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FiltersRiddles at work in the early medieval tradition
Words, ideas, interactions
Edited by Megan Cavell and Jennifer Neville
Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7876-3
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£25.00
Pre-OrderBestsellers and masterpieces
The changing medieval canon
Edited by Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds
Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7877-0
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£25.00
Pre-OrderLiteratures of the Hundred Years War
Edited by Daniel Davies and R. D. Perry
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4109-5
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£25.00
Pre-OrderApproaches to emotion in Middle English literature
By Carolyne Larrington
Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7613-4
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£85.00
Pre-OrderBorrowed objects and the art of poetry
Spolia in Old English verse
By Denis Ferhatovic
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7914-2
FORMAT:
£20.00
Buy NowMedieval afterlives
Transforming traditions in Shakespeare and early English drama
Edited by Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland
A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7213-6
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£90.00
Pre-OrderFantastic histories
Medieval fairy narratives and the limits of wonder
By Victoria Flood
Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6414-8
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£85.00
Pre-OrderConceiving bodies
Reproduction in early medieval English medicine
By Dana Oswald
Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous translators reduced the remedies to a general ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7688-2
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£85.00
Pre-OrderFantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
By Helen Dell
In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7395-9
FORMAT:
£85.00
Buy NowWhite before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
By Wan-Chuan Kao
This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4580-2
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£55.00
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