Nicholas M Howe

Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe

"In this volume, Nicholas Howe has brought together original and important essays focusing on medieval and early modern processions in Western Europe. The contributors share numerous insights that will interest scholars in anthropology, history of religion, performance history, social history, medie...

Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto Old English Studies)

With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philo...

Across an Inland Sea: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin

How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense...

Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Cultural Geography

Eminent Anglo-Saxonist Nicholas Howe explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. His elegantly written study focuses on Anglo-Saxon representations of place as revealed in a wide variety of texts in Latin an...

Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire

The Presidential Range of New Hampshire is like few places in the world. Located only 150 miles north of a major city, the range is home to beautiful alpine gardens, stunning vistas, and a carefully maintained network of hiking trails. But these same mountains can offer some of the world's worst wea...

Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World

The idea of `home' means much more than a pile of bricks and mortar but the archaeological evidence of physical structures provides valuable information about how people in the past have used the space in their houses. Similarly documentary evidence tells us much about the dispossessed. This book co...

Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historica...

Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire

Among the most dangerous mountains in the world, Mount Washington has challenged adventurers for centuries with its severe weather. From the days when gentlefolk ascended the heights in hoop skirts and wool suits to today's high-tech assaults on wintry summits, this book offers extensive and intimat...

A Critic's Notebook

Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

Home And Homelessness In The Medieval And Renaissance World

Home And Homelessness In The Medieval And Renaissance World

Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe

Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-saxon England

Beowulf