‎English‎

‎Lapidge, Michael & Malcolm Godden & Simon Keynes & Peter S. Baker & Carl Berkhout & Martin Biddle & Mark Blackburn & Daniel Donoghue & Roberta Frank & Richard Gameson & Helmut Gneuss & Patrizia Lendinara & Andy Orchard & Fred Robinson & Donald Scragg‎

‎ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 30‎

‎Dustjacket has a few tears along top of book. General edgewear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 30 includes: Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface; The illness of King Alfred the Great; The social context of narrative disruption in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College; 23 Psychomachia; Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts; Bibliography for 2000.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 30; 374 pages‎

‎Edwards, Robert R.‎

‎ART AND CONTEXT IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NARRATIVE Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.‎

‎Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Moderate bump to top of spine of both DJ and book. Otherwise this would be NF; A collection of essays offering original arguments in a number of areas. Papers cluster around two topics: the writing of Langland and Chaucer, and writing as historical process. These reflect Frank's own wide-ranging work. The papers contain a refreshing ideological diversity while maintaining coherence of intellectual concerns. There is a discussion of the working of memory in The Knights Tale. On debt, on Langland's Christology and on revelry, some very interesting ideas are put foward. In addition, literary contexts for the two major poets are usefully and thoroughly mapped out, and three papers illustrate how historical events and processes may be perceived in stimulatingly different ways. Included is an introduction from the editor and bibliography of Robert Worth Frank, Jnr. Contributors: ELIZABETH KIRK, C. DAVID BENSON, ANNA BALDWIN, M. TERESA TAVORMINA, MONICA McALPINE, MARY CARRUTHERS, KATHRYN L. LYNCH, CAROLYN P. COLLETTE, MARY HAMEL, PAUL STROHM, THOMAS J. HEFFERMAN, PEGGY KNAPP; 219 pages‎

‎Anderson, Judith H.‎

‎THE GROWTH OF A PERSONAL VOICE Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene‎

‎Dustjacket has a couple of small ink stains and is wavy and water stained. Book is clean and bright. ; This book examines the literary and intellectual relationships between Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene. It links those two rich and problematical poems by showing their development from a common religious and artistic matrix and by assessing their roles in the evolution of allegory. ; 256 pages‎

‎Shepherd, Geoffrey (Ed. )‎

‎ANCRENE WISSE Parts Six and Seven‎

‎Ancrene Wisse (also Ancrene Riwle) or Guide for Anchoresses is a monastic rule (or manual) for anchorite nuns, written in the early 13th century; Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies; 192 pages‎

‎Olson, Glending‎

‎LITERATURE AS RECREATION IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES‎

‎Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light soiling to DJ. Book is very slightly edgeworn. ; Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, the book makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular attitudes. It will appeal to specialists in medieval literature or history of literary criticism, historians of medicine, and students of late medieval culture. Treats works such as: Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as well as others. ; 248 pages‎

‎Olsson, Kurt‎

‎JOHN GOWER AND THE STRUCTURES OF CONVERSION A Reading of the Confessio Amantis‎

‎No d/w, outline of sticker on front cover, otherwise Fine. ; This book examines the significance of John Gower's re-creations of the cultural past in the Confessio Amantis through the stories and teachings of the confessor, Genius. Although the poem has many of the attributes of a compilation, Gower reforms material to create a range of `wise' responses to important moral questions, intended to sharpen his readers' judgment and nurture their capacity to deal with the uncertainties of the moral life. Olsson analyses the poet's conversions of old to new as an effort to inspire the moral renewal of the age. He contends that the poet sees the past as the key to the regeneration of the world. In this reading, the past, an ever-new and renewable repository of wisdom, also holds a promise for Amans, who learns that he is an old man unfit to serve in Venus's court. Thus the author perceives Gower to offer a strong, responsive and balanced moral vision to an age seemingly victimised by change. KURT OLSSON is Professor of English at the University of Idaho; this, his first book, was awarded the prestigious Fisher Prize. ; Publications of the John Gower Society; 9.75 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 275 pages‎

