Medieval Literature

Contributors analyze works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others to track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health ” physical, emotional, and spiritual. Focusing on literary genres (epic, lyric, satire, drama, sermon) and cultural..

This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety...

This important book analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Taking in a range of theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, this study forms a substantial new contribution to the history of the body...

This translation of Lancelot del Lac was published in 1929 to present easily the essential parts of the history of Sir Lancelot from three thirteenth century romances; the first serious attempt to produce a modern English rendering of the French material...

First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights. More specifically, the author explores the lineage of the legendary material since the first edition of Malory in 1485...

Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. Originally published in 1992...

The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studie..

This book presents the manuscript of the original poem, including a bibliography of related studies and a comprehensive notes section and glossary. Originally published in 1984...

This book examines the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts, focusing on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found ..

Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith of Flanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Miller demonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers. Including full-colour reproductions from Monte Cassino MS 437 and Fulda L..

This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers’ documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of ..

Examining medieval German religious writing (verse and prose) and Dutch prose works, Annette Volfing suggests that the Daughter Zion allegory provides an excellent springboard for investigating key aspects of medieval religious and literary culture. She argues that the development of the allegory fr..