‎English‎

‎Marianne Kalinke, Kirsten Wolf (eds)‎

‎Pious Fictions and Pseudo-Saints in the Late Middle Ages. Selected Legends from an Icelandic Legendary‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, xii + 282 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888443113.‎

‎Summary This volume provides English translations of selected legends from a remarkable sixteenth-century Icelandic collection known as the Reykjah lab k. The Middle Low German originals it translates are no longer extant, apocryphal wholly or in part, and wondrous strange. The eight legends translated here detail the adventures of St Oswald and his quest for a bride by a garrulous raven; Henry and Cunegund, and her accusation of infidelity and trial by ordeal; John Chrysostom, the Golden-mouthed, and his hairy-anchorite tale; Jerome and an injured lion, who herds asses for the monastery; Christopher, the giant Reprobus, who bears the Christ child across deep waters; George, the Dragon-slayer, who saves a princess from the devouring monster; the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, who escape persecution by Emperor Decius through centuries-long slumber; and Gregorius, the Good Sinner, in a tale of double incest. In fictionalizing the lives of established saints, and in the creation of fictitious saints, these legends represent the concluding chapter of medieval hagiography. The volume also includes a wide-ranging introduction that surveys the historical and literary contexts for the translation of Catholic saints' lives on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Iceland, as well as normalized editions of the legends accessible to readers of contemporary Icelandic. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Preface INTRODUCTION Reykjah lab k, the Last of the Great Medieval Legendaries Eight Legends from Reykjah lab k The Legend of St Oswald The Legend of Saints Henry and Cunegund The Legend of St John Chrysostom, the Golden Mouthed The Legend of St Jerome and the Lion The Legend of St Christopher, the Christ Bearer The Legend of St George, the Dragon Slayer The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus The Legend of Gregorius, the Good Sinner APPENDIX Normalized Texts of the Eight Legends svalds saga Hendreks saga og K n g nd sar J ns saga gullmunns Jer n muss saga Krist f rs saga Georg uss saga Sj sofanda saga Saga Greg r uss hins g a syndara Bibliography Index‎

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‎Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds)‎

‎Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 7 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599571.‎

‎Summary Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Figures, List of Abbreviations Introduction: Foreign Contacts, Landscapes, and Empire-Building ? MARK ATHERTON, KAZUTOMO KARASAWA, AND FRANCIS LENEGHAN Here, There, and Everywhere? Alfred and the East ? DANIEL ANLEZARK The Wanderings of Saturn: Psychogeography, Psalms, and Solomon and Saturn ? RACHEL BURNS Otherwheres in the Prose Texts of the Nowell Codex ? S. C. THOMSON Rome away from Rome: India, Rome, and England in lfric's 'Life of St Thomas' ? LUISA OSTACCHINI Christ Embracing the World: lfric's Description of the Crucifixion in 'De Passione Domini' ? KAZUTOMO KARASAWA A Place in the World Babel and Beyond: Thinking Through Migration in Genesis A ? DANIEL THOMAS The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle ? BRITTON BROOKS The Place of Stillness: Greek Patristic Thought in Cynewulf's Juliana ? ELENI PONIRAKIS St Rumwold in the Borderland ? HANNAH BAILEY The World of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth: A Landscape Biography ? MARK ATHERTON Nation and Empire Mapping Empire: Two World Maps in Early Medieval England ? HELEN APPLETON Good Neighbours? Representations of Britons, Welsh, Picts, and Scots in Pre-Conquest English Sources ? CAITLIN ELLIS From (North-)East to West: Geographical Identities and Political Communities in the Ninth- to Eleventh-Century Anglo-Scandinavian World ? RYAN LAVELLE Kings, People, and Lands: The Rhetoric of The Battle of Brunanburh?PAUL CAVILL End of Empire? Reading?The Death of Edward?in MS Cotton Tiberius B I ? FRANCIS LENEGHAN Index‎

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‎Zsuzsanna Papp Reed‎

‎Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 469 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 1 col., 2 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503595528.‎

‎Summary This is a novel, interdisciplinary study of the Mongol military campaign in Eastern Europe (1241-1242) ? the North, as thirteenth-century Europeans saw the region ? in the works of contemporary English chronicler, Matthew Paris of St Albans Monastery. Tracing the journey of his sources, the volume explores thirteenth-century information networks against the backdrop of the struggle between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV. Parallel to the history of information, the subject of the study is the Chronica majora and its afterlife, Matthew's chronicle world where the sometimes fictitious (and often very real) episodes of the Mongol story unfold. Tracing major landmarks in the meta-history of the Chronica majora, the author wishes to emancipate Matthew Paris as a historian ? one in the series of a multitude of others who continue to write and rewrite the history of the Mongol invasion across centuries of historiography. The volume is a handy companion both to scholars of English historiography and those who want to read critically the oft-cited primary sources of the history of the Mongol military operations in Europe. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Inside the Book Mise-en-ab me Within and Without The North by the Northwest Chapter 2. Outside the Book The Book in the Scriptorium The Scriptorium in England England in the European Networks Chapter 3. Fright: Mongols in the North and East (1237-1240) 1237: Chaldeans, Medes, Persians, and Armenians 1238: Northbound to Hungaria major 1239: Dacia, Gothia, Frisia 1240: False Alarm and Irruption Chapter 4. Fight: Mongols in the Middle (1241) Holy War on the Mongols The First 1241 Cluster The Second 1241 Cluster Chapter 5. Flight: Rivaling Stories of Retreat (1243-1248) 1243: The Tartar Khan's Englishman 1244: Frederick's Triumph 1244: The Man from Russia 1245-1248: Endgame Chapter 6. Letters from the Afflicted Lands in the Additamenta Chapter 7. The Afterlife of Matthew's Mongol Story Chronicles and their Afterlife Back to the Future: Modern historiography Vice prologi Appendix 1: List of Manuscripts Manuscripts containing the Chronica majora and its fragments / continuations Manuscripts containing Matthew Paris's Flores historiarum, and its fragments / continuations Flores manuscripts listed in medieval catalogues Notes on transcription Further appendices Bibliography Index‎

