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By: Tacitus
ISBN: 9781853995033
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Updated to include the findings of archaeological investigation over the century, it serves to lift the veil that shrouded the pre-history of the Germanic peoples and the process of their expansion over central Europe.
(Paperback)
By: Petrarch
ISBN: 9781603842884
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Perkins
ISBN: 9781526167163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel C. Remein
ISBN: 9781526150585
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains insensible.
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By: Peter Jackson
ISBN: 9780872209817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan Mongke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. His account is particularly vivid because he related to the individual people he met. This title offers translation of the text.
(Hardback)
By: Henry Eliot
ISBN: 9780241320853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jackson Crawford
ISBN: 9781624663567
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Jackson Crawford
ISBN: 9781624663574
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Marion Turner
ISBN: 9780691206011
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Marion Turner
ISBN: 9780691206035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Virgil
ISBN: 9781853997167
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome.
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By: Dr Keith Maclennan
ISBN: 9781472527875
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Laura Lambdin
ISBN: 9780313310546
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature.
Chapters focus on particular genres, such as Allegorical Verse, Balladry, Beast Fable, Chronicle, Debate Poetry, Epic and Heroic, Lyric, Middle English Parody/Burlesque, Religious and Allegorical Verse, and Romance.
(Hardback)
By: Jin'ichi Konishi
ISBN: 9780691633152
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Charlayn von Solms
ISBN: 9781350194571
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ladan Niayesh
ISBN: 9780719081750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries. -- .
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By: Amy C. Mulligan
ISBN: 9781526160751
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.
(Hardback)
By: Amy C. Mulligan
ISBN: 9781526141101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.
(Hardback)
By: Jackson J. Campbell
ISBN: 9780691652580
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jackson J. Campbell
ISBN: 9780691626284
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Advent Lyrics, a group of Old English religious antiphons (formerly called Christ I) dating from about the 9th century, are presented in this edition as an independent group of poems disengaged, for the first time, from Cynewulf's Christ. Professor Campbell's study focuses on the significance of the antiphons as lyrics rather than as philologic
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By: C. W. Marshall
ISBN: 9781474255066
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Thomas A. Prendergast
ISBN: 9781526126863
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Dr Haila Manteghi
ISBN: 9781838602062
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Haila Manteghi
ISBN: 9781788310307
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world.
