Boydell et Brewer

Words and notes in the long nineteenth century

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Words and Notes encourages a new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words. Contributors to the volume engage in two dialogues: with nineteenth-century conceptions …

Medieval Latin and Middle English literature: essays in honour of Jill Mann

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Jill Mann's writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of thes…

Place-names, language and the Anglo-Saxon landscape

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An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal. The landscape of modern England still bears the imprint of its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages and towns, fields, woods and forests, parishes and shires, al…

Kingship, legislation and power in Anglo-Saxon England

by Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

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The essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation, relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific topics include the impor…

Deploying Orientalism in culture and history: from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe

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The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orien…

War and the making of medieval monastic culture

by Smith, Katherine Allen

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The monastic life, traditionally considered as an area of withdrawal from the world, is here shown to be shaped by metaphors of war, and to be actively engaged with battle in the world outside. 'An extremely interesting and important book... makes an important contribution to th…

Cathedrals, communities and conflict in the Anglo-Norman world

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The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is here brought out, through an examination of the most important aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical (and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the middle ages; yet…

The nobility and ecclesiastical patronage in thirteenth-century England

by Gemmill, Elizabeth

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"While there has been work on the nobility as patrons of monasteries, this is the first real study of them as patrons of parish churches, and is thus the first study to tackle the subject as a whole. Illustrated with a wealth of detail, it will become an indispensable work of re…

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

by Heffernan, Carol Falvo

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Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's 'Cant…

Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian problem revisited

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This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's 'Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century' (1912). Tawney's 'Agrarian Problem' surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing pr…

In the steps of the Black Prince: the road to Poitiers, 1355-1356

by Hoskins, Peter

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The author has retraced on foot the routes taken by the Black Prince during the French campaigns of 1355-1356, enabling him to provide an entirely new dimension to the events. In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two 'chevauchées' [mounted military e…

The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts

by Purkis, William J., Gabriele, Matthew

fromBristol studies in medieval cultures

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Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.

Chivalry, kingship and crusade: the English experience in the fourteenth century

by Guard, Timothy

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The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, "high chivalry" and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the …

Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War

by Caudrey, Philip J.

fromWarfare in History Ser

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An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.

The Grail, the quest and the world of Arthur

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The theme of the quest in Arthurian literature - mainly but not exclusively the Grail quest - is explored in the essays presented here, covering French, Dutch, Norse, German, and English texts. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chiv…

The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval: content and construction, extension and ending

by Tether, Leah

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The notion of Continuation in medieval literature is a familiar one - but difficult to define precisely. Despite the existence of important texts which are commonly referred to as Continuations, such as #x91;Le Roman de la Rose#x92;, #x91;Le Chevalier de la Charrette#x92; and, o…

Religious men and masculine identity in the Middle Ages

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The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud, and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Sie…

Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar classicism

by Bishop, Paul, Stephenson, R. H.

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This book argues that Nietzsche's polemics against the 19th-century reception of Goethe and Schiller should not obscure his own more positive evaluation of Weimar classicism, as has generally been the case. The authors uncover the continuing influence of Weimar classicism at the…