private hands - manuscripts not available for inclusion - manuscripts whose present location is unknown - lost manuscripts of the Historia - revised list of abridgments of the Historia - manuscripts of the Prophetie Merlini; manuscripts of the Uita Merlini
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucers Narrators
Book SynopsisThe book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first chapter, `Apocryphal Voices', surveys the basis of modern critical approaches to persona and `irony' in Chaucer's poetry, and suggests that such approaches are better suited to unequivocally written contexts. A systematic hesitation between a wholly written and a wholly spoken context requires critical distinctions between types of persona, and a number of distinctions in the range between persona and voice. `Morality in its Context' examines the Pardoner and his tale and argues against a `dramatic' view of the tale itself, while the third chapter, 'Chaucer's Development of Persona', is a study of possible sources for Chaucer's handling of the narratorial '1', looking at the English `disour', the French `dits amoureux', Italian and Latin sources of influence, and the Roman de la Rose. The last two chapters apply the principles outlined so far to Troilus and The Canterbury Tales, with a particular examination of the literary history of the Squire'stale to show that modern interest in dramatic persona has obscured many other important issues and leads to drastic misreading. This is a challenging and lucid work which questions many of the received attitudes of recentChaucer criticism, and offers a reasoned and approachable alternative view.Trade Review`a distinguished series... It is an intelligent and well-written book, on a subject central to Chaucer studies... Students will find Lawton a reliable guide, and scholars will be given much to ponder.' * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature VI
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance Essays on
Book SynopsisThese essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chrétien de Troyes tothe end of the medieval period in England. Topics include the question of religious influences; the transition of Arthurian material to foreign contexts; and the fortunes of the prose romance in England, focusing on the Prose Merlinand Malory. The contributors are: ELSPETH KENNEDY, RENÉE L. CURTIS, FANNI BOGDANOW, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, DAVID BLAMIRES, CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN, CAROL M. MEALE, KAREN STERN, DEREK BREWER, FAITH LYONS, ROGER MIDDLETON
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Traditionality and Genre in Middle English
Book SynopsisA tough and determined book bringing new ideas to bear - deserves serious consideration' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIESTraditionality and Genrelooks for a new approach to romance, a way to assess and interpret individual romances in terms of their shared features of style, structure and implied audience. It identifies these features in theromances in the Auchinleck manuscript before proceeding to a study of romance style as it is employed in Amis and Amiloun, and romance structure in Guy of Warwick. The legendary Guy was adopted by the earls of Warwick as their ancestor, and this, coupledwith the romance's more broadly commemorative intention, is used by the author to demonstrate the essentially conservative appeal of romance generally. The Squyr of lowe degre, a late and sophisticated romance, finally substantiated the author's observations on romance style and structure. These three romances also inter-relate in other ways, borrowing from and alluding to each other in characteristic fashion, and thus providing further opportunities to study the common features of the genre.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England IV
Book SynopsisThese papers are the proceedings of the fourth international Exeter Symposium. They promote enquiry into, and understanding of, the medieval mystics and the cultural context to which they belong. Here, historians, literary critics, theologians, philosophers and bibliographical scholars explore ways in which the contemplative tradition was mediated and perceived in the very early and very late medieval period, and ask fundamental questions about the natureof contemporary understanding of this subject. CONTRIBUTORS: GEORGE R. KEISER, SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK, WILLIAM F. POLLARD, JAMES HOGG, SANDRA MCENTIRE, ANNE SAVAGE, PETER DINZELBACHER, NICHOLAS WATSON, PETER MOORE, ROBERT K.FORMANTable of ContentsThe Mystics and the Early English Printers: The Economics of Devotionalism - George Keiser Margery Kempe and Wynkyn de Worde - Sue Ellen Holbrook Mystical Elements in a Fifteenth-Century Prayer Sequence: 'The Festis and the Passion of Oure Lord Ihesu Crist' - William F. Pollard Everyday Life in a Contemplative Order in the Fifteenth Century - James Hogg The Doctrine of Compunction from Bede to Margery Kempe - Sandra McEntire The Place of Old English Poetry in the English Meditative Tradition - Anne Savage The Beginnings of Mysticism Experienced in Twelfth-Century England - Peter Dinzelbacher The Methods and Objectives of Thirteenth-Century Anchoritic Devotion - Nicholas Watson Christian Mysticism and Interpretation: Some Philosophical Issues Illustrated in the Study of the Medieval English Mystics - Peter Moore Mystical Experience in The Cloud-Literature - Robert K Forman
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature VII
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Plays of George Chapman The Tragedies with
Book SynopsisMuch-needed modern critical edition. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIESTrade Review'Much-needed modern critical edition.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Early Welsh Saga Poetry
Book SynopsisThe early Welsh Saga Englynion are lyric poems in character, long presumed to be the poetic remains of lost stories, told in a mixture of prose and verse. Three main cycles survive, centred on the figures of Llywarch Hen, who loses all his sons in his vicarious quest for glory; Unrien Rheged, a king unwillingly betrayed by his follower and kinsman; and Heledd, the sole survivor of an English invasion of her country. There are also many non-cyclicalpoems of the same type with other narrator figures such as the leper of Abercuawg. The best poems display considerable artistry and emotional intensity. The critical discussion of the saga Englynion seeks to restore the lost narrative background by careful reading of internal indications and by comparative study. The growth, nature and artistry of each cycle is fully explored, as well as how each relates to the larger corpus. Relevant early Welsh traditions and history are also cited. This is the first full edition of the saga Englynion since Sir Ifor Williams's Canu Llywarch Hen, and uses two additional manuscript copies. Full translations make the work accessible to a wider audience.Trade Review`-the scholarship and wealth of detailed information that has gone into this work is truly staggering. Rowland deserves the gratitude of celticists for her achievement... Research libraries will find it essential.' May 91 * CHOICE *A reworking the [her] thesis, already renowned in the fields of Welsh and Celtic studies...and regarded as indispensable for any advanced research on the Welsh sagas and related early poetry... Rowlands' discussion ably and thoroughly canvasses issues of theme and genre, metrics, linguistic archaisms and innovations, authorship, and the controversial problem of the nonextant narrative and historical contexts of the poem. She also illuminatingly brings to bear extensive comparanda from the other leading pre-Norman insular literary languages... Offers a thoughtful reassessment of Williams's theories in the light of the developments of the subsequent half-century. * SPECULUM *With the publication of this impressive edition and study, JR leaps into the very first rank of twentieth-century Celtic scholars. * CMCS *Table of ContentsPart 1: The Llywarch Hen poems; the Urien Rheged poems; Canu Heledd - the historical background - the poems; "Claf Abercuawg" and penitential lyrics; miscellaneous saga poems and the performance of the saga "Englynion"; other genres using the three-line "Englyn" metres; metrics, authorship, language, dating. Part 2 Edition and translations of the texts: the manuscripts of the saga "Englynion"; editorial note; Canu Llywarch; Canu Urien; Canu Heledd; "Claf Abercuawg" and "Kyntaw Geir"; miscellaneous saga poems. Appendices: Early Welsh genealogical tracts - edition and text of "Marwnad Cynddylan".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucer Complaint and Narrative
Book Synopsis`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIESCounters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. `His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works - an intelligent, original and profitable view.'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCERTrade Review`His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works...an intelligent, original and profitable view.' * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Layamons Brut The Poem and its Sources
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. Additional sources are then identified, in the various fields suggested by the poem: historical; literary; and religious writings (or tales) in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.Trade ReviewAn important study that adds greatly to our understanding and appreciation of Layamon's Brut, and is essential reading for anyone planning work on the Brut... All should appreciate the care she has taken with her subject, her thorough coverage of previous scholarship, and the careful scrutiny under which she has placed it. * ANGLIA *`By far the fullest investigation of Layamon's sources ever undertaken..should become a standard reference not only for Layamon scholars but for all interested in English Arthurian origins. * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *`Her particular virtue is to take the whole poem seriously on its own terms as a national epic of the dispossessed English. In so doing, she goes far to establish its structural coherence. * MEDIUM ÆVUM 1991 LX. i. (1991) *`entrancing subtle demonstration that he probably knew Welsh material partly in translation * P.J.C. Field REV ENGLISH STUDIES 42, 168; 11/91 *Table of ContentsLayamon's "Brut" - dates and manuscripts; the Prologue, or the acknowledged sources; from Wace to Layamon; the French connection; Geoffrey of Monmouth; the Welsh sources; "An preost wes on leoden"; an intensely English poet.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature VIII
