In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.
Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg.
The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as... Læs mere
Compiled to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of publication of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur by William Caxton, this volume contains critical studies of Malory's work, supplemented by essays that place that work in the larger context of Caxton's canon.
Essays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between... Læs mere
An excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. This is a valuable... Læs mere
An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between... Læs mere
The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the... Læs mere
Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This... Læs mere
Explores the beginnings of the continental European notarial tradition, acquainting readers with the format of notarial documents,... Læs mere
Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse.... Læs mere
A collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection... Læs mere