Medieval Interventions – serie
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13 produkter
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 …
Nota Bene
Making Digital Marks on Medieval Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2018
1239 kr
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We stand at the cusp of an exciting moment in digital medieval studies. The advent of ubiquitously available digitized manuscripts alongside platforms that host encoded medieval texts has democratized access to the cultural heritage of the Middle Ages, and gives us the potential for greater …
Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Inbunden, 2016
1572 kr
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Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors …
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 …
Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Middle English Culture
Av Martha Rust
Inbunden, 2026
1036 kr
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In this book, Martha Rust advances a new theory of what written lists are and how they work, arguing that they signify not only as collections of words but also as series of images and things. As a consequence, lists call upon mental skills associated not only with literacy but also with numeracy, …
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 …
Multiple Scripts and Narrative
Medieval English in Conversation with Modern Japanese
Av Jacob Runner
Inbunden, 2025
1001 kr
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This book investigates the practice of mixing writing systems while composing a literary text. Through assessment of highly distinct writing contexts, it explores how the choice of script, in its own right, plays a fascinating role as a prominent narrative feature. The book’s primary focus is on …
