Oxford University Press, 2020. — 688 p. As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer,...
University of California Press, 2023. — 507 p. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and...
University of California Press, 1995. — 508 p. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 376 p. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary was upheld under both canon and common...
Huygens R.B.C. (ed.). — Brepols, 1985. — 248 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 62). The two texts published in this volume, although both of an apologetic character, differ widely in scope. The first is the well-known Letter in which Gozechinus, a highly appreciated school-master in Mainz, explains to his former pupil Walcherus why he has chosen the famous...
University of Exeter Press, 2005. — 416 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). The present volume contains an English translation of the Navigatio sancti Brendani and of the eight most significant vemacular versions of the legend, translated from the Anglo-Norman, Dutch, German, Italian, Occitan, Catalan, Norse and Middle English. Of particular interest is the presence here...
Herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert von Christian Peters. — Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021. — 562 p. — (Die Neulateinische Bibliothek 6). Als Basinio da Parma (1425-1457) mit der 'Hesperis' seinem Patron Sigismondo Malatesta (1417-1468) das bis dato umfangreichste neulateinische Epos vorlegte, war dessen politischer Stern längst im Sinken begriffen. Doch die...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 474 p. Der Band ist vor allem gedacht als companion volume zu Gustav Adolf Beckmanns Onomastik des Rolandsliedes (2017). Wie dort bestimmen auch hier zwei zentrale Aspekte den Großteil des Bildes, doch hier gestreut über die altfranzösische Epik als Gattung: Fragen der Onomastik und solche der Historizität des Dargestellten. Auch hier greifen sie meist sogar...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2008. — 268 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 344). The 13th century Old Norse Karlamagnús-Saga, a monumental biography of Charlemagne from translated and adapted French Caroline epics such as the Chanson de Roland, is a fascinating example of intensive reception at a distance. Its first branch appears to pre-empt the whole in a...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010. — 208 S. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 359). The title figure of Waltharius, an exclusive research subject of German Studies since the time of the Brothers Grimm, has become interesting for other philologies as well over the last 120 years, repeatedly in the form of “border crossings”. However, it has been impossible...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-684-418-667-0 A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance. Naming and namelessness are among the major themes of medieval romance. Because the genre is so difficult to define, scholars have viewed romance as containing a critical number of themes; this book treats naming...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010. — 2215 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 41). This is a new critical edition (in two volumes) of Vossius' Latin Poeticae institutiones, with a translation in English, an introduction, annotations and a commentary. In 1647 the Amsterdam professor Gerardus Vossius published his main work on poetics, Poeticarum institutionum libri III, which...
D.S.Brewer, 2017. — 222 p. An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer. Amid saints and sinners, open secrets and queer codes, the mechanisms of confession and the infliction of torture, what is unspeakable in the Middle Ages - and who decides? Aspiring to the ineffable glories of heaven or...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 592 p. The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016. — 273 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 2). In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature Tina Boyer counters the monstrous status of giants by arguing that they are more broadly legible than traditionally believed. Building on an initial analysis of St. Augustine’s City of God, Bernard of Clairvaux’s deliberations on monsters and marvels, and...
Brepols Pub, 2021. — 125 p. — (Brepols Library of Christian Sources 1). The Itinerarium Egeriae is the travel diary of a late-fourth-century visit to Egypt and Palestine by a Christian woman from Western Europe. As well as stopping at many sites of biblical significance, she spent three years in Jerusalem and recorded in detail its liturgical practices throughout the yearly...
Boydell & Brewer, 2015. — 220 p. Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which heard these texts performed or read. The presentation and depiction of emotion in the single...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 128 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. N.F. 7). Table Of Contents: Inhalt Einleitung Zur Überlieferung Des Textes Das Handlungsgerüst Und Seine Quellen Menschenbild Und Ethos Der Aufbau Der Handlung Der Darstellungsstil Literaturverzeichnis
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 389 p. — (Burgundica 29). This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chief patron, Jean de Wavrin, chronicler and councillor at the court of Philip the Good of Burgundy. Specializing in the production of pseudo-historical prose romances featuring...
2. Auflage. München: W. Fink, 1996. — X, 1-240 S. Inhalt Vorwort Einleitung. Der Gegenstand und wie er aufgefaßt wird... Voraussetzungen und Grundlagen der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters Erstes Buch. Die Literatur der Übergangszeit von der Mitte des sechsten bis ins späte achte Jahrhundert Erstes Kapitel. Italien Zweites Kapitel. Spanien Drittes Kapitel. Gallien...
2. Auflage. München: W. Fink, 1996. — 241-594 S. Inhalt Zweites Buch. Die Grundlegung Europas unter Karl dem Großen. Erstes Kapitel. Die geistige Erneuerung unter Karl dem Großen Zweites Kapitel. Ausbau und Verbreitung der Erneuerung nach dem Tode Karls des Großen Anhang. Spanien zur Zeit der Fremdherrschaft Bibliographischer Anhang Register
München: W. Fink, 1992. — 1-323 S. Inhalt Vorbemerkung Drittes Buch. Die Zwischenzeit vom Ausgang des karolingischen Zeitalters bis zur Mitte des elften Jahrhunderts Allgemeine Charakteristik des Zeitalters. Wesenszüge und Richtungen der lateinischen Literatur Erster Abschnitt: Von der Karolingerzeit ins zehnte Jahrhundert... Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Zwischenzeit in den...
