Changes in words, changes in the world, and changes in minds: transitions between states of speaking, writing, thinking, and being are the subjects of the 14 essays in this collection, which celebrate
American and European scholars delve beneath the traditional view of courtly literature to emphasize the elements of transgression affecting love, friendship, and marriage. Courtly love, they find, wa
Scholars of literature, history, and computer science explore how modern technologies are being used to investigate the Renaissance. Their topics include a digital research community in Medieval and R
A book on turning physical materials into digital ones, for specialists in the curation of manuscripts and material culture, this anthology deals with material from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern
Continuing the expansion of early modern book owners that the previous volume began, this volume presents lists of their books by statesmen, diplomats, government officials, and estate landowners;
The study of Boethius’s medieval reception has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years, with the publication of new editions, translations, databases, and research reshaping our understanding
The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense is the first complete English translation of the poetry of Domenico di Giovanni, nicknamed il Burchiello (ca. 1404–
Beginning with Diodorus Siculus’s first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German Meisterlieder, this book explores the plethora of narratives about the ancient Babylonian queen Semiram
Her works were published posthumously; nevertheless Bigolina was one of the first women to produce prose fiction in Italian. She very nearly stood alone because she wrote of love, a topic sure to resu
The romans d’antiquité, medieval re-makings in French of the stories of Troy, Thebes, Greece, and Rome, first appeared in the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the twelfth century and cont
Incorporating advances in historical linguistics but aimed at teachers and students of poetry, Chaucer’s Verse Art in its European Context argues that between 1378 and 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer used his k
Sir Paul Rycaut (1629–1700) was a diplomat, poet, translator and administrator. His Present State of the Ottoman Empire was the most important and influential work on its topic produced by an Englishm
The Henry VIII Manuscript contributes considerably to our critical understanding of the connections between poetry and power in early Renaissance society?—?because of the prominence of its chief autho
Most scholars find Snorri Sturluson's (1197-1241) Heimskringla to be a compilation of sagas concerning Norwegian kings from their mythical origin to Magnus Erlingsson, and to have been fairly impartia
Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Caesar (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS. A IV 5) This edition makes available for the fir
