Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has some shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Book has some crumpling to boards. ; Aers aims at a literary, critical response which moves from close reading of particular texts (notably Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales) to the relevant contexts, social, theological, ecclesiastical. The reader is thus able to return to the texts with an enriched and sharpened understanding of his world, and an increased appreciation of the literature at the heart of this book. ; 248 pages View More...
Early English Text Society No. 287; 233 pages; Two English versions of Aelred of Rievaulx's treatise on the ordering of the external and inner life of an anchoress, De Instututione Inclusarum, edited by John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt; includes critical introduction, select bibliography, note on the texts, notes, glossary. View More...
Light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 283; 394 pages; Once owned by the Catholic and Royalist bibliophile Sir Kenelm Digby (1603?1665) , this manuscript was among those Digby gave to Oxford University's Bodleian Library in 1634. Hence Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 lends its name to an eclectic group of religious plays that makes up one of two important late medieval dramatic anthologies (the other is the Macro Plays). View More...
Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar and taped down to book. ; Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages View More...
Vol I.1: light rubbing to DJ has caused some colour loss. Small tear to top of DJ (1 cm). Light edgewear. VG. Book has very light shelfwear NF. Vol I.2: very light shelfwear NF. No DJ. Vol. II: Fine in Fine DJ. ; Vol I.1: ISBN: 0197222773, 1976, 359 pp. Vol I.2: ISBN: 019722282X, 1980, 331 pp & Volume II: ISBN: 0197223265, 2004, 451 pp; Early English Text Society No. 275, No. 280 & No. 323; 337 pages; Dives and Pauper is an encyclopaedic prose commentary on the ten commandments, cast as a dialogue between a wealthy layman and his instructor, a poor priest, perhaps a mendicant friar. It was com... View More...
Very light bump to top of spine else Fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Early English Text Society No. 307; 368 pages; This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman, lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV, who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory, a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St. Albans Abbey. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is ... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Softcover book has been rebound as hardcover. ; 0.5 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 246 pages; This collection is a companion volume to that edited by Malcolm Andrew on "The Canterbury Tales", and the selection of articles and extracts is governed by the same criteria. This collection is designed as a provision for students of medieval literature. There has been no new collection in paperback of important and representative criticism of "Troilus" and the minor poems since the early 1960s. This collection shows how Chaucer criticism has develope... View More...
Wraps have rubbing and minor soiling. Book has bumping to top of spine. Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies". Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies". Former owner's plate on ffep & inscription "reviewed for English Studies".; Commentary and glossary are in English. Text in Middle English. ; The Library of Literature; 257 pages View More...
Bumping to spine ends. ; Third Printing 1965. Includes Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature by E. Talbot Donaldson, R. E. Kaske and Charles Donahue; Folklore Myth and Ritual by Francis Lee Utley; Classical Fable and English Poetry in the Fourteenth Century by Richard H. Green; and Chaucer and Dante by Howard Schless. ; Essays of the English Institute Series; 8.25 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 171 pages View More...
Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century. View More...
Vol. I: book has Bump to base of spine NF. DJ spine is lightly discolored with rubbing (with colour loss) VG. Vol; Vol I: 1973, 264 pp ISBN: 019722722; Vol II: 1980, 260 pp ISBN: 0197222838 ; Early English Text Society No. 270 & No. 281; Three Fifteenth-century English translations of the prose works of Alain Chartier honoured by the rhetoricians as the 'father of French eloquence' are edited here for the first time. View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. 'Write-off' has been stamped to top of textblock. Book appears unread. Very light shelfwear. ; 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 Inches; 264 pages; This is an entirely new and original reading of 'Pearl', placing the anonymous masterpiece in the context of the Cheshire coterie that flourished at the court of Richard II during the 1390s. The brilliance of its poetic construction has long been acknowledged, but here 'Pearl' is also shown to engage with the social, religious and political events of the late fourteenth century. The poem's defense of inf... View More...
A couple of pages have pencil notes and underlinings. Michael Ondaatje's name to ffep. ; Michael Ondaatje has signed the title page -- his university copy from 1964. Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient". ; 63 pages View More...
Vol I: Fine in NF DJ. Vol II: one corner bumped else Fine. NF in NF DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 019722315X, 1998, 443 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197223168, 1999, 444-941 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 311 & No. 312; 941 pages; This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is adopted from an Old French source. It covers a wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages. Volume I includes an introduction. Volume II contains the remaind... View More...
Hard bump to front bottom corner that has extended to first few pages. DJ has some edgewear with a couple of small closed tears. DJ has rubbing in places (with some colour loss). ; Early English Text Society No. 264; 273 pages View More...
Minor Shelfwear; The New Middle Ages; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches; 176 pages; Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malco... View More...
Spine browned. Traces of removed label to spine. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Pages tanned. ; Wood engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages; The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde, a beautiful widow. Brought together by Criseyde's uncle, Pandarus, the lovers are then forced apart by the events of war, which test their oaths of fidelity and trust to the limits. Described by editor Barry Windeatt as Chaucer's mo... View More...
271 pages; Contents: Part One Boethian Apocalypse: The Consolation of Philosophy; A Note on Allegory; Part Two Visions of Love and Nature: De Planctu Naturae; Roman de la Rose; Confessio Amantis; The Parliament of Fowls; Part Three: Pearl; The Book of the Duchess; The Kingis Quair; The Testament of Cresseid. View More...
Early English Text Society No. 294; 392 pages; This book brings together a wide range of late Middle English sermons distinctively "Lollard" in their intense preoccupation with the role of the preacher and the exposition of the scriptures. The work encompasses sixteen gospel sermons, an optional expansion, and the Sermon of Dead Men--a funeral sermon with a lengthy discourse on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, the Pains of Hell, and the Joys of Heaven)--in addition to introductory sections, a glossary, notes, and a two-part Index of Scriptural Texts, one sermon-by-sermon, the other alph... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor bumping to top corners. ; 337 pages; Concerned with Anglo-Norman, Latin and Middle English, and with the way in which social change-- particularly the growth of lay literacy and social mobility-- is expressed in literature. View More...
Corners are bumped. ; New Middle Ages; 224 pages; Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scott?s Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer. View More...
Very light bumping to spine ends else fine. ; New Middle Ages; 224 pages; Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scott?s Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the... View More...
Dustjacket has shelf wear and minor soiling covered in mylar. ; Author examines Chaucer's unfinished and puzzling work House of Fame, and finds its author struggling to establish a rhetorical and intellectual stance for the artist that can accomodate traditional material while reserving a skeptical attitude toward it. Skeptical Fideism is rooted and reflected in the work of thirteenth and fourteenth century philosophers such as Boetius, Siger of Barbant, William of Ockam and others. ; 134 pages View More...
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Moderate bump to top of spine of both DJ and book. Otherwise this would be NF; A collection of essays offering original arguments in a number of areas. Papers cluster around two topics: the writing of Langland and Chaucer, and writing as historical process. These reflect Frank's own wide-ranging work. The papers contain a refreshing ideological diversity while maintaining coherence of intellectual concerns. There is a discussion of the working of memory in The Knights Tale. On debt, on Langland's Christology and on revelry, some very interesting ideas are put ... View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to book. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. Dustjacket is rubbed causing some colour loss. DJ has one small tear to upper front corner (1cm) . Light edgewear. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book has been rebound as hardcover preserving original wraps. ; Introduction to Chaucer's poem of failed love amid the ruins of war. ; Twayne's Masterwork Studies, No 113; 0.5 x 8.75 x 5.5 Inches; 158 pages View More...
