Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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William Langland's "Piers Plowman": The C Version
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372...
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Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern li...
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$97.99$97.99 - $97.99Current price $97.99| /What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English be...
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The Essential Rumi - Reissue: A Gift for Rumi Lovers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Gift for Rumi LoversThis revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-b...
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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one an...
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Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, ...
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The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The Udhri Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clichés about...
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Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned...
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The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXIV: Manuscripts in New York City Libraries
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in five major libraries across New York, giving a full account of their provenance. This v...
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Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and p...
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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite ...
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The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political r...
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Micro Middle Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader c...
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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a ...
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Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Teaching strategies for one of the world's most widely read collections of storiesThe Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth t...
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