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9 produkter
Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes: Counsel and Constraint
Inbunden, 2001
1434 kr
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Hoccleve, often considerd conventional and naive, is shown to be deeply engaged in the political and literary currents of his time.The 'new' new historicist shift from a Foucauldian modelling of the infinitely malleable instrumentation of power, in which writers like Hoccleve are inevitably …
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2021
904 kr
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This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of …
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
E-bok, 2021
410 kr
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This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of …
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
E-bok, 2021
410 kr
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This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of …
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
Häftad, 2023
427 kr
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This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of …
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Av David Clark, Nicholas Perkins
Inbunden, 2010
1498 kr
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The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary …
Medieval Romance and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2015
1498 kr
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Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or …
The Romance of the Middle Ages
Av Nicholas Perkins, Alison Wiggins
Häftad, 2012
331 kr
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From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great’s global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This book provides an engaging, scholarly and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its …
Gifts and Books
Inbunden, 2023
585 kr
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We all know about giving and receiving gifts: they can be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. Gifts are an integral part of human societies and this volume explores how, over the centuries, books and writing describe gifts in all their complexity, …