München: W. Fink, 1992. — 324-672 S. Inhalt Drittes Kapitel. Italien Viertes Kapitel. Deutschland. Anfang der lateinischen Kultur im Osten Fünftes Kapitel. England und Irland Sechstes Kapitel. Spanien Bibliographischer Anhang Register
Boydell & Brewer, 2017. — 226 p. — (Gallica 42). The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. A character who is half-man, half devil, he possesses supernatural prophetic powers that allow him to know the entirety of the plot before it happens. This book examines translation in the French and Italian Merlin romances through Merlin's...
Boydell and Brewer, 2011. — 280 p. 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 these fields (the relationship of song to affect, the political...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007. — xxx, 826 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 37). The Middle Ages produced a very considerable corpus of latin dialogues but until now a study of this group of texts was missing. In this monograph, the complete dialogue production of the years 1200-1400 (119 works, many of them still unedited) is explored and presented in a detailed...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. — 208 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance 6). A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval...
McFarland, 2015. — 228 p. Ranging from Chretien de Troyes to Shakespeare, this study proposes that the chivalric romance is characterized by a centerless structure, self-conscious fictionality and a propensity for irony. The form is tied to historical reality, yet represents the archetype of imaginative literature, declaring its fictional status without claiming to embody fixed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 290 p. In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 290 p. In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 262 p.
Reliquaries, elaborate containers housing the remains of the holy dead, informed numerous aspects of medieval culture. Incorporated into religious ceremonies, they contributed to the voiced, world-creating work of performance. At the same time, their decoration often included inscription, silent and self-referential. In the reliquary, silent...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 330 p. How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 339 p. How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 261 p. This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the entire Middle Ages and far...
Routledge, 2004. — 358 p. Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem, and marriage was often characterized by...
Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. — 186 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 328). A good collection of underestimated material. The Europe of the Middle Ages, before the Reformation took hold and forced everyone into a personal "strait and narrow" and before the rise of capitalism and mercantilism was a very lively time....
D.S. Brewer, 2020. — 258 p. The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 254 p. By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating how their characters fared in this...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 254 p. By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating how their characters fared in this...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 358 p. Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 358 p. Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware...
Columbia University Press, 1981. — 340 p. For the poet John Gower, in many ways the central figure of Dr Coleman's scintillating interpretation of late fourteenth-century English literature, it was axiomatic that 'of them that written ous tofore, The books remain, and we therefore be taught by what was written then'. But precisely what later generations may safely learn from...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. — 337 p. Peter of Blois pursued the life of a twelfth-century intellectual with vigor and passion tinged with anxiety. After a thorough education in the arts, theology, and law at some of medieval Europe's finest schools―including those at Chartres, Paris, and Bologna―he served in the courts of royalty and archbishops alike. He...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 258 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages, however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies’ margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles: young adventurer, freedom fighter, and...
London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1977. — 213 p. Tendencies in “Mio Cid” Scholarship, 1943-1973 — A. D. Deyermond European Folk-Tradition and the “Afrenta de Corpess” — Douglas Gifford Characterization and Plot Structure in the “Poema de Mio Cid” — Thomas R. Hart The Date of the “Poema de Mio Cid” — Derek W. Lomax Geographical Problems in the “Poema de Mio Cid": The Corpes route —...
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1971. — 264 p. The earliest Lyric and its Descendants. The Beginnings of Spain; Popular Song; The Kharjas : Nature and Origin; Galician-Portuguese; Villancicos ; The Peninsular Lyric —General Problems. The Epic. Characteristics; Lost Spanish Texts: their Recovery from Chronicles; Supposed Epics of the Moorish Conquest; Carolingian Epics; Poema de...
Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter, 2015. — 292 S. Literarische Lexika sind gemeinhin nach Autoren und Werken geordnet und nehmen in der Regel vornehmlich die Produktion von Literatur in den Blick. Angesichts des durch kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und speziell durch den spacial turn veränderten Blicks auf Literatur, die in der Rezeption immer wieder neue Bedeutung(en) erhält und in...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1929. — XXIII, 516 p. Table of contents Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Hauptvertreter Und Grundzüge Der Neulateinischen Lyrik Italiens Im 15. Und 16. Jahrhundert Erstes Kapitel. Rückblick auf das 14. Jahrhundert Zweites Kapitel. Die großen Humanisten des 15. Jahrhunderts Drittes Kapitel. Pontanus und die neapolitanische Akademie Viertes...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. — 427 p. Inhaltsverzeichnis Erstes Kapitel. Der Erfurter Kreis Zweites Kapitel. Wittenberg Drittes Kapitel. Versuch einer Neubelebung der christlichen Poesie Viertes Kapitel. Einzelne Landschaften Fünftes Kapitel. Der preußische Schülers und Freundeskreis des Sabinus. Sechstes Kapitel. Die Frankfurter Schüler des Sabinus Siebentes Kapitel...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. — 343 p. Table of contents Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Erstes Kapitel. Vorklänge Zweites Kapitel. Johannes Secundus Und Dessen Brüder Drittes Kapitel. Zwischenspiel Viertes Kapitel. Leiden; Janus Dousa, Vater Und Sohn Fünftes Kapitel. Justus Lipsius Und Dessen Schüler Sechstes Kapitel. Domenicus Baudius Siebentes Kapitel. Daniel Heinsius...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 278 p. Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies – Gerald of Wales and Walter...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 278 p. Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies – Gerald of Wales and Walter...
SUNY Press, 1991. — 309 p. This book is designed for the medievalist interested in contemporary criticism but cautious about its limits. The volume’s essays are not designed to offer rereadings of familiar texts, but to address the problems of articulating tradition and contemporary theory. Each contributor interprets critical methods as consciously chosen and spoken...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 298 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 390). The contributions gathered in this volume discuss how, in which contexts, and under which circumstances “authorship” is constituted in medieval Romance literatures. Special focus is placed on theimportant question of how authority is established and conveyed in literary texts.
De Gruyter, 2019. — 320 p. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 132). Cassiodorus placed the formulae at the center of his Variae. These are sample letters sans addressee, ostensibly meant to serve as templates for recurrent administrative procedures. In fact, the collection is an over-literary documentation of Roman-dominated administration in the Ostrogothic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 180 p. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Lydgate’s...
Francke, 2014. — 272 vs. Als Rittersagas (riddarasögur) bezeichnet man Erzählungen der höfischen Dichtung Frankreichs, die im Lauf des 13. Jahrhunderts in die altnorwegische und altisländische Sprache übersetzt und auch in den skandinavischen Literaturen während des Mittelalters sehr beliebt wurden. In diesem Band behandeln renommierte internationale Mediävisten aus den...
Brepols, 2024. — 292 p. — (Medieval Narratives in Transmission 3). 1066 is one of the most well-known dates in English history: but how far do we understand the mental and emotional lives of those who experienced it? In just over a month, England was rocked by two separate invasions, multiple pitched battles, and the deaths of thousands. The repercussions of these traumatic...
Translated from the original French and edited by Linda M. Paterson. — Routledge, 2020. — 248 p. In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0-511-02057-0 Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the romance, which was consciously conceived as fictional and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 322 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 322 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of...
Routledge, 2017. — x, 176 p. — (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare). — ISBN 978-0-415-41886-7, 978-1-315-22879-2. The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins of...
Derolez A., Dekkers E., Demeulenaere R. (eds.). — Brepols, 1989. — 300 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 66). Guibert, moine et, vers la fin de sa vie, abbé de Gembloux (1124/25-1213/14) était contemporain du déclin, de la dévastation et de la reconstruction laborieuse de son abbaye. Son œuvre hagiographique - il est sans doute le plus fervent propagandiste du...
Derolez A., Dekkers E., Demeulenaere R. (eds.). — Brepols, 1989. — 372 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 66A). Moine, et plus tard abbé de Gembloux, Guibert est un de ces personnages de second rang qui ont néanmoins joué un rôle considérable dans la vie culturelle, religieuse et politique du Moyen Age. Si son œuvre hagiographique manque d'originalité et a peu...
Arc Humanities Press, 2018. — 226 p. Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge the temporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century. When episodes involving rape are thrown into the mix, that task becomes even more difficult. The essays in this volume approach these difficult texts in ways that are both academically and...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 386 p. — (Trends in Medieval Philology 36). Der Vater-Tochter-Inzest gehört zum Kernbestand kultureller Tabus und ist zugleich ein ausgesprochen produktives Thema in der Literatur. Die Studie widmet sich der Zeit von 1200 bis 1600, in der Inzest aus kirchenrechtlicher Perspektive primär juridische und theologische Fragen tangiert, und richtet ihren Fokus auf...
Böhlau Verlag, 2012. — VIII, 425 S. — (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Thüringen / Kleine Reihe 34). Die Monographie bietet einen fundierten Überblick über die Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache von der Mitte des 12. bis zum Ausgang des 15. Jahrhunderts, die sich mit Thüringen verbinden lassen. Oft stammten die Verfasser nicht aus Thüringen, sondern hielten...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. The fictive inhabitants of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, the stories they tell each other, and the framing fictions that bring them together collectively acknowledge a radical uncertainty that characterizes most human endeavors, challenging the achievement of effective knowledge, perception, and strategy, and lacking...
Eagles and Dragons Publishing, 2018. — 32 p. This book introduces the reader to one of the most important and moving literary works to come out of Dark Age Britain: The Gododdin of Aneirin. The Gododdin is not only a praise poem and elegy for three hundred British warriors who made a heroic last stand against the invaders of their island, it is also an important source for...
New York: Routledge, 2000. – 834 p. This collection presents a comprehensive guide to the developments of hagiography and the cult of saints in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages. Contents Introduction (Thomas Head) Note on the translations Contributors Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Antony of Egypt Translated by David Brakke Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 1106 s. This handbook compiled by leading experts provides information about the current state of research on Wolfram von Eschenbach and his works (songs, Parzival, Titurel, Willehalm). Considerable attention is also given to the reception in the modern era and the genesis of research on Wolfram. A descriptive index documents the entire transmission of...
