E. L. Risden is Associate Professor of English at St. Norbert College, where he teaches medieval and Renaissance literature. He is the author of a dozen books, including Beasts of Time, Beowulf in Faithful Verse, Beowulf for Business, and The Heroes and the Gods.
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Edward L. Risden: A Living Light
A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages. In the form of a dramatic n …
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Paul Maurice Clogan: Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since …
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Risden E.L. Risden & Haydock Nickolas Haydock: Hollywood in the Holy Land
This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic cons …
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Risden E.L. Risden: Shakespeare and the Problem Play
Shakespeare’s plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the m …
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Risden E.L. Risden & Haydock Nickolas Haydock: Beowulf on Film
Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing numbe …
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Risden E.L. Risden: Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape
The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and filmmaking. Often disparaged by critics, Tolkien’s fiction created a market for the "fantasy trilogy" and hi …
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Risden E.L. Risden: Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature
A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader’s attention to the most po …
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Risden E.L. Risden: Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition
The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has si …
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Elizabeth Emery & Richard Utz: Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism. The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the 'makers’ of the Middle Ages: those who re-dis …
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Karl Fugelso: Studies in Medievalism XXI
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, …
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Jonathan Wilcox: Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature. Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of read …
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Karl Fugelso: Studies in Medievalism XIX
An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions. The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on Medi …
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Elizabeth Emery & Richard Utz: Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the 'makers’ of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural …
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€21.99
Matthew Z. Heintzelman & Barbara I Gusick: Fifteenth-Century Studies 35
Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, t …
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Karl Fugelso: Studies in Medievalism XVIII
Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores definitions o …
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E. L. Risden: On Shakespeare in Sonnets
Reader Response Theory began to take hold in the 1960s. Much like the phenomenological approach to criticism that preceded it, it allows both reader and author intentionality and conscious presence, …
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