Glyn S. Burgess Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book are the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts. For the first time researchers in Celtic, German, Latin and Romance languages and literatures have co-operated on the Brendan tradition, and they have mapped the changes in textual traditions according to different circumstances and audiences. This book will be important to those studying the influence of Celtic literature on the European Continent, and, more generally, to those interested in the versatility of textual traditions in Western Europe.

Alternate cover edition ISBN:8817165166 La Canzone di Orlando o Chanson de Roland, scritta tra il 997 e il 1130, è un poema epico appartenente al ciclo carolingio. Si basa su un piccolo avvenimento reale: la battaglia di Roncisvalle, avvenuta il 15 agosto 778, quando la retroguardia di Carlo Magno, comandata da Rolando, prefetto della Marca di Bretagna e dei suoi paladini, di ritorno da una spedizione in Spagna fu attaccata e distrutta dai baschi probabilmente alleati dei saraceni. La storia si svolge in sei giorni, la durata biblica della creazione: gli spazi e i tempi sono accorciati e bruciati, ovunque affiorano gli echi dei Vangeli. Un'opera da riscoprire poiché, come osserva Cesare Segre nell'introduzione, il lettore di oggi è forse più sensibile alla sapienza speculare dei parallelismi e alla delicatezza che affiora tra le maglie dell'austera tessitura eroica.

The leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet—the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel Matrix Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais—stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance—are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.