(Hardback)
By: David H. Porter
ISBN: 9780691637730
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Glenn D. Burger
ISBN: 9781526144218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Shakespeare later developed vernacular and street humor in his comedies, festive humor in his romances and histories, and dark humor in his tragedies. Each entry discusses the role of humor in the author's work and includes a bibliography.
The volume begins with an introductory essay on the origins of British humor in the Middle Ages.
(Hardback)
By: Lori Ann Garner
ISBN: 9781526158499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.
(Hardback)
By: Robert Francis Goheen
ISBN: 9780691628677
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Francis Goheen
ISBN: 9780691627335
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Dimitra Fimi
ISBN: 9781350349995
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Dimitra Fimi
ISBN: 9781350350038
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ruth Padel
ISBN: 9780691037660
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, this title analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within.
(Hardback)
By: David Matthews
ISBN: 9780719084508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines
(Hardback)
By: Isabelle Torrance
ISBN: 9781350430426
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Hamish Williams
ISBN: 9781350241466
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Leah Culligan Flack
ISBN: 9781350193703
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Leah Culligan Flack
ISBN: 9781350004085
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Miryana Dimitrova
ISBN: 9781474245753
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--King's College, London, 2013.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Jenny Messenger
ISBN: 9781350260542
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: A.E. Hillard
ISBN: 9780715615270
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The key to an established school text on the composition of ancient Greek.
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By: Yopie Prins
ISBN: 9780691141886
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken In
(Paperback)
By: J. Anderson
ISBN: 9780719071027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Paul Fouracre
ISBN: 9780719047916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of documents in translation brings together the sources for the Late Merovingian Frankish kingdom.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Alejandro Coroleu
ISBN: 9781350214897
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: David Watt
ISBN: 9781350375024
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Edward M. Harris
ISBN: 9781472524188
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Dewar
ISBN: 9781474244022
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, while others adapted that same tradition of otium ('cultured leisure') to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike.
