In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages: the Latin Liturgy.
This book centers on how humanmonstrosity and physical deformity havebeen historically represented, categorized,and interpreted in various Italian and Frenchcourts of the late Renaissance.
Investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance.
Examines the late 16th- and early 17th-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the... Læs mere
This book investigates and re-evaluates the impact of Latin culture in crucial areas of late medieval and early modern Scottish literature and the role it played in the development of Scottish writing.
The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10) differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of the various tones into which chant was traditionally classified.
In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages: the Latin Liturgy.
Rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices,... Læs mere
A new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, based on manuscript Paris, Bibliotheque nationale fonds francais 1584, with an... Læs mere
Afresh contextual reading of the four Middle English Gawain poems that situates them within the rich tradition offourteenth-century English anticlericalism.
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations... Læs mere
The five essays study the contents of the manuscript in order to understand the provenance of its most famous piece, the Jeu d'Adam.