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Chaucer and Langland
“In Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition, John M. Bowers advances a provocative argument in the field of Middle English literary studies while also providing a comprehensive and extremely useful…
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Constructing Chaucer
Constructing Chaucer examines the scholarly appropriation and manipulation of Geoffrey Chaucer since his death in 1400 and seeks to enhance the theoretical dialogue on the famous author’s reception history by…
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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 Volume 7
English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contributors to…
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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500
Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language, this work is the only book available to introduce readers to the scripts used in Old and Middle…
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Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language
This book is an edition, translation, and philosophical commentary on Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language, a list of the things of her twelfth-century world recast in words of her own…
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Image in Print
Woodcuts are a unique resource in the study of late medieval and early modern books: they have much to tell us about how books were produced and for what purposes,…
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In the Light of Medieval Spain
If the idea of the medieval has been widely deployed in the colonial and neocolonial West as a marker of cultural backwardness, the Anglo-American perspective has often regarded Spain as…
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Life of St Edmund, King and Martyr (facsimile)
On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, one of the largest religious foundations in fifteenth-century England. He remained there until…
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Lydgate Matters
This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives…
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Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German
This book discusses the treatment of the theme of reading and writing within a major Middle High German Arthurian romance: Albrecht’s Jüngerer Titurel. This book addresses the topics…