The Mystical Gesture: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E.Giles 1138703923, 9781138703926

The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) [New ed.] 9781580442817, 9781580442824, 1580442811

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its

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Diz Vliegende Bîspel: Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature : Essays in Honor of Arthur Groos 9783737011570, 3737011575

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The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 28 / Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 74) 9781501518713, 9781501510014, 9781501510052, 1501518712

The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (fr

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The Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric: Scève's Délie (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) (Research in Medieval and Early Modern ... in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 72) 9781501517976, 9781501513596, 9781501513466, 150151797X

This book presents an interpretation of Maurice Scève's lyric sequence Délie, object de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 15

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Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman [1 ed.] 0822944332, 9780822944331

In the last two decades, Jewish historians worldwide have developed and refined the discussion of an “early modern” peri

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Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering 0888448252, 9780888448255

Reflecting the strong aesthetic turn in literary studies, these powerful, persuasive essays keep an eye on the seduction

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Chaucers Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) 9781501518492, 9781501514364, 9781501514043, 1501518496

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only

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Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins 1903153417, 9781903153413

A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence

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Words that Tear the Flesh: Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures 3110562111, 9783110562118, 9783110563252, 9783110562255

The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of mediev

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A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham 9781684483549

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclub

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