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Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland

"This open-access book fills a huge gap in the study of classical reception in Irish literature by making accessible in translation selections from a wide variety of C10th-C15th texts. These texts ar…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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Patricia Lovett
The Art of the Scribe

Exploring the art of medieval and Renaissance calligraphy, The Art of the Scribe offers a hands-on guide with over twenty projects inspired by historical manuscripts, and includes stunning imagery and ste…

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Elizabeth Chadwick
The Crownless Queen

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on dut…

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Elizabeth Chadwick
The Crownless Queen

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland , has died on du…

lieferbar ab 9.4.2026.

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the…

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Alfred Thomas
Wounded Knights

The New Middle Ages

This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflic…

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Richard Cullen
Winter Warrior

The exciting new adventure in the Wolf of Kings series of historical adventures by Richard Cullen. England, 1069. King William has finally stamped his authority on this conquered kingdom. His lands are he…

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Rime

For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante's and Petrarch's lyric poetry has…

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Simone Marchesi
Vernacular Edens

This book examines the literary representation of gardens - a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction - and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Natalia I Petrovskaia
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino ,…

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Brenda Deen Schildgen
Boccaccio Defends Literature

This book unveils Boccaccio's defence of literature against claims of immorality by showcasing how both pagan and Christian literary works serve to heal, console, and provoke thoughtfulness.

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Alan Lupack (Director, The Robbins Library, and Adjunct Professor of English, University of Rochester), Alan Lupack (Director, The Robbins Library and Adjunct Professor of English, University of Rochester)
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of …

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Kathy Lavezzo
Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

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Kathy Lavezzo
Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

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Timothy Kircher, Leon Battista Alberti,
Theogenius

Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English tran…

lieferbar ab 24.2.2026.

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David Colclough
The Oxford Francis Bacon XIX

The first volume in The Oxford Francis Bacon to publish in over a decade, XIX contains New Atlantis: Bacon's highly influential semi-utopian fable of reformed knowledge. David Colclough establishes an aut…

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Carolyn Larrington
The Little Book of Dragons

Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanqu…

lieferbar ab 15.10.2025.

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Carolyn Larrington, Carolyne Larrington
The Little Book of Trolls

Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quit…

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Michael Sherberg
Jacopo Passavanti

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence presents a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's unfinishedsumma on penitence -- an essential yet often overlooked work of 14th-century religi…

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