Animal Soundscapes In Anglo Norman Texts

Author : Liam Lewis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
ISBN : 9781843846222

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Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis Pdf

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England. The barks, hoots and howls of animals and birds pierce through the experience of medieval texts. In captivating episodes of communication between species, a mandrake shrieks when uprooted from the ground, a saint preaches to the animals, and a cuckoo causes turmoil at the parliament of birds with his familiar call. This book considers a range of such episodes in Old French verse texts, including bestiaries, treatises on language, the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fables by Marie de France, aiming to reconceptualize and reinterpret animal soundscapes. It argues that they draw on sound to produce competing perspectives, forms of life, and linguistic subjectivities, suggesting that humans owe more to animal sounds than we are disposed to believe. Texts inviting readers to listen and learn animal noises, to seek spiritual consolation in the jargon of birds, or to identify with the speaking wolf, create the conditions for an assertion of human exceptionalism even as they simultaneously invite readers to question such forms of control. By asking what it means for an animal to cry, make noise, or speak in French, this book provides an important resource for theorizing sound and animality in multilingual medieval contexts, and for understanding the animal's role in the interpretation of the natural world.

Author : Harriet Jean Evans Tang
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Domestic animals in literature
ISBN : 9781843846437

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Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland by Harriet Jean Evans Tang Pdf

Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.

Author : Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781843846406

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Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts by Elizabeth Marshall Pdf

A fresh and sympathetic investigation of the depiction of wolves in early medieval literature, recuperating their reputation.

Author : Michael Bintley,Pippa Salonius
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843846642

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Trees As Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages by Michael Bintley,Pippa Salonius Pdf

Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The essays collected here aim to highlight human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when, whether symbol and metaphor, or actual and real, their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Author : Emma Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192871718

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Reinventing Babel in Medieval French by Emma Campbell Pdf

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science--but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media, and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality; ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while never inscribing full equivalence. More recently, untranslatability has been foregrounded in projects at the intersections between translation studies and other disciplines, notably philosophy and comparative literature. The critical turn to untranslatability re-emphasizes the importance of translation's negotiation with foreignness or difference and prompts further reflection on how that might be understood historically, philosophically, and ethically. If translation never replicates a source exactly, what does it mean to communicate some elements and not others? What or who determines what is translatable, or what can or cannot be recontextualized? What linguistic, political, cultural, or historical factors condition such determinations? Central to these questions is the way translation negotiates with, and inscribes asymmetries among, languages and cultures, operations that are inevitably ethical and political as well as linguistic. This book explores how approaching questions of translatability and untranslatability through premodern texts and languages can inform broader interdisciplinary conversations about translation as a concept and a practice. Working with case studies drawn from the francophone cultures of Flanders, England, and northern France, it explores how medieval texts challenge modern definitions of language, text, and translation and, in so doing, how such texts can open sites of variance and non-identity within what later became the hegemonic global languages we know today.

Author : Angela N. H. Creager,William C. Jordan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1580461204

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The Animal-human Boundary by Angela N. H. Creager,William C. Jordan Pdf

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

Author : Michael J. Warren
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843845911

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Birds in Medieval English Poetry by Michael J. Warren Pdf

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.

Author : Richard Ingham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781903153307

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The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts by Richard Ingham Pdf

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862

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The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf

Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Author : Elizabeth Dearnley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844426

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Translators and Their Prologues in Medieval England by Elizabeth Dearnley Pdf

An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue.

Author : Julie Singer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842729

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Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry by Julie Singer Pdf

An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoraltheory depends upon principles of likes and contraries in order to heal, poetry makes possible a parallel therapeutic system in which verbal oppositions and substitutions counter or rewrite received medical wisdom. The specific case of blindness, a disability that according to the theories of love that predominated in the late medieval West foreclosed the possibility of love, serves as a laboratory in which to explore poets' circumvention of the logical limits of contemporary medical theory. Reclaiming the power of remedy from physicians, these late medieval French and Italian poets prompt us to rethink not only the relationship between scientific and literary authority at the close of the middle ages, but, more broadly speaking, the very notion of therapy. Julie Singer is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University, St Louis.

Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : OCLC:1259665104

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The Tuning of the World by R. Murray Schafer Pdf

Author : Asa Simon Mittman,Susan M. Kim
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 086698481X

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Inconceivable Beasts by Asa Simon Mittman,Susan M. Kim Pdf

Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefraegelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant-and means-to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies. Book jacket.

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521555264

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Black Chant by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pdf

A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.

Author : Tim Edensor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189353

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National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life by Tim Edensor Pdf

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.