Book SynopsisThis collection of Arthurian literature contains commentary on and translations of medieval texts by scholars. "Le Chavalier de la Charrete" is represented as is "Romance of Fergus" and a discussion of 15th century chronicler John Hardyng and his version of Galahad's grail quest.Trade Review`Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today.' * ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE *Table of ContentsArthur and Mordred: Variations on an Incest Theme - Elizabeth Archibald Un 'Fin' Amant' et l'ironie romanesque: Lancelot et la chanson de change - Jan Janssens Guillaume le Clerc: The Romance of Fergus - D.D.R. Owen *** John Hardyng and the Holy Grail - Edward Donald Kennedy
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature IX
Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays on Arthurian themes contains one on Layamon, two on Chretien, and one on Victorian art. The contributors are Oliver Goulden, Claude Luttrell, Christine Poulson, W.R.J.Barron and Francoise Le Saux. The contents of previous volumes are listed at the back of this volume.Table of ContentsErec et Enide - the structure of the central section, Oliver Goulden; two aspects of Layamon's narrative art, W.R.J.Barron and Francoise Le Saux; the Arthurian hunt with a white bratchet, Claude Luttrell; Arthurian legend in fine and applied art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a catalogue of artists, Christine Poulson.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Camelot Regained The Arthurian Revival and
Book Synopsis`Roger Simpson['s] finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked until now. Roger Simpson's wide-ranging study of this period, in which he traces the dominant forms adopted by the Arthurian revival and presents a wealth of new material, shows it to have been of critical importance in the development of the legend and to have been a powerful early influence on Tennyson, whose role within the Arthurian revival is accordingly reassessed. His book also contains a complete bibliography of early 19th-century Arthurian poetry, drama and prose fiction, together with catalogues of paintings and illustrated books. ROGER SIMPSON is Director, Centre for Overseas Student Programmes, at the University of East AngliaTrade Review`Roger Simpson started investigating influences on a group of Tennyson's early poems, and found himself rewriting a piece of English literary history. His finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWSucceeds admirably as acomprehensive survey of Arthuriana in the 18th and early 19th centuries. MODERN PHILOLOGY`... a welcome addition to an Arthurian library...especially sugnificant for those who are interested in the continuing tradition of Arthur and his entourage. It is meticulously researched and admirably written, and it does indeed encourage a reassessment of the Arthurian revival of the first half of the nineteenth century.' REBECCA COCHRAN, University of Nebraska at Kearney. `A fascinating act of recovery - in turn provides the context for Tennyson's own early Arthurian poems, impressive scholarship. * LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY *Table of ContentsThe historical Arthur; the topographical Arthur; the comic; fairyland allegory; Tennyson and the Arthurian revival. Appendices: catalogues of Arthuriana 1800-1849 - poetry, drama and prose fiction - minor allusions - chronological table - paintings - graphics.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucers Religious Tales
Book SynopsisThese thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the Clerk's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the Second Nun's Tale and the Prioress's Tale. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest inwomen and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches. Contributors: C. DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETHD. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.Trade Review`...a concerted, intelligent reappraisal of both the tales themselves and their reception by previous generations of critics....The collection's greatest strength is the amount and quality of attention it gives to the critical tradition surrounding Chaucer's religious tales...a rich, varied and interesting collection that should amply fulfil its announced purpose, stimulating further critical re-examinations of an unduly neglected group of Chaucer's tales. NOTES AND QUERIESCharacterized by a determination to do justice to a neglected area of Chaucer's work...throws up many insights. MLR`advance(s) our critical understanding of this group of tales by several degrees -inspiration for further study, exploration, and appreciation. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaucer's Religious Tales: A Question of Genre Chaucer's Tales of Transcendence: Rhyme Royal and Christian Prayer in the Canterbury Tales Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales The Protestant Chaucer Critical Approaches to the Clerk's Tale Critical Approaches to the Man of Law's Tale Critical Approaches to the Prioress's Tale and the Second Nun's Tale Nominalism and the Dynamics of the Clerk's Tale: Homo Viator as Woman The Spiritual Heroism of Chaucer's Custance Poetic Variety in the Man of Law's and the Clerk's Tales Aspects of Female Piety in the Prioress's Tale The Second Nun's Tale Patterns of Feminine and Masculine Persuasion in the Melibee and the Parson's Tale
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspec
