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Hardcover:
9789004247055 | Brill Academic Pub, June 7, 2013, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: Wace's three hagiographical works, the Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas, are brought together here for the first time in a volume containing the original texts, the first translations into English, notes and substantial introductions.
Product Description: The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late twelfth or thirteenth century. These short narratives vary in tone and usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in an aristocratic, courtly setting...read more
Hardcover:
9781843843382 | Ds Brewer, February 21, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late twelfth or thirteenth century.
Product Description: This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the Vulgate Cycle, and the Grail Continuations...read more
Hardcover:
9780708319642 | 1 edition (Univ of Wales Pr, October 15, 2006), cover price $99.95
Paperback:
9780708321966 | Univ of Wales Pr, June 15, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages.
Product Description: This is the fourth volume of Marie de France Bibliography, following on from the original volume (1977) and the two Supplements (1986, 1997). Each volume provides full details of editions and translations of the three works normally attributed to Marie de France (the Lais, the Fables and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz), plus alphabetically arranged lists of books and articles, each accompanied by a substantial summary, and information on theses and dissertations...read more
Paperback:
9781855661547 | Tamesis Books Ltd, May 20, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This is the fourth volume of Marie de France Bibliography, following on from the original volume (1977) and the two Supplements (1986, 1997).
Product Description: The lay was a flourishing genre in the French courts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, related to romance rather as the modern short story is to the novel. Its most famous exponent is arguably Marie de France, but in addition to her twelve lays, a number of others, mainly anonymous, have also come down to us, usually referred to as Breton lays or simply as narrative lays...read more
Hardcover:
9781843841180 | Ds Brewer, April 19, 2007, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The lay was a flourishing genre in the French courts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, related to romance rather as the modern short story is to the novel.
Product Description: "The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions" deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9789004152472 | Brill Academic Pub, July 30, 2006, cover price $166.00 | About this edition: "The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions" deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'.
Product Description: In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general. One of the legend's charms is that it can be read in a number of ways: as a thinly disguised account of Irish travels and discoveries in the Atlantic, as a seafaring story in the fashion of the Irish immrama (literally 'rowings out'), or as an allegorical tale of Man's journey through life...read more
Paperback:
9780859897556 | Liverpool Univ Pr, May 5, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general.
Product Description: Wace's Roman de Rou relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Rollo (Rou) to the battle of Tinchebray. It was commissioned by Henry II as a way of both celebrating the Norman past and justifying the right of Norman rulers to the throne of England: the accounts it gives of the early life of William the Conqueror and of the battle of Hastings, which occupy a substantial portion of the work, make it a valuable historical document as well as an important work of literature...read more
Paperback:
9781843830078 | Boydell Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Wace's Roman de Rou relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Rollo (Rou) to the battle of Tinchebray.
Product Description: In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general. One of the legend's charms is that it can be read in a number of ways: as a thinly disguised account of Irish travels and discoveries in the Atlantic, as a seafaring story in the fashion of the Irish immrama (literally 'rowings out'), or as an allegorical tale of Man's journey through life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780859896566 | Liverpool Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general.
Product Description: Best known through the seafaring tale Navigatio sancti Brendani, St. Brendan still figures high on the list of possible discoverers of America. This book presents the surviving Brendan texts and the scholarly work inspired by the real and the legendary St...read more
Hardcover:
9781874045861 | Royal Irish Academy, January 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Best known through the seafaring tale Navigatio sancti Brendani, St.
Paperback:
9780140447590 | 2 edition (Penguin Classics, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.00
Product Description: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives, part-fact, part-fiction, find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all outlaws, Robin Hood. Glyn Burgess puts into modern English the two romances of the thirteenth century which relate their deeds, Li Romans de Witasse le Moine and Fouke le Fitz Waryn...read more
Hardcover:
9780859914383 | Ds Brewer, June 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives - part fact, part fiction - find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all outlaws, Robin Hood.
Paperback:
9781843841876 | Ds Brewer, April 23, 2009, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives, part-fact, part-fiction, find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all outlaws, Robin Hood.
Paperback:
9780729303934 | Ds Brewer, January 1, 1997, cover price $34.95
Paperback:
9780460875806 | Everymans Library, May 1, 1996, cover price $6.50
Product Description: This volume presents an analytical bibliography of twenty narrative lays written in French in the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries — Aristote, Conseil, Cor, Desiré, Doon, Espervier, Espine, Graelent, Guingamor, Haveloc, Ignaure, Lecheor, Mantel, Melion, Nabaret, Oiselet, Ombre, Trot, Tydorel and Tyolet —seeking to provide a complete list of the editions, translations, and substantial studies which have been devoted to them over the years...read more
Hardcover:
9780859914789 | Ds Brewer, October 1, 1995, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This volume presents an analytical bibliography of twenty narrative lays written in French in the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries — Aristote, Conseil, Cor, Desiré, Doon, Espervier, Espine, Graelent, Guingamor, Haveloc, Ignaure, Lecheor, Mantel, Melion, Nabaret, Oiselet, Ombre, Trot, Tydorel and Tyolet —seeking to provide a complete list of the editions, translations, and substantial studies which have been devoted to them over the years.
Product Description: Book by Burgess, Glyn S., Marie, De France
Hardcover:
9780820309484 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Burgess, Glyn S.
Hardcover:
9780824086374 | Taylor & Francis, November 1, 1987, cover price $56.00
Paperback:
9780729302449 | Ds Brewer, January 1, 1986, cover price $34.95
Hardcover:
9780859911764 | Ds Brewer, April 1, 1985, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: 42 papers on all aspects of court-orientated culture, ranging from the period of the earliest troubadour, William of Poitiers, in the twelfth century, to the Renaissance and beyond.
Paperback:
9780729301756 | Grant & Cutler, December 31, 1984, cover price $19.95
Product Description: The International Courtly Literature Society was founded in 1973 to foster the study of all aspects of courtly literature - an interest not limited to European medievalists, although they provide one of the society's main focuses...read more
Hardcover:
9780905205069 | Francis Cairns, December 1, 1981, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The International Courtly Literature Society was founded in 1973 to foster the study of all aspects of courtly literature - an interest not limited to European medievalists, although they provide one of the society's main focuses.
Product Description: This is the fourth volume of Marie de France Bibliography, following on from the original volume (1977) and the two Supplements (1986, 1997). Each volume provides full details of editions and translations of the three works normally attributed to Marie de France (the Lais, the Fables and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz), plus alphabetically arranged lists of books and articles, each accompanied by a substantial summary, and information on theses and dissertations...read more
Paperback:
9780729300445 | Ds Brewer, June 1, 1977, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is the fourth volume of Marie de France Bibliography, following on from the original volume (1977) and the two Supplements (1986, 1997).
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