"This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, eth…
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"The eleven essays presented in this volume, by leading scholars, aim to bring Arthurian studies into the twenty-first century. They begin with an overview of the field, suggesting directions which the subject should take in the future. The other articles present innovative appr…
"The eleven essays presented in this volume, by leading scholars, aim to bring Arthurian studies into the twenty-first century. They begin with an overview of the field, suggesting directions which the subject should take in the future. The other articles present innovative appr…
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is intended to put an end to all that - though such a claim is inevitably rash. However, it has been desi…
"An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary contains some 3,400 terms as headwords, ranging from legal and ecclesiastical to the more humdrum words …
Where other studies may have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism, this study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English legends.