An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Many o......more

"La Nina De Gomez Arias" is a compelling play by the renowned Spanish playwright Pedro CalderÃ3n de la Barca. A classic ......more

Discover the quaint and humorous world of the "Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham," a collection of short anecdotes s......more

This volume presents a study of the Taymouth Castle Manuscript of Sir Gilbert Hay’s "Buik of King Alexander the Conquero......more

Über Reinhardus Vulpes Ed. Knorr, by Ernst Schulze, presents a rendition of the classic Reynard the Fox fable. This edi......more

In "Chaucer and the Seven Deadly Sins," Frederick Tupper delves into the pervasive influence of the seven deadly sins on......more

This volume provides an introduction to John Lydgate’s "Nightingale Poems," offering valuable insights into the context ......more

On the Text of Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules, by Eleanor Prescott Hammond, offers a detailed examination of the textual ......more

“Eirik the Red’s Saga” recounts the voyages and settlements of Norse explorers in Greenland and North America. This ......more

The Sources of Chaucer’s Parlement of Foule delves into the literary origins and influences behind Geoffrey Chaucer’s re......more

This scholarly work delves into the portrayal of elemental spirits (Elementargeister) as literary characters within the ......more

"Alfred and His World: The Dialogic Universe of the Old English ’Boethius’" is a dissertation written by George Kingsley......more

Explore the fascinating world of 18th-century ballad criticism through these satirical lenses. "Parodies of Ballad Criti......more

"The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men" offers a fascinating glimpse into 18th-century perspectives on m......more

"The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women" offers a fascinating glimpse into 18th-century perspectives on......more

"The Three Days’ Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore" by Jessie L. Weston delves into the fascinating world of ......more

Explore the foundations of English fiction with "Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances," a collection of critica......more

"Wisdom and Destiny" by Maurice Maeterlinck is a philosophical work written in the early 20th century, exploring themes ......more

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of Englis......more

Experience a classic piece of French literature with this edition of ’Des XXIII Manières de Vilains’, a dramatic work fr......more

A scholarly investigation into the literary techniques used in the epic poem ’Rolandslied’, with a particular focus on t......more

This book is a scholarly analysis of Chaucer’s The House of Fame, a Middle English poem that explores the nature of fame......more

Exploring a seldom-studied corner of medieval poetry, this fragment of a semi-Saxon poem discovered in the archives of W......more

Renowned literary scholar Edgar Finley Shannon sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic works of medieval literature......more

This book is a scholarly study of the manuscript collections of the Italian poet and humanist Petrarch. Pierre de Nolhac......more

This book provides a comprehensive index of all of the rhyming words used in Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous poem, Troilus and......more

This book provides a scholarly examination of the history and evolution of the ballad form during the medieval period. T......more

This groundbreaking work presents the earliest known examples of Gothic literature, the Rigs-Mal poems, in their origina......more

This study by Walter William Skeat examines the history of the text of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the changes it und......more

This seminal work of literary criticism examines one of the greatest works of Scottish medieval poetry, The Kingis Quair......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central ......more

"One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic poems in the English lang......more

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Everything the reader needs in a single volume! This book is virtually unique in providing the Middle English text of Si......more

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C. S. Lewis s Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of whi......more

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background ......more

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The York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are re......more

De Alvarez discovers a neglected argument in Machiavelli’s masterpiece that encompasses much more than the education of ......more

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a referenc......more

Laughter, often defined as humankind s exclusive characteristics, remains in itself an ambiguity. All the more so when o......more