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Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780851157115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic study of the rise and flowering of heraldry 12-13c, with Arthurian references.
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Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780851157115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic study of the rise and flowering of heraldry 12-13c, with Arthurian references.
Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Busby
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 9789042017559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese articles are mainly concerned with medieval French literature, particularly those areas in which the honorand of the volume, Rupert T. Pickens, has distinguished himself: Old French Arthurian romance, Marie de France, chanson de geste, later poetry (including Villon), and the Occitan troubadour lyric. Among the contributors are some of the most significant scholars from the U.S.A., Canada, France, Switzerland, and the U.K. working in Old French studies today. The volume will be of interest to specialists in Old French, Occitan, and medieval literature generally. Some of the articles deal with relatively unknown works, and all are informed by current developments in medieval literary studies
Author: M Shepherd
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-10-16
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9004649840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. M. Woolgar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300118711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOxbow says: This fascinating study of how people understood and used their senses in the late medieval period draws on evidence from a range of literary texts, documents and records, as well as material culture and architectural sources.
Author: Francis Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1786723611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body – placed in an 'iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries – of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.
Author: International Arthurian Society
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carol Sweetenham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1351893416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received. It is a fragment of a much larger epic describing the events of the First Crusade, related to the Old French Chanson d'Antioca but with many unique features. As such it presents a double interest to scholars of both history and literature. It is a source text for the First Crusade with information not contained in any other source. It is also an early and seminal text for Occitan epic, few examples of which survive. And arguably it represents the first work of vernacular verse history in France, raising fundamental questions about the junction of epic and historiography. This is the first published edition of the text since Paul Meyer's version in 1884. It is based on the single extant manuscript of the Canso found in Roda in Northern Spain and now in Madrid, accompanied by a translation into English on facing pages. The text is supported by detailed notes and a glossary of proper names cross-referenced to all major First Crusade sources. The introduction discusses in detail the history of the text and manuscript, the value of the Canso as a historical document, and its place both within the historical tradition of the Crusade and within Occitan literary tradition and 12th-century vernacular historiography.
Author: Keith Busby
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9789051836035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Cummings
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-03-03
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780791413265
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