The Middle English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
Author: Vincent Dimarco
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9004490760
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A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Author: David Zuwiyya
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9004183450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.
Middle English Word Studies
Author: Louise Sylvester
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780859916066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bibliography of studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words offering evidence for word meanings. Although detailed and full bibliographies exist for Old English word studies, this is the first specifically on Middle English lexicography, focussing on studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words which offer evidence for word meanings: ante- and post-datings for the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary, missing entries and ghost words, possible proverbs, proposals for etymologies, wordplay, punning, new readingsin manuscripts and the reinterpretations of textual cruces. It first presents an annotated bibliography arranged alphabetically by author's name and date of publication; the annotations include notes on the contents and approach of each article, cross-references to related work, and references to reviews. Two indexes follow, the Index of Words, an alphabetical listing of words that have attracted significant discussion with references to the author(s), publication date and notes of pages on which the words are discussed; and an Index of Authors. The introductory section offers critical analyses of the word studies. Professor JANE ROBERTS and Dr LOUISE SYLVESTER teach atKing's College London.
The Cambridge Old English Reader
Author: Richard Marsden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 1316240320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England
Author: F. Grady
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1137123672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower. Grady also illustrates the way these figures have been used to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues.
The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages
Author: Lisa Verner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-07
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1135873062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the phenomena of monsters and marvels from the time of Pliny the Elder through the 14th century.
Old and Middle English Language Studies
Author: Matsuji Tajima
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9027237328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.
Teaching the Global Middle Ages
Author: Geraldine Heng
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2022-10-28
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1603295194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.
Pride and Prodigies
Author: Andy Orchard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780802085832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.
Holy and Noble Beasts
Author: David Salter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0859916243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt argues that through their depictions of animals, medieval writers were not only able to reflect upon their own humanity, but were also able to explore the meaning of more abstract values and ideas (such as civility, sanctity and nobility) that were central to the culture of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
