Product Description: Latin Culture in the Eleventh Century is a collection of approximately sixty papers presented at the Third International Conference on Medieval Latin Studies held at the University of Cambridge in September 1998. The collection embraces a wide range of fields related to Medieval Latin, including poetry, hymnology, music, theology and philosophy, historiography, and inscriptions, in addition to Latin linguistics and metrics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The portrayal of women in this romance is particularly intriguing and should provoke animated discussions of medieval women's roles. . . . The existence of this translation should incite scholars to investigate the romance more thoroughly...read more

Product Description: For most modern readers, the words 'Round Table' and 'Arthurian Romance' conjure up images of an enchanted kingdom peopled with virtous knights and damsels in distress. Some medieval texts do indeed offer such a picture, but they are decidedly in the minority...read more