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The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography : speaking the saint
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ISBN: 0415182107 9780415182102 Year: 2000 Volume: 1 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,


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Medieval afterlives in contemporary culture
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ISBN: 135002161X 1474217281 1441102825 9781441129604 9781350021617 9781441102829 9781441160683 144116068X 9781474217286 144112960X Year: 2015 Publisher: London New York

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"With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: -- Further reading/weblinks -- 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations -- Images and interviews -- Guide to library archives and manuscript collections -- Guide to heritage collections."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography
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ISBN: 113467449X 1280334827 0203004914 0203170466 9780203170465 9780203004913 9780415182102 0415182107 9786610334827 661033482X 9781134674442 9781134674480 9781134674497 9781138867901 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.


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Medieval English romance in context
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ISBN: 1282873849 9786612873843 1441129952 9781441129956 9781847062499 1847062490 1847062504 9781847062505 9781282873841 6612873841 Year: 2010 Publisher: London : Continuum,

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Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and

Chaucer: the Canterbury tales
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ISBN: 0333739329 0333694066 9780333694060 Year: 1998 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan

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Year: 2011 Publisher: London Continuum

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Medieval afterlives in popular culture
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ISBN: 9780230337343 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,


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Geographic variation in marine invasions among large estuaries : effects of ships and time.
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Year: 2013 Publisher: S.l. Ecological society of America

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