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White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
By Wan-Chuan Kao
This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4580-2
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Pre-OrderFantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
By Helen Dell
In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7395-9
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£85.00
Pre-OrderMarian maternity in late-medieval England
By Mary Beth Long
Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5530-6
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Buy NowLiteratures of the Hundred Years War
Edited by Daniel Davies and R. D. Perry
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4109-5
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe problem of literary value
By Robert J. Meyer-Lee
This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature's defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6794-1
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Buy NowEncountering The Book of Margery Kempe
Edited by Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7158-0
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£25.00
Buy NowSleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Emotions, ethics, dreams
By Megan Leitch
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7159-7
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£25.00
Buy NowThe gift of narrative in medieval England
By Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6716-3
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Buy NowObjects of affection
The book and the household in late medieval England
By Myra Seaman
Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6718-7
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Buy NowDifficult pasts
Post-Reformation memory and the medieval romance
By Mimi Ensley
Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5789-8
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£85.00
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