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Vox Feminae
Studies in Medieval Woman's Song
Häftad, 1981
300 kr
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It is the artistic use of the female voice (as role, persona, or rhetorical stance) in particular lyrical traditions or by particular poets, that is of interest here. Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of …
Rebels and Rivals
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
Av Peter C Braeger, Susanna Greer Fein m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
300 kr
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Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales, in the stories as well as the links between them. Characters seem always ready to dispute, contradict, declaim, and contend about almost anything. A competitive spirit suffuses the work, from the tale-telling among pilgrims and the …
Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe
Häftad, 1984
522 kr
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In bringing together these papers, Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and interpretations of material culture in the Middle Ages. It celebrates the coming of age of historical …
Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography
Inbunden, 1985
342 kr
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While the study of rhetoric has received a much-needed revival dating from about 1945, historical writing was not a favored object of scrutiny among the many studies of rhetoric's influence on medieval literature, education, and preaching (from the introduction). By 1978, some scholars had resolved …
Medieval Tradition of Natural Law
Inbunden, 1987
332 kr
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This anthology aims to add flesh to the bones and the supplements, reservations, and alternatives for a deeper understanding of the tradition of natural law throughout the medieval period. It runs contrary to the opinion so commonly held since the Renaissance, that any tradition deemed medieval has …
Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan
Av John J Contreni, Thomas FX Noble
Häftad, 1987
496 kr
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Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg. Like the scholarship of the man who inspired …
Romance Epic
Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre
Inbunden, 1987
382 kr
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The collection of essays in Romance Epic expertly examines the Romance epic as a genre, delving into its ever-changing period, audience, and region. The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic at all, the …
Medieval Translators and Their Craft
Inbunden, 1989
342 kr
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At no time in the history of the West has translation played a more vital role than in the Middle Ages. Centuries before the appearance of the first extant vernacular documents, bilingualism, and preferably trilingualism, was a necessity in the scriptorium and chancery; and since the emergence of …
John Gower
Recent Readings
Av R F Yeager
Inbunden, 1989
476 kr
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In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer's good will toward the moral friend …
Teaching “Beowulf”
Practical Approaches
Av Larry Swain, Ophelia Eryn Hostetter
Inbunden, 2024
2320 kr
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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of …
Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book
The Power of Paratexts
Av Rosalind Brown-Grant, Patrizia Carmassi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1858 kr
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This collection, which brings together scholarsfrom the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishingauthority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shapingreader response, and preserving or …
Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser
Inbunden, 2019
2053 kr
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This book discusses how Shakespeare and Spenser configure the body and mind as a besieged castle or house; a walled city vulnerable to ruin; oras a built environment surrounded by the elements of earth, air, fire, or water. Building on current approaches to the subject of place and movement in …
Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric
Scève's "Délie"
Inbunden, 2020
1695 kr
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Scholars generally consider the sequence ofdense, epigrammatic dizains that compriseMaurice Scève's lyric sequence Délie to be anearly example of French Renaissanceimitation of Petrarch's lyric poetry. WhilePetrarch's Canzoniere is an important sourcefor Scève's Délie, both works are part of along …
Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art
The Influence of Marcia Hall
Av Arthur J. DiFuria, Ian Verstegen
Inbunden, 2021
1467 kr
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Horse in Premodern European Culture
Av Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson
Inbunden, 2019
2239 kr
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This volume features approaches to equine studies from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. This volume explores the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse in medieval culture, where it was …
Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's "New Chronicle"
Av Matthew Sneider, Rala Diakité
Inbunden, 2022
2013 kr
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Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is …
Living on the Edge
Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
Av Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Laura Miquel Milian
Inbunden, 2022
1694 kr
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This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. …
Emotion and Genre in Medieval European Literature
Av Massimiliano Bampi, Sif Rikhardsdottir
Inbunden, 2026
1607 kr
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This volume explores the interaction between emotion (as a literary phenomenon) and genre in medieval European literature. It draws on the field of the history of emotion to consider how the representation of emotion in literary works shapes generic expectations and signals generic frameworks. …
Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1693 kr
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What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or Early Modernity was no less of a complex task, albeit framed in ways different to today’s concept of authenticity as an individualistic or capitalistic venture …
Living on the Edge
Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
Av Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Laura Miquel Milian
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. …
Paul Dolnstein and His Sketchbook
The Soldiering Experience of an Early Landsknecht, 1490–1505
Av Danielle Mead Skjelver, Casper J. van Dijk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1516 kr
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Around 1505–1510, the German landsknecht (soldier) and engineer Paul Dolnstein produced a small sketchbook: a series of vivid drawings accompanied by short first-person annotations. This extraordinary document offers a rare and immediate window into the lived experience of warfare at the dawn of …
Closure in the Canterbury Tales
The Role of The Parson's Tale
Av Linda Tarte Holley, David Raybin
Häftad, 2000
428 kr
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For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, a last word from a notable maker of words, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. This volume rejects the tradition that assumes the tale to be of questionable …
Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe
Social Identity and Familial Structures
Av George T Beech, Monique Bourin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
258 kr
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This collection of essays was the first published in North America that sought to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise hailed in the preface to the volume as one of the most vibrant, innovative, and productive movements in medieval scholarship at the present …
On John Gower
Essays at the Millennium
Av R F Yeager
Häftad, 2008
294 kr
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It would not be an exaggeration to observe that in the last two decades Gower studies have developed in response to a widening appreciation of his poetry. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium represents the third volume of essays originating from sessions of the John Gower Society at the …
English 'Loathly Lady' Tales
Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs
Av Susan Carter, S Elizabeth Passmore
Inbunden, 2008
486 kr
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Whereas some literary motifs such as the tyrant, the beggar, and the crone have equivalents in the real world, the Loathly Lady is a creature of the imagination. Yet she is not merely a whimsical fantasy. This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, which develop the motif …
Church and Society in Late Byzantium
Inbunden, 2009
414 kr
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It has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent. The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late …
Renaissance Retrospections
Tudor Views of the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2013
382 kr
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The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious, and cultural landscape of medieval England through their more present ideological concerns. From …
Malory and Christianity
Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
Av D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Janet Jesmok
Häftad, 2013
300 kr
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As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest for maturity and fulfillment and those uncontrollable forces that undermine the quest and destroy the …
Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing
Av Alessandra Petrina, Ian Johnson
Inbunden, 2018
1758 kr
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In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and …
Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
Inbunden, 2018
1758 kr
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Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern forpolemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poetssuch as John Gower, …