Former copies of Peter H. Salus with his signature on ffeps. Writing on ffep in pen in blue ink of Middle english Reader (1 line by Peter Salus). Minor shelfwear. ; 2 Volume Set. Volumes 7 & 7a. ; Bibliotheca Anglicana (Texts and Studies) ; Vol. 7, 7A; 101 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 18; 856 pages; This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text. View More...
Light bump to base of spine. Minor shelfwear. ; This edition is based on the same manuscripts as Thorpe's but the text here is improved in a number of ways; it includes the passages of Gospel translation which Thorpe omitted; it retains the manuscript punctuation, which is clear and helpful once its principles are mastered; it introduces a number of emendations based on collations of all the other manuscripts; it corrects Thorpe's errors of transcription; and an effort is made to assure that the arrangement of the homilies is closer to Aelfric's intentions. ; Early English Text Society S. S. 5... View More...
Very light shelfwear. Light knock to top of spine. ; The Ayenbite of Inwyt (literally Prick (or Remorse) of Conscience) is a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English. ; Early English Text Society No. 278; Vol. 2; 338 pages View More...
Dustjacket has a small piece missing on front panel of Dustjacket. DJ shows minor wear. ; Breaking new ground in interdisciplinary scholarship of late medieval England, this collection of essays celebrates and addresses the work of renowned medieval scholar A. G. Rigg. George Rigg's interests span medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English literature and philology; the contributors to this volume are an international group of colleagues, students, and friends of Rigg's, whose essays are as wide-ranging as Rigg's own interests. The contributions include: new editions of Middle English tex... View More...
Very minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 315; 604 pages; Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation 'drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe' in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Légende Dorée of about 1333-40, itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, completed about 1267. Of its eight surviving manuscripts, three contain additions, mostly of Lives of saints from or related to Britain, many of them deversified from the South English Legendary, but with some use of other sources. The twenty-six lives include Thomas Becket, Edmund of Abingdon, Fride... View More...
Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as ... View More...
Vol 1: very light shelfwear NF- no DJ. Vol 2: very minor shelfwear NF- no DJ. ; Vol 1: ISBN: 0197222900, 1985, xcv & 356 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197222943, 1988, 357-615 pp. ; Early English Text Society No. 288 & No. 292; 451 pages; This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le P`elerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought to be diffuse, Henry shows that this lively allegory is an intricate and effective structure stemming from the same ... View More...
Lxiii, 182 pp ; Early English Text Society No. 301; 245 pages; These two texts set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, a sermon by William Taylor, caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second, an account of the conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel, sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407. View More...
Early English Text Society Original Series; 230 pages; This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full di... View More...
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two n... View More...
Inner front hinge is cracked exposing webbing but textblock is firmly attached. Fraying to corners and spine ends. Former owner's details from Oct. 1934 on front free-endpaper. ; Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature; 167 pages View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (P. H. Salus). Minor rubbing to extremities. Light shelfwear. ; English translation of Morae Encomium by Erasmus. ; Early English Text Society No. 257; 276 pages View More...
Early English Text Society No. 308; 118 pages; This is a critical edition of the sixteenth-century translation into English of the Latin novella, the Historia de Duobus Amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The work, which was previously only accessible in an old and rare diplomatic reprint, demonstrates clearly the full impact of Italian Renaissance learning on English prose fiction. View More...
Shelfwear and discoloration to spine. ; Contents: Absolute and the ordained powers of the Pope: an unedited text of Henry of Ghent; Stephanus Demonasterio and the Notariat at Aubenas in the Early Fifteenth Century; Trier, bibliothek des Priesterseminars Ms. 100 and the Text of Martianus Capella; Court Bishops of Alfonso VII of Leon-Castilla, 1147-1157; Roman REvolution of the eighth century: papal separation from Byzantium and alliance with the Franks; ... Bishop Robert Grosseteste; BM Ms. Arundel 43; Marchfield part of Frankish Constitution? Bibliographia Gotica. Bibliography of Writings on G... View More...
