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  | | Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature(Updated) Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Edwin David Craun, Patrick Boyde, Edwind D. Craun, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer, Alastair Minnis, Eldon Jay Epp Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02201-9, ISBN: 0-521-02201-0 "Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how attempts were made to portray some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive, labelling it lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the 'Pa ..." |
 | | A History of Histories(1st Edition) Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Wyon Burrow Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41311-7, ISBN: 0-375-41311-1 |
 | | A History of Histories(3rd Edition) Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus by Professor John Burrow, John Wyon Burrow Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2007 by Allen Lane 2007-12-06 ISBN-13: 978-0-7139-9337-0, ISBN: 0-7139-9337-5 |
 | | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature(Updated) Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context Series Number 21 (Paperback) by Dr Erik Kooper, Erik Kooper, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer, Cambridge University Press Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03234-6, ISBN: 0-521-03234-2 "This book offers new insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and cultural developments of the period in which it took shape. The collection includes studies of the most representative authors, genres and works of the time. A comparative chronological survey provides an overview of the main cultural, his ..." |
 | | Mathematical Methods and 4 [V1P2 by Margaret Thom, John Burrow, John Dowsey, Laure Berman, Philip Swedosh 300 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1-4202-0399-8, ISBN: 1-4202-0399-1 "This essential disc contains fully worked solutions provided in PDF format (printable)It accompanies MathsWorld Further Mathematics Unit 3 4 student book." |
 | | The Jew in the Medieval Book(1st Edition) English Antisemitisms 1350-1500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Anthony Paul Bale, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86354-4, ISBN: 0-521-86354-6 "This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways in which English writers, artists and readers used and a ..." |
 | | Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Nicholas Watson, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03315-2, ISBN: 0-521-03315-2 "This is the first literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d. 1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely-read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a new chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers the first literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in Latin and later in English, has as its principal focus ..." |
 | | Editing Piers Plowman(1st Edition) The Evolution of the Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Charlotte Brewer, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02402-0, ISBN: 0-521-02402-1 "The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This book is an account of the editions of the poem that have appeared since 1550, when it was first published by the protestant reformer Robert Crowley. It examines the circumstances in which the editions were produced, the lives and intellectual motivations of the editors, and the relationship between one edition and the next. It uses a wide range of p ..." |
 | | Fictions of Identity in Medieval France(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Donald Maddox, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02638-3, ISBN: 0-521-02638-5 "In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood. The study offers many new perspectives on the poetic and cultural implications of identi ..." |
 | | Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Mary Carpenter Erler, Patrick Boyde, Alastair Minnis, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02457-0, ISBN: 0-521-02457-9 "Mary C. Erler. Southlands (Bucks.), 121 Speculum Vite Christi, 118, 132, 150, 188 n. 2 Spencer, H. Leith, 57—58 spirituality: and books, 23-24, 28, 45, 112-15, 117, 137; centrality of, 9, 132; in family, 112-14; in lay community, 112 Spycer, Joan, 164 n. 89; gift inscription, 46, 142 ... 67 Verney, Eleanor, 126 Vernon, Lady Isabelle, 59 Vernon Psalter, 59 Veyl, Christine, 72, 82 Vices and Virtues, 39, 40 Virgin Mary, 19, 58-61, 143 ..." |
 | | Virgil in Medieval England(1st Edition) Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Professor Christopher Baswell, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer, New York Paperback, 460 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02708-3, ISBN: 0-521-02708-X "What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among new institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil's Aeneid, and the many kinds of appeal it held for the culture of the Middle Ages. He examines a series of Latin manuscripts of the text which were co ..." |
 | | The Evolution of Arthurian Romance(Updated) The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann, Margaret Middleton, Roger Middleton, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer, Professor Roger Middleton Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02565-2, ISBN: 0-521-02565-6 "This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the wh ..." |
 | | Dante and the Mystical Tradition(1st Edition) Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Steven Botterill, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02172-2, ISBN: 0-521-02172-3 "In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing cantos of the Paradiso, against the background of his medieval reputation as a contemplative mystic, devotee of Mary, and, above all, a prea ..." |
 | | Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Dr Fiona Somerset, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02327-6, ISBN: 0-521-02327-0 "The translation of learned Latin materials into English between around 1370 and 1410 was a highly controversial activity. It was thought likely to make available to lay audiences the authoritative and intellectual information and methods of argument previously only accessible to an educated elite - and with that knowledge the power of information. Fiona Somerset's 1998 study examines what kinds of academic material were imported into En ..." |
 | | Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Sian Echard, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02152-4, ISBN: 0-521-02152-9 "This book takes a unique look at the Latin Arthurian tradition, placing authors such as Geoffrey of Monmouth in the context of Latin histories, monastic chronicles, saints' lives, and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. Placing them against a background of the Angevin court of Henry II, the book introduces a new set of texts into the Arthurian canon and suggests a way to understand their place in that tradition. The unfamiliar works ..." |
 | | The Making of Chaucer's English(Updated) A Study of Words (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Christopher Cannon, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 452 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02267-5, ISBN: 0-521-02267-3 "This book is a study of Chaucer's words. It describes how these words became evidence for calling Chaucer the "father of English poetry" but, also, why that label is wrong. It shows that Chaucer's language is, in fact, traditional and argues that his linguistic innovation was as much performance as fact. It provides a thorough history of every one of Chaucer's words and maps the origins and patterns of use that have made these words so ..." |
 | | Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02377-1, ISBN: 0-521-02377-7 "'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy ending), via Roman ideas and practices, to the middle ages, when Averroes considered tragedy to be the praise of virtue but Albert the Great thou ..." |
 | | Dante and Renaissance Florence(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Simon A. Gilson, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer, Vv.Aa. Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-84165-8, ISBN: 0-521-84165-8 "Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on ..." |
 | | Medieval Reading(Updated) Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Suzanne Reynolds, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-60452-9, ISBN: 0-521-60452-4 "This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped b ..." |
 | | Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry(Updated) Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by James Simpson, Steven Botterill, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Nigel Palmer Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02111-1, ISBN: 0-521-02111-1 "In a recent study of Gower's use of Ovid, Bruce Harbert dismisses any structural use of Ovid's works by Gower: 'The mode of the narration is so different from Ovid's that Gower seems by this stage to regard Ovid's poetry as little more than raw material, to be manipulated and transformed without regard to its origin.'47 It will be obvious from my argument in this chapter that this judgement looks to me like a pretty badly missed op ..." |