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Mismapping the Underworld
Daring and Error in Dante's 'Comedy'
Av John Kleiner
Inbunden, 1994
918 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Fall of Kings and Princes
Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy
Inbunden, 1995
1178 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Unholy Grail
A Social Reading of Chrétien De Troyes's 'Conte Du Graal'
Inbunden, 1996
1113 kr
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The history of the Grail legend begins with a romance composed by Chretien de Troyes in the last decades of the twelfth century, Perceval ou Le Conte du Graal. Whereas Chretien's earlier romances explored the secular tensions generated by chivalric and courtly life, the Conte du Graal has appeared …
Medieval Venuses and Cupids
Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
Inbunden, 1996
983 kr
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Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus …
Literary History and the Challenge of Philology
The Legacy of Erich Auerbach
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 1996
974 kr
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A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the construction of literary history, on the relations between intellectual activity and political action, and …
Pursuing History
Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts
Av Ralph Hanna
Inbunden, 1996
1113 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet
The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony
Av Sylvia Huot
Inbunden, 1997
822 kr
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The motet began as a form of sacred vocal music in several parts; a cantus firmus or tenor, drawn from sacred Latin chant, served as a foundation for one or more upper voices. The French motet was a well-established form by the middle of the thirteenth century, as were bilingual motets that …
Reading Myth
Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature
Inbunden, 1997
1113 kr
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This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did …
Writing the Dead
Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition
Inbunden, 1998
845 kr
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Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin—and why have they continued—to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from …
Desire Against the Law
The Juxtaposition of Contraries in Early Medieval Spanish Literature
Inbunden, 1998
1178 kr
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The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. This book examines such contrasts in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature, arguing that medieval writers and artists subscribed to the …
Contrary Things
Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism
Inbunden, 1998
983 kr
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This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages. It moves comfortably between patristic and monastic exegesis, the Paris schools of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and …
Courtly Contradictions
The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2002
1113 kr
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Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of "courtly love"? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions, as its title indicates, by way of contradiction. Contradiction is central both …
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture
Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
Inbunden, 2002
1737 kr
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Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, …
Images of the Medieval Peasant
Inbunden, 1999
1869 kr
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The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their …
Images of the Medieval Peasant
Häftad, 1999
454 kr
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The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their …
Dante's Testaments
Essays in Scriptural Imagination
Inbunden, 1999
1958 kr
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This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"—the globe traversed by pilgrims and …
Dying for God
Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
Inbunden, 1999
1363 kr
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Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true …
Dante's Testaments
Essays in Scriptural Imagination
Häftad, 2000
475 kr
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This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"—the globe traversed by pilgrims and …
Dying for God
Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
Häftad, 1999
329 kr
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Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true …
'Begotten, not Made'
Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2000
1363 kr
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This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman period. When the Trinity …
Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama
Inbunden, 2002
1178 kr
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What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas: tenth-century Easter plays, twelfth-century Adam plays, and fifteenth- and …
'Begotten, not Made'
Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2000
371 kr
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This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman period. When the Trinity …
Space Between Words
The Origins of Silent Reading
Av Paul Saenger
Häftad, 2000
555 kr
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Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually, in a muffled voice. The text format in which thought has been presented to readers has undergone many changes in order to …
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture
Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
Häftad, 2002
454 kr
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Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, …
Artificiality of Christianity
Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism
Inbunden, 2002
911 kr
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The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercises rather than in religious emotions. Early on monasticism had developed procedures for "ruminating on" the Bible and the works of the Church …
Subject Medieval/Modern
Text and Governance in the Middle Ages
Av Peter Haidu
Häftad, 2003
507 kr
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This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation . Presenting the essence of the modern subject as resting in its subjection to specific historical …
Medieval Venuses and Cupids
Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
E-bok, 1996
1115 kr
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Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus …
