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  • Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

    by Edwin D. Craun ...
    Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that punctuate talk in late Middle English literature.Centering his study on readings of canonical texts, including the works of Thomas Hoccleve, the anonymous Mum and the Sothsegger, William Langland’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature

    Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker

    by Amy N. Vines, Lee Templeton, David Aers, Jessica Barr, Edwin Craun, Grace Hamman, Jessica Hines, Gina Marie Hurley, Lynn Staley0, Jessica D. Ward1, Denys Turner2, Nancy Bradlley Warren3 ...
    In pursuing how fourteenth-century English texts engage with philosophical, intellectual, and theological questions, the work of Denise N. Baker has powerfully shaped the field of medieval studies. This collection honors Baker’s legacy as a scholar and teacher by taking a fresh approach to the most salient literary, mystical, and devotional works written in late medieval England. The contributors ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

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  • Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

    Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance

    by Peter Goodrich ...
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  • From Humanism to Hobbes

    Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    Edited by Nicholas McDowell, Nigel Smith ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

    Edited by Andrew Cole, Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of ... Read more

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  • Reading Piers Plowman

    by Emily Steiner ...
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    Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Medieval Education

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    What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?, asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features of medieval education is its reliance on flogging. Throughout the period, the rod looms large in literary and artistic depictions of the schoolroom: it appears in teaching manuals, classroom exercises, and even in the iconography of ... Read more

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    Edited by Stephen Harrison ...
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