The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997. Reprinting them is meant not... Læs mere
Aims at a comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990).
The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles.
A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.
These four narratives were among the most popular Middle English romances; all survive in multiple manuscripts and... Læs mere
The essays vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they center on the interpretation of the material world, whether in literature,... Læs mere
Translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Scott Woodward. The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for inconsistencies.
This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth century.
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own... Læs mere
At the forefront of the medieval wisdom tradition was "The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers", a long prose text that purports to be a compendium of lore... Læs mere
A unique collection of Middle English romances, each with a different view of society, ranging from a tale of oriental wonders ("Floris and Blancheflour") to excellent examples of the burlesque ("The Tournament of Tottenham" and "The Feast of Tottenham").
As a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds—the world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Ages—and his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both.