Dr Anke Bernau is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester
67 Ebooks by Anke Bernau
Eva von Contzen & Anke Bernau: Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than …
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€134.99
Anke Bernau & Eva von Contzen: Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than …
EPUB
English
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€99.81
Anke Bernau & Bettina Bildhauer: Medieval film
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create …
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English
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€26.99
Ladan Niayesh: A knight’s legacy
The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle-Ages. Translated into many European languages and widely circulating in both manuscript and …
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English
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€134.99
Gillian Rudd: Greenery
Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called ‘green’ terms, reflecti …
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English
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€27.99
Eva von Contzen: The Scottish Legendary
This study places the Scottish compilation of saints’ legends within the hagiographic landscape of medieval …
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English
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€134.99
Helen Barr: Transporting Chaucer
This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others. Chaucer …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
Susannah Crowder: Performing women
This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Marilina Cesario & Hugh Magennis: Aspects of knowledge
This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Mary C. Flannery: Practising shame
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Johanna Kramer: Between earth and heaven
Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is tran …
EPUB
English
DRM
€46.99
Laura Varnam: The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
Joshua Davies: Visions and ruins
Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Thomas A. Prendergast & Stephanie Trigg: Affective medievalism
This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read …
EPUB
English
DRM
€34.99
Jill Fitzgerald: Rebel angels
Over six hundred years before John Milton’s
Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres …
EPUB
English
DRM
€42.99
Helen Hickey & Anne McKendry: Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Mary Raschko: The politics of Middle English parables
The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Denis Ferhatovic: Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to …
EPUB
English
DRM
€129.99
Daniel Birkholz: Harley manuscript geographies
This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England’s Welsh …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Amy C. Mulligan: A landscape of words
Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Glenn D. Burger & Rory G. Critten: Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France
This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Tim William Machan: Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Valerie Allen & Ruth Evans: Roadworks
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales, and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life …
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English
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€129.99
Mark Allen & Stephanie Amsel: Annotated Chaucer bibliography
An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and …
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English
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€129.99
Daniel Anlezark: Water and fire
Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth …
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English
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€30.99
Elisabeth Kempf & Andrew James Johnston: Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other …
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English
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€129.99
J. Anderson: Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, ‘Pearl’, ‘Cleanness’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’. It is a …
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English
DRM
€27.99
Daisy Black: Play time
This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Cary Howie: Transfiguring medievalism
Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
J. Anderson: Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, ‘Pearl’, ‘Cleanness’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’. It is a …
EPUB
English
DRM
€27.99
Sarah Salih: A Companion to Middle English Hagiography
The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages …
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English
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€23.99
Sarah Salih: A Companion to Middle English Hagiography
The Saints’ Life was one of the most popular forms of literature in medieval England. This volume offers crucial information for an understanding of the genre.
The saints were the superheroes and …
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English
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€27.99
Myra Seaman: Objects of affection
Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. …
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English
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€134.99
Nicholas Perkins: The gift of narrative in medieval England
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and …
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English
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€134.99
Myra Seaman: Objects of Affection
Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. …
PDF
DRM
€31.14
Robert J Meyer-Lee & Catherine Sanok: The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form
Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.
The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project t …
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English
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€32.99
Daniel Anlezark: Water and fire
Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth …
EPUB
English
DRM
€32.99
Anke Bernau & Bettina Bildhauer: Medieval film
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create …
EPUB
English
DRM
€27.99
James Paz: Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Nonhuman voices …
EPUB
English
DRM
€0.00
Heather Blatt: Participatory reading in late-medieval England
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book
traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading …
EPUB
English
DRM
€0.00
Megan Leitch: Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is …
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English
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€134.99
Daniel (Associate Professor of English) Birkholz: Harley Manuscript Geographies
This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England’s Welsh …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Daisy (Lecturer in English) Black: Play Time
This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Cary Howie: Transfiguring Medievalism
Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Mary C. Flannery: Practising Shame
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of …
PDF
DRM
€24.91
Jill (Assistant Professor of English) Fitzgerald: Rebel Angels
Over six hundred years before John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres …
PDF
DRM
€32.39
Mary Raschko: Politics of Middle English Parables
The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Denis (Assistant Professor) Ferhatovic: Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to …
PDF
DRM
€24.91
Nicholas Perkins: Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and …
PDF
DRM
€31.14
Amy C. (Assistant Professor) Mulligan: Landscape of Words
Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. …
PDF
DRM
€31.14
Glenn D. Burger & Rory G. Critten: Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative …
PDF
DRM
€94.66
Tim William Machan: Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Laura Kalas & Laura Varnam: Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of ‘encounter’ – textual, internal, external and performative – the …
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English
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€144.99
James Paz: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Nonhuman voices in …
PDF
DRM
€3.72
Heather Blatt: Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading …
PDF
DRM
€3.72
Helen Barr: Transporting Chaucer
This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others. …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.95
Marilina Cesario & Hugh Magennis: Aspects of Knowledge
This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews …
EPUB
DRM
€105.88
Johanna Kramer: Between earth and heaven
Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.67
Laura Varnam: The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. …
EPUB
DRM
€26.20
Joshua Davies: Visions and Ruins
Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and …
EPUB
DRM
€105.88
Thomas A. Prendergast & Stephanie Trigg: Affective Medievalism
This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read …
PDF
DRM
€26.16
Susannah Crowder: Performing Women
This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and …
EPUB
DRM
€105.88
Helen Hickey & Anne McKendry: Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries
This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Andrew James Johnston & Elisabeth Kempf: Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
…
PDF
English
DRM
€100.21
