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Product Description: Varty, KennethDESCRIP_ALLOWEDVarty, Kenneth
By Kenneth Varty (editor)
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9781571817372 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Varty, KennethDESCRIP_ALLOWEDVarty, Kenneth

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9781571814227 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Varty, KennethDESCRIP_ALLOWEDVarty, Kenneth

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Product Description: The Roman de Renart is one of the most intriguing and influential literary works from the French Middle Ages. Unlike conventional texts with a single author, it is a compilation of numerous semi-independent stories which, it is believed, were composed by numerous authors over a 50-year period beginning in the 1170s...read more
By R. Anthony Lodge (editor) and Kenneth Varty (editor)
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9782877235303 | Peeters Bvba, April 1, 2001, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: The Roman de Renart is one of the most intriguing and influential literary works from the French Middle Ages.

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9789042909335 | Peeters Bvba, April 1, 2001, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: The Roman de Renart is one of the most intriguing and influential literary works from the French Middle Ages.

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Product Description: Struck by the richness of medieval animal epic on the Continent and its paucity in England until Caxton's translation from the Dutch, the author went in search of iconographic evidence of that epic in pre-Caxton England. His findings constitute a new study of the illustration of English fox lore and Reynard the Fox stories during the Middle Ages...read more
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9789053563755 | Ill edition (Amsterdam Univ Pr, June 1, 1999), cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Struck by the richness of medieval animal epic on the Continent and its paucity in England until Caxton's translation from the Dutch, the author went in search of iconographic evidence of that epic in pre-Caxton England.

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Product Description: Medieval epics are an essential point of departure for anyone interested in the study of literature. In this book, Kenneth Varty creates a fabulous resource for one of the most important medieval French epics, the "Roman de Renart", which significantly influenced later authors such as Chaucer, and eventually spread throughout the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810834354 | Scarecrow Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Medieval epics are an essential point of departure for anyone interested in the study of literature.

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Product Description: The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric. The Arthurian studies range over verse (Béroul, Chrétien, Jean Renart, the Roman de Silence) and prose (Robert de Boron, the Queste del Saint Graal, Perlesvaus, Lancelot and the Tristan), reflecting a variety of different approaches, from an examination of the legal background to the work of Béroul to an iconographical survey of hitherto undiscussed and unpublished Tristan illustrations to close textual analysis of an episode in Robert de Boron's Joseph and Merlin...read more
By Peter V. Davies (editor), Angus J. Kennedy (editor) and Kenneth Varty (editor)
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9780859912501 | Ds Brewer, June 1, 1987, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric.

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Product Description: These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chretien de Troyes to the end of the medieval period in England...read more
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9780859912273 | Ds Brewer, November 1, 1986, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E.

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