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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Patience; And Pearl: Verse Translations by Marie Borroff Publisher Comments "These translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator's craft but are works of art in their own right."--Lee Patterson, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University.... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics) by A C Cawley Publisher Comments The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, or, The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments "Promises to drive the green force of the old poem through the Armitage fuse and set it a-buddin' and a-bloomin' for the new millennium."'"Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate, best-selling translator of BeowulfCom posed in the late fourteenth century by an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500 by John Anthony Burrow Review "This brief but elucidating introduction makes an excellent companion to the primary Middle English texts."--Catherine S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh "The single best general introduction to the texts and contexts of Middle English. It is informative,... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Jeffery Gantz Synopsis Eleven stories of ancient Welsh origin combine myth, history, and folk legend in their accounts of heroes, quests, battles, and the triumphs of Arthur's knights.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by W. S. Merwin Publisher Comments A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text. It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Brian Stone Publisher Comments ‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Morte D'Arthur (Modern Library) by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature--from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Malory Publisher Comments From the incredible wizardry of Merlin to the undeniable passion of Sir Launcelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epic adventures with the supernatural-as well as timeless battles with our own humanity.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by W. S. Merwin Review “Wonderfully readable…Merwin’s decades of experience as a translator and his poetic intuition give him an advantage here. His Gawain is a graceful read and, at the same time, remains as true as possible to the sense and style of the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travels of Sir John Mandeville : Fantastic 14TH-century Account of a Journey To the East (06 Edition) by John Mandeville Publisher Comments Written to encourage and instruct pilgrims traveling to biblical lands, The Travels recounts Mandeville's experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, China, and "the lands beyond." Five centuries passed before the remarkably exacting accounts of events... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Arthurian Studies, #20: An Introduction to Malory by Terence Mccarthy Publisher Comments Presents in very accessible form the explanatory material which (students) will require. He is well-informed about the basic issues in Malory scholarship and criticism, and his approach is sound.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIESThis introduction to Morte... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Richard Beadle Publisher Comments A comprehensive, illustrated companion to the perennially popular drama of the English Middle Ages.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text (Oxford World's Classics) by William Langland Publisher Comments This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fab by Robert Henryson Publisher Comments The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henrysons finest poem, and one of the rhetorical... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Noter Damus by Joyce James Publisher Comments In NOTER DAMUS (note taker for Notre Dame), Joyce James chronicles an abridged version of an unorthodox world history according to The Goddess, Our Lady Mother. Civilizations subsequent to Her ancient matriarchal and pacific cultures are... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (Penguin Classics) by Giraldus Cambrensis Staff Pick Originally written as two separate works in the 12th century, the Penguin Classics edition of The Journey through Wales and The Description of Wales offers a fascinating glimpse into the daily life and culture of medieval Wales. A dynamic and well-known... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Middle English Lyrics: Authoritative Texts, Critical and Historical Backgrounds, Perspectives on Six Poems (Norton Critical Edition) by Maxwell S R Luria Publisher Comments It is the only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from MS Harley 2253, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in Brown XIV, and all the important poems given in Robbins' Secular Lyrics. In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged... (read more) List Price $25.60 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Early Irish Lyrics: 8th-12th Century by Gerard Murphy Synopsis 'Irish poetry is unique in the Middle Ages in freshness of spirit and perfection of form.' So writes Gerard Murphy in the introduction to this classic anthology. The first of the anthology's two sections contains thirty-three poems of monastic... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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