(Paperback)
By: Michael Swanton
ISBN: 9780719051463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dr Swanton presents an introduction to this poem. Explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, expand the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on contemporary manners and customs.
(Hardback)
By: Heather Blurton
ISBN: 9781526147486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the modern canon of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.
(Paperback)
By: Heather Blurton
ISBN: 9781526178770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the modern canon of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.
(Hardback)
By: Johanna Kramer
ISBN: 9780719087899
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences -- .
(Paperback)
By: Johanna Kramer
ISBN: 9781526118530
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences -- .
(Hardback)
By: Herbert G. Wright
ISBN: 9781472507341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Denis Ferhatovic
ISBN: 9781526131652
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia - creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Denis Ferhatovic
ISBN: 9781526179142
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
(Hardback)
By: Alan Cameron
ISBN: 9780691629445
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alan Cameron
ISBN: 9780691606125
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Peter Bondanella
ISBN: 9780304704644
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Sophie Heywood
ISBN: 9780719084669
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book-length history of the classic French childrens author, the comtesse de Sgur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Sgur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of childrens literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France.
(Paperback)
By: Dr John Godwin
ISBN: 9781350060227
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691629711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691613802
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691640624
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691612720
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition implicit in the most elusive works of the collection. In his study of El casamiento enganoso and El coloquio de los perros Alban Forcione demonstrates that Cervantes retained in their ostensible pessimism the themes of Erasmus' vision of
(Hardback)
By: George Kane
ISBN: 9781472508430
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: S. H. Rigby
ISBN: 9780719042362
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book surveys and assesses these competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, emphasising the need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Simon Horobin
ISBN: 9780230293793
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In keeping with the first edition, this is a thorough yet concise introduction to Chaucer's language in the original, which does not assume prior knowledge of linguistics or Middle English. This updated, expanded edition features a glossary on Chaucer's words, along with sample quotes, and a section on how to use the Middle English Dictionary.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780099287483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. He knew at first hand the most powerful people in the country and, as the king's servant; Yet even in this crowded life he found time and opportunity to write some of the finest poems in the language.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Barr
ISBN: 9781350060340
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Michael Clarke
ISBN: 9781350333277
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Jenkyns
ISBN: 9781853991332
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the ancient world Homer was recognised as the fountainhead of culture. His poems, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed. In this study, Jenkyns re-examines the two Homeric epics and the work that is perhaps their closest rival, Virgil's Aeneid.