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‎Eva Reifert/ C. Alfaro, C. Binswanger, C. Brink, D. M. Cardoso, E. Crippa, A. Cvetkovich, A. Ernaux, E. Ferreira, D. Grisard, M. Keller, V. Marstaller, M. Meister-Notter, V. Miro, L. de Oliveira, J. Rauser, E. Reifert, N. Scherrer, F. Schutzbach, J. Warzecha, A. Weber, N. Willing, A. Zimmermann‎

‎Paula Rego Power Games‎

‎, Hirmer verlag, 2024 paperback, 232 pages, 180 colour illustrations, 24 29 cm, . ISBN 9783777443126.‎

‎The female protagonists of the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego either come from real life or derive from the world?s great legends, fairy tales and myths. As complicated heroines of our time they have endured illegal abortions or fight against the limitations of traditional gender roles instead of dragons. description ?My favourite themes are power games and hierarchies?. Rego?s oeuvre is a tour de force of creativity. Endlessly versatile and inexhaustible, it is deeply rooted in pictorial worlds and stories from both past and present. This volume approaches the remarkable wealth of Rego?s multi-faceted universe through a range of different perspectives and tells of the power of history and emotions, women?s rights and invisible structures of domination. With a contribution by Anne Weber and an excerpt of Annie Ernaux? ?The Happening‎

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‎Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Holly James-Maddocks‎

‎Cambridge II‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Paperback, 328 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:47 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9781912554270.‎

‎Summary This is the ninth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. Because representations of all types are included?from miniatures to marginalia? the series provides unparalleled reference to imagery in the long fifteenth century. The present fascicle, the second of two devoted to the collections in Cambridge, catalogues 553 manuscripts for eleven colleges and can be used as a search tool for manuscripts available on line. The manuscript entries in the catalogue note the subject of every illustration, all of which are fully indexed in the index of pictorial subjects. Entries for alchemy and medicine are particularly rich in this fascicle; the largest entry is for costume. The broad range of pictorial information makes the Cambridge fascicles useful supplements to the fifth volume of A Catalogue of Western Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge Colleges. Like the other fascicles in the series, Cambridge II includes a manual for users, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms, indexes of authors, texts and incipits, as well as a list of manuscripts with coats of arms. There are forty-seven black and white illustrations.‎

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‎John Capgrave, Peter Lucas (ed)‎

‎Rome 1450. Capgrave's Jubilee Guide. The Solace of Pilgrimes‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xcv + 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:63 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, Middle English. ISBN 9782503594675.‎

‎Summary The scene is Rome in the fifteenth century, Golden Rome, a magnet drawing pilgrims by its architectural attractions and the magnitude of its religious importance as the mother of faith. The Austin friar John Capgrave attended Rome for the Jubilee in 1450, including the Lenten stations, and his Solace of Pilgrimes, intended as a guide for subsequent pilgrims, was written up following the author's own pilgrimage. In three parts it covers the ancient monuments, the seven principal churches and the Lenten stations, and other churches of note, especially those dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The work has been described as the most ambitious description of Rome in Middle English. The present edition offers a new Text based on a transcription of the author's holograph manuscript. Parallel with the Text there is a modern English Translation. The illustrations, mostly from a period slightly later than the 1450 Jubilee, aim to give some visual clue as to what Capgrave saw. There is a full account of the multiple sources that he used, most of which is the product of new research. Following the Text there is a Commentary that aims to provide some background information about the buildings and monuments that Capgrave focuses on, and to explain and illuminate any difficulties or points of interest in the Text. Capgrave is an omni-present guide leading us towards what he considered an appropriate interpretation of the classical past as a foundation for the Christian present, which built on it and surpassed it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations Introduction Select Bibliography Editorial Procedure The Solace of Pilgrimes by John Capgrave OSA Part I Ancient Rome Introduction and list of chapters in Part I ch 1 The original founders of Rome ch 2 The gates, walls and towers of Rome ch 3 The bridges of Rome ch 4 The hills of Rome ch 5 The 'palaces' in Rome ch 6 The triumphal arches in Rome ch 7 The cymyteries 'catacombs' in Rome ch 8 Holy places and their pre-Christian names ch 9 The Angulla Sancti Petri 'St Peter's Obelisk' ch 10 Pagan temples turned to Christian use ch 11 The Capitol ch 12 The statue of the Dioscuri ch 13 The statue of Marcus Aurelius at the Lateran ch 14 The Coliseum ch 15 The Pantheon ch 16 Ara Celi ch 17 The Mausoleum of Augustus ch 18 The Septizodium ch 19 The Circus of Tarquinius Priscus ch 20 The Cantharus in the atrium in front of old San Pietro ch 21 The 'pyramid' or tomb of Romulus ch 22 The paleys 'temple' of Trajan ch 23 The conch-shaped font where Constantine was allegedly baptized ch 24 The place called Omnis Terra (= Monte Testaccio) ch 25 The rulers of Rome from the time of Romulus to the last king Tarquinius ch 26 The rulers of Rome from Tarquinius to the first emperor ch 27 The emperors of Rome from Julius Caesar to Frederick II (d 1250) Part II The seven principal churches and the stations for Lent Prologus ch 1 San Pietro ch 2 San Paolo fuori le Mura ch 3 San Sebastiano ch 4 San Giovanni in Laterano ch 5 Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 6 San Lorenzo fuori le Mura ch 7 Santa Maria Maggiore ch 8 The station at Santa Sabina ch 9 The station at San Giorgio in Velabro ch 10 The station at Santi Giovanni e Paolo ch 11 The station at San Trifone ch 12 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 13 The station at San Pietro in Vincoli ch 14 The station at Santa Anastasia ch 15 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore ch 16 The station at San Lorenzo in Panisperna ch 17 The station at Santi Apostoli ch 18 The station at San Pietro ch 19 The station at Santa Maria in Domnica ch 20 The station at San Clemente ch 21 The station at Santa Balbina ch 22 The station at Santa Cecilia in Trast vere ch 23 The station at Santa Maria in Trast vere ch 24 The station at San Vitale ch 25 The station at Santi Marcellino e Pietro ch 26 The station at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura ch 27 The station at San Marco ch 28 The station at Santa Pudenziana ch 29 The station at San Sisto Vecchio ch 30 The station at Santi Cosma e Damiano ch 31 The station at San Lorenzo in Lucina ch 32 The station at Santa Susanna ch 33 The station at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 34 The station at Santi Quattro Coronati ch 35 The station at San Lorenzo in Damaso ch 36 The station at San Paolo fuori le Mura ch 37 The station at San Martino ai Monti and the station at San Silvestro in Capite ch 38 The station at Sant'Eusebio ch 39 The station at San Nicola in Carcere ch 40 The station at San Pietro ch 41 The station at San Crisogono ch 42 The station at San Ciriaco in Thermis ch 43 The station at San Marcello al Corso ch 44 The station at Sant'Apollinare ch 45 The station at San Stefano Rotunda ch 46 The station at San Giovanni alla Porta Latina ch 47 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 48 The station at Santa Prassede and the station at Santi Nereo e Achilleo ch 49 The station at Santa Prisca ch 50 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore ch 51 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 52 The station at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 53 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 54 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore Part III Other churches of note, especially those dedicated to our Lady Prologus ch 1 Santa Maria Rotunda (= Pantheon) ch 2 Santa Maria in Aracoeli ch 3 Lacking ch 4 Santa Maria sopra Minerva ch 5 Santa Maria Annunziata ch 6 Santa Maria in Transpontina ch 7 Santa Maria in Palmis ch 8 Santa Maria del Populo ch 9 Santa Maria Antiqua ch 10 Santa Maria in Cosmedin ch 11 Santa Maria Imperatrice ch 12 Santa Maria della Consolazione ch 13 Santa Maria in Portico Further chapters lacking Commentary Appendix Index of Names and Places‎