Columbia University Press, 2003. — xii, 521 p. — ISBN 0–231–12526–7. Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. — 440 S. Till Hennings untersucht anhand der überlieferten Handschriften die Sammlung von Dichtung im Ostfrankenreich des 9. Jahrhunderts. Dabei werden die Verbindungen zwischen Institutionen und Personen im kulturellen Netzwerk der karolingischen renovatio offengelegt. Für zahlreiche Handschriften wird erstmals eine kodikologische...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. — cxix+360 p. — (Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 8). One of the most skilful forgeries of the Middle Ages, the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister has puzzled scholars for over 150 years, not least because of its challenging Latinity. Written at a western centre in the first part of the eighth century, the work purports to be a heavily censored...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 680 p. The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of...
Steiner Franz Verlag, 2024. — 529 S. — (Roma aeterna 15). Cassiodor verkörpert wie wenige Persönlichkeiten den politischen und religiösen Wandel der Spätantike. Als hochrangiger Amtsträger am Hof Theoderichs gestaltete er die Politik im gotischen Italien mit. Während der Gotenkriege schrieb er im Exil in Konstantinopel einen von der historischen Forschung bisher wenig...
Carlevaris A. (ed.). — Brepols, 1995. — 487 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 90). Der Liber vitae meritorum ist zwischen 1158-63 entstanden. Neben Hildegard haben der Magister Volmar und eine nicht namentlich bekannte Nonne als Redaktoren mitgearbeit. Aufbau und Inhalt des Liber vitae meritorum weisen diensen als wichtiges Bindeglied zwischen ihrem...
Van Acker L. (ed). — Brepols, 1991. — 304 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 91). This volume inaugurates the first comprehensive critical edition of the correspondance of Hildegard. Texts of 123 pieces of correspondence make up the volume; the complete edition will comprise 482 letters. The edition brings to fruition the scholarship of the last hundred years...
Van Acker L. (ed). — Brepols, 1993. — 327 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 91A). Der erste Band des Briefwechsels Hildegards von Bingen (1991 erschienen) enthielt schon 136 Briefe. Der zweite Band erscheint 1993. Es handelt sich um die Fortsetzung der Korrespondenz mit geistlichen Personen, die mit einen bestimmten Ort verbunden werden können. Diese Classis...
Brepols, 2001. — 375 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 91B). Epistula dubiae authenticitatis ad Hildegardem Bingensem (a congregatione Hummensis videlicet coenobii missa) — Epistula dubiae authenticitatis ad Hildegardem Bingensem (a congregatione Hummensis videlicet coenobii missa) — ed. L. Van Acker †, M. Klaes-Hachmöller Epistulae spuriae ad Hildegardem...
Derolez A., Dronke P. (eds). — Brepols, 1996. — 645 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 92). This edition renders the text of the Ghent manuscript in its final corrected form. The apparatus criticus contains the variant readings of the other early manuscripts. The great novelty is the apparatus correctionum: here all corrections in the Ghent manuscript are...
Führkötter A., Carlevaris A. (eds.). — Brepols, 1978. — 640 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 43A). Scivias is an illustrated work by Hildegard von Bingen, completed in 1151 or 1152, describing 26 religious visions she experienced. It is the first of three works that she wrote describing her visions, the others being Liber vitae meritorum and De operatione Dei...
Führkötter A., Carlevaris A. (eds.). — Brepols, 1978. — 438 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 43). Le Scivias est la première section d'une trilogie qui comprend aussi le Liber vitae meritorum et le Liber divinorum operum. La composition de cet ensemble s'est étalée sur plus de vingt ans. Le titre Scivias a de quoi intriguer le lecteur. Il accole deux mots...
D.S. Brewer, 2012. — 294 p. — (Gallica 23). Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century 'Conte du Graal' has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which...
Modern Language Initiative, 2017. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-0823274314. The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to...
Brepols, 2011. — 342 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 5). The liturgical celebration of the Mass, a multifarious spiritual, artistic, and intellectual manifestation, had a central position in the cultural life of medieval Europe. The 'Gregorian Chants', mostly words from passages of the Old Testament, were reinterpreted and ornamented by means of new lyrics, and became the basis...
Cornell University Press, 2006. — 352 p. Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 256 p. This book deals with the introduction of romance to Scandinavia in the thirteenth century and the cultural and literary context of the translations of Latin and French Arthurian literature, including the Tristan legend (with a chapter on the Byelorussian Tristan). It surveys the sources, redactions, and manuscript transmission of the...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — x, 223 p. — (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages). — ISBN 978-0-7083-2353-3. In The Arthur of the North , Marianne E. Kalinke offers the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century. Preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, in early modern times...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. — 233 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 47). The Cosmographia is one of the most inventive and enigmatic works of medieval literature. Mark Kauntze argues that this allegory of creation is best understood as a product of the vibrant intellectual culture of twelfth-century France. Bernard Silvestris established the authority of his treatise...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 296 p. Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and...
Routledge, 2002. — 368 p. Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the...
McFarland and Company, 2014. — 301 p. This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages. Encompassing such key works such as Lawman's Brut and Wace's Romance of Brut, written in Middle English and Old French, respectively, the Arthurian Epic Tradition depends on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of...
