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14 produkter
In Search of the Christian Buddha
How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
Av Donald S. Lopez Jr., Peggy McCracken
Inbunden, 2014
243 kr
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The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages, and cited by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. Yet Josaphat is only remembered today because of the …
In the Skin of a Beast
Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France
Inbunden, 2017
480 kr
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In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet whether as friends or foes issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion …
In the Skin of a Beast
Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France
E-bok, 2017
933 kr
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In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion …
From Beasts to Souls
Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe
Av E. Jane Burns, Peggy McCracken
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and animal elements that allow movement between, …
Romance of Adultery
Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature
E-bok, 2013
900 kr
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Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century …
Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero
Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature
E-bok, 2010
900 kr
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In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the …
Romance of Adultery
Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature
Inbunden, 1998
790 kr
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Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century …
Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero
Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature
Inbunden, 2003
790 kr
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In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the …
Ovidian Transversions
‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Av Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2437 kr
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Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literatureMedieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s …
Ovidian Transversions
‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Av Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literatureMedieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s …
Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes
Av Zrinka Stahuljak, Virginia Greene m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1420 kr
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An exciting reassessment of the works of Chrétien, making use of modern critical theory to test orthodox opinion.This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of lively exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship …
Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Av Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken
Inbunden, 2012
1420 kr
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This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the …
Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Av Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken
Häftad, 2014
345 kr
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This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the …
Dead Lovers
Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe
Av Basil Dufallo, Peggy McCracken
Inbunden, 2007
1374 kr
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From Eurydice to Laura and beyond, dead lovers call forth powerful expressions of grief, sorrow, love, and longing. They occasion mourning and other rituals and seem to be intrinsically bound up with changing ideas of subjecthood itself. Dead Lovers explores the complex attachments to the figure of …
