Premodern Scotland
Premodern Scotland

Author: Joanna Martin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0198787529

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Offers fresh and ground-breaking research into themes of good self- and public governance in medieval Scottish and English literature.

The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature

Author: Philip Knox

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0192847171

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This title provides a new account of the literary history of fourteenth-century England, arguing that many of this period's most distinctive literary experiments emerge through a productive dialogue with the 'Romance of the Rose', a jointly-authored medieval French poem.

Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Middle English Legends of Women Saints

Author: Martha G Blalock

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1580444229

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Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.