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The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a p
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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different f
Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-18 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geogr
A Companion to Richard FitzRalph
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This book presents an overview together with a detailed examination of the life and ideas of a major thinker and protagonist of the first half of the fourteenth
White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
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This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues