This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend…
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"This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances cent…
First rendered into Spanish from Arabic in 1253, this book became the inspiration for many great books of European literature. Keller's translation of this collection of Jewish and Islamic folklore will be of value to folklorists and students of Spanish and comparative literatur…
The courtly romances still bear witness to the marvellous narrative culture of the Middle Ages. Little is known, however, about the actual narrative practice. When, where and on which occasions were these stories told? What social functions did the narration perform? What were t…
Teaching Rape proposes strategies for teaching episodes of rape, attempted rape, and false accusations in medieval texts in a politically-charged teaching and learning environment.
Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practi…
Jerold C. Frakes approaches the Nibelungenlied, the Klage, and the Kudrun, epic poems central to the Middle High German tradition, through a set of literary, economic, ad sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.
"Exploring French, Dutch, Norse, German and English texts, literary scholars and art historians discuss medieval quest themes, especially but not exclusively the quest for the Holy Grail. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry a…
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner.
A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
"A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry." Professor John Hines, Cardiff University. Cognitive approaches to literature offer new and exciting ways of interpreting literature and mental…
"Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works…
