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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient
Other Encounters
Inbunden, 2021
1667 kr
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Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning …
English Birth Girdles
Devotions for Women in "Travell of Childe"
Av Mary Morse
Inbunden, 2024
2387 kr
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In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to …
Dante's Dream
A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach
Inbunden, 2021
1335 kr
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An artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, investing considerable energy in establishing and alluding to its dates (starting Good Friday, …
Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in The Canterbury Tales
"Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller
Inbunden, 2020
1732 kr
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Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer's Polyphony
The Modern in Medieval Poetry
Inbunden, 2020
1695 kr
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Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style — if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of …
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation
Long-Distance Pilgrimage in Northwest Europe
Inbunden, 2020
1551 kr
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Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformationexamines long-distance pilgrimages toancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries afterLuther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, saints' cults and pilgrimage werefrequently contested, more so than in …
Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
The Separation of the Citizen from the Self
Inbunden, 2022
1150 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning …
World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis
A Manuscript's Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras
Av Daniel Williman, Karen Corsano
Inbunden, 2020
1900 kr
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The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E.iv: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in a Paris atelier from the original in the abbey of St-Denis-en-France. The authors show how it traveled from one capital …
Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse
Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise
Av Jacob Abell
Inbunden, 2023
1387 kr
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The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise figured prominently in Old French tales of lands beyond the mundane world. This study proposes a fresh …
Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand
Art, Script, and Liturgical Creativity in an Early Medieval Monastery
Inbunden, 2024
1770 kr
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The series of beautiful sacramentaries made at Saint-Amand in the later ninth century offer us unique insight into an early medieval scriptorium at work. These manuscripts contain principally the prayer texts for the celebration of the Mass, a ceremony which stood at the centre of monastic life in …
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient
Other Encounters
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the …
Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Av David Strong
Inbunden, 2022
1665 kr
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This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import of the characters’ interaction in the works written by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries. By attuning oneself to another’s expressive phenomena, the empathizer acquires …
Canon Fanfiction
Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1535 kr
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Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other …
Canon Fanfiction
Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other …
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Av Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1619 kr
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This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel …
Fiction’s Truths – False Confessions in Vernacular Literature, 1190–1400
Av Max Matukhin
Inbunden, 2027
1535 kr
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This book makes a contribution to the growing literature on the practice of confession, which includes the studies by Jeremy Tambling, Peter Brooks, and Chloë Taylor, by focusing on medieval literary texts that coincide with the development of the sacrament of penance.Within the narrower field of …
Neoplatonism and the Art of Calculation in Medieval Iceland
Algorithms, Geometry, and the Platonic Elements in the Medieval North
Inbunden, 2026
1359 kr
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GKS 1812 is a broadly encyclopedic work consisting of four texts (identifiable by distinct scribal hands) composed during the 12th through 14th centuries. Among the various works included in the manuscript are two of a specifically mathematical nature: an Old Norse prose translation of the Carmen …
Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”
“Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales …
Chaucer’s Polyphony
The Modern in Medieval Poetry
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
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Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style. Indeed, Chaucer’s decision to write in Middle …
Bibliography of the Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2027
1765 kr
Kommande
This volume contains an introduction to the origins of literary symbolism, followed by about 4,000 works relevant to the Renaissance period, most with long or short commentaries, divided into about 50 categories (from “Allegories” to “Wands”) with a cross-category authors index, as well as …
Beyond Ambiguity
Renaissance Irony as Textual Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italian and French Literature
Inbunden, 2026
1607 kr
Kommande
This study reframes irony as a rhetorical and epistemological practice situated at the intersection of ethics and rhetoric in sixteenth-century French and Italian literature.While scholars have explored the diachronic and lexical evolution of irony, comparatively little attention has been devoted …
Inventing Latin Heretics
Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century
Inbunden, 2008
325 kr
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Focusing on the ninth-century beginnings of Byzantine writings against the Latin addition of the Filioque to the creed, Inventing Latin Heretics illuminates several aspects of Byzantine thought-their self-definition, their theology, their uniquely constituted state-based both on what they had to …
My Wyl and My Wrytyng
Essays on John the Blind Audelay
Av Susanna Fein
Inbunden, 2009
382 kr
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The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in The Counsel of Conscience to the salutations and carols that follow in the manuscript, concluding with a defense of Audelay's …
Piers Plowman, Volume I: Text
a parallel-text edition of the A, B, C and Z versions
Av William Langland, A. V. C. Schmidt
Häftad, 2011
278 kr
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This work—a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman—constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically …
Piers Plowman, Volume II, Part 2: Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary
a parallel-text edition of the A, B, C and Z versions
Av A V C Schmidt, A. V. C. Schmidt
Häftad, 2011
284 kr
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This work—a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman—constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically …
Piers Plowman, Three-book set: Vol I (text), Vol II Part 1 (textual notes) and Vol II Part 2 (commentary and glossary)
a parallel-text edition of the A, B, C and Z versions
Av William Langland, A V C Schmidt
Häftad, 2011
768 kr
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This work—a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman—constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically …
Saints at Play
The Performance Features of French Hagiographic Mystery Plays
Inbunden, 2013
374 kr
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In the introduction to her study of twenty-eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Hamblin notes that "this approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting. …
Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Dendle
Inbunden, 2015
413 kr
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Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical …
Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae
Av Noel Harold Kaylor Jr, Philip Edward Phillips
Inbunden, 2016
476 kr
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Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's "De consolatione philosophiae" provides an overview of the widespread reception and influence of Boethius's masterpiece in England and Germany, as well as in the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Catalonia, and Byzantium. As this work demonstrates, Boethius is not only …
Medieval London
Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron
Av Caroline M. Barron, Martha Carlin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2069 kr
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Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that …
