Author: J. Rosenthal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230111467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life.
Margaret Paston’s Piety
Author: J. Rosenthal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230111467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230111467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life.
Generations of Feeling
Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107097045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
An exploration of emotional life in the West, considering the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107097045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
An exploration of emotional life in the West, considering the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries.
Women and Medieval Literary Culture
Author: Corinne Saunders
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108876919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108876919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.
The Gnostic Paradigm
Author: N. Elias
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
The Medieval Python
Author: R. Yeager
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137075058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature comedy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as well as educational television series for BBC, the History Channel, etc. (e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and his broad good humor to challenge, enlighten and reform. No one working today in either Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Jones' purposive, provocative views. Jones, perhaps more than any other medievalist, can be said to be an integral part of what Palgrave deems the "common dialogue."
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137075058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature comedy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as well as educational television series for BBC, the History Channel, etc. (e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and his broad good humor to challenge, enlighten and reform. No one working today in either Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Jones' purposive, provocative views. Jones, perhaps more than any other medievalist, can be said to be an integral part of what Palgrave deems the "common dialogue."
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
Author: M. C. Bodden
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230337651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230337651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory
Author: A. Gerber
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137482826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137482826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects
Author: J. Pitcher
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137089725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137089725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity.
Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron
Author: V. Ferme
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137482818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137482818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.
Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters
Author: K. Attar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.