D.S. Brewer, 2012. — 244 p. — (Gallica 24). Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her 'Lais', she also translated Aesop's Fables (the 'Ysopë'), and wrote the 'Espurgatoire seint Patriz' ('St Patrick's Purgatory'), based on a Latin text. The aim of this 'Companion' is both to...
State University of New York Press, 2012. — 316 p. This study evaluates Leon Battista Alberti’s critique of Renaissance moral philosophy. It helps us understand not only the allure of Renaissance humanism, but also its shortcomings, through the writings of a leading humanist of the time. Alberti's writings employ irony to illustrate the humanist fallacies of basing moral...
Cambridge University Press 1994. — xvi, 328 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 21). — ISBN 0-521-40222-0, 978-0-521-40222-4, 0-521-03234-2, 978-0-521-03234-6. This 1994 book offers insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and...
J.B. Metzler, 2022. — 282 s. Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Anfänge der deutschen Dichtkunst in der Zeit vom späten 8. bis zum frühen 10. Jahrhundert. Es präsentiert die zwölf überlieferten poetischen Werke der Epoche in Nachdichtungen, die den ästhetischen Reiz der Vorlagen vermitteln, und in wörtlichen Prosaübersetzungen, die sich am Wortlaut der Originale orientieren...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 302 p. This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. — 233 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 51). Hilduin (c. 785-c. 860), abbot of Saint-Denis in Paris and archchaplain to Louis the Pious, was one of the leading scholars and administrators of the Carolingian empire. He was the first to translate the mystical Greek writings of the pseudo-Dionysius into Latin; he then identified this Dionysius...
York Medieval Press, 2015. — 284 p. The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sister, laying bare sibling behaviours in their most dramatic forms as models to emulate, to marvel at or to avoid. The literary treatment of siblings opens up multiple perspectives on brothers' and sisters' emotions: love, hate, rivalry, desire,...
California State University System, 2022. — 104 p. For close to two hundred and fifty years, medieval western European poets, otherwise known as troubadours, composed and sang on the theme of love. The following thesis explores how troubadour love poetry offers clues to their complex relationship with the Catholic Church. It takes place primarily in what is now southern France,...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 322 p. Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors including Cervantes and Marco Polo were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars...
Routledge, 2018. — 154 p. Using a combination of formalist and psychology-based approaches, this work examines the triple knowledge of subjectivity, body, and language in medieval imaginative literature. In literature of the Middle Ages, subjectivity is inextricably bound up with language, and both are rooted firmly in the human body. Not only were the Middle Ages keenly aware...
Camden House, 2016. — 250 p. The tale of the mysterious knight carried across the water by a swan to the woman he saves and marries is one of the great narrative traditions of the Middle Ages. The version in the German Lohengrin (ca.1300) is perhaps the most striking. It captures the imagination with the appearance of the epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach as narrator, the...
Boydell and Brewer Group, 2008. — 265 p. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature....
Boydell and Brewer Group, 2015. — 591 p. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature....
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. — 286 p. — (Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5). The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular medieval attitudes towards the female body. This study examines the extent to which they make use of such attitudes in their writing, and investigates the...
Boydell and Brewer, 2013. — 206 p. Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of 'Beowulf'. This book, the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his...
Routledge, 2012. — 363 p. — (Garland reference library of the humanities 2034; Garland medieval casebooks 21). These essays-written specifically for this book-provide a rich evaluation of this late 14th and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations and considers the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary and intellectual...
D.S.Brewer, 2024. — 328 p. Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages. For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they...
D.S.Brewer, 2024. — 328 p. Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages. For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 310 p. This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare. It shows how each reading of the story of Cleopatra is unique to and expressive of the culture which produced it, even as writers drew from the same sources from...
Brepols Pub, 2023. — 556 p. — (Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia 88). The Institutiones humanarum litterarum - that is, the second book of Cassiodorus' masterpiece, devoted to secular learning - have come down to us in three different textual forms: the 'authentic' recension Ω, corresponding to Cassiodorus' final wishes, and two subsequent recensions, designated as Φ and Δ....
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 224 p. — (Myth and Poetics 2). Beowulf , like The Iliad and The Odyssey , is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite...
Italica Press, 2010. — 254 p. Fierabras and Floripas tells the tale of two Saracen siblings who join forces with Charlemagne and his Peers. It was the most popular French epic tale in medieval England, not excluding the Song of Roland. Its expansive narrative explores both the limits of epic battle description and the usefulness of allegory to explore moral and spiritual...
Boydell & Brewer, 2014. — 434 p. The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or "songs of deeds", provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in the French language for over one hundred and fifty years (c.1100-1250), during one of the most significant periods of social change in the history of Western civilisation. Yet they remain largely...
Brill, 2022. — 490 p. The medieval Latin poem Speculum Humanae Salvationis (known in English as The Mirror of Human Salvation ) was one of the most popular works of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with preachers and laity alike. Utilizing a typological approach to interpretation, it combines Old Testament and New Testament events and figures to depict an integrated...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. — 300 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 50). Martin of Tours is one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages and, accordingly, his hagiographical afterlife is tremendously rich. In the twelfth century, Martinian studies flourished again and Guibert Martin of Gembloux († 1213) was an outstanding collector of ancient and modern material...