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‎John O'Brien, Marc Schachter (eds)‎

‎Sedition. The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 324 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503589909.‎

‎Summary This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-1600) and focuses not only on France itself, but also on Scotland during the reign of the French-born Mary Queen of Scots. Composed of eleven chapters written by an international team of experts, this volume concentrates on the political aspects of sedition rather than religious heresy, and covers writings and publications in a wide range of fields: politics, history, law, literature, and gender. A complementary feature of this collection is the spectrum of writings studied; they include edicts and treatises, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dialogues, and satirical prose and poetry. Several chapters also address visual representations of sedition. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters. This is a collection which will appeal to readers with interests in the history of political ideas and thought, the comparative study of monarchical government, and concepts of tyranny and resistance, discord, rebellion, and revolt. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements, List of Figures Introduction Sedition: From Disobedience to Revolt - John O'Brien and Marc Schachter The Language of Sedition La s dition pendant les guerres civiles (France, 1560-1600): une histoire sans v nement - Paul-Alexis Mellet The Language of Religious Conflict: Seditions, Assemblies, Emotions, Violences? - George Hoffmann Sources of Sedition Heresy and Sedition in Pierre de Ronsard's Discours des mis res de ce temps (1562) and Pierre Boton's La France divis e (c. 1595) - Andrea Frisch The Role of John Knox and his Seditious Writings in the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion - ric Durot Cicero the Revolutionary: Some Seditious Motifs in the Literature of the French Wars of Religion - John O'Brien Genre and the Question of Sedition 'Books with Sharp Teeth': The Perception of Seditious Books in Early Modern France - Natalia Wawrzyniak How Not to Be (and Sound) Seditious: The Prince de Cond 's Justifications for Starting the First War of Religion (1562-63) - Ullrich Langer Political Crime in the Wars of Religion: Fran ois Brigard's Sedition - Tom Hamilton Gender, Sedition, and Literature The Sempill Ballats: Gendering Sedition and Rebellion - Armel Dubois-Nayt The Seditious Pleasures of the Prince in the Reveille-matin's Denunciation of Tyranny - Marc Schachter Styling Sedition in The Island of Hermaphrodites (L'Isle des hermaphrodites, 1605) - Kathleen Long Conclusion The Several Faces of Sedition - Mark Greengrass (with D nes Harai) Index‎

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‎Simon Thomson (ed)‎

‎Medieval Stories and Storytelling. Multimedia and Multi-Temporal perspectives‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 319 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590509.‎

‎Summary The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals and cultural groups. Some stories, indeed, seem to possess a life of their own: claiming a peculiar agency and taking on distinct voices which speak across time and space. How, for example, do objects, manuscripts, and other artefacts communicate alternative or complementary narratives that transcend textual and linguistic boundaries? How are stories created, reshaped, and re-experienced, and how do these shifting contexts and media change meaning? This volume of essays explores these questions about meaning and identity in a range of ways. As a collection, it demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary and context-focused enquiry when approaching key issues of activity and identity in the medieval period. Ultimately, the process of making meaning through shaping narrative is shown to be as vital and varied in the medieval world as it is today. With a wide range of different disciplinary approaches from leading scholars in their respective fields, chapters include considerations of art, architecture, metalwork, linguistics, and literature. Alongside examinations of medieval cultural productions are explorations of the representation and adaptation of medieval storytelling in graphic novels, classroom teaching, and computer gaming. This volume thus offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how stories from across the medieval world were shaped, transformed, and transmitted. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Stories and their Tellers S. C. Thomson Beowulf Goes to School: Adaptations and transformations for the Secondary Classroom Janes Coles, Theo Bryer, and Daniel Ferreira 'Retelling Old Stories for New Audiences': Shaping and Visualizing Beowulf through Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novels [The Collected Beowulf (2003) & Beowulf (2007)] Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso Being Numerous: Communal Storytelling in Li smannaflokkr Erin Michelle Goeres Performance and Emotions in Four Epic Works about Roland Evelyn Birge Vitz Towards a Poetics of Storytelling, or, why could Early Medieval English Writers not stop telling the Story of Judith? S. C. Thomson Mosaics, Marbles, and Medievalisms: Displaying the Foundation Narrative of the English Church in Westminster Cathedral Meg Boulton A Storied Cathedral: Space and Audacious Women in Early Medieval Durham Euan McCartney Robson Dynamic Material Aspects of Writing in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Titurel Christoph Witt Iceland's Alexander: Gunnarr and Pale Corn in Nj ls Saga Richard North Sensing Stories: Iconography, Pattern, and Abstraction in Metalwork from Early Medieval England Melissa Herman A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856-2018 James Plumtree Index‎

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‎Karine Moreau-Guibert‎

‎Pore Caitif. A Middle English Manual of Religion and Devotion‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 296 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503582931.‎

