Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, and of one important novel by C. S. Lewis.

Edition and translation of the first freely invented German Arthurian romance.

The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25.This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "e;typical"e; of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late JacobeanChurch. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively engagedconformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.

A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval.

An investigation of the depiction of warfare in contemporary writings, in both fictional narratives and factual accounts.

First full-length study in English of the Middle Dutch Lancelot-Compilation, of great significance for Arthurian studies.

Articles on comedy in Arthurian romance - French, Dutch, Italian, Scottish and English.

First edition of 10th-century compendium of grammatical lore, second only in importance to AElfric's own Grammar.

Latest update of essential Arthurian resource.

Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary cultural world.

The first study to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of the legend of St Helena, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England onwards.

Fifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence.

Ambiguity, present in all aspects of the poem, is seen as central to Milton's authorial intentions.

Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century.

Wide-ranging survey of a neglected but significant early German version of the Lancelot legend.

New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

A study of the structure of the Morte, focusing on Malory's adaptation, as both redactor and translator, of traditional Arthurian material.

Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods.

`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the "grete bokes" of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.

MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows on with examination of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'

Seminal essays on one of the most crucial issues in Arthurian studies.

Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.

Literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costumes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, and his methods of characterisation through costume.

Studies of the very earliest form of language which can be called English, and its later influence.

Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature.