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Two Medieval Mystery Plays from the York Cycle (1992 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15 +p&p

The Carpenters’ play of ‘The Resurrection’ and the Winedrawers’ play ‘Hortulanus’ ('The Gardener’: the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalen in the Garden), as performed on pageant waggons in...

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Chaucer and the Difficulty of Medieval Poetry (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between D. Pearsall and E. Salter of the University of York.

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Bestiary, The (1987 Video)

Subject

Art; Biology; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15.00 (+p&p)

The Bestiary is the standard medieval encyclopaedia of animals, laid out like a modern one with a picture of the creature accompanied by information on size, colouring, habitat, gestation periods, and other...

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Song of Roland, The (1980 Video)

Producer

Michael Bowen

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 28 min.

Introduces students to the essential story of Roland, Oliver and the battle in the pass of Roncesvals. The events are retold in English with the aid of medieval manuscript illustrations and brief excerpts...

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Search for the Lost Manuscript: Julian of Norwich

Subject

History; Literature; Religious studies

Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of Revelations of Divine Love, the first book ever written in English by a woman - Julian of Norwich, in 1373 - and kept hidden for centuries.

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That Girl from Andros (Terence in English) (198 Video)

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

The archetypal Roman comedy, the ‘Andria’ of Terence, in its earliest English verse translation (c1500) with songs and dances. Filmed at Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire.

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Some Problems in Reading the Canterbury Tales (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between P. Brown of Kent University and D. Pearsall of York University

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Apius and Virginia by ‘R B’ (198 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 87 min., 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

Based on Chaucer’s ‘Physician’s Tale’, in which a Roman father beheads his only daughter to save her from the lust of a wicked judge, this 1560’s ‘heroine’ play is a quintessentially English...

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Canterbury Tales, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Introduces Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales, featuring dramatised extracts with commentary; interpretation, comment and analysis, by Christiania Whitehead and Dr Peter Mack of the University of Warwick.

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Decameron, The (1970 Video)

aka: Decamarone, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

DVD

An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.

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