‎Summary The Pore Caitif is an anonymous late fourteenth-century manual of devotion and religious instruction destined for a lay readership. The text, in its various forms, circulated widely and was evidently very popular, as the fifty of so extant manuscripts and fragments readily attest. Of them, no fewer that twenty-eight transmit a full text showing remarkable fidelity to the now presumably lost archetype. As such, the Pore Caitif invites comparison with the considerable production and diffusion of religious texts in English which figure prominently in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In this respect, it is to note that some critics have argued for the presence of Lollard interpolators or commentators in a number of the extant manuscripts, including the influence of the Wycliffite Bible translation. This edition will be published in two volumes. This, the first, provides a full Introduction to the manuscripts and their transmission, classifying them in groups, while examining some of the trends observable in some of the more notable variants they inevitably preserve. A commentary on the text is followed by a full glossary. The second volume will discuss manuscript relationships and the problems arising therefrom. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations and symbols Abbreviations and short titles Symbols Preface General introduction Manuscripts Identification of the Pore Caitif The various forms of the text The transmission of the text Which edition? The adopted method Textual collation and selection Selected manuscripts and base text Critical Edition Editorial procedures and conventions Description of the manuscripts Text Glossary Keys Appendices Explanatory notes on text and emendations Index Nominum Reference composite text Bibliography Primary sources Secondary Sources Electronic resources‎

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‎Olivia Robinson‎

‎Contest, Translation, and the Chaucerian Text‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 232 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 6 col., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503546636.‎

‎Summary This sophisticated volume sheds new light on the transmission of texts in the medieval period by drawing into dialogue a study of medieval translation between English and French with questions concerning the Chaucerian canon and its reception. The author takes as a focus point three Middle English translations of French-language works - The Romaunt of the Rose, the Belle Dame Sans Mercy, and An ABC to the Virgin - and assesses the way in which these works respond to and reconfigure their source material, while at the same time questioning how the connection of these translations with Chaucer has influenced our critical understanding of them. In this book, these three translations are therefore removed from their habitual place on the fringes of the English Chaucer canon, and are instead analysed in the context of late-medieval literary and cultural hybridity. The result is a fascinating reconceptualization of these works as creative, cross-channel participations in late- medieval debates, and simultaneously a call for the reappraisal of 'the Chaucerian' as a critical category.‎

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‎Marleen Cr , Diana Denissen, Denis Renevey (eds)‎

‎Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xii + 464 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574776.‎

‎Summary Devotional compilations were the staple spiritual food for lay and religious readers in the late medieval period. As well thought-out assemblages of texts or extracts of texts, they provided readers with material from basic catechetic instruction to advice and tools for the practice of contemplation. Their exploration enables a more sophisticated understanding of the authorial roles played by compilers, the reading practices of their recipients, and the patronage of compilations carried out by religious and secular individuals and communities. It also offers a new window into late medieval English religiosity as well as demonstrating the complexity and creativity associated with compiling activity. In this volume, leading scholars in the field of medieval English literature consider the role and impact of a substantial number of devotional compilations, offering new evidence about the manuscripts, sources, and contexts that frame this important corpus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - MARLEEN CR , DIANA DENISSEN, AND DENIS RENEVEY Part I: The Dynamics of Devotional Compilations Building a Bestseller: The Priest, the Peartree, and the Compiler - VINCENT GILLESPIE Compilation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving - RALPH HANNA Theorizing the Miscellaneous and the Middle English Biblical Paratext - IAN JOHNSON A Talkyng of the Loue of God: The Art of Compilation and the Compiled Self - ANNIE SUTHERLAND Reading Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - MARGARET CONNOLLY Part II: Compiling the Compilation: Manuscript Transmission Form and Fluidity: Reshaping The Pore Caitif and Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 423 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 938 - DIANA DENISSEN Suffering for Love: Compilation and Asceticism in Life of Soul - SARAH MACMILLAN Compilers' Voices in Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 6. 40 - MARLEEN CR Part III: Compilation and Devotional Practice A Hagiographic Compilation of Medieval Native Women in the South English Legendaries: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 779 - MAMI KANNO Devotional Compilations and Lollard Sanctity in a Fifteenth-Century Anthology - NICOLE RICE 'When is a man proude. Whe[n] he wol not beknowen suche as he is': Knowing oneself in London, British Library, MS Additional 27787 - SHERI SMITH Resignation or Rebuttal?: Three Biblical Exempla in Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges - BRANDON ALAKAS Part IV: Mystics Compiled 'Desyrable is thi Name': Fashioning the Name of Jesus in Some Devotional Compilations - DENIS RENEVEY The Scale of Perfection in Devotional Compilations - MICHAEL G. SARGENT The Liber Specialis Gratiae in a Devotional Anthology: London, British Library, MS Harley 494 - NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA Part V: Texts, Images and Affect The Living Book of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.42: Compilation, Meditation, and Vision - LAURA SAETVEIT MILES The Desert of Religion: A Textual and Visual Compilation - ANNE MOURON What Grace in Presence: Affective Literacies in The Chastising of God's Children - A.S. LAZIKANI Afterword The Terminology and Ethos of Vernacular Compilatio - NICHOLAS WATSON *** Index of Manuscripts General Index‎

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‎Anonymous, Ariane Lain (ed)‎

‎Late Fifteenth-Century Commonplace Book. Edited from Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.16‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 261 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:13 tables b/w., Languages: English, Middle English. *new ISBN 9782503582917.‎

