Pilgrims Speaking Angry Words: Change and Anger in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Huriye Reis

“…Medieval literature presents emotions such as anger as negative and destructive for the development of the medieval subject and society and defines anger not as a positive constructive affect but as an emotive reaction that should be suppressed, controlled or avoided. …”
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Between «domestic» and «hidden»: semantics of the adjective heimlîch and its derivatives in Gottfried von Straßburg's «Tristan» by A. D. Golovkova

“…The very idea of concealment in medieval literature is well studied, but the lexical side of the issue remains practically neglected. …”
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Dragons, witches, and sorcerers in the advocacy space of national mythology [Review: Breeva Т.N., Khabibullina L.F. 'Russian Myth' in Slavic Fantasy. Moscow, Flinta, 2016] by O.E. Osovskiy

“…The authors have traced the genetic connection of contemporary Russian fantasy with Old Slavic folklore, European medieval literature, and Western mass culture. In this context, the special emphasis has been put on J.R.R. …”
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The relationship between Islamic theology and poetry by Nasufović Sead

“…In the Eurocentric circle, the most pronounced relationship between theology and literature continues intensively in medieval literature, when the Bible becomes the paradigm according to which all other forms of human and cultural activity are determined, while in the Balkans (from the end of the 15th to the end of the 19th century) the Qur'an will also be literature of the oriental-Islamic circle. …”
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Pierre Bec et sa contribution à une typologie des genres lyriques médiévaux, questions d’histoire des sciences et d’épistémologie, entre structuralisme et pratique occitaniste... by Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs

“…Great philologist, Pierre Bec had the intelligence to embrace in a single glance the whole romance tradition, and particularly the French and Occitan medieval literatures.…”
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