medieval literature
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic Edited by Benjamin Hudson, Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. June 2012 Hardback
304pp £55.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-12083-9
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Ecofeminist Subjectivities Chaucer’s Talking Birds Lesley Kordecki, Professor of English, DePaul University, USA
This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer’s poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the ‘others’ of society. Contents: Avian Subjectivity, Genre, and Feminism / The Bestiary Portrait of the Artist in the House of Fame October 2011 Hardback
230pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11527-9
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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
The Medieval Python The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
Edited by R.F. Yeager, Professor and Chair, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of West Florida, USA and Toshiyuki Takamiya, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Keio University, Japan
Nizar F. Hermes, received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, Canada
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. March 2012 Hardback
260pp £55.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-10940-7
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Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse Edited by Jerold C. Frakes, Professor of English, SUNY Buffalo, USA Contents: Foreword; J.C.Frakes / Medieval Miscegenation: Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance; L.Ramey / Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature; M.Boyd / Prester John, Christian Enclosure and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth Century West; C.Taylor / Mapping the Muslims: Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century; D.F.Tinsley / Conflicted Coexistence: Christian-Muslim Interaction and its Representation in Medieval Armenia; S.La Porta / Don Quijote attacks his Muslim Other: The Maese Pedro Episode of Don Quijote; B.Fra-Molinero / From Medieval to Modern: the Myth of Kosovo, ‘The Turks,’ and Montenegro (a Lacanian Interpretation); Z.Zlatar / Afterword; J.Tolan October 2011 Hardback
202pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11143-1
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Contents: The Medieval Works of Terry Jones; S.Ikeda / Young Jones at Oxford 1961-62; V.A.Kolve / The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II; C.Given-Wilson / Terry Jones’s Richard II; N.Saul / Terry Jones: The Complete Mediaevalist; M.Palin / Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions; D.Pearsall / Gower’s Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis; P.Nicholson / Gower in Winter: Last Poems; R.F.Yeager / The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer’s House of Fame and Legend of Good Women; J.M.Bowers / Honi soit qui mal y pense: Adultery and Anxieties about Paternity in Late Medieval England; M.Bennett / Needy Knights and Wealthy Widows: The Encounters of John Cornewall and Lettice Kirriel, 1378-1382; W.M.Ormrod / Making Medievalism: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film; M.Driver / The Silly Pacifism of Geoffrey Chaucer and Terry Jones; W.A.Quinn / Legs and the Man: The History of a Medieval Motif; R.F.Green / Chaucer, Langland, and the Hundred Years War; D.Wallace / Jack and John: The Plowman’s Tale; P.Martin / A Prayer Roll Fit for a Tudor Prince; J.J.Thompson / Macbeth and Malory in the 1625 Edition of Peter Heylyn’s Microcosmus: A Nearly Unfortunate Tale; T.Takamiya January 2012 Hardback
288pp £52.00
234x156mm 978-0-230-11267-4
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