‎Summary This edition presents the full text of a personal collection of temporale Middle-English sermons, compiled by a parish priest for his own use (preserved in Cambridge University Library MS Cg.6.16). It also includes the notes and fragments of sermons or exempla found at the beginning of the manuscript with a purpose of giving insight into the way a parish priest would compile materials. This manuscript has attracted attention because it perserves versions of these sermons' early stages. The current edition is therefore complementary to editions of later versions of the same sermons. The introduction provides a discussion of these sermons' textual history and the circumstances in which they were possibly preached. Explanatory notes, a glossary, and indexes complete the edition. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Manuscripts and Sigla Abbreviations Bibliography Unprinted Primary Sources: Manuscripts Printed Primary Sources Unprinted Editions of Primary Sources Secondary Sources Recapitulary Tables Recapitulary Table of the Contents of the Manuscripts (1) Recapitulary Table of the Contents of the Manuscripts (2) Recapitulary Table of the Contents of the Manuscripts (3) Recapitulary Table of the Contents of the Manuscripts (4) Introduction Description of the Manuscripts Language Layout and Watermarks Quire 1 Quires 2 and 3 Two Sermons for a Wedding Ceremony Quires 4 and 5 Conclusion: A Preaching Tool Editorial Principles and Procedures Quire 1. Ff. 1r-7v [1] [The Three Maries] [2] [Note on Octavian and the Sybil] [3] [Note on the Temple in Rome] [4] [The Apostles' Creed and Citations from the Prophets] [5] [Exemplum of Longinus] [6] [Easter Day Sermon] [7] [Outline of sermon & Citations] [8] [Sermon for Lent 1] [9] [Exemplum of the Bloody Letters and the Lady who Killed her Own Child] [10] [Extract from the Exemplum of St Dunstan's mother] [11] [A Note on the How and Why one Should Say a Pater Noster and an Ave] [12] [A Note on the Letters of Ihesu Crist] [13] [A Note on the Law at the Court of King Arthur] [14] [Exemplum of Three Philosophers] [15] [An Extract from an Exemplum about Two Cripples and a Precious tree] [16] [A Note on Bad Christians Likened to Swine] [17] [Sermon-Like Note on the Three Apostles John, Peter, and Judas and the Sins of Pride, Gluttony and Envy] Quires 2 and 3. Ff. 8r-30v [18] [? Sermon on Mt, 22:37] [19] [? Sermon on 1 Ptrr, 4:7] [20] [? Sermon on Ps, 40:5] [21] [? Sermon on Lc, 19:15] [22] [? Sermon on Io, 11:25] [23] [? Sermon for All Saints Day and All Souls Day] [24] [? Sermon for a Wedding Cermony] Quires 4 and 5. Ff. 32r-59v [25] In Solemnizacione matrimonij [26] Dominica Prima Aduentus Domini [27] In Die Natalis Domini Nostri Ihesu Cristi [28] In Die Circumcicionis Domini Nostri Ihesu Cristi [29] In Die Epiphanie Domini Nostri Ihesu Cristi [30] Dominica Septuagesime Euaungelium [31] Dominica in Sexagesima [32] Dominica in Quinquagesima [33] In die Cinerum et in Capite Ieiunij [34] Domnica Prima Quadragesime [35] Dominica Secunda Quadragesime [36]Dominica iija Quadragesime Euaungelica Luc xjm Explanatory Notes Glossary Index of Proper Names Index of Biblical Quotations Index of Non-Biblical Quotations Index of Exempla‎

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‎Tamara Atkin, Laura Estill (eds)‎

‎Early British Drama in Manuscript‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvi + 376 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:45 b/w, 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503575469.‎

‎Summary This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied manuscript culture. Focusing on the production, performance, and reception of dramatic documents made in Britain between 1400 and 1700, the essays in this book shed new light on the role of dramatic manuscripts in a range of different social and literary spheres. From extant manuscripts of England's mystery cycles to miscellanies kept by seventeenth-century readers, the documents discussed in this volume reflect a culture of producing and using drama in ways that have been overlooked by the recent critical focus on drama and print by theatre historians and literary critics. By showing the various continuities, exchanges, lendings, and borrowings between medieval and early modern scribal practices, as well as between manuscript and print practices, this volume interrogates accepted critical narratives about the way that drama has been historicized. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction - TAMARA ATKIN AND LAURA ESTILL Production The Brome Abraham and Isaac and Impersonal Compilation - JOE STADOLNIK The Coventry Playbooks - PAMELA M. KING The Towneley Plays: Huntington Library MS HM 1 - ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON Un-dating the Chester Plays: A?Reassessment of Lawrence Clopper's 'History and Development' and MS?Peniarth 399 - MATTHEW SERGI Noting Baiazet, the Raging Turk - MARY POLITO AND KIRSTEN INGLIS John of Bordeaux: Performance and the Revision of Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts - JAMES PURKIS James Compton and Cosmo Manuche and Dramatic Manuscripts in the Interregnum - WILLIAM PROCTOR WILLIAMS Performance The Play of Wit and Science: Evidence for the Performance of a Choir School Manuscript - LOUISE RAYMENT Sixteenth-Century Courtly Mumming and Masking: Alexander Montgomerie's The Navigatioun - SARAH CARPENTER Speech and Silence in an Actor's Part - JAKUB BOGUSZAK 'In witnes here of I set to my hand': Early Modern Actors' Offstage Textual Rituals - KARA J. NORTHWAY Comedy, Clowning, and the Caroline King's Men: Manuscript Plays and Performance - LUCY MUNRO Unfolding Action: Locked Letters as Props in the Early Modern Theatre - DANIEL STARZA SMITH AND JANA DAMBROGIO Reception Remediating Sixteenth-Century Drama: Gismond of Salerne in Script and Print - TAMARA ATKIN The Early Manuscript Reception of Shakespeare: The Formation of Shakespearean Literary Taste - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAYER Comedies and Tragedies 'read of me' and 'not yet learned': Dramatic Extracting in Bodleian Library MS?Rawlinson D 952 - BEATRICE MONTEDORO Seeing is Believing: External vs. Internal Evidence in the Controversy over the Ireland Forgeries - ANTONIA FORSTER The Macro Plays in Georgian England - GAIL MCMURRAY GIBSON Unseen things seen': Digital Editing and Early Modern Manuscript Plays - MATTEO PANGALLO Mongrel Forms: Print-Manuscript Hybridity and Digital Methods in Annotated Plays - REBECCA MUNSON Index‎

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‎Boethius(auth), Brian Donaghey, Noel Harold Kaylor, Philip Edward Phillips, Paul E. Szarmach (eds)‎

‎Remaking Boethius. The English Language Translation Tradition of 'The Consolation of Philosophy'‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xxviii + 496 pages, 156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503584676.‎

