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A translation into English of Albert Henry’s definitive edition of Adenet le Roi’s Cleomadés, a story based on a tale fr......more

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ’moder......more

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of rese......more

This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individua......more

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at th......more

Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering th......more

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A critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729. The ......more

Otherworld women feature in a number of medieval Irish tales, but they are not always powerful figures. Indeed, those wh......more

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. Du......more

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in th......more

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Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Who is the Pearl-poet? How do ideas about his life and interpretations of his poems shape our understanding of his work ......more

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and defined by Rabbi Aqiva as the Holy of Holies among the sacred Scriptures, t......more

The outstanding qualities of the Galloway horse landrace are referenced in literary sources from the late sixteenth cent......more

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Mid......more

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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boug......more

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern......more

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spol......more

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication i......more

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints......more

What did the body mean for inhabitants of the medieval Norse-speaking world? How was the physical body viewed? Where did......more

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From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ag......more

Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature. The historic......more

Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts ......more

The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had......more

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exch......more

Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance of Parz......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

In what questions are scholars of Horace currently interested? What opportunities does this core Roman author offer twen......more

How medieval poems sparked discussions on women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminism  Th......more

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

From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentall......more

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrin......more

A collection of essays exploring Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, work, and enduring impact. The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book i......more

The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore in......more

French Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French am......more

The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the......more

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The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a tow......more

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together the wri......more

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All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together the wri......more