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36 produkter
Fiore in Context, the
Dante, France, Tuscany
Av Zygmunt G. Baranski, Patrick Boyde m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
707 kr
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A record of the papers presented, and the discussions arising from them, at the International Conference on the ""Fiore"". They deal with the arguments for and against the attribution of the ""Fiore"" to Dante.
Fiore in Context, the
Dante, France, Tuscany
Av Zygmunt G. Baranski, Patrick Boyde m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2186 kr
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The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and perhaps in Dante studies: the international conference on the Fiore held at St. John's College, Cambridge, in September 1994.
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
Av Florence Percival, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
750 kr
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Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he …
Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Av James Simpson, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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In this 1995 study James Simpson examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, The Confessio Amantis (1390-3). Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of …
Dante and the Mystical Tradition
Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia
Av Steven Botterill, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
617 kr
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In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing …
Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature
Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
Av Edwin David Craun, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how attempts were made to portray some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive, …
Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England
Av Fiona Somerset, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
635 kr
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The translation of learned Latin materials into English between around 1370 and 1410 was a highly controversial activity. It was thought likely to make available to lay audiences the authoritative and intellectual information and methods of argument previously only accessible to an educated elite - …
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Av Henry Ansgar Kelly, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy …
Editing Piers Plowman
The Evolution of the Text
Av Charlotte Brewer, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The fifty-plus extant manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to editors and readers. This 1996 book is an account of the editions of the poem which have appeared since 1550, when it was first published by the protestant reformer Robert Crowley. It examines the circumstances in …
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century
Av Sarah Spence, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without both the gap between Latinity and …
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England
Av Mary C. Erler, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, …
Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
Av Donald Maddox, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, first published in 2000, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters …
The Early History of Greed
The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Av Richard Newhauser, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for …
Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy
Häftad, 2006
823 kr
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Patrick Boyde brings Dante's thought and poetry into focus for the modern reader by restoring the Comedy to its intellectual and literary context in 1300. He begins by describing the authorities that Dante acknowledged in the field of ethics and the modes of thought he shared with the great …
Virgil in Medieval England
Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
Av Christopher Baswell, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
935 kr
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What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among different institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil's …
'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance
Av Patricia E. Grieve, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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This comparative 1997 study examines a medieval love story, Floire and Blancheflor, and shows how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and Scandinavia reworked the story from the twelfth to the sixteenth century to develop and emphasize social, political, religious and artistic goals, while …
Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
The German Tradition, 800-1300, in its European Context
Av Walter Haug, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set an agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, as found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin …
Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
Häftad, 2006
897 kr
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Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vision and the emotions were understood in Dante's …
The Making of Textual Culture
'Grammatica' and Literary Theory 350-1100
Av Martin Irvine, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
973 kr
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This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates …
Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority
Av Nicholas Watson, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
879 kr
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This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. …
Cambridge Readings in Dante's Comedy
Av Kenelm Foster, Patrick Boyde
Häftad, 2011
767 kr
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Originally published in 1981, the ten essays in this collection were originally delivered as public Lecturae Dantis in the University of Cambridge. As far as possible the contributors have preserved the form of the original lectures, which combined elements of the running commentary and the …
Dante's Style in his Lyric Poetry
Häftad, 2011
879 kr
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A very close and clear description of Dante's style in those lyric poems, which can be dated with reasonable confidence. Dr Boyde explains the nature and objective of his analyses in the substantial introduction which does not assume any previous knowledge of the poems or of modern stylistic …
Dante Philomythes and Philosopher
Man in the Cosmos
Häftad, 1983
916 kr
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This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe as Dante accepted it, and explains the processes of 'creation' and 'generation' as they operate in the non-human parts of the cosmos. Dr Boyde then …
Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
Inbunden, 1993
2153 kr
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Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vision and the emotions were understood in Dante's …
The Early History of Greed
The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Av Richard Newhauser, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1863 kr
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The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for …
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Av Henry Ansgar Kelly, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1872 kr
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'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy …
Dante and the Mystical Tradition
Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia
Av Steven Botterill, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1872 kr
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In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing …
Medieval Reading
Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text
Av Suzanne Reynolds, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1704 kr
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This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's …
Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women
Reading beyond Gender
Av Rosalind Brown-Grant, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
804 kr
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Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of …
Poetry and Music in Medieval France
From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut
Av Ardis Butterfield, Alastair Minnis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2107 kr
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In Poetry and Music in Medieval France, first published in 2003, Ardis Butterfield examines vernacular song in medieval France. She begins with the moment when French song first survives in writing in the early thirteenth century, and examines a large corpus of works which combine elements of …