‎Summary This volume is a reference work, organized chronologically in its sections, with a separate entry for each translator's work. The sections are defined by the type of translations they comprise, whether complete, partial, meters only, etc. The plan of the book is encyclopedic in nature: some biographical material is provided for each translator; the translations are described briefly, as are their linguistic peculiarities, their implied audiences, their links with other translations, and their general reception. Sample passages from the translations are provided, and where possible these are two of the most well-known moments in the Consolatio: the appearance of Lady Philosophy, narrated by the Prisoner, and the cosmological hymn to the Deus of the work, sung by Lady Philosophy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: The Foundation of the Tradition: The Latin De consolation philosophiae Part I: Complete Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae Part II: Partial or Abridged Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae Part III: Translations into English of the Meters or Selected Meters of De consolation philosophiae Part IV: Spurious, Mislabeled, or Lost Translations of De consolation philosophiae Part V: Modern English Translations of Old English Prose and Verse Translations of De consolation philosophiae Part VI: An Early Adaptation of Chaucer's Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae with Commentary Interspersed Part VII: Some Minor Uses of Translations or Adaptations of Passages from De consolation philosophiae Part VIII: Two Early Discussions on De consolation philosophiae translation Epilogue: Some Relevant Definitions: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Notes on the Editors‎

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‎Matthias Egeler (ed)‎

‎Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, viii + 263 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 3 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503580401.‎

‎Summary This volume explores the intersection of landscape and myth in the context of north-western Atlantic Europe. From the landscapes of literature to the landscape as a lived environment, and from myths about supernatural beings to tales about the mythical roots of kingship, the contributions gathered here each develop their own take on the meanings behind 'landscape' and 'myth', and thus provide a broad cross-section of how these widely discussed concepts might be understood. Arising from papers delivered at the conference Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe, held in Munich in April 2016, the volume draws together a wide selection of material ranging from texts and toponyms to maps and archaeological data, and it uses this diversity in method and material to explore the meaning of these terms in medieval Ireland, Wales, and Iceland. In doing so, it provides a broadly inclusive and yet carefully focused discussion of the inescapable and productive intertwining of landscape and myth. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: 'Landscape', 'Myth', and the North-Western European Perspective - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and Real-World Landscapes Spaces, Places, and Liminality: Marking Out and Meeting the Dead and the Supernatural in Old Nordic Landscapes - TERRY GUNNELL Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscape in the Sagas of Icelanders - REINHARD HENNIG Landscape Meditations on Death: The Place-Lore of the Hvanndalur Valley in Northern Iceland - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and the Creation of Landscape in Early Medieval Ireland - GREGORY TONER Codal and riu: Feeding the Land of Ireland - GRIGORY BONDARENKO with NINA ZHIVLOVA) Finn's Wilderness and Boundary Landforms in Medieval Ireland -ELIZABETH FITZPATRICK 'Here, Finn? Take This and Give him a Lick of it': Two Place-Lore Stories about Fi(o)nn Mac Cum(h)aill in Medieval Irish Literature and Modern Oral Tradition - TIZIANA SOVERINO The M lusine Legend Type and the Landscape in Insular and Continental Tradition - GREGORY R. DARWIN Myth and the Landscapes of Literature King Sverrir's Mythic Landscapes - NICOLAS MEYLAN Mythologizing the Conceptual Landscape: Religion and History in Imago mundi, Image du monde, and Delw y byd - NATALIA PETROVSKAIA The Road Less Travelled: C Chulainn's Journey to Matrimony and the Dindshenchas of Tochmarc Emire - MARIE-LUISE THEUERKAUF 'If we settled in the forest?': Tracing the Function of Wooded Spaces from Old Irish Literature to Contemporary Poetry - EDYTA LEHMANN‎

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‎Patrizia Cavazzini, Pierre Curie, Maria Cristina Terzaghi‎

‎Artemisia. H ro ne de l'art‎

‎, Fonds Mercator/ Mercatorfonds, 2025 Hardback with dust jacket, 208 pages, Dimensions 300 x 240 mm, 120 Illustrations 120 col.ill.Language(s) Fr. edition. *new. ISBN 9789462303935.‎

‎Le Personnalit au destin hors norme, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-v. 1656) est l'une des rares artistes femmes de l' poque moderne ayant pu vivre de sa peinture, gr ce une renomm e internationale. N e Rome, cette protagoniste de la peinture caravagesque tait tout particuli rement c l br e pour ses figures d'h ro nes et ses portraits.Mus e Jacquemart Andr , Paris‎

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‎Rory G. Critten, Juliette Vuille‎

‎Power of Words in Late Medieval Devotional and Mystical Writing Essays in Honour of Denis Renevey‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 368 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 2 col., Language:English, *New. ISBN 9782503602929.‎

‎This volume offers a series of essays focusing on the power of words. Contributors address the centrality of language to devotional and mystical experience as well as the attitudes towards language fostered by devotional and mystical practices. The essays are arranged under four subheadings: (1) ?Other Words: Figures and Metaphors,? treating the application of the languages of romantic love, medicine, and travel to descriptions of devotional and mystical experience; (2) ?Iconic Words: Images and the Name of Jesus,? considering the deployment of words and the Word (Jesus) as powerful images in devotional practice; (3) ?Testing Words: Syntax and Semantics,? exploring the ways in which medieval writers stretch the conventions of language to achieve fresh perspectives on devotional and mystical experiences; and (4) ?Beyond Words: The Apophatic and The Senses,? offering novel perspectives on a group of texts that address the difficulty of expressing God and visionary experience with words. The volume?s global purpose is to demonstrate the attractions of an explicitly philological approach for scholars studying the Christian tradition. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ? Rory G. Critten and Juliette Vuille Part One. Other Words: Figures and Metaphors 1. Holy Infirmary and Holy Holism in The Conventual Life Of Helfta ? Nao Kukita Yoshikawa 2. Wandering in Late Medieval Devotional Literature ? Diana Denissen 3. Imagination, Affects, and the Curative Power of Words in a Fifteenth-Century Adaptation Of William Flete?s De Remediis Contra Temptacione ? Ana Rita Parreiras Reis 4. Walter Hilton?s Epistola de leccione, intencione, meditacione, oracione et aliis: a translation ? Marleen Cr and Francesco Livorno 5. Listening to the Words of Margery Kempe in the Early Printed Texts of A Short Treatise Of Contemplation ? Elisabeth Dutton Part Two. Iconic Words: Images and the Name of Jesus 6. ?"Le Nom de Jhesus en la bouche plus doulz que miel": An Overlooked Fifteenth-Century Middle French Treatise ? Anne Mouron 7. Lydgate?s Multimedia Poems and Devotion to the Name of Jesus ? Mary C. Flannery 8. Blaspheming and Print in Stephen Hawes?s Conversion Of Swearers (1509) ? Marco Nievergelt Part Three. Testing Words: Semantics and Syntax 9. ?Si Heremita Dicerer?: Richard Rolle and the Status Vite Solitarie ? E. A. Jones 10. ?Privy Tuchyngs of Swete Gostly Syghts?: Reciprocal Longing in Julian Of Norwich ? Vincent Gillespie 11. Empty Words: Interjections, Emotions, and Belief in Middle English Religious Literature ? Daniel McCann 12. An Order of Words: Language and Prayer in the Wooing Group ? Annie Sutherland 13. Semantic Austerity in Petrarch?s Description of Time ? Alessandra Petrina Part Four. Beyond Words: The Apophatic and the Senses 14. Body and Mind, Affect and Cognition: Articulating Vision in The Revelations Of Divine Love of Julian Of Norwich and The Book Of Margery Kempe ? Corinne Saunders 15. The Call to Hear in Late Medieval Mystical Writings from England: Richard Rolle and Richard Methley ? Tam s Kar th 16. Intentio and the One-Syllable Prayer in The Cloud Of Unknowing ? Katherine Zieman 17. ?Fer Aboue Alle Creaturis ou?t Vn enkable?: What Reginald Pecock Did with Proving the Existence of God and Divine Infinity ? Ian Johnson Denis Renevey, An Annotated Bibliography ? Christiania Whitehead Tabula gratulatoria Index‎

