J. Allan Mitchell – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren J. Allan Mitchell. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
5 produkter
Becoming Human
The Matter of the Medieval Child
Häftad, 2014
347 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human …
Instrumentality
On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2024
1237 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplinesOpening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European …
Instrumentality
On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages
Häftad, 2024
304 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplinesOpening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European …
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower
Inbunden, 2004
1433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer …
Temple of Glas
Av John Lydgate, J Allan Mitchell
Häftad, 2007
227 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The Temple of Glas takes the form of an elusive and suspenseful-but for that reason all the more sensational-dream vision that demands close attention to detail and the dynamic way in which the meaning of events unfolds. Seducing readers with possibilities remains what the poem does best, and that …
