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Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles
Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations
Av Timothy S. Jones, David A. Sprunger
Häftad, 2002
497 kr
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This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of …
De Ore Domini
Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages
Av Thomas L. Amos, Eugene A. Green m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
332 kr
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De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages is a volume of thirteen essays, constituting a series of chapters in the history of preaching. The essays present a diversity of historical periods, audiences, and methodologies. Ranging in time from the 700s to 1511, they cover a space that …
Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe
Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon
Av Bernard S. Bachrach, David Nicholas
Inbunden, 1990
335 kr
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The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable …
Rebels and Rivals
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
Av Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
382 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 …
Closure in the Canterbury Tales
The Role of The Parson's Tale
Av TBD, David Raybin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
578 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 …
Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales
Av Dave Postles, Joel T. Rosenthal
Inbunden, 2006
323 kr
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This volume contains collected papers on medieval England's "names and naming patterns - mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names." According to Rosenthal, there are "three lines of assault upon the culture and practice by way of analysis of names and naming" - …
On John Gower
Essays at the Millennium
Av R. F. Yeager
Inbunden, 2008
382 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 …
New Directions in Boethian Studies
Av Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., Philip Edward Phillips
Inbunden, 2007
332 kr
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Continuing work begun by previous scholars, New Directions in Boethian Studies brings together recent studies from the diverse perspective of recent scholarship published during the first decade of Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society, a journal which seeks to make …
English "Loathly Lady" Tales
Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs
Av S. Elizabeth Passmore, Susan Carter
Häftad, 2008
340 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 …
Renaissance Retrospections
Tudor Views of the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2013
294 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
Inbunden, 2013
394 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 …
Authority of Images / Images of Authority
Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World
Av Karen Fresco
Inbunden, 2016
1230 kr
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Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu. The volume brings together various disciplinary approaches, …
Journeys Toward God
Pilgrimage and Crusade
Inbunden, 1992
476 kr
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Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 27-28, 1988. The essays explore "the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the …
Journeys Toward God
Pilgrimage and Crusade
Häftad, 1992
547 kr
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Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 27-28, 1988. The essays explore "the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the …
Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period
Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr.
Häftad, 1993
300 kr
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Eighteen essays by some of the most prominent British and North American students of heroic poetry, plus two poems and a bibliography, are gathered here to honor Jess B. Bessinger Jr., whose innovative studies of heroic poetry have instructed a generation of scholars and whose performances of …
Centre and Its Compass
Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle
Av Robert A. Taylor, James F. Burke m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
502 kr
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This collection of essays was released in honor of John Leyerle, a scholar to whom all medievalists in North America, and many beyond, owe a great debt. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past …
"Other Tuscany"
Essays in the History of Lucca, Pisa, and Siena during the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
Av Thomas W. Blomquist, Maureen F. Mazzaoui
Inbunden, 1994
335 kr
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Studies of late medieval Tuscany have traditionally relied on historiographical premises derived from the experience of its intensely investigated capital city. Specifically, normative and quantitative data from Florentine sources have been employed to chart demographic, social, and economic trends …
Intellectual Climate of the Early University
Essays in Honor of Otto Gründler
Inbunden, 1997
335 kr
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Despite a good deal of research and writing concerning the development and intellectual transformation in the period of the early university, the subject remains in many respects enigmatic. This collection of essays in honor of Otto Gründler tackles many of the questions that run to the heart of …
Intellectual Climate of the Early University
Essays in Honor of Otto Gründler
Häftad, 1997
269 kr
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Despite a good deal of research and writing concerning the development and intellectual transformation in the period of the early university, the subject remains in many respects enigmatic. This collection of essays in honor of Otto Gründler tackles many of the questions that run to the heart of …
Beowulf at Kalamazoo
Essays on Translation and Performance
Av Jana K. Schulman, Paul E. Szarmach
Inbunden, 2012
476 kr
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This collection of essays is designed to capitalize on the success of Seamus Heaney' prize-winning translation of Beowulf, which bridges the gap between the ivory tower where most who study Beowulf reside and lay readers drawn to the poem because of Heaney's reputation, the review in the New York …
