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This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. Classic Readings on Monster Theory introduces the most important and influential modern theorists of the monstrous.
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Examines the creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas throughout the interconnected, global Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity.
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Seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin discovered in a set of early-printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019: this is a comprehensive study with accompanying transliteration of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.
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This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam.
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A cultural memory of belief in the North placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry.
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In-depth study of a little-known reformed Benedictine congregation crucial for the development of trade and urban development in Angevin Britain and France.
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This study examines the gift book practices of Elizabeth and Mary Tudor, both queens of England; it begins with pre-accession dedications... Læs mere
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Performance traditions before 1642 in the northeast of England, and the impulses that affected traditions ranging from wedding revels and sporting activities, through civic plays and processions, to the customary performances of hunters and ploughmen.
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A close reading of Milton’s De Doctrina, which reveals the personal dimension of his theology and the passion and energy of his mind.
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Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval music, this interdisciplinary and international collection of essays works to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory.
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The masterpiece of Baroque cooking and household management, and first book to publish recipes using tomatoes and chili peppers, translated in full into English for the first time.
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The first volume in English to examine the fu, one of the major genres of Chinese literature, from its origins up to the late imperial era.