Le Chevalier au barisel is an established part of the Old French literary canon, but up to now it has not been available in English. This translation offers a vibrant but scholarly version of the exciting short story, suitable for a wide readership including university students, scholars of associated disciplines (history, English, theology, fine arts, comparative literature, etc.) and general readers. The greatest strength of the book is the translation itself, which can be read without referen...
Text In The Community
The Text in the Community brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of "communities" of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars. The central premise of this volume is that texts do not exist in isolation. Each written work is embedded in contexts-literary, historical, geographical, social, political, and religious-and derives its meaning in part from the intersection of those contexts in the rea...
Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems - the best known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The near-literal translations are intended to facilitate understanding of the four poems - to lead readers to, rather than away from, the original texts. Th...
Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrati - In Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #517)
The 15 original essays in this volume represent only a few of the paths that Glyn Burgess's research career has taken: lays, by Marie de France and unknown authors; manuscript collections of lays and fabliaux; episodic narratives, from ancestral/ outlaw romance and Norman vernacular historiography; transformations of the Brendan legend; and authorial voice in religious texts, including Wace's. The diversity of content and approaches has created a volume which will serve both as a fitting tribute...
Saint Ephraim's Quotations From The Gospel (Texts and Studies) (Texts and Studies (First Series), #7.2)
by F. Crawford Burkitt
This book attempts to determine the Gospel text used by Ephraim, and the bearing his quotations have upon the date of the Peshitta. Ephraim is one of the figures from the Syriac-speaking Church whose name is well known in both East and West. His surviving works are by themselves as voluminous as all other remains of Syriac literature earlier than 400 AD. Ephraim's death in roughly 373 AD means that his Gospel text predates the 5th century and attests a text older than many of the extant manuscri...
Die Krone (Verse 1-12281) (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, #112)
by Heinrich Von Dem Turlin
1852 hat G.H.F. Scholl die bisher einzige Gesamtausgabe des mittelhochdeutschen Artusromans "Die Krone" (Diu crone) von ca. 30.000 Versen in Lachmannscher Manier veranstaltet (Nachdruck 1966, vergriffen). Hier wird erstmals eine kritische Edition nach dem Leithandschriftenprinzip vorgelegt, jedoch mit Beschrankung auf die in der Wiener Handschrift Nr. 2779 fortlaufend uberlieferte erste (kleinere) Halfte (die Verse 1 bis 12281). Das einzig vertretbare Editionsprinzip liess kaum eine andere Loesu...
Katharina Von Alexandrien. Verslegende VIII (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, #125)
Demosthenis Orationes IV (Oxford Classical Texts)
This volume, containing orations 41-61, is the last of four volumes intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text of Demosthenes, begun in 1901, in the light of more recent scholarship. It is based on a thorough study not only of the medieval manuscript tradition but of papyrus fragments, some of them published only in the past few years, and of quotations in other authors, many of which have not previously been used for this purpose. All this information is presented in notes in Greek...
Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007: No. 30
This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-2008, in addition to a number of contributions that were commissioned especially for the volume.
Boccaccio's collection of bawdy, comic and sometimes tragic tales, which had an enormous influence on English literature, notably on Chaucer.
