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Medieval Riddles

Medieval Riddles is a literary genre of enigmatic verse or prose compositions originating in the early medieval period, distinguished by its use of allegorical, religious, and vernacular linguistic play to articulate intellectual, moral, or theological puzzles within monastic, courtly, or pedagogical contexts.

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Lying Like Truth: Riddle, Representation and Treason in Renaissance England

Steven Mullaney · ELH · 1980 · 89 citations

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The Talking Dead: Resounding Voices in Old English Riddles

Mary Hayes · Exemplaria · 2008 · 38 citations

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The Rhetoric of Riddling in Late-Medieval England: The "Oxford" Riddles, the Secretum philosophorum, and the Riddles in Piers Plowman

Andrew Galloway · Speculum · 1995 · 36 citations

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Aldhelm's<i>Enigmata</i>and Byzantine riddles

Čelica Milovanović-Barham · Anglo-Saxon England · 1993 · 28 citations

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'Sacred and of immense antiquity’: Tolkien’s use of medieval riddles in ''The Hobbit''

Erin Sebo · Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) · 2014 · 27 citations

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  1. ES
    Erin Sebo

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  2. AG
    Andrew Galloway

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 36 citations

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  3. SM
    Steven Mullaney

    English and Foreign Languages University, India

    1 publications · 89 citations

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  4. ČM
    Čelica Milovanović-Barham

    Millersville University, United States

    1 publications · 28 citations

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  5. MH
    Mary Hayes

    1 publications · 38 citations

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  1. Millersville University

    Millersville, United States

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    1 publications

    28 citations

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  1. Anglo-Saxon England

    1 publications · 28 citations

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  2. ELH

    1 publications · 89 citations

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  3. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)

    Repository · 1 publications · 27 citations

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  4. Speculum

    1 publications · 36 citations

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  5. Exemplaria

    1 publications · 38 citations

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