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Language and style in Dante

Language and style in Dante

John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors

This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence …
Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways …
Medieval Celtic literature and society

Medieval Celtic literature and society

Helen Fulton editor

This collection brings together the latest research from international scholars working on medieval Irish, Welsh, Cornish and Breton literature, making it a rea…
Lady with a mead cup

Lady with a mead cup

Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age

Michael J. Enright

Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutio…
Medieval French miracle plays

Medieval French miracle plays

Seven falsely accused women

Carol J. Harvey

In the Middle Ages, religious theatre was a popular medium for both the edification and the entertainment of the public. This book centres on seven of the forty…
The rituals and rhetoric of Queenship

The rituals and rhetoric of Queenship

Medieval to early modern

Liz Oakley-Brown & Louise J. Wilkinson, editors

This book explores the ways in which, whether a consort or a ruler in her own right, the late medieval and early modern queen was a pivotal, and often controver…
Medieval Latin lyrics

Medieval Latin lyrics

Helen Waddell

With an introduction by John Scattergood.

Helen Waddell, born in Tokyo in 1889, died in London 1965, was educated in Belfast at Victoria College and the Queen…
Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…
Medieval Welsh Poems

Medieval Welsh Poems

Joseph P. Clancy

This anthology of Welsh poems from c.575 to c.1525 offers the general reader the most substantial collection of medieval Welsh verse yet rendered into English, …
Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane & Terje Spurkland, editors

Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard material such as stone, metal and wood. As a discipline, it is often considered to be part of the literary sources writ…