3,592円 Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourell...

12,154円 This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers. These pioneers crafted interdisciplinary partnerships...

4,940円 The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of ...

6,302円 A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society--from church and king to every sort of "folk"--is considered in the light of the narrator's interpretation of Christian revelation. The Middle English poem, rich and beau...

6,633円 While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new ha...

13,923円 Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Flor...

10,531円 Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Flor...

150円 In "The Relation of the Hr√≥lfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkar√≠mur to Beowulf," Oscar Ludvig Olson meticulously explores the intertextual connections between these three seminal works of Old Norse literature. Through a detailed analysis of narrative structure, themes of heroism, and cultural values,...

13,369円 Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints a...

903円 Pietro dei Faitinelli, detto il Mugnone, nacque a Lucca nell’ultimo quarto del XIII° secolo, con tutta probabilità tra il 1280 e il 1290. È stato indubbiamente uno dei più interessanti poeti italiani di quel politicamente turbolento, ma culturalmente e letterariamente assai fecondo, periodo a cav...

14,585円 Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis o...

300円 In "Walther von der Vogelweide: Ein altdeutscher Dichter" entführt Ludwig Uhland die Leser in die faszinierende Welt der mittelhochdeutschen Lyrik und erhellt das Leben sowie das Schaffen des bedeutenden Dichters Walther von der Vogelweide. Uhlands analytischer und zugleich poetischer Stil verbin...