Author: A. Florschuetz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
Author: A. Florschuetz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
Author: A. Florschuetz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Author: Amy Burge
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture
Author: Marian Bleeke
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272503
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272503
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture.
Melusine's Footprint
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth offers nineteen new critical essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examining the cultural, literary, and mythical inheritance of the legendary half-fairy, half-serpent Melusine.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth offers nineteen new critical essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examining the cultural, literary, and mythical inheritance of the legendary half-fairy, half-serpent Melusine.
Thinking Medieval Romance
Author: Katherine C. Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192514350
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192514350
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.
Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Author: Katherine Marie Olley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846373
Category : Kinship
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846373
Category : Kinship
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set
Author: Sian Echard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118396987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2102
Book Description
Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. A uniquely multilingual and intercultural approach reflecting the latest scholarship, covering the entire medieval period and the full tapestry of literary languages comprises over 600 authoritative yet accessible entries on key figures, texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and isitroical contexts, and related terminology Represents all the literatures of the British Isles including Old and Middle English, Early Scots, Anglo-Norman, the Norse, Latin and French of Britain, and the Celtic Literatures of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall Boasts an impressive chronological scope, covering the period from the Saxon invasions to the fifth century to the transition to the Early Modern Period in the sixteenth Covers the material remains of Medieval British literature, including manuscripts and early prints, literary sites and contexts of production, performance and reception as well as highlighting narrative transformations and intertextual links during the period
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118396987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2102
Book Description
Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. A uniquely multilingual and intercultural approach reflecting the latest scholarship, covering the entire medieval period and the full tapestry of literary languages comprises over 600 authoritative yet accessible entries on key figures, texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and isitroical contexts, and related terminology Represents all the literatures of the British Isles including Old and Middle English, Early Scots, Anglo-Norman, the Norse, Latin and French of Britain, and the Celtic Literatures of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall Boasts an impressive chronological scope, covering the period from the Saxon invasions to the fifth century to the transition to the Early Modern Period in the sixteenth Covers the material remains of Medieval British literature, including manuscripts and early prints, literary sites and contexts of production, performance and reception as well as highlighting narrative transformations and intertextual links during the period
Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Author: Alfred Thomas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137542608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137542608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature
Author: Serina Patterson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137497521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137497521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.