Echard, Siân

Arthurian narrative in the Latin tradition by Siân Echard ( Book )
8 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 306 libraries worldwide
Looking at Latin Arthurian works, this book puts Geoffrey of Monmouth in a context, which includes other Latin histories, monastic chronicles, saints' lives and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. It introduces a set of texts into the Arthurian canon, and suggests a way to understand their place in that tradition.

A companion to Gower ( Book )
8 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in English and held by 302 libraries worldwide
"This Companion to Gower offers essays by scholars from Britain and North America, covering Gower's works in all three of his languages; they consider his relationships to his literary sources, and to his social, material and historical contexts; and they offer an overview of the manuscript, linguistic, and editorial traditions. Five essays concentrate specifically on the Confessio Amantis, Gower's major Middle English work, reading it in terms of its relationship to vernacular and classical models, its poetic style, and its treatment of such themes as politics, kingship, gender, sexuality, authority, authorship and self-governance. A reference bibliography, arranged as a chronology of criticism, concludes the volume."--Jacket.

Printing the Middle Ages by Siân Echard ( Book )
5 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 301 libraries worldwide
"In Printing the Middle Ages Sian Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings." "Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland."--Jacket.

The book unbound : editing and reading medieval manuscripts and texts ( Book )
5 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 251 libraries worldwide

The Latin verses in the Confessio amantis : an annotated translation by John Gower ( Book )
5 editions published in 1991 in 3 languages and held by 127 libraries worldwide

Anglo-Latin and its heritage : essays in honour of A.G. Rigg on his 64th birthday ( Book )
5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 107 libraries worldwide

The Arthur of medieval Latin literature : the development and dissemination of the Arthurian legend in medieval Latin ( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide

The Arthur of medieval Latin literature by Siân Echard ( Book )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide

Expectation and experimentation in medieval Arthurian narrative a study of Anglo-Latin, Middle English, and Middle Welsh texts by Sian Elizabeth Echard ( Book )
3 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

The Latin verses in the Confessio amantis by John Gower ( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide