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Essays in Medieval Culture

Author : Durant Waite Robertson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400856640

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Essays in Medieval Culture by Durant Waite Robertson Pdf

Bringing together a collection of this distinguished medievalist's most important and controversial work, heretofore scattered and frequently inaccessible, this book constitutes both an appropriate introduction for students new to medieval studies and a convenient compendium for scholars established in the field. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Medieval Essays (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813218182

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Medieval Essays (The Works of Christopher Dawson) by Christopher Dawson Pdf

Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions

Author : Jennifer N. Brown,Nicole R. Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153963

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Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions by Jennifer N. Brown,Nicole R. Rice Pdf

Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

Mass Market Medieval

Author : David W. Marshall
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786429226

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Mass Market Medieval by David W. Marshall Pdf

Beginning in 1976 with the first issue of the journal Studies in Medievalism, all things medieval and the concept of medievalism became a hot topic in culture studies. Medievalism examines how different groups, individuals, or eras use and shape the image of the Middle Ages, differentiating between historical knowledge of the Middle Ages and what we have made the period out to be. The 13 essays in this book explore the medieval invasion of today's media and consider the various ways--from film and print to websites and video games--that the Middle Ages have been packaged for consumption. Essays encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism, including the exposure of recent social concerns; the use of medieval images in modern political contexts; and the medieval's influence on products of today's popular culture. The legitimization of the study of medievalism and the effect of medievalism on the more traditional subject of medieval studies are also discussed. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History

Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000943184

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Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History by Paul W. Kroll Pdf

This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang dynasty. It opens with the author's famous articles on the dancing horses of T'ang, on the emperor Hsüan Tsung's abandonment of his capital and forced execution of his prized consort, and on poems relating to the holy mountain T'ai Shan (with special attention to Li Po). Following these are detailed examinations of landscape and mountain imagery in the poetry of the "High T'ang" period in the mid-8th century, and of an extraordinary attempt made in the mid-9th-century to recall in verse and anecdote the great days of the High T'ang. The second section of the book includes two articles on birds (notably the kingfisher and the egret) in medieval poetry, and four of Kroll's influential studies focusing on the verse-form known as the fu or "rhapsody," especially drawing from the 3rd-century poet Ts'ao Chih and the 7th-century poet Lu Chao-lin.

Feud, Violence and Practice

Author : Tracey L. Billado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317135579

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Feud, Violence and Practice by Tracey L. Billado Pdf

This collection presents an innovative series of essays about the medieval culture of Feud and Violence. Featuring both prominent senior and younger scholars from the United States and Europe, the contributions offer various methods and points of view in their analyses. All, however, are indebted in some way to the work of Stephen D. White on legal culture, politics, and violence. White's work has frequently emphasized the importance of careful, closely focused readings of medieval sources as well as the need to take account of practice in relation to indigenous normative statements. His work has thus made historians of medieval political culture keenly aware of the ways in which various rhetorical strategies could be deployed in disputes in order to gain moral or material advantage. Beginning with an essay by the editors introducing the contributions and discussing their relationships to Stephen White's work, to the themes of the volume, to each other, and to medieval and legal studies in general, the remainder of the volume is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains papers whose linking themes are violence and feud, the second section explores medieval legal culture and feudalism; whilst the final section consists of essays that are models of the type of inquiry pioneered by White.

Image on the Edge

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232508

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Image on the Edge by Michael Camille Pdf

What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.

