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A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture.

First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages.

New essays on the unjustly neglected Pèlerinage works by de Guileville, showing in particular its huge contemporary influence.

The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume.

A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works.

Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.

A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular.

This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.

Detailed readings of four major medieval cycles.

A celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of Nancy Freeman Regalado in the field of medieval French literature.

A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period.

An exciting new approach to one of the most important texts of medieval Europe.

Modern theoretical approaches throw new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and other French texts from the Middle Ages.

A major contribution to knowledge of medieval Occitan literature.

Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field.

Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots in medieval French literature?

A sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings.

An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.

First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences.

Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.

A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.

New edition and modern English translation of the Anglo-Norman version of the story of Haveloc - one of the most popular of the Middle Ages.

New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.

This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.

An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts.

Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu.