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The Book of Memory
A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
Häftad, 2008
534 kr
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Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and …
Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Av Steven F. Kruger, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
823 kr
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This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to …
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 …
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Av Siân Echard, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of Monmouth is treated at length and this is the first book to put him in a context which includes other Latin histories, …
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, …
The Making of Chaucer's English
A Study of Words
Av Christopher Cannon, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
898 kr
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The Making of Chaucer's English undertakes a substantial reappraisal of the place Chaucer's English occupies in the history of the English language and the language of English literature. It attacks the widespread presumption that Chaucer invented literary English and argues instead that Chaucer's …
Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages
Lollardy and Ideas of Learning
Av Rita Copeland, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how …
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, …
Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
Av Huw Pryce
Häftad, 2006
916 kr
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This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy …
The Evolution of Arthurian Romance
The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart
Av Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann, Alastair Minnis
Häftad, 2006
622 kr
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This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context
Av Erik Kooper
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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This 1994 book offers insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and cultural developments of the period in which it took shape. The collection includes studies of …
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. …
Dante and the Medieval Other World
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a thorough examination of the poem in the …
The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers
Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission
Av Sylvia Huot
Häftad, 2007
879 kr
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The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important works of medieval vernacular literature. It was composed in the thirteenth century and exerted a profound influence on literature in France, England, the Netherlands and Italy for the next 200 years. In this book, Sylvia Huot investigates how …
Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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This book addresses the need for scholarly attention to the field of alternative, non-Augustinian apocalypticism and its implications for the study of Piers Plowman. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton discusses the major prophets and visionaries of such alternative traditions, who are characterised by their …
Narrative, Authority and Power
The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral. Through a study of four major works in the Chaucerian tradition (The Canterbury Tales, John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of …
Piers Plowman and the New Anticlericalism
Av Wendy Scase
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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The medieval English poem Piers Plowman is noted for its attacks on the clergy. The later fourteenth century, when the poem was written, is often thought of as an anticlerical age. This book is an extended investigation of the anticlericalism of the poem. Dr Scase challenges the usual assumption …
Dante and Difference
Writing in the 'Commedia'
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and approaches to the text associated with the work of Derrida. Dr Tambling rejects any attempt to …