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‎John Yau‎

‎Philip Taaffe‎

‎, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2018 Hardcover, 240 x 280 mm, 144 pages, richly illustrated. EN. *NEW. ISBN 9781848222632.‎

‎The first illustrated monograph to consider the entire career to date of a major US painter Taaffe's paintings are in the collections of a wide range of public museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid John Yau's perceptive text is based on many conversations with Philip Taaffe and access to the artist's extensive archive, as well as long familiarity with the work itself This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-coll , marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.‎

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‎Alger N. Doane (ed)‎

‎Werden A Glossary Edition and Commentary‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 hardback, Pages: 324 p. Size:155 x 245 mm Illustrations:4 b/w, 1 tables b/w.Language(s):Latin, English, Old English . ISBN 9782503612485.‎

‎Summary This is an edition of a key eighth century glossary, traditionally called "Werden A" after the abbey in Germany where its unique manuscript was probably written about 810, incorporating English materials of earlier date, It is one of an important set of early English glossaries usually associated with the school of Canterbury under Archbishop Theodore in the last quarter of the seventh century; this was the first important center of learning in England after the conversion to Christianity from ca. 600 and its alumni and scholarship spread out not only over England in the subsequent century but to north-east France and Germany in the so-called "Anglo-Saxon Mission" with the aim of bringing Christianity to semi-pagan lands. Such glossaries played a big part in these campaigns and strongly influenced Old High German glossaries and literature for several centuries more. Werden A shows ample signs of its career on the continent with many entries that must have originated in Frisia, France, Saxony and the Rhineland. Moreover, Werden A presents many difficult editorial challenges: it is very fragmentary, preserved as several mutilated and dispersed parts, most of which were destroyed in World War II and are only preserved in poor nineteenth century transcripts, and beyond that the text is often obscure and corrupt. This edition undertakes to reconstruct the codicology and contents of the original book before its dispersal, retrieval of the remaining text as originally written, establishment of the sources of the various items, and the deciphering and interpretation of individual entries that are often highly original and unparalleled in other glossaries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Appendix 1. Index to Vernacular Interpretants Appendix 2. Sources of Vernacular Items Critical Edition of Werden A Glossary Commentary Bibliography Indices‎

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‎Mancoff, Debra N.‎

‎Burne-Jones‎

‎, Pomegranate, 1998 Softcover, 128 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm, EN. *very good condition. ISBN 9780764906152.‎

‎Burne-Jones‎

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‎David Breuer‎

‎Pre-Raphaelite and other masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber collection‎

‎London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2003 Softcover, 316 pages, 28 x 25 cm, English text. Fine condition. ISBN 9781903973400.‎

‎Pre-Raphaelite and other masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber collection‎

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‎Daniel Thomas‎

‎Old English Poet as Reader‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 312, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503612201.‎

‎Summary Little is known about the original audiences of Old English poetry. The clearest evidence we possess for the reception of these verse texts is provided by the poets themselves, who must have been amongst the most dedicated and learned consumers of the poetic corpus to which they contributed. Thinking about how these poets read and responded to the work of their fellow practitioners can help us to recover something of the literary attitudes and expectations that governed both the production and reception of Old English poetry. The Old English Poet as Reader proposes a new approach to the study of Old English poetry which simultaneously recognizes the traditional and formulaic aspects of Old English poetry while also accepting that poets working within this tradition engaged in direct and sophisticated ways with individual vernacular poetic models. The extent to which this can be demonstrated from the surviving and inevitably partial record of Old English verse suggests that such strategies constituted a key feature of the vernacular tradition for both poets and audiences. Scholars have long been accustomed to thinking about Old English poets as engaged readers of their Latin textual sources. This volume argues that we must now recognize them as equally sophisticated and literary readers of their vernacular poetic sources as well. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction: Allusive Poetics and Old English Verse Chapter 2. Poetry in Pieces: Fitts and Poetic Composition in Andreas Chapter 3. Poets in Crisis: Imitation and Contrast in Andreas and Guthlac A Chapter 4. Traditional Theme and Narrative Structure: 'Sleeping after the Feast' in Beowulf and Andreas Chapter 5. What has Grendel to do with Christ? Approach Scenes in Judith and The Descent into Hell Chapter 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Mediocre: English Boethianism in Cynewulf's Juliana Chapter 7. Afterword Appendix. Five Approach Scenes Bibliography Index‎

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‎ROSENFELD, J. & SMITH, A.‎

‎John Everett Millais‎

‎Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 2008 Paperback, 112 pagina's, 29 x 24 cm, Nederlands, als nieuw. . ISBN 9789079310012.‎