Book SynopsisDr Garde questions modern interpretations of the nature and purpose of Old English religious poetry.In this doctrinal appraisal Dr Garde contends that English religious poetry in the early medieval "age of faith" was intended to convey conventional Christian teaching to unlearned audiences. In this reading, Old English religiousverse is dominated by the Christus Victor tradition, the exegetical perceptions often assumed in modern criticism are not justified. The tradition of Christ's triumphant Descent into hell, regarded as apocryphal by many critics, is discussed in the context of the Resurrection and Christian expectations of eternal life in the Advent lyrics, the Descent poems, Christ II and Phoenix. The Dream of the Rood, Elene and Christ III are seen as describing Christ's Incarnation, death, Descent, Resurrection and Ascension, the Pentecostal phenomenon and the Church in the world. Expectations of judgment, the future resurrection of flesh, and the prospect of eternal bliss for righteous Christians complete the credal sequence.The author suggests that unstated, wholly familiar perceptions of salvation in Christ underlie all Old English religious verse, and that interpreters ignore these traditions at their peril. JUDITH GARDE's published work includes contributions to the Journal of Literature and Theology and Neophilologus.Trade ReviewImportant work... She sees the poems as extra-liturgical celebrations of an orthodox and practical living faith. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsAn approach to medieval orthodoxy; the Junius Codex; the advent lyrics; "The Dream of the Rood"; descent into hell; Christ - Ascension, Session, Pentecost, return in judgement; "Elene"; Christ phoenix - eschatology in the verse.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature X
Book SynopsisThe tenth volume of Arthurian Literature continues some ofthe themes of earlier issues, as well as exploring unfamiliar andcontroversial ground. The second part of CHRISTINE POULSON's survey of the Arthurian legend in 19th-century art is an analysisby subject of the works catalogued by artist in Arthurian Literature IX. A. H. W. SMITH provides a substantial update to MaryWildman's bibliography of modern Arthurian literature which appearedin Arthurian Literature II, adding not only recent works butalso many items missing from the earlier list. Mr Smith also contributesan article on Ponticus Virumnius and the text of Gildas, one of themore intriguing mysteries ofArthurian text history, and sets outVirumnius' claim to have seen a poem by Gildas which has since disappeared. ARMEL DIVERRES writes on the origins of Chretien de Troyes'Conte del Graal; he argues that we should seek thepoet's inspiration in the crusading activities of Philip of Flanders, supporting his case with a careful examination of many otherwise difficult passages in the poem.Table of ContentsGildas the poet, A.H.W. Smith; the grail and the Third Crusade: thoughts on "Le Conte del Graal" by Chretien de Troyes, Armel Diverres; Arthurian legend in the fine and applied art of the 19th and early 20th centuries: a subject index, Christine Poulsen; update - a supplementary bibliography of 20th Arthurian literature, A.H.W. Smith.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd EighteenthCentury Modernizations from the
Book SynopsisThis collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden. Although most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of an anonymous Miller's Tale (1791) with a thoughtful preface justifying the tale's overt sexuality published just as William Lipscomb was completing his 1795 edition that, in its preface, justifies exclusion from the pilgrimage of the notorious tales of Miller and Reeve. Such contrasting attitudes illustrate the dangers of generalisation about the usual reception or interpretation of Chaucer during this or any other socio-historic period; instead, the collection provides an untapped reservoir of material with which to investigate anew the rich complexity of his poetry and its enduring appeal. BETSY BOWDEN is Professor of English at Rutgers University,New Jersey.Trade ReviewA most convenient source-book for those interested in the history of Chaucer's reception. * MEDIUM AEVUM *The modernizations of the fabliaux are very racy and in some cases at least as good as the original. They clearly appealed to eighteenth-century taste ... a very welcome collection in showing us how the 18th century responded to Chaucer: it is a very acceptable addition to Chauceriana. * ENGLISH STUDIES *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Apollonius of Tyre Medieval and Renaissance
Book SynopsisA comparative study of one of the most familiar stories in medieval romance (used by Gower, Shakespeare, etc.), from late Antiquity into the Renaissance.The Historia Apollonii is a rare Latin example of a genre of literature more fully attested in Greek, the so-called `Greek romance' - popular stories which involve lovers or families separated byshipwreck and misfortune andeventually joyfully reunited. It was one of the most widely and continuously read texts to survive from late Antiquity through the middle ages and into the Renaissance almost unchanged. Elizabeth Archibald's study of the Historia Apollonii, taking a valuable comparative approach, discusses the text's merits and interest, its date and possible origin, the present state of scholarship, and the question of its reception and genre in the middle ages and Renaissance. There follows a complete survey of the medieval and early Renaissance use and knowledge of the Historia Apollonii throughout Europe; and the book is completed with the text and translation of the romance itself. An indispensable work for students of medieval romance. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English, Durham University.Trade ReviewArchibald has not only filled a major gap in scholarship; she has given us a well-planned, original, intellectually powerful study, a most useful bilingual edition of the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, and a thorough bibliographical treatment... excellent book. * NOTES AND QUERIES *Remarkably well-documented study... Two extremely useful appendices give all the known Latin and vernacular versions of the tale and allusions to it. ...awesome extent and breadth of reading...this is truly comparative literature. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *An admirable map for anyone working on Periclesor medieval story or the history of taste. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *As a whole the book is a splendid production: it will be an indispensable standard work for all further work on the Apollonius romances. * ANGLIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Historia Apollonii; sources and analogues; the circulation of the Apollonius story in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the influence of HA; problems in the plot; genre, reception and popularity; text of the Historia Apollonii with facing translation. Appendices: Latin and vernacular versions of HA to 1609; medieval and Renaissance allusions to the story of Apollonius.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Gowers Confessio Amantis A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisEleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism.This collection gathers in one place the essays that have done most to shape the modern critical discussion of the Confessio Amantis, and illustrates, by the choice of the landmarks of Gower criticism, how the study of thepoem has evolved. It also provides representative examples of major approaches to the poem and selected studies of its most important aspects The essays provide a valuable indication of precisely what kinds of challenges the Confessio Amantishas posed for modern readers; they will provide the groundwork for all future study of the Confessio Essays by: G.C. MACAULAY, C.S. LEWIS, GEORGE R. COFFMAN, J.A.W. BENNETT, DEREK PEARSALL, ARNOBESCH, GEORGE. D. ECONOMOU, GOTÖZ SCHMITZ, DENISE N. BAKER, A.J. MINNIS and KURT OLSSONTrade Review`The admirable work of the John Gower Society continues with this collection of major criticism. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Table of ContentsThe "Confessio Amantis" (1908), G C Macaulay; Gower (1936), C S Lewis; John Gower in his most significant role (1945), George E Coffman; Gower's narrative art (1966), Derek Pearsall; John Gower's narrative art (1968), Arno Esch; the character genius in Alan de Lille, Jean de Meun, and John Gower (1970), George D Economou; rhetoric and fiction - Gower's comments on eloquence and courtly poetry (1974), Gotz Schmitz; the priesthood of genius - a study of the medieval tradition (1976), Denise N Baker; John Gower, "sapiens" in ethics and politics (1980), A J Minnis; natural law and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" (1982), Kurt Olsson.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Poets Charles Williams
Book Synopsis`I believe this volume will give to scholars of Williams expanded vistas from which to view his work, and to the general reader glimpses of Camelot'. MYTHPRINT Includes Taliessin through Logres and The Regionof the Summer Stars - complex and haunting works which constitute the major imaginative writings about the Grail this century in addition to much previously unpublished material. Charles Williams's two cycles of poems, Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars, constitute the major imaginative work about the Grail of the 20th century. Williams's vision of spiritual reality is expressed through symbols of great originality, and the complex patterns of sound and haunting rhythms make his poems deeply rewarding.In this new edition David Dodds collects together for the first time twenty-four of Williams's earlier poems on Arthurian themes, many never published before. They are from Williams's collection The Advent of Galahad, which both grew into and gave way to the Taliessin cycle. There are also later poems showing this transmutation in process, and fragments, designed to form a sequel to The Region of the Summer Stars, which appear for the first time. Besides the publication of this important new material, the present edition will serve to introduce new readers to the magic of these rich and lyrical pieces, which evoke a spiritual world in keeping with the highest ideals of Arthurian literature. DAVID LLEWELLYN DODDS, of Merton College, was a Rhodes Scholar and Richard Weaver Fellow. He has lectured in English at Harlaxton College, worked at the Houghton and Regenstein Libraries, and is now Curator of C.S. Lewis's house, The Kilns. He is currently working on a complete critical edition of Charles Williams's unpublished Arthurian poetry and prose. Other poets in this series: Edwin Arlington Robinson; A.C. Swinburne; William Morris & Matthew Arnold.Table of ContentsPart 1 The published volumes: "The Region of the Summer Stars"; "Taliessin through Logres". Part 2 Uncollected and unpublished poems: "The Advent of Galahad" and intermediate poems; poems after "Taliessin through Logres".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Centur
Book SynopsisHere at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses providethe key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. An essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture.Trade Review`The rich cultural insights afforded by the study of medieval Latin are only beginning to be appreciated. In this difficult study of the text-books through which Latin was learned, together with the Latin, Anglo-Norman and English glosses to be found in their manuscript versions, Tony Hunt makes a pioneering attempt to understand its relationship to the vernaculars spoken in England. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Extremely learned... a detailed study of the vernacular glossing of Latin texts and terms up to the 13th century, a vast compendium of erudition. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A pioneer undertaking of the first order, mapping out an area which until now has been almost entirely neglected by philological research, namely that of the Anglo-Norman and Middle English glossary of Latin school books and texts in England... a milestone in research into the language, culture and literacy of the English middle ages. * ANGLIA *
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D. S. Brewer Studies in Medievalism IV Medievalism in England
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to medievalism in England, including: The Antiquarian Impulse in England, 1500-1730, The Two Noble Kinsmen and the Problem of Chivalry, From Medievalism to Historicism, Catholic History and the MiddleAges, Rossetti's Quest for God's Graal.Medievalism - the whole spectrum of post-medieval response to the middle ages - is now accepted as a vital key to the understanding of Western culture and society from 1500 to the present, pervading every aspect of our time, fromthe popularto the scholarly and artistic. Studies in Medievalism, published annually, is the one series to provide a regular forum for discussion of issues related to medievalism. This volume is devoted to medievalism in England, appropriately, since England has always played a central part in the development of medievalism. Contributors from England, Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States deal with topics ranging from 16th-century antiquarianism to 20th-century detective fiction. Contributors: D.R. WOOLF, DENNIS O'BRIEN, PETER HADORN, A. CAMERON AIRHEART, MARTIN WALSH, R.J.SMITH, ROGER SIMPSON, RAYMOND CHAPMAN, CLARE SIMMONS, THOMAS COOKSEY, RENATE HAAS, YURIFUWA, ANTHONY HARRISON, ROBERT BURTON, EDWIN CHRISTIAN, BLAKE LINDSY, MARC BAER.Table of ContentsThe dawn of the artifact - the antiquarian impulse in England, 1500-1730, D.R.Woolf; Lord Berners "Huon of Burdeux" - the survival of medieval ideals in the reign of Henry VIII, Dennis J.O'Brien; "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and the problem of chivalry, Peter T. Hadorn; medieval heretics and Cromwell's protectorate, A.Cameron Airhart; St. Martin in the City - The Lord Mayor's Show of 1702, Martin W.Walsh; from medievalism to historicism - representations of history in the gothic novel and historical romance, David H.Richter; antiquarian or bibliographer? the dilemma of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Laurel Braswell-Means; Cobbett, Catholic history, and the Middle Ages, R.J.Smith; "Revisiting Cramalot" - an Arthurian theme in the correspondence of William Taylor and Robert Southey, Roger Simpson; Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" in Tennyson's library, Yuri Fuwa; last enchantments - medievalism and the early Anglo-Catholic movement, Raymond Chapman; the central man of the world - the Victorian myth of Dante, Thomas L.Cooksey; "Iron-worded proof" - Victorian identity and the Old English language, Clare A.Simmons; V.A.Huber's memoir of F.J.Furnivall, Renate Haas; medievalism and the ideologies of Vitorian poetry, Antony H.Harrison; the "defence of Lancelot" - Rossetti's quest for "God's Graal", Eriko Yamaguchi; medieval Arthurian motifs in the modernist art and poetry of David Jones, Xavier Baron; revitalizing an old tradition - the "organic" writings of Raymond Williams and John Fowles, Robert S.Burton; the habit of detection - the medieval monk as detective in the novels of Ellis Peters, Edwin Ernest Christian and Blake Lindsay; the memory of the Middle Ages - from history of culture to cultural history, Marc Baer.
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D. S. Brewer Chaucers Boccaccio
Book SynopsisThe notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations. TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENTChaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as a basis for his major works, and any analysis of his handling of his sources must depend on a knowledge of the Italian poet's work.Trade Review`His Filostrato has far more energy and subtlety than the R.K. Gordon version; it reminds us just how good Boccaccio is. * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Table of Contents"Filostrato"; "Teseida" (excerpts); "Filocolo" IV, 31-4. Appendices: "The Fortunes of Troilus"; Benoit de Sainte-Maure. "Roman de Troie" (excerpts); Guido de Columnis, "Historia Destructionis Troiae" (excerpts).