Routledge, 2005. — 244 p. Series Editor Foreword Arthurian Tradition before Chretien de Troyes Pre-Galfridian Latin and Vernacular Arthurian Narrative Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Politicization of King Arthur Conquest and National Cultural Production Politics and Patronage in Northern France Politics and Patronage in Wales The New King Arthur of French and Welsh Romanee...
Arc Humanities Press, 2018. — 122 p. Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in...
D.S. Brewer, 2018. — 350 p. The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. — 384 p. — (Témoins de Notre Histoire 10). L'ouvrage présente le Speculum maius, communément appelé "la Grande Encyclopédie du Moyen Age", écrit dans les années 1230-1260. Ce Grand Miroir du monde est une œuvre de commande et un produit d'atelier; Vincent de Beauvais, frère prêcheur de la première génération, en est le maître d'œuvre, sous l'impulsion...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 205 p. Introduction: Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body (Dis)Pleasure and (Dis)Ability: The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the “Merchant’s Tale” Physical Education: Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue” Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Punishment, and the...
Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. — 311 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance). Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not...
D.S. Brewer, 2009. — 224 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance 10). A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms. Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 298 p. Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that...
Orbán Arpad P. (ed.). — Brepols, 1982. — 515 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 55). The magistrate Rudolf of Liebegg (in the older literature generally known as Rudolphus Lubecensis) was a native of Liebegg (Switzerland). From 1294 he studied in Bologna, became canon in 1304 and scholastic in 1305 at Beromünster, where he died on 16 July 1332. From 1327/29...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1986. — 280 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 211). Die Gralromane verkünden eine innerweltliche Heilsgeschichte, die sich jeweilsmit der Ankunft des ritterlichen Heilands vollendet oder vollenden soll. Dabeiist die Verwandtschaft des erwarteten Heilsbringers mit dem Hüter des Grals inallen mir bekannten Fassungen eine wesentliche...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 292 s. Der "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der mittelalterlichen Literatur. Und doch ist dieses artifizielle und sprachgewaltige Epos für den heutigen Rezipienten nicht unmittelbar zugänglich, ihn trennen rund 800 Jahre von der ursprünglichen Produktions- und Rezeptionssituation. Der Stellenkommentar ermöglicht eine...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 222 p. — (Studia Albertiana Vindobonensia 3). Die Descriptio urbis Romae (um 1450) des italienischen Humanisten Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) ist eine ungewöhnliche Rombeschreibung. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Vertretern der Gattung besteht sie aus 16 Tabellen mit 175 vormodernen Polarkoordinaten und einer Zeichenanleitung, die selbst einen...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 498 p. Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicl e traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several famous chapters describing the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 304 p. What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts from Latin into English prose. These included Ranulph Higden's...
Brepols, 2015. — 234 p. — (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 79). Sigebert de Gembloux (1028 env. - 5 octobre 1112) s'est illustré en des genres littéraires très divers, le point culminant de son œuvre étant sans conteste sa Chronique qui constitue, comme l'écrit très justement M. Chazan, « un des sommets de l'historiographie médiévale ». La recherche à son sujet ne cesse...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 200 p. This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import of the characters' interaction in the works written by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries. By attuning oneself to another's expressive phenomena, the empathizer acquires an inter- and intrapersonal knowledge that exposes...
Boydell and Brewer, 2010. — 204 p. This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. He combines detailed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 207 p. Constructing The Heterosexual Contract Romance And Rape The Sadistic Hero Dynamics Of Consensual Heterosex Romance Debased Epilogue
Translated from the Old French by Samuel N. Rosenberg. — The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. — 286 p. An anonymous minstrel in thirteenth-century France composed this gripping account of historical events in his time. Crusaders and Muslim forces battle for control of the Holy Land, while power struggles rage between and among religious authorities and their...
Brepols, 2007. — 310 p. In this ground-breaking book, Jane H. M. Taylor explores some late-medieval lyric anthologies. Taking a cue from the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, she sets poetic creation in the context of an understanding of the structures of court society, and sketches the range of social, intellectual and aesthetic positions available to the poet and the...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 563 p. The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 563 p. The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin...
Newth Michael A. (ed.). — Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. — 224 p. — (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 196). The chanson de geste known today as Girart de Vienne is preserved in five manuscript copies, four of them part of large cyclic compilations, which date from the middle of the thirteenth to the middle of the fourteenth...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 192 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 190). A versatile poet, Raoul de Houdenc has left us a variety of works in several styles and seems to have enjoyed a wide reputation in the Middle Ages. His Songe d'Enfer, a satirical allegory and parody of a pious visit to Hell, marks several innovations in medieval...
Edited by Alan Bliss. — Firebird Distributing, 1998. — 192 p. Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. Professor J.R.R.Tolkien is most widely known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , but he was also a distinguished scholar in the field of Mediaeval English language and literature. His most...
