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Dante, Eschatology and the Christian Tradition: Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman
This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Ronald B. Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England
An interdisciplinary study of one of the most significant women in English history, Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, in the context of female agency, community and identity in tenth-century England.
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation
The first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text, along with an analysis of the play’s broader contexts.
Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen Fliegel
Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most famous medieval collections in North America and Europe.
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage.
Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature
This book sits in the gap between adaptation and fanfiction studies, discussing published novels and their contribution to the scholarly engagement with their pre- and early modern source material as well as applying that creative framework to the teaching of literature in the college classroom.
Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different.
The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import of the characters' interaction in the works written by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries.
Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics
The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still "medieval" – in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by their medieval source material still reverberate and hold relevance for today’s world.
Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great
This volume is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great.
Mapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
This volume offers Ingrid Baumgärtner's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation.
Honorius Augustodunensis, Exposition of Selected Psalms
The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis—a redaction of his own, much larger commentary on the entire Psalter—participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the Book of Psalms.
William Caxton's "Paris and Vienne" and "Blanchardyn and Eglantine"
English versions of romances well known in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, but outside the modern canon of early English literature, these independent narratives of love and adventure present two differing but complementary accounts of chivalry and courtly love.
Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
This volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Compiled from several archives and city records, these wills cast a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church.
The Legend of Theophilus, by Gautier de Coinci
Gautier de Coinci’s long and colorful version of the most famous medieval miracle story opens a door that allows students to see the medieval period’s greatest fears and highest hopes.
Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350
Designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France, and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries, the volume consists of translations of primary sources written by or about medieval Jews.
John of Garland, Integumenta Ovidii: Text, Translation and Commentary
The text of John of Garland's series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years and includes comprehensive explanatory and textual notes.
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Blandin de Cornoalha, A Comic Occitan Romance: A New Critical Edition and Translation
Makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance and parody "Blandin de Cornoalha"—an early recording of the Sleeping Beauty folktale, incorporated into the adventures of two knights—accompanied by a translation and introduction to the work.
"The Owl and the Nightingale" and the English Poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)
An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II)—the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics—with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus.
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