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Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages

Author : N. Guynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230603660

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Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force.

Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages

Author : N. Guynn
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403971471

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Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages by N. Guynn Pdf

Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force.

Allegorical Bodies

Author : Daisy Delogu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442641877

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Medieval Allegory as Epistemology

Author : Marco Nievergelt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192665836

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Medieval Allegory as Epistemology by Marco Nievergelt Pdf

In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the Pélerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared, closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century, in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary-historical relations linking the work of the three poets, but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind, knowledge, and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers, but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms, deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first-person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.

Machines of the Mind

Author : Katharine Breen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226776590

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"Katharine Breen challenges our understanding of how medieval authors received philosophical paradigms from antiquity in their construction and use of personification in their writings. She shows that our modern categories for this literary device (extreme realism versus extreme rhetoric, or novelistic versus allegorical characters) would've been unrecognizable to their medieval practitioners. Through new readings of key authors and works--including Prudentius's "Psychomachia," Langland's "Piers Plowman," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Deguileville's "Pilgrimage of Human Life"--she finds that medieval writers accessed a richer, more fluid literary domain than modern critics have allowed. Breen identifies three different types of personification--Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian--inherited from antiquity that both gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters, while bypassing the modern confusion of conflicting relationships between personifications and persons on the path connecting divine power and human frailty. Recalling Gregory the Great's phrase "machinae mentis" (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, much the same way that, within the category of hand-tools, an open-end wrench differs in function from a hex-key wrench or a socket wrench. It will be read by medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as scholars interested in character-making and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages"--

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135321

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages by Jody Enders Pdf

Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

Author : Rita Copeland,Peter T. Struck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521862295

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The Cambridge Companion to Allegory by Rita Copeland,Peter T. Struck Pdf

Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.

The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400

Author : Victoria Blud
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844686

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The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 by Victoria Blud Pdf

An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.

Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art

Author : Andrea Pearson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004393103

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Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art by Andrea Pearson Pdf

In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson demonstrates how garden imagery defined bodily desire as a fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.

Form and Foreskin

Author : A. W. Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294770

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Form and Foreskin by A. W. Strouse Pdf

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.

Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World

Author : Noah D. Guynn,Zrinka Stahuljak
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843375

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Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World by Noah D. Guynn,Zrinka Stahuljak Pdf

An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence. The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain but also in the methods and styles they use to represent and interpret the past and make it ideologically productive. Violence is used as the key term that best demonstrates the making of historical meaning in the Middle Ages, through the transformation of acts of physical aggression and destruction into a memorable and usable past. The twelve chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range of genres (chansons de geste, histories, chronicles, travel writing, and lyric poetry), and range from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. Through examination of topics as varied as rhetoric, imagery, humor, gender, sexuality, trauma, subversion, and community formation, each chapter strives to demonstrate how knowledge of the medieval past can be enhanced by approaching medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms, and by acknowledging - and resisting - the desire to subject them to modern conceptions of historical intelligibility. Noah D. Guynn is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis; Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Contributors: Noah D. Guynn, Zrinka Stahuljak, James Andrew Cowell, Jeff Rider, Leah Shopkow, Matthew Fisher, Karen Sullivan, David Rollo, Deborah McGrady, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Simon Gaunt

Nature Speaks

Author : Kellie Robertson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812248654

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Nature Speaks by Kellie Robertson Pdf

Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics—what used to be known as "natural philosophy"—and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity.

The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context

Author : Jonathan Morton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192548603

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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context by Jonathan Morton Pdf

The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth century, a work that became one of the most influential works of vernacular literature in the European Middle Ages. The scope and sophistication of the poem's content, especially in Jean's continuation, has long been acknowledged, but this is the first book-length study to offer an in-depth analysis of how the Rose draws on, and engages with, medieval philosophy, in particular with the Aristotelianism that dominated universities in the thirteenth century. It considers the limitations and possibilities of approaching ideas through the medium of poetic fiction, whose lies paradoxically promise truth and whose ambiguities and self-contradiction make it hard to discern its positions. This indeterminacy allows poetry to investigate the world and the self in ways not available to texts produced in the Scholastic context of universities, especially those of the University of Paris, whose philosophical controversies in the 1270s form the backdrop against which the poem is analysed. At the heart of the Rose are the three ideas of art, nature, and ethics, which cluster around its central subject: love. While the book offers larger claims about the Rose's philosophical agenda, different chapters consider the specifics of how it draws on, and responds to, Roman poetry, twelfth-century Neoplatonism, and thirteenth-century Aristotelianism in broaching questions about desire, epistemology, human nature, the imagination, primitivism, the philosophy of art, and the ethics of money.

Medieval Writings on Sex between Men

Author : David Rollo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004507326

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Medieval Writings on Sex between Men by David Rollo Pdf

David Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context.

Reading the World

Author : Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226260686

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Reading the World by Mary Franklin-Brown Pdf

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “century of the encyclopedias.” Variously referred to as a speculum, thesaurus, or imago mundi—the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century—these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations became libraries in miniature. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Franklin-Brown examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement: Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum maius; Ramon Llull’s Libre de meravelles, Arbor scientiae, and Arbre de filosofia d’amor; and Jean de Meun’s continuation of the Roman de la Rose. Franklin-Brown analyzes the order of knowledge in these challenging texts, describing the wide-ranging interests, the textual practices—including commentary, compilation, and organization—and the diverse discourses that they absorb from preexisting classical, patristic, and medieval writing. She also demonstrates how these encyclopedias, like libraries, became “heterotopias” of knowledge—spaces where many possible ways of knowing are juxtaposed. But Franklin-Brown’s study will not appeal only to historians: she argues that a revised understanding of late medievalism makes it possible to discern a close connection between scholasticism and contemporary imaginative literature. She shows how encyclopedists employed the same practices of figuration, narrative, and citation as poets and romanciers, while much of the difficulty of the imaginative writing of this period derives from a juxtaposition of heterogeneous discourses inspired by encyclopedias. With rich and innovative readings of texts both familiar and neglected, Reading the World reveals how the study of encyclopedism can illuminate both the intellectual work and the imaginative writing of the scholastic age.