How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical thought.In...
This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante’s Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text.This groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long...
Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature
by Francesco Marco Aresu
Price: $65.00
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve.This original study is both...
This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary...
Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550
by Nicole R. Rice
Price: $95.00
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy...
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual...
Between 800 and 900 a new convention entered musical practice: by the end of the century the recording of musical sound using newly-invented music scripts had become standard, the meanings of those scripts familiar to many. In the history of European music this was a momentous transformation, offering new possibilities of organization and control. But the change was not accomplished quickly, nor were singers who read from books without musical notations entirely without written guidance. In Sounding the Word of God, those ways in which Carolingian scribes made instructions for readers and singers visible through script, and consequent changes in the material culture represented by books, are explored. From books of the late eighth and early ninth centuries in which chant was codified in a manner that relied heavily on unwritten knowledge, Rankin traces a path to books that attempted to record aspects of the delivery of ecclesiastical chant more...
A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet’s disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini’s marked contribution to the field.In Dante’s Multitudes, the...
Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350–1650
by Steven Rozenski
Price: $125.00
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences.For many, Martin Luther’s translation...