D. S. Brewer, 2012. — 338 p. Torture - that most notorious aspect of medieval culture and society - has evolved into a dominant mythology, suggesting that the Middle Ages was a period during which sadistic torment was inflicted on citizens with impunity and without provocation: popular museums displaying such gruesome implements as the rack, the strappado, the gridiron, the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 792 p. The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. — 731 p. — (Témoins de Notre Histoire 11). L'essor des villes au XIIe siècle s'accompagne de l'apparition d'un nouveau groupe social, les intellectuels. Ces magistri qui écrivent, enseignent et se déplacent à travers l'Europe naissante commencent de peupler, à partir du règne d'Henri II Plantagenêt, les cours des puissants à la recherche d'un personnel...
Übersetzt und Herausgegeben von Mathias Herweg. — De Gruyter, 2017. — 256 p. Der am Böhmenhof Wenzels II. (1278-1305) von Ulrich von Etzenbach verfasste Roman ist eine mytho-poetische Preisdichtung auf die böhmische Dynastie und das Land Böhmen. Man hat ihn als 'Schlüsselroman', als Legende und als Stilimitat Wolframs gelesen, doch solche Schlagworte greifen zu kurz. Das...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 296 p. Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa,...
Brill, 2014. — 295 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 33). Framing Iberia is a study of medieval Iberian culture observed through the lens of the frametale, a type of story collection cultivated by medieval Iberian authors in several languages. Its best known examples outside of Iberia are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and the Thousand and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 246 p. This study offers new approaches for considering the unique narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britannie to Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur . James Wade provides a counter-reading to theories of the Celtic origins of medieval fairies and suggests ways in which these unusual figures...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 246 p.
This study offers new approaches for considering the unique narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britannie to Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. James Wade provides a counter-reading to theories of the Celtic origins of medieval fairies and suggests ways in which these unusual figures...
D.S. Brewer, 2018. — 268 p. Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By attending to the ways in which birds were actually observed and experienced, this book aims to offer new...
University of Exeter, 1979. — 73 p. — (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies). The essay on Julian of Norwich was first published in The English Way, Sheed and Ward, London, 1933, and that on Margery Kempe in Poets and Mystics, Sheed and Ward, London, 1953. Reissued with revisions. Both essays deal briefly and comprehensively with relevant biographical material. This is...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. — 486 p. — (Brepols Medieval Women). Julian of Norwich (c. 1343-c. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as "a simple creature unlettered," Julian is now widely recognized as one of the great speculative...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 269 p.
Introduction: Clarissimum in Feminis
The Female Patience Figure as Speaker
The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Speaker
The Female Patience Figure as Counterfeit
The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Empress
The Female Patience Figure at an Extreme
The Female Patience Figure as Shrine
Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. — xii + 205 p. Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur . K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 392 p. — (Studia Albertiana Vindobonensia 2). Leon Battista Albertis Abhandlung über die Malerei De pictura, gegliedert in drei 'Bücher', markiert ungeachtet ihrer Kürze einen Meilenstein der frühneuzeitlichen Kunsttheorie, der auch in Antike und Mittelalter über keinen vergleichbaren Vorgänger verfügt. Der hohe Rang der Schrift speist sich nicht...
Brepols, 2013. — 328 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 26). The fourteenth century saw an exponential rise in charterhouses across Europe. During this period of growth, the cloister walls protecting the silence and solitude of the relatively small and isolated semi-eremitical Carthusian houses became more porous, pliable, and open to the outer world. Although still considered at...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 538 p. — (Brill's Companions to Medieval Philology 1). Prologue List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction The Codex and the Author The Poema de mio Cid as Text: Manuscript Transmission and Editorial Politics The Question of Authorship Linguistic Aspects Why was the Poema de mio Cid written Down the Way It was? A Closer Look at the Poema de mio...
Навчальний посібник. — Вінниця: Нова книга, 2003. — 464 с.
Посібник, організований за жанрово-хронологічним принципом, поєднує у собі риси хрестоматії та історико-літературної антології. Основні жанри літератури західноєвропейського середньовіччя представлені у ньому або первинними, повними текстами, або у великих фрагментах чи репрезентативних підбірках. Рекомендується...
Навчальний посібник для студентів гуманітарних факультетів з курсу "Історія зарубіжної літератури". - Вінниця, Нова книга, 2003. - 464 с.
Посібник, організований за жанрово-хронологічним принципом, поєднує у собі риси хрестоматії та історико-літературної аналогії. Основні жанри західноєвропейської середньовічної словесності (архаїчний та класичний епос, лицарська поезія та...
Пер. с нем. и предисл. А. В. Перцева. — СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2020. — 500 с. — ISBN 978-5-936-5-224-5 Для немецкого богослова итальянского происхождения Романо Гвардини «Божественная комедия» была знаковым культурным и рели гиозным феноменом, давшим жизнь классическому, хотя и несколько идеализированному образу чистого христианства. Гвардини считает, что поэма великого...
Пер. с нем. и предисл. А. В. Перцева. — СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2020. — 500 с. — ISBN 978-5-936-5-224-5 Для немецкого богослова итальянского происхождения Романо Гвардини «Божественная комедия» была знаковым культурным и рели гиозным феноменом, давшим жизнь классическому, хотя и несколько идеализированному образу чистого христианства. Гвардини считает, что поэма великого...