‎De Victoriaanse kunst kan zich verheugen in een sterk hernieuwde belangstelling en de herontdekking van John Everett Millais (1829-1896) past hierin. Hij was de meest getalenteerde, productieve en succesvolle kunstenaar van de prerafa litische schilders, verzameld in de Prerafa litische Broederschap. Van enfant terrible ontwikkelde hij zich tot een internationale beroemdheid en tevens een slimme marketingman die zichzelf als toonbeeld van Englishness promootte. Zijn magistrale landschappen, historische figuurstukken en society portretten bezitten een geheel eigen combinatie van po zie en pathos en een onmiskenbare vitaliteit waarmee Millais zowel in zijn tijd als ook nu nog de beschouwer in vervoering weet te brengen. 'Millais is verrassend goed', Corine Vloet in NRC Handelsblad, 17 november 2007‎

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‎Chlo Houston, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Ladan Niayesh (eds)‎

‎Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660)‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 280, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503599632.‎

‎Summary As Britain's global interests expanded from the mid-sixteenth century, geographic mobility encouraged many forms of multilingual practices in English writings. Translations, lexical borrowings, and records of exchanges between travellers and far-off lands and peoples diversely registered, communicated, engaged and politicised encounters with alterity. Meanwhile, earlier continental European translations also influenced and complicated the reception of distant otherness, entailing questions of linguistic hybridity or pluralism. This volume explores some of the practices and strategies underpinning polyglot encounters in travel accounts produced, translated, or read in England, as well as in artistic and educational materials inflected by those travels. Drawing on linguistic, lexicographic, literary, and historical methodologies, the twelve chapters in this volume collectively look into the contexts and significances of textual contact zones. Particular attention is paid to uses of multilingualism in processes of identity construction, defining and promoting national or imperial agendas, appropriating and assimilating foreign linguistic capital, or meeting resistance and limits from linguistic and cultural otherness refusing to lend itself to a subjected or go-between status. Treating of indigenous languages, newly anglicized words, and new artistic and instructional materials, the volume makes the case for the vibrancy and influence of early modern English engagements with polyglossia and the need for multiple scales of approach to - and interdisciplinary perspectives on - the subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: A World of Words Ladan Niayesh, with Chlo Houston and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard Part I. Intralinguistic Communication in the Contact Zone 1. 'Ylyaovte!' English Engagements with the 'Strange' Tongues of the Far North Matthew Dimmock 2. Speaking in Tongues in Virginia: Strategies of Translation in Algonquian-English First Encounters Sophie Lemercier-Goddard 3. The Madoc Legend: Language and Race at the Dawn of the First British Empire Andrew Hadfield Part II. Producing Knowledge: Travel Writing and Translation 4. Translating Iberian Polyglossia in Richard Eden's The Arte of navigation Anna Demoux 5. 'To all gentlemen, merchants and pilots': Style and Ideology in John Florio's Two Navigations Donatella Montini 6. Englishing Strangers in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations Emily Stevenson 7. The Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Languages in Early Modern English Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Empire Anders Ingram Part III. The Stuff of Words: Material and Literary Traces 8. Linguistic Reclaimings of Persia in Early Modern Travelogues and Travel Fiction Ladan Niayesh 9. Translating Mexican Cochineal in Shakespeare's Drama Armelle Sabatier 10. Acts of Translation: The Persian Language on Stage and Page in The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607) and Mirza (1655) Chlo Houston 11. 'Why speak you this broken French when y'are a whole Englishman?': French, Travelling, Self-Satire, and Cultural Mediation in London City Comedy Asseline Sel 12. 'Their Garments variegate like ye fishes in ye Euxine sea': Fashion, Languages, and Perceptions of the Ottoman World at the Early Modern English Universities Sarah Knight Index‎

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‎Richard Dance, Sara Pons-Sanz, Brittany Schorn (eds)‎

‎Legacy of Medieval Scandinavian Encounters with England and the Insular World‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 454, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, 12 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w, 3 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503607702.‎

‎Summary The Vikings had a major and lasting impact on the English language. This volume is a unique companion to the study of Anglo-Scandinavian language contact, providing expert discussions of its contexts, backgrounds, and the considerable afterlife of its effects through the Middle Ages and down to the present day. It contains thirteen new articles by leading specialists in the fields of early medieval languages, literature, and history, specially commissioned in order to explore as wide a range as possible of the historical and cultural contexts for Anglo-Scandinavian encounters in the Viking Age and the evidence for them. These essays analyse in detail the Old Norse influence on English, offering studies of words and their meanings in their textual and literary contexts, and including lexicography, dialectology, and syntactic research; they explore findings from archaeology, inscriptions, and place-names; and they situate Anglo-Scandinavian contacts in the larger multilingual, multicultural contexts of the North Sea and Irish Sea worlds. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Conversations with Vikings Richard Dance, Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Brittany Schorn Section A. Meeting, Talking, Writing: Identity and Change in the Viking Age Two Baptisms, Some Funerals, and Other Contexts of Interaction: Vikings and the Church in England in the Late Ninth Century Lesley Abrams Scandinavian Runes in England: Dating, Distribution, and Contexts Judith Jesch Scandinavians and Verb-second in Northumbrian Old English George Walkden Ransacking the Wordhord: The Stylistic Use of Old English Lexical Borrowings in Viking Age Skaldic Poetry Nikolas Gunn Anglo-Scandinavian Contact from a Scandinavian Perspective: Ecclesiastical and Political Contacts in Norway and Iceland c. 1000-1050 Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Some Contexts for Gospatric's Writ David Parsons Section B. Finding Viking Words: The Scandinavian Legacy in the Middle Ages and Beyond The Scandinavian Influence on Irish Vocabulary: Evidence from the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) M ire N Mhaonaigh Old Norse Watery Terms in English Place-Names: A Survey of Medieval Evidence from Two Regions of England Jayne Carroll Gersum: Lexis of Old Norse Origin in the Poetry of the Middle English Alliterative Revival Brittany Schorn The Lexico-Semantic Distribution of Norse-Derived Terms in Late Middle English Alliterative Poems: Analysing the Gersum Database Sara M. Pons-Sanz Topographical Vocabulary in The Wars of Alexander Thorlac Turville-Petre Norse Borrowings in the OED: A Fresh Examination Philip Durkin The Vikings and the Victorians and Dialect Matthew Townend Index‎

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