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Chronicles by Froissart Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Glyn Burgess Publisher Comments Based on the massacre in 778 of CharlemagneÆs rearguard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, The Song of Roland transforms a legendary defeat into an epic clash between Christianity and paganism. At the heart of the poem is the account of the warrior... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Histories of Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabelais/cohen Publisher Comments A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romance of Tristan and The Tale of Tristan's Madness (Penguin Classics) by Beroul Publisher Comments The legendary version of illicit and tragic passion.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) by Chrétien de Troyes Publisher Comments Fantastic adventures abound in these courtly romances: Erec and Enide, Cligés, The Knight of the Cart, The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Grail.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics) by P M Matarasso Publisher Comments Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Song of Roland (Modern Library Classics) by W S Merwin Publisher Comments The greatest surviving medieval French epic, The Song of Roland chronicles the deeds and doings of the valiant Roland, nephew to Charlemagne, who fights to his death against the Saracens. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance by Heldris Publisher Comments This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies. &#... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romancing the past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France by Gabrielle M. Spiegel Publisher Comments In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Dorothy L Sayers Publisher Comments The poem's vivid set pieces--the treason of Ganelon, the last stand of Roland at Roncesvals, Charlemagne's campaign of vengeance, and the final act of retribution--are justly famous.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Historicism #23: Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France by Gabrielle M Spiegel Publisher Comments In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women by Patricia Ann Terry Publisher Comments Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Erec and Enide by Chrétien (de Troyes) Publisher Comments Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Aucassin and Nicolete by Andrew Lang Publisher Comments Who Would List To The Good Lay Gladness Of The Captive Grey? 'tis How Two Young Lovers Met, Aucassin And Nicolete, Of The Pains The Lover Bore And The Sorrows He Outwore.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin Classics) by Marie De France Publisher Comments "Lais" are short stories in verse based on Breton tales, depicting a moment of crisis in a love relationship. These are the finest examples of the genre, written by the French poet, Marie de France, during the 12th century.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of the Duke of True Lovers (91 Edition) by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments Written in 1405, this charming tales of courtly romance follows the progress of a clandestine love affair between a young knight, the Duke, and a married noblewoman. Out hunting one day, the Duke finds himself near a castle and is invited inside to greet... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages by Eugene Vance Publisher Comments From Topic to Tale was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The transition... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $35.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rape & Writing in the "Heptameron" of Marguerite de Navarre by Patricia Cholakian Publisher Comments Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the sister of the French king François I, composed the Heptaméron as a complex collection of seventy-two novellas, creating one of the first examples of realistic, psychological fiction in... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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