Signes and Sothe

Signes and Sothe PDF Author: Helen Barr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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An exploration through language of the literary, historical and social tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman.

Signes and Sothe

Signes and Sothe PDF Author: Helen Barr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Book Description
An exploration through language of the literary, historical and social tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman.

The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture

The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture PDF Author: Laura Varnam
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526121824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only for the church’s sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church’s status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously – but profitably – dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.

Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England

Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England PDF Author: Helen Barr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191540862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.

Reading Piers Plowman

Reading Piers Plowman PDF Author: Emily Steiner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages.

The Long Fifteenth Century

The Long Fifteenth Century PDF Author: Helen Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198183655
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. The essays provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature, stressing its importance, interest, and richness.

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period PDF Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110776871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Die neue englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediävistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. ‚Grundthemen' sind die kulturprägenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualität, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen, Kommunikation, Reisen usw. Die Reihe greift wichtige aktuelle Fachdiskussionen auf und stellt ein Forum der interdisziplinären Mittelalter-Forschung dar. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture steht Sammelbänden ebenso offen wie Monographien. Intention ist immer, kompendienhafte Werke zu zentralen Fragen der mittelalterlichen Kulturgeschichte vorzulegen, die einen soliden Überblick über einen geschlossenen Themenkreis aus der Perspektive verschiedener Fachdisziplinen vermitteln. Im Ganzen bietet die Reihe so eine Enzyklopädie der mittelalterlichen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte und ihrer Hauptthemen. Es werden ca. zwei Bände pro Jahr erscheinen.

A Companion to the Middle English Lyric

A Companion to the Middle English Lyric PDF Author: Thomas Gibson Duncan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843840650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

From Lawmen to Plowmen

From Lawmen to Plowmen PDF Author: Stephen Yeager
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442643471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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The Claims of Poverty

The Claims of Poverty PDF Author: Kate Crassons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Crasson examines the status of poverty in late medieval England as both a sacred imitation of Christ and a social stigma.

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940

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