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Describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Accessible to students and teachers by including a gloss, introduction, notes, and glossary. This text gives a great introduction to the ethos of mysticism in the middle ages.

TheEnglish tail-rhyme romance Sir Torrent ofPortingale (i.e., Portugal), a preeminent example of popular fiction fromthe end of the Middle Ages.

A romance that bears comparison to Chaucer's great works Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, is one of Lydgate's most accomplished works. In Guy of Warwick , Lydgate breaks with romance tradition, presenting the heroic English knight-pilgrim and his last great battle against the dread giant Colbrond.

This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. Incorporating glosses and introductions for each text as well as an extensive glossary, this edition is excellent for students of Middle English romance.

First vol. to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

Comprehensive collection of materials that deal with Robin Hood and such other outlaw figures as Hereward the Wake. In this text the figure of Robin can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays and romances that grew and impressed him on our fictional and historical imaginations.