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ISBN: 9781442645011 - Dire Straits Dire Straits
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy

ISBN10: 1442645016  ISBN13: 9781442645011
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences... More

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ISBN: 9780631226987 - The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook
Mark C Amodio

ISBN10: 0631226982  ISBN13: 9780631226987
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 May 2013
The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the... More

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ISBN: 9780674072633 - The Old English Poems of Cynewulf The Old English Poems of Cynewulf
Cynewulf

ISBN10: 0674072634  ISBN13: 9780674072633
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 May 2013
Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems attest to a powerfully inventive imagination, deeply learned in Christian doctrine and traditional verse-craft. More

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ISBN: 9780226015842 - Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Eleanor Johnson

ISBN10: 022601584X  ISBN13: 9780226015842
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Literary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language... More

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ISBN: 9781843843467 - Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf
Peter S Baker

ISBN10: 1843843463  ISBN13: 9781843843467
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd D.S. Brewer
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2013
Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked. This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes... More

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ISBN: 9781442645622 - Philippe De Commynes Philippe De Commynes
Irit Ruth Kleiman

ISBN10: 1442645628  ISBN13: 9781442645622
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2013
This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure. Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations... More

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ISBN: 9780226924915 - Fragments and Assemblages Fragments and Assemblages
Arthur Bahr

ISBN10: 0226924912  ISBN13: 9780226924915
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2013
Expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. In this book, the author argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward... More

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ISBN: 9780674068124 - De Nobilitate Animi De Nobilitate Animi
Guillelmus, de Aragonia William D Paden

ISBN10: 0674068122  ISBN13: 9780674068124
Publisher: Harvard Department of the Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2013
Working in a renewed Aristotelian tradition, Guillelmus de Aragonia wrote De nobilitate animi, "On Nobility of Mind," around 1280--1290 and taught that true nobility is an acquired, not inborn, quality. This edition, based in part on hitherto... More

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ISBN: 9781843843412 - Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Medieval English Lyrics and Carols
Thomas G Duncan

ISBN10: 1843843412  ISBN13: 9781843843412
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd D.S. Brewer
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 21 Mar 2013
A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide... More

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ISBN: 9780230338708 - Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
Katie L Walter

ISBN10: 0230338704  ISBN13: 9780230338708
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Mar 2013
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture... More