Books written by Stephen A. Barney
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5: C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20
On the chivalric disguised knight see Gaffney 1931:156, Waldron 1986, Clifton 1993, and most suggestively Crane 1997, making the point that the incognito first concealed the combatant, but finally revealed the combatant as the valiant ...
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1: C Prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4
On justice and mercy as kingly virtues , see also 21.15-62n and 21.83-95n . B 139-45 : Thanne greued hym a Goliardeis ... " legis " : " Since rex [ king ] is said to have its name from ' rectification ' [ regere ] ...
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2: C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8
King, Donald. 1963. Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery. London: Arts Council. King, Donald and Santina Levey. 1993. Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. Kirk, Elizabeth. 1972.
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4: C Passus 15-19; B Passus 13-17
L carefully stops short of charging that the Jews knew that Jesus was God when they killed him, a charge that Jeremy Cohen and others have shown “became widespread in Western Europe in the thirteenth century” (Cohen 1983:2; ...
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5: C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20
The two ideas are conflated , with some confusion , in Skeat's note alluding to a case in 1363 reported by Henry Knighton , in which Edward III pardoned a man who survived hanging ( ed . Martin 1995 : 188-91 ) .
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Annotation and Its Texts
A spirited study of a neglected topic, these essays explore the character and uses of annotation from Biblical times to the present. A group of distinguished scholars investigates such subjects...
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Allegories of History, Allegories of Love
Allegories of History, Allegories of Love
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Word-hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary
This second edition of his valuable book has been completely reset in a format that improves its clarity and conciseness. Reviews of the earlier edition: "An excellent piece of work. . .