- Amphoteroglossia
- Panagiotis Roilos
- This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. Rollos investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in Byzantine society.
- Paperback 2006
- Barbarolexis
- Alexandre Leupin
- Translated by Kate M. Cooper
- Hardcover 1989
- Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature
- Ralph J. Hexter
- Paperback 1975
- The Learned and the Lewed
- Larry D. Benson
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback
- The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition
- Gísli Sigurdsson
- Translated by Nicholas Jones
- This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures.
- Paperback 2004
- Medieval Joke Poetry
- Benjamin Liu
- This book examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer. Liu shows how these jokes operate in such varied cultural contexts as the arts of augury and divination, pilgrimage, prostitution, interfaith sexuality, and medical malpractice.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Solomon and Marcolf
- Translated with commentary by Jan Ziolkowski
- Solomon and Marcolf pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition.
- Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008