Medieval
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
$24.95 Add to cartThe life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes t- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691156778
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Read moreThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- Language: English
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
$20.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Lupack, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 019921509X
- Language: English
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Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
$30.00 Read moreAcclaimed for centuries as the “Father of English Literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise for his classic Canterbury Tales–and rightfully so. Still, even the greatest of a
- Author: Pugh, Tison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 17, 2024
- ISBN10: 0472133446
- Language: English
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text
$14.95 Add to cartThis is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland’s own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring inter… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Langland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555265
- Language: English
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The Vinland Sagas: The Icelandic Sagas about the First Documented Voyages Across the North Atlantic
$17.00 Add to cartThe bestselling saga of Eirik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and the first American explorers
The all-time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas are published here in a vibrant new- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140447768
- Language: English
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Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth
$20.95 Add to cartThe first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, now in paperback
Throughout his life, Josep- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1608688283
- Language: English
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Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation
$11.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed verse translation of the timeless epic tale of bravery and battle–the enduring saga of the hero Beowulf and the monster Grendel–the first true masterpiece of English literature.
“There
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Rebsamen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0060573783
- Language: English
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
$29.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English–and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old Eng- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691232741
- Language: English
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The Wife of Bath: A Biography
$49.92 Add to cartFrom the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the- Author: Turner, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691206015
- Language: English
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
$14.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English–and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old Eng- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691237182
- Language: English
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
$19.99 Add to cartThe Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the ‘image’ d
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 30, 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604702
- Language: English
