A TLS Book of the Year. ’Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson’s Dante’s Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to ......more
Alison Cornish is currently President of the Dante Society of America and Professor of Italian at New York University. S......more
The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Eneas, form, along with the Roman de Tro......more
The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Fr......more
How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval past to combat racism, educate the public, and create ......more
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This collection of essays is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia ......more
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Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication i......more
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, w......more
In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of ......more
This volume continues the theme of its predecessor, addressing how the Middle Ages have been invoked to score political ......more
During the Middle Ages, the lives of saints such as Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt - "holy harlots", women who repented......more
A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan. The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse m......more
The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval Englan......more
First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the......more
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As a young woman from a wealthy family, Eufrosine was expected to marry a nobleman. Instead, she wanted to serve God. So......more
An Icelandic Literary Florilegium, a special issue of New Norse Studies, is a smorgasbord of noteworthy studies and brin......more
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle......more
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Why did Saint Augustine ask God to "circumcise [his] lips"? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the F......more
Why did Saint Augustine ask God to "circumcise [his] lips"? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the F......more
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The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had......more
The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was, among other achievements, one of the scholars who most contri......more
Beowulf & Beyond is the first and only poetic translation to include not only Beowulf but all the best-known works of An......more
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The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-e......more
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Preface Introduction: The Feast of the Ass: Medieval Faith, Fun, and FearChapter One: Prosecuting Animals as Criminals i......more
CONTENTS The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I......more
This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of plac......more
This collaborative literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked b......more
This collaborative literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked b......more
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for an......more
Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts. Mic......more
A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages. What does a maypole ......more
Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature, emphasising the vibrancy of the field. New Medieval Literatu......more
Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and......more
First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-S......more
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse. The body of shor......more
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama. In Fes......more
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama. In Fes......more
This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex pr......more
This book argues that Paradiso - Dante’s vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensat......more
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This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed ......more
Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reali......more
A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite. This book offers a c......more
An examination of four written accounts of medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem. What do the bursar of Eton College, a cano......more
First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster n......more
The adaptation of French texts into medieval Swedish reveals the progress of a Europe-wide literary culture. Translation......more
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Building on The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I, this is the second of ......more
Book sixteen of the Man’yōshū (’Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this......more
Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in......more
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Originally published in 1994. This surveys the origin and development of one of Chaucer’s most problematic characters, G......more
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Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his w......more
Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his w......more
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Originally published in 1968. A critical interpretation of Chaucer’s narrative poetry which concentrates on three major ......more
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Iceland’s uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralizatio......more
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In Inventing Womanhood, Tara Williamsinvestigates new ideas about womanhood that arose in fourteenth-century Britain and......more
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Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of th......more
Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narrat......more
A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today. The proliferation of books ......more
An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades. The interrelation of so-called "literary" an......more
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic traditi......more
Comprehensive survey of the legend of Charlemagne in the medieval German-speaking world. The legend of the Frankish empe......more
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This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premod......more
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more
Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmod......more