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In this new edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, David Parkinson offers editions of Henrysons Fables, The Testament of Cresseid, Orpheus and Eurydice and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson, as well as the glosses and explanatory and textual notes characteristic of Middle English Texts Series volumes. Henryson was a prominent Scottish poet writing in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. This edition serves as an excellent addition to the Scots language and late medieval Scottish poetry.

Friedrich Neumann described Thomasins Der Welsche Gast as a linguistic phenomenon without comparison within the corpus of German literature of the Hohenstaufen period. In the didactic literature of the time, Der Welsche Gast does indeed occupy a unique position ... [It] betrays the heavy hand of the clerical moralist who moves from providing the younger members of his audience with a primer for proper social etiquette in his early verses to a meticulous analysis of what he clearly viewed as the appropriate ethical code for the nobility of his time, often presented against the backdrop of a thundering condemnation of the state of contemporary affairs ... [T]he work remains a remarkable product of an important period in German literature and indeed in medieval European culture; it may be argued with considerable justification that Der Welsche Gast is the most significant didactic work of the German High Middle Ages. Unique in its own time, yet apparently valued by Thomasins contemporaries and immediately succeeding generations, it belongs very much to its own age, yet, like so much of the literature of the German Middle Ages, it touches chords in the modern reader which cannot and should not be ignored.

On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucers French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. The known authors represented in the manuscript and the texts themselves have notable associations with England and with Chaucer. And intriguingly there are fifteen lyrics each headed by the initials Ch, very likely indications of authorship, neatly inserted between rubric and text. . . . [The] rubrics, together with other substantial manuscript evidence and the intrinsic worth of the poems, make them easily the best candidates among extant French lyrics for Chaucers authorship, appropriate representatives of his French work. - from the Introduction

Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature

The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed in language which seems designed not only to express Wallaces rage and Harys antipathy but also to incite hatred of the English in his readers.

The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage. In so doing, according to the Introduction, they allow us to interrogate the traditional assumptions that shape the idea of the medieval household. The trials of marriage seem to outweigh its joys at times and, as some of these texts suggest, maintaining a sense of humor in the face of what must have been great difficulty could have been no easy task. The texts bridge generic categories. Some are obscure, written by anonymous authors; others are familiar, written by the likes of John Lydgate, John Wyclif, and William Dunbar. Taken together they suggest that, despite the fact that marriage had become a sacrament in the twelfth century and was increasingly recognized by ecclesiastical and secular authorities as a valuable social institution, it was not always a stabilizing and orderly social force.

Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the Epistle of Cupid, a free translation of Christine de Pisans Epistre au Dieu dAmour) was completed about 1402. The Regiment of Princes, written about 1410-11, was composed at a time when England was still feeling the consequences of the deposition of Richard II. Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem. For all the problems it presents, The Regiment shows that Hoccleve has strengths as a poet. At times he could be a very talented prosodist. In autobiographical sections of the poem he creates a most interesting early-modern subjectivity. He has distinctive observations to make about his time, and, in his self-critical awareness, probes the limits of what is means to be a poet writing in the wake of Chaucer.

Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels. The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone, and aesthetic quality in how they relate the iconic moments from Marys life-the Annunciation, Nativity, and her experience of Christs passion, for instance-as well as in their variety of praises for the Queen of Heaven. Taken together, the poems express the full range of a peoples effort to voice anxieties and joys through Mary. This collection will spark an excellent discussion on English spirituality, Marian devotion, and Middle English lyrical poetry.

This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volumes helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

Professor Bensons edition of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure has been long out of print. Bensons edition of these important Middle English poems is here revised and updated by Professor Edward E. Foster, taking into account recent scholarship, to once again be available and accessible to students. The romances included here are two of the best, most significant Arthurian romances in Middle English, which complement each other in terms of style and content. While the Alliterative Morte Arthure belongs to the Alliterative Revival movement, replete with details of fourteenth century warfare, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur represents a briefer, quicker-paced, yet more sentimental English adaptation of the French Mort Artu. This edition-with contextualizing introductions, helpful glosses, plentiful notes, and useful glossary-comprises a great introduction to Middle English Arthuriana for students of the Middle Ages.

This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.

«Esta nueva edición en un solo volumen de Viaje al Oeste viene a llenar un vacío tan enorme como la novela en sí, pues estamos hablando de todo un clásico de la literatura universal que, hasta épocas

Tudo indica que as Odes de Horácio foram um acontecimento radical que exigia muito esforço do leitor romano e estava longe de poder ser lido como um pretenso "clássico" de sua própria época. Por isso, o tradutor Guilherme Gontijo Flores quis demonstrar que, ao contrario do que o senso comum repete com frequencia, a poesia de Horacio, longe de ser um modelo de classicismo estanque e conservador, e talvez um dos grandes momentos de experimentalismo entre as letras romanas. Monumento no de uma ordem fechada, mas do proprio movimento complexo da vida, dos imperios, dos colapsos.Neste livro o leitor vai encontrar no original em latim e na traduço em portugues todas as 103 odes publicadas nos quatro livros de Carmina (que tambem poderiamos traduzir apenas por Cantos), que Horacio publicou ao longo de varios anos, seguidas do Canto secular, uma ode feita sob encomenda para ser performada por um coral nos Jogos Seculares promovidos por Augusto.Alem de recriar os metros e tentar fazer essa poesia cantar de novo, o tradutor traz aqui, ao leitor contemporaneo, um bom bocado de notas e comentarios, entre uma reflexo introdutoria aos livros e poemas, alem de notas pontuais para esclarecer questes literarias, historicas e culturais. Como acompanhamento, e possivel conferir o ensaio em e-book Uma poesia de mosaicos nas Odes de Horacio e as gravaçes musicais Outro findavel vero, tambem assinados por Guilherme Gontijo Flores, que do os desdobramentos teorico e pratico deste experimento tradutorio.

This anthology of twenty medieval tales contains a representative selection of the various kinds of short narrative in verse that were transmitted together in German manuscript collections from the later thirteenth century onwards. They include religious miracle-tales, comic tales, moral-didactic tales, and courtly tales. Considered together, they offer an insight into how medieval poets tried to entertain as well as instruct their audiences in matters of faith and everyday conduct, and just what it was that made medieval listeners (and readers) laugh. The translations have been taken from DVN vol. 5 (Deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Klaus Ridder and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler) and revised for the general reader; they are presented here for the first time with a commentary and notes.

Edición de Miguel Figueras MartíEl presente volumen de la BCRAE ofrece la Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes, en la que confluyen, a través de la mirada crítica del padre Isla, una parte de los proyectos politicos e ideologicos de reforma cultural abordados por los gobiernos de la epoca.Articulada como una burla de la oratoria sagrada heredada del barroco y propugnadora de una nueva educacion, la novela desborda sin embargo ese marco satirico y didactico y se adentra en muchos otros territorios, con propuestas de reformas politicas concretas o la reivindicacion de un lugar para España en la Republica literaria.En esta edicion, la primera que puede calificarse de critica en treinta años, Miguel Figueras ha revisado exhaustivamente la tradicion textual de la obra, atendiendo tanto a la primera edicion como al autografo de la Segunda parte, asi como a la maraña de ediciones producidas en vida de Isla, señaladas por la prohibicion del libro y los avatares de la expulsion de los jesuitas.El estudio y la copiosa anotacion esclarecen, hasta el menor matiz, el sentido politico, religioso y literario de una obra que bien puede tenerse por enciclopedia de un tiempo y de una cultura.

Edición de Javier San José LeraEl volumen 39 de la BCRAE ofrece una de las cumbres de la prosa de ideas de nuestro Renacimiento: De los nombres de Cristo. Se trata de una honda reflexión teológica que se presenta a traves de la forma dinamica y clasicista del dialogo, que fray Luis situa en la finca de la Flecha, en las afueras de Salamanca, donde un grupo de eminentes amigos aborda en todas sus dimensiones la figura de Jesucristo a partir de los nombres con que se lo designa en la tradicion patristica y eclesiastica.La presente edicion, basada en un estudio minucioso de las tres impresiones en las que intervino el autor (1583, 1585, 1587), ofrece un texto depurado, cuya detenida anotacion pone de relieve la erudicion biblica y clasica y la sabiduria teologica de fray Luis.

«Eran los mejores tiempos, eran los peores tiempos, era el siglo de la locura, era el siglo de la razón…» Situada en los comienzos de la Revolución Francesa, la historia transcurre entre dos ciudades

Una mujer embarazada baja de un tren en una estación desierta para recorrer un camino inhóspito y salvaje. Una colona se enfrenta a la soledad de su cabaña después de talar un árbol y ser derribada por una de las ramas, que la deja inmovilizada. Otra mujer ha de abandonar su casa para defenderse del ataque de un hombre, y huye con su hijo atado al pecho. Los relatos de Barbara Baynton situan a sus protagonistas en el paisaje indomito de las regiones australianas del interior, lejos de las ciudades, y las somete al aislamiento y los rigores de un entorno feroz que las obliga a luchar por su propia supervivencia dia tras dia. No hay ayuda ni compasion en la naturaleza inexplorada a la que llegan los personajes de Baynton. Sus unicos recursos son el de la resistencia, la obstinacion y la ira.

Sueño en el Pabellón Rojo es el gran clásico de la literatura china, "la novela más famosa de una literatura casi tres veces milenaria", como afirmó Borges, un libro imperecedero. El bello y trágico relato de los desvelos amorosos de Jia Baoyu y Lin Daiyu en la China del siglo xviii, en el crepusculo de un esplendor feudal que ya no es mas que un sueño, no solo constituye un abanico de todas las pasiones humanas, en el que se entremezclan dulzura y crueldad, sino que es a la vez una cronica deslumbrante de los claroscuros de la sociedad y la cultura de la China imperial. "Cada palabra me ha costado una gota de sangre", afirmo Cao Xueqin. Desde que la novela comenzara a circular en China en copias manuscritas que se vendian en ferias y mercados tras la muerte de Cao Xueqin, cuando este contaba apenas cuarenta años y se hallaba en la miseria, Sueño en el Pabellon Rojo se ha convertido en una de las obras fundamentales de la literatura universal.

Simplesmente o melhor livro daquele que é considerado o melhor autor de ficção científica de sempre.A guerra entre as duas Fundações terminou. Os vitoriosos cientistas da Primeira Fundação regressam