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Island Garden
England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 2012
767 kr
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For centuries England's writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the trope of Britain as an island garden …
Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 1994
515 kr
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Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions, a contextual and historical study of the Book, focuses on Kempe’s ability to construct a fiction that exploits the conventions of sacred biography and devotional prose as the means of scrutinizing the very foundations of fifteenth-century English society. Thus, …
Powers of the Holy
Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture
Häftad, 1996
601 kr
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The Powers of the Holy explores ways in which the language and images of Christian devotion in late fourteenth-century England were inextricably bound up with a variety of social and political relations. Addressing a wide range of texts, David Aers and Lynn Staley analyze the complex, shifting, and …
Shepheardes Calender
An Introduction
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 1992
606 kr
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The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a …
Following Chaucer
Offices of the Active Life
Av Lynn Staley
E-bok, 2020
1240 kr
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Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life explores three representative figures—the royal woman, the poet, and the merchant—in relation to the concept of “office,” which Cicero linked to the health of the republic, but Chaucer to that of the common good. Not usually conjoined to the term …
Following Chaucer
Offices of the Active Life
Av Lynn Staley
Inbunden, 2020
1290 kr
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Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life explores three representative figures—the royal woman, the poet, and the merchant—in relation to the concept of “office,” which Cicero linked to the health of the republic, but Chaucer to that of the common good. Not usually conjoined to the term …
Book of Margery Kempe
Second Norton Critical Edition
Häftad, 2025
198 kr
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“The only consistent thing about Margery Kempe and her Book is that they both seem fated to be made and remade, over and over, during her lifetime and afterwards. She has been a lay saint and a heretic, a dysphoric woman gendered as both mother and virgin, a mad woman and a brilliant maker, a …
Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 2005
597 kr
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In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial. Richard II, who ruled from 1377 to 1399, succeeded to …
Book of Margery Kempe
A Norton Critical Edition
Häftad, 2000
123 kr
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Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations."Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, Meditations on the Life of Christ, …
Book of Margery Kempe
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 1996
310 kr
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Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery Kempe is a tale of spiritual awakening as remarkable for the literary traditions and conventions it invokes as for how it breaks with them. As a member of the powerful guild of the Holy Trinity in the prosperous East Anglian town of Bishop's …
