Criticism And Dissent In The Middle Ages

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521453151

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Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf

What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' critical practices in the Middle Ages? Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders. Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and hermeneutics, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy are all considered. This 1996 collection of essays by major scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and knowledge - as contesting and contested institutional practices within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319902180

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Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages by Alfred Thomas Pdf

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139427982

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Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how educational ideologies of ancient lineage left their imprint on the most sharply politicized categories of late medieval culture, and how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual. Looking closely at the prison narratives of two Lollard preachers, Copeland shows how their writings could serve as examples for their fellow dissidents and forge a new rapport between academic and non-academic communities.

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell, PhD,Wadsworth
Publisher : Wipf & Stock Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0159752086

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Study Skill an Sh Sk3 Fm B by Jeffrey Burton Russell, PhD,Wadsworth Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002166505

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Religious Dissent in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Burton Russell Pdf

Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 073910327X

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Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Ernest L. Fortin Pdf

Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, Dissidence et philosophie au moyen-%ge brings to light the complexity of Dante's thought and art, and its relation to the central themes of Western civilization. Available in English for the first time through this superb translation by Marc A. LePain, Dissent and Philosophy will make a supremely important contribution to the discussion of Dante as poet, theologian, and philosopher.

Author : Andrew Cowell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472110071

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At Play in the Tavern by Andrew Cowell Pdf

A lively study of the tavern in medieval life and thought

Author : Irene van Renswoude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038134

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The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Irene van Renswoude Pdf

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

Author : N. Guynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230603660

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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.

Author : Almut Suerbaum,George Southcombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317079309

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Polemic by Almut Suerbaum,George Southcombe Pdf

If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ’polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus; and that literary discourse is by nature ’eirenic’. Instead, the volume shows more clearly the continuities and discontinuities, especially how medieval discourse on the sins of the tongue continued into early modern discussion; how popular and influential medieval genres such as sermons and hagiography dealt with potentially heterodox positions; and the role of literary, especially fictional, debate in developing modes of articulating discord, as well as demonstrating polemic in action in political and ecclesiastical debate. Within this historical context, the position of early modern debates as part of a more general culture of articulating discord becomes more clearly visible. The structure of the volume moves from an internal textual focus, where the nature of polemic can be debated, through a middle section where these concerns are also played out in social practice, to a more historical group investigating applied polemic. In this way a more nuanced view is provided of the meaning, role, and effect of ’polemic’ both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances.

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812248111

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Nowhere in the Middle Ages by Karma Lochrie Pdf

In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reveals how utopian thinking was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today.

Author : Marilynn Desmond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801473179

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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath by Marilynn Desmond Pdf

"In The Blue Eagle at Work, Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preeminent authority on the National Labor Relations Act, uncovers a long-forgotten feature of that act that offers a new approach to the revitalization of the American labor movement and the institution of collective bargaining. He convincingly demonstrates that in private-sector nonunion workplaces, the Act guarantees that employees have a viable right to engage in collective bargaining through a minority union on a members-only basis. As a result of this startling breakthrough, American labor relations may never again be the same. Morris's underlying thesis is based on a meticulous analysis of statutory and decisional law and exhaustive historical research." "The Blue Eagle at Work, which is clear and accessible to general readers as well as specialists, is an essential tool for labor-union officials and organizers, human-resource professionals in management, attorneys practicing in the field of labor and employment law, teachers and students of labor law and industrial relations, and concerned workers and managers who desire to understand the law that governs their relationship." --Book Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408802

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Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

No volume about the spectacles and public performances of early modern England could pretend to treat comprehensively a body of materials so conspicuously vast. Rather than efforts to survey the territory, these essays are best understood in the original sense of the term as “essays”—as trials, attempts, experiments to open alternative ways of understanding that vast corpus of mystery plays, civic pageants, court masques and professional dramas that constitute its subject. The book crosses traditional period lines, including studies of Medieval as well as Renaissance entertainments. Once more, the essays are not organized according to a single critical or historical methodology. They employ an eclectic range of interpretive practices, reflecting the variety of interpretive approaches now current in the field. Contributors include: Tiffany J. Alkan, Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Sarah Beckwith, Tom Bishop, Peter Cockett, Richard K. Emmerson, Peter Holland, Nora Johnson, Richard C. McCoy, Lauren Shohet, and Robert E. Stillman.

Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191537004

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Middle English by Paul Strohm Pdf

These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,' these essays aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Although 'major authors' such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well. Analysis is devoted not only to self-sufficient works, but to the general conditions of textual production and reception. Contributors to this collection include some recognized and admired names, but also a good many newer faces: younger scholars whose groundbreaking research is just coming into full view, and whose perspectives will influence the terms of literary discussion in the decades to come. Encouraged to speculate, they have addressed topics that unsettle previous categories of investigation. Each is oriented toward the emergent, the unfinalized, the yet-to-be-done. Each essay stirs new questions and concludes with suggestions for further reading and investigation that will allow readers to extend their own research into the questions it has raised.

Author : Manuele Gragnolati,Almut Suerbaum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110222470

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Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture by Manuele Gragnolati,Almut Suerbaum Pdf

The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of ‛voice’ in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.