1,780円 Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Fran�oise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted ...

11,275円 The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays fro...

2,200円 Nella storia della cultura occidentale non sono molti i racconti che possono vantare l’impressionante fortuna di cui ha goduto il complesso di narrazioni incentrate sul destino del cavaliere Perceval/Parzival e sulla ricerca del Graal. Sui sentieri del Graal di Massimiliano Bampi è pensato come u...

7,418円 While critical discourse about falconry metaphors in premodern literature is dominated by depictions of women as unruly birds in need of taming, women in the Middle Ages claimed the symbol of a hawking woman on their personal seals, trained and flew hawks, and wrote and read poetic texts featurin...

14,585円 This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the al...

16,848円 Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle. Hybrid heal...

310円 Dans "Les Troubadours: Leurs vies – leurs oeuvres – leur influence", Joseph Anglade explore la richesse de la poésie médiévale à travers les figures emblématiques des troubadours. L'ouvrage se présente comme une analyse érudite et approfondie du contexte historique et culturel qui a nurturé ces p...

17,016円 This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new confi...

5,476円 Who is the Pearl-poet? How do ideas about his life and interpretations of his poems shape our understanding of his work in late-medieval Englandーand beyond? In Becoming the Pearl-Poet: Perceptions, Connections, Receptions, readers can explore the world of this extraordinary, fourteenth-century w...

5,214円 The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace and their seductive appeal emerged not only from their social margin...

9,119円 Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted in medieval cultures or assumptions about the "real" Middle Ages, constructing queer histories that ...

4,807円 This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa'dī, focusing on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world. The authors begin by introducing the concept of evidentiality; it...