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Ármann Jakobsson
Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas

The New Middle Ages

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop B…

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Kylie M. Murray
The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe's most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel. Studies abound in Continental and English dream-vision writing:…

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Rachel Scoggins
Trauma and Tears in the Book of Margery Kempe

Employing the use of trauma theory, Rachel Scoggins uncovers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality present within the autobiography of Margery Kempe.Scoggins argues that Kempe's wor…

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell
Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

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Gervase Of Melkley,
The Art of Making Verses

The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teache…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Ferdowsi,
Shahnameh

A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi's work protected the Pe…

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Dante Alighieri
Inferno

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday…

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Petrarch,
Canzoniere

Petrarch's Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. Expressing his unrequited devotion for Laura-with whom the young poet fell in love at firs…

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Philip Butterworth
Theatre of Fire

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tudor theatre.Evidence concerning the use of special effects in fire and flame in medi…

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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Umberto Eco,
Imja rozy

Il nome della rosa. "Imja rozy" - kniga s zagadkoj. V nachale HIV veka, vskore posle togo, kak Dante sochinil "Bozhestvennuju komediju", v serdce Evropy, v benediktinskom monastyre obn…

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Chad Schrock,
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, his self-definition as an author, and the invention…

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Joseph Luzzi
Dante's Divine Comedy

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri'sDivine Comedy describes the poe…

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Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

De Gruyter Reference

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and techniques used to decorate medieval books, their different spaces and textures, their senso…

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Daniel Syrbe
Rom/Byzanz und die Nomaden in Nordafrika (3.-6. Jh.)

Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

Die Interaktion von Nomaden und Sesshaften ist eine der Kontinuitätslinien, die das römische mit dem vandalischen und byzantinischen Nordafrika verbindet. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht militärische Ko…

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David Greig
The Book of I

"A dazzlingly fresh take on early medieval life, as funny as it's moving, The Book of I is a wild trip."-Emma Donoghue, author of RoomScotland, 825: On the shores of the remote isle of Iona, a h…

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