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12 produkter
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2013
1939 kr
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Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century …
Medieval and Early Modern Murder
Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
Inbunden, 2018
1945 kr
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Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and …
Medieval and Early Modern Murder
Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
Häftad, 2021
591 kr
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Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and …
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
Negotiations of National Identity
Inbunden, 2012
1494 kr
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A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit and no excessive relish. These needs are richly satisfied in Larissa Tracy's bold and important book. DEREK …
Women of the Gilte Legende
A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.The Gilte Legende was widely read as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the …
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
Negotiations of National Identity
Häftad, 2015
410 kr
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A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit and no excessive relish. These needs are richly satisfied in Larissa Tracy's bold and important book. DEREK …
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2019
459 kr
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Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century …
Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context
Essays in Honour of David F. Johnson
Av Larissa Tracy, Geert H.M. Claassens
Inbunden, 2022
1939 kr
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This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both …
Heads Will Roll
Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination
Inbunden, 2012
3694 kr
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The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural …
Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture
Inbunden, 2015
4166 kr
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The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which …
Treason
Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame
Inbunden, 2019
2655 kr
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The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and …
Flaying in the Pre-Modern World
Practice and Representation
Inbunden, 2017
908 kr
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The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a …
