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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Glending Olson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Medical Record
Author: George Frederick Shrady
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Novissima Verba
Author: Frederic Harrison
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Church Quarterly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Church quarterly review
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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The Classical Review
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War
Author: Matthew Hendley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773539611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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How the First World War made women central to popular imperialism in Britain
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773539611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
How the First World War made women central to popular imperialism in Britain
Bulletin
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Britain's Imperial Muse
Author: C. Hagerman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113731642X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113731642X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India.