Product Description: 'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture and its effect on medieval people...read more

Product Description: The launch of a supply chain system initiative must be preceded by an informed assessment of the changes in business strategy that will be required and their possible impact on the corporate culture. This book gives senior managers the tools they need to identify priorities, objectives, and expectations and proactively drive the process from conception to and through implementation...read more

Product Description: One of the most consistent critiques levelled against Beowulf is that it lacks a steady narrative advance and that its numerous digressions tend to complicate if not halt the poem's movement. As those passages often look backward or far ahead in narrative time, they seem to transform the poem into a meditative pastiche...read more

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Product Description: This collection features modernist and post-modernist approaches to the rhetorically inflected poetry of the middle ages. Specialists in both Continental and Chaucerian literature analyze the ways in which medieval poets engage in various literary and rhetorical problems. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world—a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values...read more

Product Description: In this book John Martti Hill views focuses on what he believes is Chaucer's organizing purpose in his writings: the exploration of truth in human experience and fictions. Through readings of many of the "Canterbury Tales" and all of Fragment 7, Hill demonstrates the deep-seated faith that always accompanies Chaucer's skepticism and shows the major place that belief and feeling have in his scale of values...read more