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New Medievalism
Av Marina S. Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
367 kr
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"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an …
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Av Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stephen G. Nichols m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
813 kr
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Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of …
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Claudia Olk
Inbunden, 2024
2893 kr
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Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and …
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Claudia Olk
Häftad, 2026
813 kr
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Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and …
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
Av Claudia Olk, Stephen G. Nichols
E-bok, 2024
935 kr
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Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and …
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
Av Claudia Olk, Stephen G. Nichols
E-bok, 2024
935 kr
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Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and …
From Parchment to Cyberspace
Medieval Literature in the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2016
1415 kr
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From Parchment to Cyberspace argues the case for studying high-resolution digital images of original manuscripts to analyze medieval literature. By presenting a rigorous philosophical argument for the authenticity of such images (a point disputed by digital skeptics) the book illustrates how …
Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in Medieval French Drama
Av Andreea Marculescu, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2018
1266 kr
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Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the medieval possessed is …
Hidden in Plain Sight
Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence
Av James O. Ward, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2019
1330 kr
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence offers the first systematic study of an important and heretofore insufficiently-studied phenomenon in Renaissance Europe. Through a close examination of a wide variety of visual and textual materials, James O. Ward …
Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book
Av Amity Reading, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2017
1330 kr
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Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book’s selection and arrangement of …
Spectral Sea
Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the …
Spectral Sea
Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz
Häftad, 2017
843 kr
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From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the …
Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority
Av John Bickley, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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In Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority, John Bickley explores the ways dreams and visions in literature function as authorizing devices, both affirming and complicating a text’s authority. After providing a framework for categorizing the diverse genres and modes of dream and vision …
Getting the Blues
Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages
Av Brian J. Reilly, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2018
1349 kr
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Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary study of medieval color. By integrating scientific and literary approaches, it revises our current understanding of how people in medieval Europe experienced color and what it meant to them. This book insists that …
Queens, Regents, Mistresses
Reflections on Extracting Elite Women’s Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources
Av Tracy Adams, Stephen G. Nichols
Inbunden, 2023
955 kr
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This book is a series of case studies reflecting on narrative primary source representations of queens, regents, and royal mistresses in medieval and early modern France. Examining stories of famous women, including Isabeau of Bavaria, Valentina Visconti, Agnès Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Eleanor of …
Whole Book
Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany
Av Stephen G Nichols, Siegfried Wenzel
Inbunden, 1996
1161 kr
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In the last few decades it has become abundantly clear how important is the "archaeology of the manuscript-book" in literary and textual scholarship. This method offers essential contexts for an editor's understanding of a manuscript, and helps to set the manuscript in the historical matrix in …
Rethinking the Medieval Senses
Heritage / Fascinations / Frames
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
772 kr
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How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? While few would question that the human senses encountered a profoundly different environment in the medieval world, two distinct and opposite interpretations of that encounter have emerged-one of high sensual intensity and one of …
Rethinking the Medieval Senses
Heritage / Fascinations / Frames
Av Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
337 kr
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How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? While few would question that the human senses encountered a profoundly different environment in the medieval world, two distinct and opposite interpretations of that encounter have emerged-one of high sensual intensity and one of …
