Garland Studies in Medieval Literature
The Legend of Guy of Warwick
1st Edition
By Velma Bourgeois Richmond
September 27, 2018
This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of ...
Learning and Persuasion in the German Middle Ages: The Call to Judgment
1st Edition
By Ernst Ralf Hintz
August 04, 2016
Augustine as a point of departureThis study examines Christian education in early vernacular texts of the German Middle Ages on the basis of Latin traditions of learning and teaching from Late Antiquity. The point of departure is Augustine's De doctrina christiana in which Augustine not only ...
Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse
1st Edition
By Paul Acker
April 27, 2016
First published in 1998. The following monograph is a revised and updated study which developed as a result of three experiences of the author: an advanced tutorial in Old English, a Fulbright year in Iceland, and a year teaching Old Icelandic. It is intended as a contribution to the ongoing ...
Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century
1st Edition
By Laurie Shepard
May 21, 2015
This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. There, traditional appeals, premised on authority and harmony, were challenged by letters in which historical circumstances functioned as an integral ...