Medieval History 400-1500 Products

Edited by Robert McEachnie

Hardback – 2019-12-01 
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Routledge Medieval Translations

Edited by Suzanne Sutherland, Paula Findlen

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains…

Paperback – 2019-11-15 
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By Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of ‘the ideological work’ that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the ‘bedouin cosmos.’ The study focuses upon the processes of…

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Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

Edited by Keith J. Stringer, Andrew Jotischky

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader approaches akin to those adopted in this book.…

Hardback – 2019-10-31 
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By T. W. Craik

Originally published in 1964. This book deals wholly with Chaucer’s comic tales. The individual tales are not discussed in isolation but always with reference to the others and to Chaucer’s poetry as a whole. By this comparison and analysis, this book illuminates the features of Chaucer’s…

Hardback – 2019-10-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By Lawrence Besserman

Originally published in 1988. This book offers a very useful source of information on Chaucer’s relationship to the Bible. It contains a detailed chapter on research into this connection and then presents two indexes. The first is organised by title of Chaucer’s work and then line number detailing…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

Edited by Jean E. Jost

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By P. M. Kean

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author explores Chaucer’s…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By John Lawlor

Originally published in 1968. A critical interpretation of Chaucer's narrative poetry which concentrates on three major groupings - the early love-visions, the ‘tragedye’ of Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales. Emphasis is laid on Chaucer as an oral narrator and on the varying skills…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By Lynn King Morris

Originally published in 1985. This impressive research tool offers four different indexes to cross-reference works on the sources of Chaucer. The user can look up sources by author, genre type or title, or look up the title of one of Chaucer’s works to find which bibliographic entries they are…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By C. David Benson

Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres,…

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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

By Roger Ellis

Originally published in 1986. This study asks ‘What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?’ and ‘What different solutions to those problems are offered by the religious narratives of The Canterbury Tales?’ The introduction explains the grounds for inclusion of the tales here studied…

Hardback – 2019-10-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer