Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World: (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1938 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of medieval history and medieval literature, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines medieval history from the early Middle Ages, right up until the Reformation, as well as the effect of the medieval period on later cultures, such as the Victorians. This collection draws together books on the monarchy, medieval philosophy, religion, art, music, psychology and architecture as well as volumes on medieval archeology. The collection also brings together key volumes on medieval literature of the period, with formative works examining medieval religious literature, medieval legends and oral tradition. The collection also includes titles examining specific poems from the period such as Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pearl, as well as volumes on influential writers of the period such as Jean Froissant, John Lydgate and Margery Kempe. This collection brings back into print a collection of insightful and detailed books on the diverse medieval period and will be a must have resource for academics and students, not only of history and literature, but of anthropology, music, psychology and religion.

Table of Contents:
1. Literature and Law in the Middle Ages 2. The Writer as Liar 3. Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry 4. Medieval English Drama 5. A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 6. A History of Europe from 911 to 1198 7. Origins of English Feudalism 8. Medieval Music 9. The Protean Text 10. A History of Early Medieval Europe, 476 to 911 11. The Medieval Charlemagne Legend 12. The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart 13. Medieval Minds 14. Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric 15. The Long-haired Kings, and Other Studies in Frankish History 16. English Mediaeval Pilgrimage 17. The Law Courts of Medieval England 18. Medieval English Benedictine Liturgy 19. From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe 20. Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 21. Medieval Monarchy in Action 22. The Church in Early Irish Society 23. Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches 24. Middle English Literature 25. The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy 26. The Pearl: An Interpretation 27. The Castle in England and Wales 28. Animals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle Ages 29. Modalities in Medieval Philosophy 30. Gold was the Mortar 31. Medieval Liturgy 32. Medieval Texts and Images 33. Margery Kempe 34. Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances 35. The English Medieval Feast 36. The Later Middle Ages 37. The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature 38. John Lydgate 39. Old English and Middle English Poetry 40. The Poetry of John Lydgate 41. The Middle English Mystics 42. The Purchase of Paradise 43. The High Middle Ages, 1200-1540 44. The Norman Heritage 1055 45. The Origins of Open-field Agriculture 46. The Medieval World of Nature 47. The Medieval Foundations of England 48. Exploring Castles 49. Piers Plowman and Prophecy 50. English Justice between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215 51. Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman 52. Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages 53. Early Middle English Literature 54. The Lost Literature of Medieval England 55. The Royal Demesne in English History