Москва: Наука, 1970. — 444 с. В книге освещены вопросы истории письменной литературы Европы раннего средневековья. Книга состоит из двух разделов - "От античности к средневековью" (IV-VII вв.) и "Каролингское Возрождение" (VIII-IX вв.). Каждый раздел включает большую обзорную статью с характеристикой всего периода в целом, ряд очерков об отдельных писателях и образцы переводов...
Москва: Наука, 1972. — 532 c. В 1970 г. в издательстве "Наука" вышел сборник "Памятники средневековой латинской литературы IV-IX веков". Это была первая попытка познакомить отечественного читателя с важнейшей из средневековых западноевропейских литератур, ранее почти ему неизвестной. Настоящий сборник служит продолжением названного. Он построен по тому же плану: две большие...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 563 c. Книга представляет собой систематический обзор средневековой латинской литературы периода ее расцвета. Она состоит из двух разделов: «Латинская литература между империей и папством (X — XI вв.)» и «Время расцвета (XII в.)». Каждый раздел включает большую обзорную статью с характеристикой историко-литературного периода, ряд очерков об отдельных авторах...
Историко-литературные очерки. — Киев: 1890. — vii, 340 с. В своей книге русский историк и литературовед Н.П. Дашкевич (1852-1908) продолжает разрабатывать тему, начатую им в монографии "Из истории средневекового романтизма. Сказание о св. Граале" (1876): влияние рыцарского эпоса, представленного легендами "артуровского" цикла, на средневековую западноевропейскую литературу (и,...
М.: Наследие, 1994. — 393 с. — (Литература Средних Веков, Ренессанса и Барокко 1). Настоящий коллективный труд призван осветить сложные и спорные вопросы жанрообразования и функционирования жанров применительно к литературе Средних веков. Это делается в самых разных аспектах — от выявления общих черт и закономерностей (статья Е.М.Мелетинского), от рассмотрения особенностей...
М.: Наследие, 1994. — 393 с. — (Литература Средних Веков, Ренессанса и Барокко 1). Настоящий коллективный труд призван осветить сложные и спорные вопросы жанрообразования и функционирования жанров применительно к литературе Средних веков. Это делается в самых разных аспектах — от выявления общих черт и закономерностей (статья Е.М.Мелетинского), от рассмотрения особенностей...
М.: ИМЛИ им. А.М. Горького РАН, 2012. — 416 с. Монография посвящена средневековой эклоге в первый период ее расцвета — эпоху Каролингского возрождения (VIII—IX вв.). Образцами для Каролингских эклог послужили произведения Вергилия, Кальпурния Сикула, Немезиана. Заимствуя форму, топику, словарь античной эклоги, поэты Каролингского времени переосмысляли их с точки зрения...
Монография. — М.: ИМЛИ им. А.М. Горького РАН, 2012. — 416 с. Монография посвящена средневековой эклоге в первый период ее расцвета — эпоху Каролингского возрождения (VIII—IX вв.). Образцами для Каролингских эклог послужили произведения Вергилия, Кальпурния Сикула, Немезиана. Заимствуя форму, топику, словарь античной эклоги, поэты Каролингского времени переосмысляли их с точки...
Отв. ред. М.Е. Грабарь-Пассек, М.Л. Гаспаров. — М.: Наука, 1972. — 563 c. Книга представляет собой систематический обзор средневековой латинской литературы периода ее расцвета. Она состоит из двух разделов: «Латинская литература между империей и папством (X — XI вв.)» и «Время расцвета (XII в.)». Каждый раздел включает большую обзорную статью с характеристикой...
3-е изд. испр. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 806 с. Хрестоматия, составленная и изданная в 1953 г. выдающимся ученым и педагогом Б.И. Пуришевым (1903—1989) и значительно обновленная и расширенная во втором издании (1974—1975), остается лучшим учебным изданием такого рода. В книге собраны произведения и фрагменты, позволяющие отчетливо представить пути развития средневековой...
3-е изд. испр. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 806 с. Хрестоматия, составленная и изданная в 1953 г. выдающимся ученым и педагогом Б.И. Пуришевым (1903—1989) и значительно обновленная и расширенная во втором издании (1974—1975), остается лучшим учебным изданием такого рода. В книге собраны произведения и фрагменты, позволяющие отчетливо представить пути развития средневековой...
Сост. и пер. с лат. Б. И. Ярхо; подготовка текста, вступ. статья, комментарий А. Б. Грибанова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — 240 с. Выдающийся филолог-медиевист, стиховед, теоретик и историк литературы Борис Исаакович Ярхо (1889–1942) начал работу над этой книгой летом 1918 года – в период, когда сама атмосфера послевоенной Европы была проникнута эсхатологическими...
Учебное пособие. — Изд. 2-е, испр. и доп. — Владимир: Владимирский государственный университет им. А.Г. и Н.Г. Столетовых (ВлГУ), 2021. — 168 с. — ISBN 978-5-9984-1185-4. Содержит материалы по истории литературы Западной Европы VII – XIII вв. Практическая часть разделена на девятнадцать глав, каждая из которых включает в себя общую информацию об изучаемом произведении, а также...
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