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Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs
Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Mari Hughes-Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
229 kr
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Ranging from studies of the influence of desert eremiticism upon a variety of expressions of religious enclosure in England to the sexualized spirituality of the high Middle Ages, this book contains essays that demonstrate how discourses of anchoritic enclosure were utilized to different ends at …
Medieval Virginities
Av Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
238 kr
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From Joan of Arc to Britney Spears, the figure of the virgin has been the subject of considerable scholarly and popular interest. Yet virginity itself is a paradoxical condition, both perfect and monstrous, present and absent, often visible only insofar as it is under threat. Medieval Virginities …
Shadows of Mary
Understanding Images of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts
Av Teresa Reed
Häftad, 2003
137 kr
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In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in general. Shadows of Mary analyses the figure of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts in order to …
Shadows of Mary
Understanding Images of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts
Av Teresa Reed
Inbunden, 2003
298 kr
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In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in general. Shadows of Mary analyses the figure of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts in order to …
Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages
Av Katherine Lewis, Patricia Cullum m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
272 kr
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Although studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few years. This book concentrates on this aspect of medieval gender studies, and looks at the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity …
Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group
Inbunden, 2009
769 kr
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This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wohunge Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wohunge …
Rhetoric of the Anchorhold
Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosures
Inbunden, 2008
1150 kr
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This book examines from a variety of perspectives, and offers a range of interpretations, of the type of rhetoric associated with the anchoritic experience during the Middle Ages and draws conclusions on the many purposes of that rhetoric. In particular, each chapter will aim to unravel aspects of …
Double Agents
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Claire Lees, Gillian Overing
Inbunden, 2009
1000 kr
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First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. "Double Agents" was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on …
Medieval Blood
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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This is the first interdisciplinary study of one of the crucial elements of medieval imaginations of the world: blood. It takes a theoretically informed approach to the subject and is thus the first to propose that blood shapes the body as a distinct identity. The author shows that by taking blood …
Double Agents
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Claire Lees, Gillian Overing
E-bok, 2009
459 kr
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First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. "Double Agents" was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on …
Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group
E-bok, 2009
516 kr
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This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing …
Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester, C.1200-1600
Av Catherine A. M. Clarke, Catherine Clarke m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city.
Introduction to the 'Glossa Ordinaria' as Medieval Hypertext
Inbunden, 2011
565 kr
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The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries. Circulated first in manuscript, the text is the Latin Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome with patristic commentary both in the margins and within the text itself.
Introduction to the 'Glossa Ordinaria' as Medieval Hypertext
E-bok, 2012
225 kr
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The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries. Circulated first in manuscript, the text is the Latin Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome with patristic commentary both in the margins and within the text itself.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
Häftad, 2011
196 kr
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This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
E-bok, 2012
138 kr
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This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Texts and Traditions
Av Catherine Innes-Parker, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
E-bok, 2013
764 kr
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This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic 'rule' and guidance; studying the …
Cultivating the Heart
Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts
Inbunden, 2015
509 kr
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Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling – especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow – in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define and attempt to express the ‘cultivation of …
Cultivating the Heart
Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts
E-bok, 2015
264 kr
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Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling – especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow – in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define and attempt to express the ‘cultivation of …
Cultivating the Heart
Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts
E-bok, 2015
264 kr
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Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling – especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow – in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define and attempt to express the ‘cultivation of …
Double Agents
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Claire Lees, Gillian Overing
E-bok, 2009
444 kr
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First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women …
Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group
E-bok, 2009
462 kr
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This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing …
Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester, C.1200-1600
Av Catherine A M Clarke, Catherine A. M. Clarke
E-bok, 2011
154 kr
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This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study - with attention to its …
Introduction to the 'Glossa Ordinaria' as Medieval Hypertext
E-bok, 2012
230 kr
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The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries. Circulated first in manuscript, the text is the Latin Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome with patristic commentary both in the margins and within the text itself.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
E-bok, 2012
135 kr
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Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same four walls for life required strength far beyond most medieval Christians. This book explores the …
Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power
Rex gratia Dei
E-bok, 2018
630 kr
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Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: ‘that was a good king’. This monograph, however, explores what it means to be a king, and how kings defined their own kingship in opposition to other powers. Kings derived their royal power from a divine source, …
Soul-Health
Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England
Inbunden, 2018
825 kr
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Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing. The act of reading engages deeply with our emotions and psychology, and this book broadens our understanding of that process by the surprising revelation that feeling bad has been understood as the best thing for mental and spiritual …
Soul-Health
Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England
E-bok, 2018
703 kr
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Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing. The act of reading engages deeply with our emotions and psychology, and this book broadens our understanding of that process by the surprising revelation that feeling bad has been understood as the best thing for mental and spiritual …
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av TBD, Anita Auer m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
511 kr
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The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives …
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Tino Oudesluijs, Camille Marshall m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
539 kr
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The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives …
