Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.
9 Ebooks by Larissa Tracy
Larissa Tracy: Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.
Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and l …
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Larissa Tracy: Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit an …
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€33.99
Larissa Tracy: Women of the Gilte Legende
The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.
This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints’ lives from the
Gilte Legende, the …
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€27.99
Larissa Tracy: Medieval and Early Modern Murder
Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.
Murder – th …
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Elizabeth Archibald & David F. Johnson: Arthurian Literature XXXII
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical is …
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Larissa Tracy: Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit and no excessive relish. These needs are richly satisfied in Larissa Tracy’s bold and important …
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€23.99
Larissa Tracy & Geert H.M. Claassens: Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context
This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, m …
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€32.99
Geert H.M. Claassens & Larissa Tracy: Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context
This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, …
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€31.23
Larissa Tracy: Flaying in the Pre-Modern World
The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.
Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethni …
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