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Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award This book will be a milestone, and deserves...

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of...

From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the...

An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This...

Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the...

This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate in a volume honouring the distinguished scholarship...

An examination of both the role played by Fortune in Arthurian literature and legend, and the fortunes of the legend itself. The essays in this volume offer a general overview and a number of...

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience of Ethiopians within and beyond Africa. Ethiopia is one of the largest African...

The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here. This study shows how modern (including postmodern)...

Essays illuminating a wide range of topics from Cistercian preachers and the "geography" of purgatory to royal and ecclesiastical justice and power. This volume continues the Society's commitment to...

Vivid translation of one of the earliest and most important Grail romances. The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus) is one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances, standing apart from...

First full study of the homilies of Archbishop Wulfstan, bringing out their most characteristic themes and concerns. The prodigious writings of Archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023) encompass secular laws,...

Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Henry E. Huntington Library The Huntington Library, with its fifty-two complete manuscripts, and excerpts in several others, can lay...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Douce Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford The large and diverse Douce Collection contains fifty four manuscripts containing Middle...

A catalogue of Middle English texts, largely relating to heraldry and the sciences of the time. More than 700 manuscripts reflect Ashmole's life-long passions: heraldryand the sciences of his day:...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London The great scholar and palaeographer Sir Frederic Madden (1801-73) was Keeper...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Yorkshire Libraries and Archives This volume contains indexes to a university library, a monastic library, two cathedral libraries, a...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Parisian libraries The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Scandinavian libraries This volume examines libraries in Scandinavia containing Middle English prose texts: the Royal Library of Copenhagen,...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the library of Trinity College The library of Trinity College, Cambridge, contains the largest collection of medieval manuscripts of any...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in smaller Bodleian collections A very detailed account of the jewel among the Bodleian books, the famous "Vernon" manuscript, which amounts to...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the John Rylands & Chetham's Libraries, Manchester The John Rylands and Chetham's Libraries, Manchester, were both founded by charitable...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Digby Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford Noteworthy among these texts are scientific treatises such as Chaucer's 'Astrolabe', works of...

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Oxford College libraries Oxford college libraries house more than 2,500 Western medieval manuscripts, of which 155 contain prose writings in...

The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Cambridge University Library is one of Britain's major repositories of medieval...

The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Two very different collections are surveyed in this volume. The manuscripts of Pembroke...

Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with full indices. The majority of the medieval manuscripts in Corpus Christi which contain Middle...

Handlist to manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin, covering all 79 Middle English prose manuscripts and indexing more than 539 separate items The manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin are...

The intricate structure and the many different narrative threads of the Prose Lancelot are here skilfully analysed, showing them to be a major new development in literary technique. Thematically and...