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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2021
2017 kr
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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. …
Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches
Networks, Places, Politics
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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The Welsh Marches, a name which today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of 'blue remembered hills'. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day Mid and South Wales, and were …
The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
Av Philip Knox
Inbunden, 2022
1942 kr
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The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on …
Medieval Allegory as Epistemology
Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience
Inbunden, 2023
2181 kr
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In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential …
The Aesthetics of Melancholia
Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia
Inbunden, 2022
1582 kr
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This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving …
Reinventing Babel in Medieval French
Translation and Untranslatability (c. 1120-c. 1250)
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while …
The Middle English Book
Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500
Inbunden, 2023
1404 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It …
Poetry and the Built Environment
A Theory of the Flesh of Art
Inbunden, 2024
1356 kr
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Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to us. So it is when we read. All …
Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530
Inbunden, 2022
1599 kr
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Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that demonstrate the way in which …
Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World
Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, 2021
2017 kr
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present; accurate perception of both complex, …
John Trevisa's Information Age
Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400
Inbunden, 2021
1517 kr
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What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts from Latin into English prose. …
Graceful Narratives
Making Space and Time in Middle English Literature
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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Graceful Narratives argues that the concept of grace functions as a form of literary theory in late-medieval English texts, generating dilated, deliberative narratives that resist linear plotting and create space for alternative outcomes. Drawing on theological, legal, and courtly contexts, Davis …
Rewriting Dante
Lyric Books and Cultural Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (ca. 1290–1550)
Inbunden, 2026
1451 kr
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Rewriting Dante explores how Dante Alighieri's lyric poetry was copied, edited, and printed across manuscripts and early printed books from ca. 1290 to 1550, revealing the ways in which these processes produced a distinct cultural figure: 'Dante the lyric poet.' By tracing the material and textual …
Father Chaucer
Generating Authority in The Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, 2019
2178 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad
Av Jane Gilbert, Simon Gaunt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1599 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550
How Printers Changed Reading
Inbunden, 2020
2336 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta
Inbunden, 2019
1648 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Reading Chaucer in Time
Literary Formation in England and Italy
Av Kara Gaston
Inbunden, 2020
1935 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
The Arts of Disruption
Allegory and Piers Plowman
Inbunden, 2020
1935 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing
From Bonaventure to Luther
Av Mark Chinca
Inbunden, 2020
1582 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Angels and Anchoritic Culture in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Dante's Education
Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics
Inbunden, 2024
1385 kr
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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the democratization of citizenship. Dante …
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller
Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's Pillars of Exile and its Readers
Inbunden, 2025
1451 kr
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In 1277, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil produced a concise work of accessible religious law. This handbook, 'Amudei Golah (Pillars of Exile), began as a list of religious commandments (mitzvot) meant to be recited weekly. It was divided into seven 'pillars', drawn primarily from the limbs of the human body …
Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta
Häftad, 2024
549 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. …
Father Chaucer
Generating Authority in The Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, …
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England
Institutional Collections
Inbunden, 2025
1451 kr
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-40) is widely held as the single most significant event in England's history of the destruction and loss of medieval manuscripts. Despite this consensus, the ultimate impact of the Dissolution - and of medieval manuscript destruction during the centuries …
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England
Av Erica Weaver
Inbunden, 2025
1336 kr
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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life. Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the monastic communities at the heart …
Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, c. 1400–1680
Av Cathy Shrank
Inbunden, 2026
1959 kr
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This book is the first major study of dialogue in England from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century: a 'golden age' of dialogue, and a crucial period for its development. The spread of humanist education placed a premium on classical forms (including dialogue), whilst the discourse of …
