Pre-Owned Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Writing to the King: Nation Kingship and Literature in England 1250-1350. David Matthews Book 77 Paperback from other stores
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In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In...
In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period composed in Anglo-Latin Anglo-Norman and Middle English poets write as if addressing the king himself drawing on their sense of the rights...
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In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In...
In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period composed in Anglo-Latin Anglo-Norman and Middle English poets write as if addressing the king himself drawing on their sense of the rights...
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Throughout the nineteenth century American authors such as Henry James William...
Throughout the nineteenth century American authors such as Henry James William Dean Howells and Noah Webster displayed a fascination with women s speech--describing how women s voices sound what happens when women speak and what reactions their...
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Mary Carruthers s classic study of the training and uses of memory for a varie...
Mary Carruthers s classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second...
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During the early medieval period crusading brought about new ways of writing a...
During the early medieval period crusading brought about new ways of writing about the city of Jerusalem in Europe. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England English authors endowed their nation...
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Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails whet...
Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France Hartmann von Aue Gottfried von Strassburg and Guillaume de Lorris...
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9780521796385. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. ...
9780521796385. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 316. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 316 p. Contains: Unspecified. Cambridge Companions to Literature. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women s Writing...
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This book investigates how late medieval English writers who translated specia...
This book investigates how late medieval English writers who translated specialized academic knowledge from Latin into English often projected unprecedented sorts of lay audiences for their writing and worried about the potential results of making...
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and...
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts including courtly lyrics prose and verse romances dits amoureux and plays proved hugely...
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Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and ...
Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden the loading of Noah s ark and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry...
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In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through ...
In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters widespread in medieval literature...
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Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so...
Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure and shows how women were responsible for owning as well as circulating devotional books. Seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and...
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Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This...
Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for investigating the intersection of body and mind that...
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The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important works of medieval vernac...
The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important works of medieval vernacular literature. It was composed in the thirteenth century and exerted a profound influence on literature in France England the Netherlands and Italy for the next 200...
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A major study of the Divine Comedy this book offers an interesting perspective...
A major study of the Divine Comedy this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante s representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante s place in relation to learned traditions by...
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