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John Skelton

John Skelton

The career of an early Tudor poet

John Scattergood

John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…
Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe

Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe

Jan Erik Rekdal & Charles Doherty, editors

This book explores the representation of the warrior in relation to the king in early north-west Europe. These essays, by scholars from the areas of Norse, Celt…
Nature and art in Dante

Nature and art in Dante

Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the ques…
Gablánach in scélaigecht
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Gablánach in scélaigecht

Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley

Sarah Sheehan Joanne Findon & Westley Follett editors

This book celebrates the career of Ann Dooley, one of Canada’s most eminent Celtic medievalists. Dooley’s colleagues at the University of Toronto, her former do…
Anglo-Saxons
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Anglo-Saxons

Studies presented to Cyril Roy Hart

Simon Keynes & Alfred P. Smyth, editors

Anglo-Saxon studies generate their fair share of healthy argument and controversy. This volume provides the latest thinking of established scholars from every a…
'I have a yong suster'
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'I have a yong suster'

Folksong, ballad and the middle English lyric

Karen Boklund-Lagopoulou

This study explores the relationship of the Middle English lyric (primarily, though not exclusively, the secular lyric) to the various forms of folksong and pop…
Dante and his literary precursors

Dante and his literary precursors

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century.

Ess…
Medieval Gaelic sources

Medieval Gaelic sources

Katharine Simms

This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical records in Latin, French, o…
George Edmund Street and the restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

George Edmund Street and the restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Roger Stalley, editor

The English architect George Edmund Street was immensely proud of his restoration of the medieval cathedral of Christ Church. He believed he had saved the build…
Wisdom and the Grail
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Wisdom and the Grail

The image of the vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of Sankgreal

Anne Marie D'Arcy

Wisdom and the Grail investigates the symbol of the Holy Grail in the Queste del Saint Graal, a branch of the Vulgate prose cycle of Arthurian romances, and Tho…