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Historians on Chaucer
The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales
Av Alastair Minnis, Stephen Rigby
E-bok, 2014
717 kr
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As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical ''human …
Historians on Chaucer
The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales
Av Alastair Minnis, Stephen Rigby
Häftad, 2018
795 kr
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As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human …
Historians on Chaucer
The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales
Av Stephen Rigby, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3358 kr
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As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human …
Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Av Steven F. Kruger, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
823 kr
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This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to …
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
Av Florence Percival, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
750 kr
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Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he …
Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Av James Simpson, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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In this 1995 study James Simpson examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, The Confessio Amantis (1390-3). Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of …
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Av Siân Echard, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of Monmouth is treated at length and this is the first book to put him in a context which includes other Latin histories, …
Dante and the Mystical Tradition
Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia
Av Steven Botterill, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
617 kr
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In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing …
Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature
Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
Av Edwin David Craun, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how attempts were made to portray some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive, …
The Making of Chaucer's English
A Study of Words
Av Christopher Cannon, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
898 kr
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The Making of Chaucer's English undertakes a substantial reappraisal of the place Chaucer's English occupies in the history of the English language and the language of English literature. It attacks the widespread presumption that Chaucer invented literary English and argues instead that Chaucer's …
Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages
Lollardy and Ideas of Learning
Av Rita Copeland, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how …
Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England
Av Fiona Somerset, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
635 kr
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The translation of learned Latin materials into English between around 1370 and 1410 was a highly controversial activity. It was thought likely to make available to lay audiences the authoritative and intellectual information and methods of argument previously only accessible to an educated elite - …
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Av Henry Ansgar Kelly, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy …
Editing Piers Plowman
The Evolution of the Text
Av Charlotte Brewer, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The fifty-plus extant manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to editors and readers. This 1996 book is an account of the editions of the poem which have appeared since 1550, when it was first published by the protestant reformer Robert Crowley. It examines the circumstances in …
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century
Av Sarah Spence, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without both the gap between Latinity and …
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England
Av Mary C. Erler, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, …
The Evolution of Arthurian Romance
The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart
Av Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2006
622 kr
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This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and …
Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
Av Donald Maddox, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, first published in 2000, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters …
The Early History of Greed
The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Av Richard Newhauser, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for …
Virgil in Medieval England
Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
Av Christopher Baswell, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
935 kr
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What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among different institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil's …
'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance
Av Patricia E. Grieve, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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This comparative 1997 study examines a medieval love story, Floire and Blancheflor, and shows how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and Scandinavia reworked the story from the twelfth to the sixteenth century to develop and emphasize social, political, religious and artistic goals, while …
Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
The German Tradition, 800-1300, in its European Context
Av Walter Haug, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set an agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, as found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin …
The Making of Textual Culture
'Grammatica' and Literary Theory 350-1100
Av Martin Irvine, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
973 kr
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This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates …
Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority
Av Nicholas Watson, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
879 kr
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This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. …
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages
Av Alastair Minnis, Ian Johnson
Inbunden, 2005
3427 kr
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This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it …
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages
Av Alastair Minnis, Ian Johnson
Häftad, 2009
935 kr
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This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it …
The Early History of Greed
The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Av Richard Newhauser, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1863 kr
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The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for …
Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Av Steven F. Kruger, Alastair Minnis
Inbunden, 1992
1872 kr
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This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to …
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
Av Florence Percival, Alastair Minnis
Inbunden, 1998
2097 kr
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Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he …
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Av Henry Ansgar Kelly, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1872 kr
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'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy …
