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Concepts of demon possession and exorcism provided a outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of society. A reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

This collection critically examines translations of Boethius's "Consolatio" not only into English and German but also into Dutch, Italian, Polish, Hebrew, Greek and Korean.

New bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the 15th-century works of Jordi de Sant Jordi. Will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

The volume represents the second part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, covering categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts.

This volume is the first part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, and covers categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. This volume is a must for any scholar of the period.

3 volume set parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol I) alongside both the textual notes (Vol II, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol II, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.

The first full translation of the final book of Giovanni Villani's important "Cronica Fiorentina" - includes introduction, annotations and index.

Edition of the Latin letters of the late fifteenth-century German schoolmaster whose career spanned an era of radical curriculum reform in the arts faculties at schools and universities, where the centuries-old program of scholasticism was being replaced by a program based on the Italian studia humanitatis.

In this volume Beer demonstrates the sophisticated stylistic propensities of Early French prose, an effort long needed that does a great service to all French literary scholars.

Study of twenty-eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting.

Examines Audelay's biography, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in 'The Counsel of Conscience' to the salutations and carols that follow in the manuscript, concluding with a defense of the authorship of 'Three Dead Kings' and Fein's study of the multiple endings of the Audelay Manuscript.

Volume 1 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.

Volume 2 Part 1 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.

Volume 2 Part 2 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.