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Homoeroticism and Chivalry
Discourses of Male Same-sex Desire in the 14th Century
Av R. Zeikowitz
Häftad, 2003
698 kr
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Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally …
Chaucerian Ecopoetics
Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2019
605 kr
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text combines ecocriticism with reading …
Letters of Heloise and Abelard
A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings
Inbunden, 2010
1262 kr
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The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin McLaughlin's edition is the …
Animal Languages in the Middle Ages
Representations of Interspecies Communication
Häftad, 2019
1441 kr
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The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval …
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
Collected Essays
Av Tatjana Silec, R. Chai-Elsholz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices …
On Farting
Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages
Av V. Allen
Häftad, 2010
885 kr
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
Av M. Williams
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization …
Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
Av T. Tinkle
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they …
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent
Av S. Hutton
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously …
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Medieval Studies and New Media
Av B. Bryant
Inbunden, 2010
635 kr
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This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and …
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Medieval Studies and New Media
Av B. Bryant
Häftad, 2010
635 kr
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This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and …
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author
Seeing from the Center
Av L. Holley
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to arguments that have our attention …
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
Av T. Pearman
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like …
Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature
Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy
Av J. Rider, J. Friedman
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)
Av E. Jenkins
Inbunden, 2012
793 kr
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Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature
Power, Anxiety, Subversion
Av M. Hayes
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows …
[European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
Av N. Hermes
Inbunden, 2012
1387 kr
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Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful …
Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
A New Discussion in Interarts Theory
Av C. Barbetti
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Fairies in Medieval Romance
Av J. Wade
Inbunden, 2011
1387 kr
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This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600
Av K. Terrell, M. Bruce
Inbunden, 2012
1130 kr
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The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval …
Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
Av J. Frakes
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers …
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse
Av J. Frakes, Jerold C. Frakes
Inbunden, 2011
1512 kr
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Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.
Medieval Motion Picture
The Politics of Adaptation
Av A. Johnston, M. Rouse
Inbunden, 2014
586 kr
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Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our …
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative
Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation
Av B. Findley
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
Medieval Python
The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
Av R. Yeager, T. Takamiya
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the …
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades
Av M. Bom
Inbunden, 2012
1315 kr
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This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the …
Writing Medieval Women’s Lives
Inbunden, 2012
1261 kr
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A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well …
Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle …
Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
Av S. Sheehan, A. Dooley
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and …
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