The Idea of Medieval Literature

Author : James McMurrin Dean,Christian K. Zacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028422114

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The Idea of Medieval Literature by James McMurrin Dean,Christian K. Zacher Pdf

"The essays collected in this volume are by colleagues and students of Donald R. Howard - all noted authorities on Geoffrey Chaucer and late medieval English literature. The essay subjects range from a study of Chaucer's Edwardian period to the writings of Margery of Kempe." "Alfred David begins the section on Chaucer's culture with an exploration of Chaucer's earliest poetry, linking it with the culture of Edward III's reign. Lee Patterson analyzes Chaucer's several ventures into the complaint form, showing the interconnections between and among complaint, lyric, and narrative. Glending Olson treats the Canterbury Tales as a game, with games and gamemanship as normative rather than extraneous, while Sherron E. Knopp examines the relations between Augustinian poetic theory and Chaucer's use of the imagination of the Book of the Duchess. R. W. Hanning assesses the role of "pryvetee," or privacy, in Chaucer's poetics." "In the section devoted to Chaucer and his writings, Paul Strohm studies the ideological language of historical documents that harmonize especially well with Chaucer's short poem Lak of Stedfastnesse. John M. Fyler traces the influence of the House of Fame on Alexander Pope's writings. Florence H. Ridley offers a comprehensive history of criticism of the Friar's Tale. Ralph Hanna III examines affiliations between and among important manuscript groupings of Troilus and Criseyde, while Karla Taylor evaluates the significance of the Merchant as a "reticent" storyteller." "John M. Ganim begins the third section, Medieval Culture and Society, with an evaluation of the Annales school and its importance for the study of medieval culture and literature. Anne Middleton scrutinizes the meaning and significance of Langland's "life" as it is represented in and through Piers Plowman. Thomas Moser analyzes the interpretive context of a short Middle English lyric on "inordinate love" from Copenhagen Thott 110. Sue Ellen Holbrook argues against previous biographical and psychological readings of The Boke of Margery Kempe, while George H. Brown discusses the use and abuse of Scripture by medieval writers. Finally, Steven F. Kruger treats the issue of the bodies of Jews, including bodily injury, in the Prioress's Tale and the Play of the Sacrament."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages

Author : HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351539654

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The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages by HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens Pdf

Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts and the co-directors of the Baptisteria Sacra Index, the world?s only iconographical inventory of baptismal fonts, a research project at the University of Toronto, this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. The ?visual? is privileged, whether it is in the metaphysical, literary or empirical realms of scholarship, offering a rich understanding of the powerful role of baptism played in medieval and renaissance society. In the quest for a holistic understanding of the vessels, the settings and contexts, the rituals and the spiritual significance of the font, itself, the contributors have turned to a range of sources, folkloric tales, baptismal records, liturgical sermons, civic records, literary accounts, hagiographies and historical documents about local families, communities and ecclesiastical developments. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This collection of essays shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship.

Essays in Medieval Culture

Author : Louis A. Landa,Durant Waite Robertson
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0691064490

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Essays in Medieval Culture by Louis A. Landa,Durant Waite Robertson Pdf

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Culture and History, 1350-1600

Author : David Aers
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0814324169

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Culture and History, 1350-1600 by David Aers Pdf

Six essays explore the making of human identities and agency in English communities between the Great Plague and about 1600. They also focus attention on the processes of understanding past cultures and their texts. Among the topics are court politics, sacred and secular drama, and women. Paper edition (2416-9), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reading Medieval Culture

Author : Robert M. Stein,Sandra Pierson Prior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061190636

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Reading Medieval Culture by Robert M. Stein,Sandra Pierson Prior Pdf

A collection of essays honoring the work of medievalist Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, from Chaucer's age to nineteenth and twentieth-century medievalism, including a section on Italian Renaissance humanism and visual art.

Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy

Author : William Randolph Robins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442642720

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Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy by William Randolph Robins Pdf

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Popular Culture in the Middle Ages

Author : Josie P. Campbell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0879723394

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Popular Culture in the Middle Ages by Josie P. Campbell Pdf

The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."

Essays on Medieval Civilization

Author : Bede K. Lackner,Kenneth R. Philp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000052095

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Essays on Medieval Civilization by Bede K. Lackner,Kenneth R. Philp Pdf

"These essays explore unfamiliar topics, reveal the vitality of the past, investigate the basic concerns of mankind, and re-evaluate the meaning of medieval history for the modern world."--Book jacket.