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Olde Daunce
Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World
Av Robert R. Edwards, Stephen Spector
Inbunden, 1991
1446 kr
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In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The …
Women's Secrets
A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries
Häftad, 1992
463 kr
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Women's Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the …
Culture and the King
The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend
Av Martin B. Shichtman, James P. Carley
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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This book focuses on how and why various cultures have appropriated the story of King Arthur. It is about re-vision, how cultures alter inherited texts and are, in turn, changed by them, and it deals with the ways in which various cultures have empowered the Arthurian legend so that power might be …
Representation and Design
Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry
Häftad, 1997
419 kr
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Examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, drawing on Anglo-Saxon pictorial art as a model for the interaction of representation and design.Representation and Design examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, beginning with the …
Devils, Women, and Jews
Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories
Häftad, 1997
532 kr
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Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass …
Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures
Häftad, 2000
532 kr
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Examines the impact of the Hundred Years' War on French and English literature of the period, revealing the ways in which history influences literature and literature intervenes in history.This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in …
Discourse of Enclosure
Representing Women in Old English Literature
Av Shari Horner
Häftad, 2001
532 kr
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Examines representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose.2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon …
King's English
Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius
Inbunden, 2005
1018 kr
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Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.In the late ninth century, while England was fighting off Viking incursions, Alfred the Great devoted time …
King's English
Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius
Häftad, 2006
459 kr
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Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.In the late ninth century, while England was fighting off Viking incursions, Alfred the Great devoted time …
Chaucerian Spaces
Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales
Inbunden, 2008
1170 kr
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Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.Chaucerian Spaces explores the affect and the significance of space and place in the first six tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Relatively little has been written about space in the Canterbury Tales, yet …
Chaucerian Spaces
Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales
Häftad, 2009
679 kr
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Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.Chaucerian Spaces explores the affect and the significance of space and place in the first six tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Relatively little has been written about space in the Canterbury Tales, yet …
Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage
Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer
Av Katharina M. Wilson, Elizabeth M. Makowski
Häftad, 1990
452 kr
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Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show …
Olde Daunce
Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World
Av Robert R. Edwards, Stephen Spector
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The …
Speaking Two Languages
Traditional Disciplines and Contemporary Theory in Medieval Studies
Inbunden, 1991
1120 kr
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This book is designed for the medievalist interested in contemporary criticism but cautious about its limits. The volume's essays are not designed to offer rereadings of familiar texts, but to address the problems of articulating tradition and contemporary theory. Each contributor interprets …
Holy Men and Holy Women
Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts
Inbunden, 1996
1250 kr
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This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Holy Men and Holy Women
Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts
Häftad, 1996
502 kr
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This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts
The Latin Tradition
Av Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
486 kr
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Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts …
Devils, Women, and Jews
Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories
Inbunden, 1997
1278 kr
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Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass …
Insular Tradition
Av Catherine E. Karkov, Robert T. Farrell m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
435 kr
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"A breadth of interdisciplinary voices" discuss how geographical insularity - specifically that of Britain and Ireland - has affected artistic tradition.A generously illustrated collection, The Insular Tradition explores the various ways in which tradition becomes part of our definition of insular …
Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages
Häftad, 1999
393 kr
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Surveys the influence of the Psalms in the Middle Ages, giving a unique window into the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional culture of the period.The Psalms were an important part of the education, daily life, and spiritual development of medieval clerics and monks, and they had a significant …
Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures
Inbunden, 2000
1250 kr
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Examines the impact of the Hundred Years' War on French and English literature of the period, revealing the ways in which history influences literature and literature intervenes in history.This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in …
Discourse of Enclosure
Representing Women in Old English Literature
Av Shari Horner
Inbunden, 2001
1278 kr
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Examines representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose.2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon …
Medieval French Alexander
Av Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Inbunden, 2002
1278 kr
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Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.Alexander the Great was one of the legendary Nine Worthies in the medieval canon of ancient and modern heroes, and medieval writers exploited his legend in a wide variety of literary and didactic texts. …
Medieval French Alexander
Av Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Häftad, 2002
486 kr
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Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.Alexander the Great was one of the legendary Nine Worthies in the medieval canon of ancient and modern heroes, and medieval writers exploited his legend in a wide variety of literary and didactic texts. …
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Av Catherine E. Karkov, George Hardin Brown
Inbunden, 2003
1278 kr
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Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form-and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression-in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a …
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Av Catherine E. Karkov, George Hardin Brown
Häftad, 2003
486 kr
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Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form-and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression-in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a …
Women's Space
Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church
Av Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Sarah Stanbury
Inbunden, 2005
1111 kr
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Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative …
Women's Space
Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church
Av Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Sarah Stanbury
Häftad, 2006
452 kr
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Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative …
Reform and Resistance
Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture
Inbunden, 2008
1278 kr
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Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.Honorable Mention, 2010 First Book Prize presented by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship The early Middle Ages were a vibrant period rich with possibility for both men and women. Reform and …
Reform and Resistance
Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture
Häftad, 2009
452 kr
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Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.Honorable Mention, 2010 First Book Prize presented by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship The early Middle Ages were a vibrant period rich with possibility for both men and women. Reform and …
