Product Description: With this witty and elegant new book, one of our leading medievalists breaks new ground in fifteenth-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. Delany examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, a figure never before written on at any length, and fully explores the relations between history and literature in a particularly turbulent period in English history, a period extending from the "War of the Roses" through the "Hundred Years War...read more

  On its original publication this classic title made sense of a difficult poem for the first time and brought that poem to the center of a concern with the nature of tradition, textuality, and language that is current today.  The book forces late-medieval philosophy out of the closet and into a relation with literature, and it validates the use of contemporary methods and sensibility in literary criticism.  In Sheila Delany's view, House of Fame portrays the ambiguity of old or new communication, with skeptical fideism as the means of transcending ambiguity.  

Product Description: A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century...read more

Product Description: Sheila Delany's translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into prose, "A Legend of Holy Women" contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history...read more

Product Description: This used paperback book rates fine but not brand new. Has no wear, no markings but has very minor creasing on the corners from reading. Then we send you a confirmation e-mail. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions...read more

Product Description: Beginning with the premise that culture is contradictory and socially mediated, this study considers various topics such as heresy, alchemy and utopia, civil war and medieval language theory, in the context of medieval texts such as "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde"...read more

Examines the treatment of women and sex roles in the writings of authors ranging from Chaucer to Marge Piercy