search for books and compare prices
christian poetry english middle history criticism matches 62 work(s)
< previous 25 | displaying 26 to 50 | next 12 >
Jump to start at |
Cover for 9780859915076 Cover for 9780812233964 Cover for 9789004069329 Cover for 9780582225756 Cover for 9780582225749 Cover for 9780870134609 Cover for 9780802057990 Cover for 9780937191361 Cover for 9780860783824 Cover for 9780198112938 Cover for 9780773495043 Cover for 9780866980883 Cover for 9780812231090 Cover for 9780859913188 Cover for 9780889463097 Cover for 9780198117629 Cover for 9780520060067 Cover for 9780520060074 Cover for 9780582059245 Cover for 9780582016859
cover image for 9780859915076
Product Description: Purgatory has been the focus of much literary and historical attention since Jacques Le Goff's important Naissance du Purgatoire(1981), but this is the first book-length study to trace its development, reception and influence in Middle English literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780859915076 | Ds Brewer, October 1, 1997, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Purgatory has been the focus of much literary and historical attention since Jacques Le Goff's important Naissance du Purgatoire(1981), but this is the first book-length study to trace its development, reception and influence in Middle English literature.

By Steven Justice (editor) and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (editor)

Hardcover:

9780812233964 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $55.00

cover image for 9789004069329

Hardcover:

9789004069329 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $42.50

cover image for 9780582225749
Product Description: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition. x, 256 p. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. In pictorial paperback with one light crease to spine, marvellous Jonah and the Whale illustration from 13th century bible to upper...read more

Hardcover:

9780582225756 | Longman Pub Group, December 1, 1996, cover price $122.40 | About this edition: The Gawain-Poet is the name given to the northern poet who is generally accepted as the sole author of four 14th-century Gawain poems - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Patience", "Pearl" and "Cleannes".

Paperback:

9780582225749 | Taylor & Francis, February 1, 1997, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival.

cover image for 9780870134609

Hardcover:

9780870134609 | Michigan State Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $44.95

Hardcover:

9780838636824 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.00

This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach. Instead, it is written as a journey during which Langland comes to understand and believe in Christ.

Hardcover:

9780802057990 | Univ of Toronto Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach.

Paperback:

9780802076557 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $23.00

cover image for 9780937191361
Product Description: The ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A. Alford, Linda J. Clifton, Eric C. Dahl, T. P. Dolan, Richard K. Emmerson, Elton D. Higgs, David Lawton, Priscilla Martin, Derek Pearsall, and Míceál F. Vaughn.
By David C. Fowler (editor) and Miceal T. Vaughan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780937191361 | Michigan State Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A.

cover image for 9780860783824

Paperback:

9780860783824 | Variorum, July 1, 1993, cover price $40.00

cover image for 9780198112938
Product Description: Langland's Piers Plowman is a profoundly Christian poem which nevertheless has enjoyed a wide general appeal. Readers--both religious and non-religious--have been drawn by the power of Langland's fictive imagination, the rich variety of imaginary worlds in his great dream-poem...read more

Hardcover:

9780198112938 | Clarendon Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Langland's Piers Plowman is a profoundly Christian poem which nevertheless has enjoyed a wide general appeal.

cover image for 9780773495043
Product Description: This study charts and analyzes the stylistic, ideological, and human signifiers of a general crisis of rhetoric and discourse: shifting genres and resolutions; parataxis; contradiction, recycling, and repetition. The style, structure and dialogic pattern of meanings of William Langland's Piers Plowman are the starting points of an inquiry into the contradictions of cultures and societies in transition...read more

Hardcover:

9780773495043 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This study charts and analyzes the stylistic, ideological, and human signifiers of a general crisis of rhetoric and discourse: shifting genres and resolutions; parataxis; contradiction, recycling, and repetition.

cover image for 9780889463097
Product Description: This work looks at the treatment of the poem as a maze, a metaphor for the labyrinth in the life of art and belief.

Hardcover:

9780889463097 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: This work looks at the treatment of the poem as a maze, a metaphor for the labyrinth in the life of art and belief.

cover image for 9780198117629
Product Description: This is the first detailed study of four Middle English Romance poems--Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther, and Robert of Cisyle--all of which are concerned with the sin, repentance, and atonement of their heroes. Hopkins argues that the kind of penance experienced by the heroes reflects archaic traditions and views at variance with the contemporary teaching and practice of the Church...read more

Hardcover:

9780198117629 | Clarendon Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This is the first detailed study of four Middle English Romance poems--Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther, and Robert of Cisyle--all of which are concerned with the sin, repentance, and atonement of their heroes.

cover image for 9780520060074
By John A. Alford (editor)

Hardcover:

9780520060067 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780520060074 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1990), cover price $31.95

cover image for 9780582059245
Product Description: "Piers Plowman" by William Langland was written in the 14th century and is a very complex poem, which this book attempts to explain and elucidate. The approach reflects Godden's own feelings that one cannot hope to understand the poem without trying to comprehend the ways in which it developed and altered over many years and, still more, the ways in which the author's thinking developed...read more

Hardcover:

9780582059245 | Addison-Wesley, February 1, 1990, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: "Piers Plowman" by William Langland was written in the 14th century and is a very complex poem, which this book attempts to explain and elucidate.

Paperback:

9780582016859 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, January 1, 1990, cover price $31.88

< previous 25 | displaying 26 to 50 | next 12 >