Books written by Alastair J. Minnis

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  Late-medieval Religious Texts and Their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A.I. Doyle

  One of their topics evokes a recent regretted loss to our studies , Rossell Hope Robbins , whose thesis ( 1937 ) was one of my earliest guides , to which I was sent by H. S. Bennett , my first research supervisor , whose exemplary ...

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  Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity

  Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts.

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  Historians on Chaucer: The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales

  The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey ...

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  The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, C.1830-1914

  In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary...

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  Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics

  with the pellucid title Internal Difference and Meanings in the 'Roman de la Rose';68 Sarah Kay finds it full of 'play in the sense of space for movement: instability; uncertainty';69 while Simon Gaunt suggests that its openness to the ...

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  Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages

  Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.

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  Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism

  29 The New Critical elevation of the verbal icon did indeed leave textual critics in an awkward position . ... compromised by their disregard of textual criticism , see Hershel Parker , Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons , Literary Authority ...

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  Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin

  In emulation of Professor Eamonn O Carragain, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell...

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  Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe

  ... Medieval Historical Writing in Yorkshire , pp . 114–15 . 12 The Anonimalle Chronicle , 1307 to 1334 , from Brotherton Collection MS 29 , ed . W. R. Childs and J. Taylor , Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 147 ( Leeds , 1991 ) ...

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  Medieval Theology and the Natural Body

  This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body, Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995 ...

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  The Shorter Poems

  This third volume in the highly successful Oxford Guides to Chaucer series offers a much-needed introduction to Chaucer's Shorter Poems. A general chapter on the social and cultural contexts of...

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  Sources of the Boece

  The edition thus enables detailed, comparative studies of Chaucer’s use of his sources and provides additional material for assessing his understanding of Boethius’s ideas and how they figure in his other compositions.