Francophone Literature In The Low Countries 1200 1600

Author : Alisa van de Haar,Dirk Schoenaers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463721088

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Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600) by Alisa van de Haar,Dirk Schoenaers Pdf

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of 'otherness' were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated and mobile as their authors. As awareness of the francophone literature of the medieval and early modern Low Countries continues to grow, texts in all three languages will be ever more firmly connected in an intricate and multilingual weave.

Author : Nicola Morato,Dirk Schoenaers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Culture diffusion
ISBN : 2503555063

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Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France by Nicola Morato,Dirk Schoenaers Pdf

In medieval Europe, cultural, political, and linguistic identities rarely coincided with modern national borders. As early as the end of the twelfth century, French rose to prominence as a lingua franca that could facilitate communication between people, regardless of their origin, background, or community. Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, literary works were written or translated into French not only in France but also across Europe, from England and the Low Countries to as far afield as Italy, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Many of these texts had a broad European circulation and for well over three hundred years they were transmitted, read, studied, imitated, and translated. Drawing on the results of the AHRC-funded research project Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France, this volume aims to reassess medieval literary culture and explore it in a European and Mediterranean setting. The book, incorporating nineteen papers by international scholars, explores the circulation and production of francophone texts outside of France along two major axes of transmission: one stretching from England and Normandy across to Flanders and Burgundy, and the other running across the Pyrenees and Alps from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant. In doing so, it offers new insights into how francophone literature forged a place for itself, both in medieval textual culture and, more generally, in Western cultural spheres.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Keith Busby
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : French language
ISBN : 2503528376

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Medieval Multilingualism by Christopher Kleinhenz,Keith Busby Pdf

This volume contains essays on various aspects of multilingualism in medieval France, Italy, England, and the Low Countries. The fifteen contributions discuss the use of the different vernaculars and Latin in both literary and non-literary contexts, showing how cultural and social factors determined the choice of language for a particular purpose or type of text. The role of French in non-French contexts is a major theme of these essays: in the British Isles after the Norman Conquest, in Italy as a response to the need for mainly secular types of literature which did not exist in Italian, and in the Low Countries by virtue of geographic contiguity and change of rulers. Special attention is paid in the French context to the use of French and Occitan in areas of the South. Some essays examine specific cases or text-corpora, while others examine questions of multilingualism from more theoretical, linguistic, and rhetorical points of view. Together, they form an invaluable introduction to the topic of medieval multilingualism, illustrated by meticulously executed case-studies, which future work in the area will have to take into account.

Author : Lia van Gemert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789089641298

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Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 by Lia van Gemert Pdf

This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.

Author : Michiel de Vaan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264503

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The Dawn of Dutch by Michiel de Vaan Pdf

The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.

Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634974

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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture by Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Author : Alisa van de Haar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004408593

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The Golden Mean of Languages by Alisa van de Haar Pdf

Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch were spoken as local tongues.

Author : Alison More
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192534736

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Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 by Alison More Pdf

Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities in Europe, much of the story of these women - known variously as beguines, tertiaries, klopjes, recluses, and anchoresses - remains to be told. Instead of aspiring to live as traditional religious, they transcended normative assumptions about religion and gender and had a very real impact on their religious and secular worlds. The sources for their tale are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. However, careful scrutiny allows their voices to be heard. Drawing on an array of sources including religious rules, sermons, hagiographic vitae, and rapiaria, Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It both emphasizes the innovative roles of women who transcended established forms of institutional religious life and reveals the ways in which historiographical habits have obscured the dynamic and fluid nature of their histories. By highlighting the development of irregular and extraregular communities and tracing the threads of monasticisation that wove their way around pious laywomen, this book draws attention to the vibrant and dynamic culture of feminine lay piety that persisted from the later middle ages onwards.

Author : Barbara R. Woshinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351928663

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Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800 by Barbara R. Woshinsky Pdf

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within convent walls were both captives and refugees from an outside world dominated by patriarchal power and discourses. Yet despite locks and bars, the cloister remained "porous" to privileged visitors. Others could catch a glimpse of veiled nuns through the elaborate grills separating cloistered space from the church, provoking imaginative accounts of convent life. Not surprisingly, the figure of the confined religious woman represents an intensified object of desire in male-authored narrative. The convent also spurred "feminutopian" discourses composed by women: convents become safe houses for those fleeing bad marriages or trying to construct an ideal, pastoral life, as a counter model to the male-dominated court or household. Recent criticism has identified certain privileged spaces that early modern women made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tale-telling. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.

Author : Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474689

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City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600 by Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Pdf

A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.

Author : Stephen Perkinson,Noa Turel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789004441118

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Picturing Death 1200–1600 by Stephen Perkinson,Noa Turel Pdf

Picturing Death: 1200–1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.

Author : Buford Norman,James Day
Publisher : Brill
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization in literature
ISBN : UVA:X030107395

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Civilization in French and Francophone Literature by Buford Norman,James Day Pdf

Author : Ann E. Zimo,Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher,Kathryn Reyerson,Debra Blumenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000034844

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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality by Ann E. Zimo,Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher,Kathryn Reyerson,Debra Blumenthal Pdf

Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be qualified as "marginal," it is important to interrogate where the margins lay and what it means that the majority of people occupied them. In addition, we scholars need to reexamine our use of a term that seems to have such broad applicability to ensure that we avoid imposing marginality on groups in the Middle Ages that the era itself may not have considered as such. In the medieval era, when belonging to a community was vitally important, people who lived on the margins of society could be particularly vulnerable. And yet, as scholars have shown, we ought not forget that this heightened vulnerability sometimes prompted so-called marginals to form their own communities, as a way of redefining the center and placing themselves within it. The present volume explores the concept of marginality, to whom the moniker has been applied, to whom it might usefully be applied, and how we might more meaningfully define marginality based on historical sources rather than modern assumptions. Although the volume’s geographic focus is Europe, the chapters look further afield to North Africa, the Sahara, and the Levant acknowledging that at no time, and certainly not in the Middle Ages, was Europe cut off from other parts of the globe.

Author : Kate Van Orden
Publisher : New Cultural History of Music
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199360642

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Materialities by Kate Van Orden Pdf

'Materialities' is a cultural history of song on the page. Concentrating on print in the early modern period, it approaches its topic via the French chanson, arguably the most broadly disseminated genre of polyphony in the sixteenth century. 'Materialities' is as much about how to study print culturally as it is about 'the music itself'. In this way it aligns with histories of the book by scholars such as Roger Chartier, adding a musical perspective to studies of print culture.

Author : Mathilde Kang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Oriental literature (French)
ISBN : 9048540275

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The Francophonie and the Orient by Mathilde Kang Pdf