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8 produkter
From Beasts to Souls
Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe
Av E. Jane Burns, Peggy McCracken
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and animal elements that allow movement between, …
Bodytalk
When Women Speak in Old French Literature
Häftad, 1993
383 kr
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Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women-from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce-are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female …
Courtly Love Undressed
Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture
Häftad, 2005
401 kr
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Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love …
Sea of Silk
A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
Inbunden, 2009
920 kr
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The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from …
Courtly Love Undressed
Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture
E-bok, 2014
504 kr
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Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love …
Sea of Silk
A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
E-bok, 2014
1125 kr
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The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from …
Medieval Fabrications
Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings
Inbunden, 2005
1127 kr
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The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while …
Medieval Fabrications
Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings
Häftad, 2005
1239 kr
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The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while …