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature XI
Book SynopsisThe vital index to all previous volumes, I-X; plus new research.Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today.ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE Arthurian Literatureis now established as a leading publication for research articles of monograph length on subjects of perennial interest to Arthurians. The Indexto the first ten volumes, representing the years 1980-1990, will be warmly welcomed by Arthurians and other scholars with an interest in medieval and later literature. Additionally an extended biographical essay by JANET GRAYSON draws together material relating to the life and work of Jessie Weston, who, largely working outside the mainstream of scholarly tradition, exercised a powerful influence on Arthurian studies. The regular "Update" feature catalogues Arthurian legend in the fine and applied art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, contributed by ROGER SIMPSON.Table of ContentsIn quest of Jessie Weston, Janet grayson; update - Arthurian legend in fine and applied art in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Roger Simpson; index to "Arthurian Literature", volumes I-X, Richard Wright.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chr233tien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages
Book SynopsisStudies showing the influence of the French Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes on German medieval literature.The pre-eminent role of Chrétien de Troyes in the formation of Arthurian romance is reflected in the swift and brilliant response of German courtly poets to his works. Within a few years of their composition, Erec et Enideand Yvain were adapted for German audiences by Hartmann von Aue, while Chrétien's unfinished Grail-story was taken up by Wolfram von Eschenbach and brought to a triumphant conclusion in Parzival. In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars contrast the treatment and reception of the stories in Germany with their French originals. Contributors: E.M.MELETINSKY, MICHAEL BATTS, SILVIA RANAWAKE, W.H.JACKSON, H.B.WILSON, KAREN PRATT, MARTIN H. JONES, DANIEL ROCHER, WALTER BLANK, KLAUS GRUBMULLER, TONY HUNT, WIEBKE FREYTAG, MICHAEL CURSCHMANN, RENE PERENNEC, ADRIAN STEVENS, ARTHUR GROOS, TIMOTHY McFARLAND, J.-M. PASTRE and VOLKER HONEMAN.Table of ContentsL'oeuvre de Chretien de Troyes dans une perspective comparatiste, E.M. Meletinsky; national perspectives on originality and translation - Chretien de Troyes and Hartmann von Aue, Michael Batts; "Verligen" und "Versitzen" - das versaumnis des Helden und die sunde der tragheit in den Artustromanen Hartmanns von Aue, Silvia Ranawake; aspects of knighthood in Hartmann's adaptations of Chretien's romances and in the social context, William Henry Jackson; the heroine's loyalty in Hartmann's and Chretien's "Erec", Bernard Willson; adapting "Enide" - Chretien, Hartmann and the female reader, Karen Pratt; Chretien, Hartmann, and the knight as fighting man - on Hartmann's chivalric adaptation of "Erec et Enide", Martin H. Jones; "Cliges" in Deutschland, Daniel Rocher; zu den schwierigkeiten der Lancelot-Rezeption in Deutschland, Walter Blank; die konzeption der Artusfigure bei chrestien und in Ulrichs "Lanzelet" - misverstandnis, kritik oder selbstandigkeit? ein diskussionsbeitrag; "Isein and Yvain" - adapting the love theme, Tony Hunt; "Rehtre guete" als wahrscheinlich "gewisse lere" - topische argumente fur eine schulmaxime in Hartmanns "Iwein", Wiebke Freytag; "Der aventiure bilde nemen" - the intellectual and social environment of the "Iwein murals at Rodenegg Castle, Michael Curschmann; Wolfram von Eschenbach vor dem "Donte du Graal", Rene Perennec; heteroglossia and clerical narrative - on wolfram's adaptation of Chretien, Adrian Stevens; dialogic transpotions - the grail hero wins a wife, Arthur Groos; Clinschor, Wolfram's adaptation of the "Conte du Graal" - the Schastel Marveile episode, Timothy McFarland; Versuch einer vergleichenden Asthetika - die kunst des portrats bei Chretien und einigen deutschen Bearbeitern des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, Jean-Marc Pastre; "Guillaume d'Angleterre", "Gute Frau", "Wilhelm von Wenden" - zur beschaftigung mit dem "Eustachius-Thema in Frankreich und Deutschland, Volker Honemann.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Book SynopsisThis anthology of medieval writing provides a context for a deeper understanding of the Gawain-poet's originality and skill.The intertextuality of this brilliant poem can be more fully understood through Elisabeth Brewer's presentation of modern English versions of themes familiar from Gawain and the Green Knight -beheading, seduction and othertraditional material - from a range of medieval writings. Her book is a delightful and unusual small anthology of medieval literature; but its greatest success lies in providing a context for a fuller understanding of Sir Gawain, through its presentation of extracts and poems (including translation from Celtic and French originals) illustrating the tradition in which the Gawain-poet wrote, underscoring his own great achievement. It is both anintroduction to the poem and a useful tool for critical comparison. First published in 1975 as From Cuchulainn to Gawain.ELISABETH BREWERlectured in English at Homerton College, Cambridge.Table of ContentsThe feast; the beheading game; the passing of the year; the arming of the warrior; Gawain's arrival at the castle; the hunt; the temptation theme; the antifeminist diatribe; later versions.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance
Book SynopsisBarnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident barons contributed to the development of the `problem of counsel' both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the period. Rule by counsel, an ideal which informs medieval English government at every level, is, the authorargues, central to the ethos of Middle English romance. The procedural formula of `counsel and strategy' is tested against a number of romances: Ywain and Gawain, Havelok, Gamelyn, Athelston, a selection of nine romances from the Auchinleck manuscript, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By selecting these narratives Geraldine Barnes is able to approach the question of counsel from a number of different angles. This is a book which will stimulate considerable interest among scholars of medieval literature. GERALDINE BARNES is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney.Table of Contents"Working by Counsel" in Plantagenet England - the context, ethos, and audience of Middle English romance; the custom of counsel in Middle English Romance - "Ywain and Gawain", "Havelock", "Gamelyn", "Athelston"; "Working by Counsel" - the Auchinleck Manuscript I - "Of Arthour and of Merlin", "Guy of Warwick", "Beves of Hamtoun"; "Winning by gyn" the Auchinleck Manuscript II - "Sir Tristrem", "Kyng Alisaunder", "Richard Coer de Lion", "Floris and Blauncheflur", "The Seven Sages of Rome", "Sir Orfeo"; the failure of counsel and strategy - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Cornish Literature
Book SynopsisComparative study of Cornish literature, placing it in a wider context and looking in detail at major works.`This admirable survey...compact, smoothly written, easy to read and digest, yet indicative throughout of profound scholarship and an obvious mastery of the field, Cornish Literatureprovides an enduring guide to this smallbut significant genre. The three Middle Cornish plays - in English titles, The Creation of the World, Life of St Meriasekand the tripartite Ordinalia - accompany a long Pascon agan Arluth, a verse `Passion of our Lord' and the odd fragment... His last chapter, `Survivals and Revivals', is a fair but detached account covering a long (1611 to 1992) phase that will also interest sociologists. The chief strength of his book is the textual analysis of the main plays, placing them alongside medieval English drama as well as the larger European manifestation of religious drama and the complex question of all their biblical and quasi-biblical sources. There is auseful bibliography. Modestly priced, Brian Murdoch's scholarly and attractive guide should appeal to many beyond medievalist circles; it will not be superseded for a long time.' THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BRIAN MURDOCHis head of the Department of German at Stirling University.Trade ReviewThis book was needed. It gives a clear, accurate and up-to-date account of a subject which has never before had the treatment it deserves. Murdoch's study at once becomes thebook on Cornish literature, essential for anyone concerned with Cornwall's past, but also breaking new ground for students of medieval drama, popular religion, and apocryphal literature.MEDIUM AEVUMThe chief strength of his book is t... [check orig.] plays, placing them alongside medieval English drama as well as the larger European manifestation of religious drama and the complex question of all their biblical and quasi-biblical sources. There is a useful bibliography, offering a sorely needed guide to a mass of local Cornish editions and publications. Modestly priced, Brian Murdoch's scholarly and attractive guide shoud appeal to many beyond medievalist circles; it will not be superseded for a long time. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTAn important book... a good half is devoted to the central texts of the `ancient Cornish drama', of which they provide the most illuminating presentation to date. YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES 55 (`93) A most valuable introduction. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsConventions of reference; writing in Cornish - fragments and losses; "An Antient Manuscript . . ." the poem of the Passion; seeing and believing - the "Ordinalia"; the need to repent - "The Creacion of the World"; Church, State and salvation - the play of Saint Meriasek; "Nebbaz gerriau . . ." survivals and revivals.
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