‎Quirk, Randolph & C. L. Wrenn‎

‎AN OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR‎

‎Dustjacket has moderate wear with large tears and a small section missing from top of spine. Book has felt marker 'x' on inner fly page. Bumping to top of back board. ; Methuen's Old English library; 166 pages‎

‎Bosworth, Joseph‎

‎A COMPENDIOUS ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY,‎

‎Corners are lightly bumped. Spine is lightly sunned. ; Top of pages are gilt. ; 278 pages‎

‎Sims, Clifford Stanley‎

‎THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICATION OF SCOTTISH SURNAMES; With a vocabulary of Christian names‎

‎Former owner's signature on flypage. Book description has been pasted to inner cover. Spine is sunned. Edgewear to spine ends. Text is clean of any marks. Else Very Good. ; First published in 1862, this book provides additional source material for the genealogical researcher. In addition to the several hundred surnames explained, there is a section of Christian names as well. ; 122 pages‎

‎Clemoes, Peter‎

‎ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 12‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving very light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three recent discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated - as a variety of oral expression and as exemplified in a particular poet's treatment of a particular Latin source. A useful summary of the present state of editorial treatment of textual properties in Beowulf is provided. As usual the concluding item is a systematic bibliography of recent work in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies - this time the publications of 1982.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 12; 0.94 x 9 x 6 Inches; 345 pages‎

‎Fowler, Roger (Ed. )‎

‎WULFSTAN'S CANONS OF EDGAR‎

‎Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to book. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages‎

‎Kabir, Ananya Jahanara; Keynes, Simon & Andy Orchard‎

‎PARADISE, DEATH AND DOOMSDAY IN ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE‎

‎Bumping to bottom of spine. Back corner is bumped. ; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 222 pages; How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr. Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the "interim paradise" or paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She determines the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory.‎

‎Casson, Stanley‎

‎GREECE AND BRITAIN‎

‎Former owner's signature (classics professor R. Shepherd) on fly page. Bumping to top board. Light shelfwear to boards. ; Looks at the fascinating relationship and mutual influence of Greece and Great Britain. Includes early voyages of Greek sailors to England to the 16th and 17th century and finally to World War I. Also looks at the revival of classical learning in England.‎

‎O'Donnell, J. Reginald (Ed. )‎

‎MEDIAEVAL STUDIES Volume XXXVI‎

‎Shelfwear and discoloration to spine. ; Contents: Absolute and the ordained powers of the Pope: an unedited text of Henry of Ghent; Stephanus Demonasterio and the Notariat at Aubenas in the Early Fifteenth Century; Trier, bibliothek des Priesterseminars Ms. 100 and the Text of Martianus Capella; Court Bishops of Alfonso VII of Leon-Castilla, 1147-1157; Roman REvolution of the eighth century: papal separation from Byzantium and alliance with the Franks; ... Bishop Robert Grosseteste; BM Ms. Arundel 43; Marchfield part of Frankish Constitution? Bibliographia Gotica. Bibliography of Writings on Gothic Language to 1972; Constabulary of Bordeaux: the accounts of John Ludham and robert de Wykford; Malory and the Chivalric Ethos. Hero of Arthur and the Emperor Lucius; Grail in Wolfram's Parzival; Nicholas of Cusa as Reformer: Papal legation to the Germanies; Problem of OE holmwudu; Liber Monstrorum and Beowulf; etc....; 1974; Vol. 36; 501 pages‎

‎Furnivall, F. J.‎

‎THE DIGBY PLAYS WITH an INCOMPLETE 'MORALITY' of WISDOM, WHO is CHRIST (PART ONE of the MacRo Moralities)‎

‎Light discoloration to spine. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light staining to top of textblock. ; Early English Text Society‎

‎Kiernan, Kevin S.‎

‎BEOWULF AND THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 303 pages; The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts. Kevin S. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost Beowulf scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization. This volume reprints Kiernan's earlier study of the manuscript, in which he presented his novel conclusions about the date of Beowulf. It also offers a new Introduction in which the author describes the value of electronic study of Beowulf, and a new Appendix that lists all the letters and parts of letters revealed by backlighting. This important volume will be a must-read not only for the scholar of early English history and literature, but for all those who are interested in practical applications of the new technologies.‎

‎Benson, C. David‎

‎CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CHAUCER'S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE AND HIS MAJOR EARLY POEMS‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Softcover book has been rebound as hardcover. ; 0.5 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 246 pages; This collection is a companion volume to that edited by Malcolm Andrew on "The Canterbury Tales", and the selection of articles and extracts is governed by the same criteria. This collection is designed as a provision for students of medieval literature. There has been no new collection in paperback of important and representative criticism of "Troilus" and the minor poems since the early 1960s. This collection shows how Chaucer criticism has developed in this century, especially over the last 25 years, and demonstrates the range of methodologies used.‎

‎Greenfield, Stanley B.‎

‎A CRITICAL HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. Remnants of paper have adhered to bottom quarter of front board. ; Gotham Library; 372 pages‎

‎Greenfield, Stanley B. & Daniel G. Calder; Lapidge, Michael‎

‎A NEW CRITICAL HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE With a Survey of the Anglo-Latin Background‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 372 pages; Contains the first survey of the complete corpus of Anglo-Latin literature of the period, expanded analyses of Old English prose texts, and an extensive bibliography keyed to the footnotes, as well as revised chapters on Old English poetry.‎

‎Wilflingseder, Walter‎

‎THE MOTIFS AND CHARACTERS IN THE GEST HYSTORIALE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY AND IN THE LAUD TROY BOOK‎

‎Minor bump at top of spine. ; Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 228 pages; Both the alliterative Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy c. 1400) and the Laud Troy Book c. 1400) , a metrical romance, deal with the lives and feats of chivalric heroes and place special emphasis on the psychological effects of love. This book is a study of the motifs in John Clerk's and the Laud-poet's narratives and of their characterization of the Trojan War's principal actors. Both writers used the same source, but their preferences for motifs and their attitudes toward the persons involved were often quite different. Thirteen illustrations, mainly from medieval Guido manuscripts, serve as a stimulus to those who want to know more about the medieval understanding of the Trojan War.‎

‎Moore, Samuel & Thomas A. Knott‎

‎THE ELEMENTS OF OLD ENGLISH Elementary Grammar and Reference Grammar‎

‎Inner cover has notes in ink. 2 pages have a couple of words in ink in margins else text is clean. Former owner's name on ffep. Boards are discolored. Edgewear to head and heel of spine. ; 211 pages‎

‎Venerable Bede; Moberly, Georgii H. (Ed. )‎

‎VENERABILIS BAEDAE HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA GENTIS ANGLORUM Historia Abbatum, Et Epistola Ad Ecgberctum, Cum Epistola Bonifacii Ad Cudberthum‎

‎Former owner's name on titlepage. Some pencil underlinings to text and fountain pen annotations to margins of about 50 pages of text. Book is solid with edgewear to top and bottom edges of spine and hinges. Minor edgewear to corners. ; English introduction with Latin text. ; 442 pages‎

‎Benson, Larry Dean (ed.)‎

‎KING ARTHUR'S DEATH The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure‎

‎Wraps have rubbing and minor soiling. Book has bumping to top of spine. Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies". Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies". Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies".; Commentary and glossary are in English. Text in Middle English. ; The Library of Literature; 257 pages‎

‎Jones, Ernest van Beurden‎

‎GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH, 1640-1800‎

‎Former owner's name on ffep. Minor browning to wraps. Light discoloration to spine. Minor edgewear. ; Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Reputation as a Historian, 1640-1700; Geoffrey of Monmouth's Reputation as a Historian, 1700-1800; Geoffrey of Monmouth and Ecclesiastical and Legal controversy, 1640-1700; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Literature, and the Historians of Literature, 1640-1800. ; University of California publications in English; 86 pages; Reprinted from University of California Publications in English, Volume 5, No. 3, pp 357-442‎

‎Borroff, Marie‎

‎SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT A Stylistic and Metrical Study.‎

‎Former owner's name on ffep. Light bumping to top corners. Minor shelfwear. Light tanning to pages. ; Yale Studies in English.; 295 pages‎