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An examination of the subject of "fame" in Lydgate, showing it as central to his work.

Text with facing translation of an undeservedly neglected, humorous French lay, in which the women of Arthur's court have their virtue challenged by a magic mantle.

Highlights Spenser's use of legal thought and language, resulting in new insights into his work.

Presents a classic work of Dante criticism interpreting the central female image of Beatrice.

A history of women prophets from medieval saints to radical Protestants.

These essays, in honour of Andre Crepin, reflect the wide range of his interests in Old and Middle English, from "Beowulf" to Malory. The theme is heroism, as abstract and reality, and the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Chaucer's Knight to Sir Lancelot.

Essays on festive drama -- plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies --of the European middle ages, with comparative material.

Translation of Christine's autobiographical 'Vision', both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.

This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life.

A modern edition of the sources and major analogues of all the Canterbury Tales, prepared by members of the New Chaucer Society. This collection, the first to appear in over half a century, features a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the General Prologue and Retractions, and modern English translations of all foreign language texts. Chapters on the individual tales contain survey o...

An account in words and pictures of how the world of Camelot and King Arthur's knights was reflected in, and shaped by, book illustration.

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown.

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.

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of costume and fabrics in literature. A teacher ofAn analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of cos

A survey of the influence of the Arthurian legends on musical works.

New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing.

Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and international collection. The volume also effects a critically celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts of 'postmodern' scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, a...

Fifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence.