Heroes And Marvels Of The Middle Ages

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789142501

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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff Pdf

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle, and the cloister. Roaming between the boundaries of the natural and the supernatural, between earth and the heavens, the medieval universe is illustrated by a shared iconography, covering a vast geographical span. This imaginative history is also a continuing story, which presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present, and openness to the future.

Author : Eva March Tappan
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465604477

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Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Pdf

PEPIN THE SHORT had done a great deal to unite the kingdom; but when he died, he left it to his two sons, and so divided it again. The older son died in a few years; and now the kingdom of the Franks was in the hands of Charlemagne, if he could hold it. First came trouble with the Saxons who lived about the lower Rhine and the Elbe. They and the Franks were both Germans, but the Franks had had much to do with the Romans, and had learned many of their ways. Missionaries, too, had dwelt among them and had taught them Christianity, while the Saxons were still heathen. It was fully thirty years before the Saxons were subdued. During those years, Charlemagne watched them closely. He fought, to be sure, whenever they rebelled, and he made some severe laws and saw to it that these were obeyed. More than this, however, he sent missionaries to them, and he built churches. He carried away many Saxon boys as hostages. These boys were carefully brought up and were taught Christianity. They learned to like the Frankish ways of living, and when they had grown up and were sent home, they urged their friends to yield and become peaceful subjects of the great king; and finally the land of the Saxons became a part of the Frankish kingdom. Charlemagne had only begun the Saxon war, when the Pope asked for help against the Lombards, a tribe of Teutons who had settled in Northern Italy. The king was quite ready to give it, for he, too, had a quarrel with them; and in a year or two their ruler had been shut up in a monastery and Charlemagne had been crowned with the old iron crown of Lombardy. This war had hardly come to an end before the king led his troops into Spain against the Mohammedans. There, too, he was successful; but at Roncesvalles he lost a favourite follower, Count Roland. Roland and the warriors who perished with him were so young and brave that the Franks never wearied of recounting their noble deeds. Later the story was put into a fine poem, called the "Song of Roland," which long afterward men sang as they dashed into battle.

Author : Willem Pieter Gerritsen,A. G. van Melle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157807

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A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes by Willem Pieter Gerritsen,A. G. van Melle Pdf

"The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.

Author : Martha W. Driver,Sid Ray
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786419265

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The Medieval Hero on Screen by Martha W. Driver,Sid Ray Pdf

Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes. This collection of essays about the medieval hero on screen, contributed by scholars from a variety of disciplines, draws upon a wide range of movies and medieval texts. The essays are grouped into five sections, each with an introduction by the editors: an exploration of historic authenticity; heroic children and the lessons they convey to young viewers; medieval female heroes; the place of the hero's weapon in pop culture; and teaching the medieval movie in the classroom. Thirty-two film stills illustrate the work, and each essay includes notes, a filmography, and a bibliography. There is a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum, and an index is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : E. M. Tappan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499985242

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Heroes of the Middle Ages by E. M. Tappan Pdf

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0631175660

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Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 by Jacques Le Goff Pdf

This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe. Part one, Historical Evolution , is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part two, Medieval Civilization , is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power characteristic of Anglo-Saxon scholarship with the sensitivity and insight of the French historical tradition.

Author : Eva March Tappan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33333219782618

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Heroes of the Middle Ages (Alaric to Columbus) by Eva March Tappan Pdf

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316082792

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A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester Pdf

A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

Author : Eva March Tappan
Publisher : Yesterdays Classics
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1599151693

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Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Pdf

Recounts the stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages and acquaints the reader with the most important figures in those scenes. The figures are grouped into seven periods: The Barbarian Invasion, The Forming of the Germanic Nations, The Teutonic Invasions, The Rise of Nationalities, The Crusades, The Time of Progress and Discovery, and The Struggles of the Nations. In the tapestry which the author weaves may be traced the history of the rise and fall of the various nationalities and the circumstances and mode of life of each.

Author : GEORGE. HODGES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033031313

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SAINTS AND HEROES by GEORGE. HODGES Pdf

Author : Stephen Murray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231551472

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Notre-Dame of Amiens by Stephen Murray Pdf

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time. Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral’s eight hundredth anniversary. Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Author : Michelle Karnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226819761

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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World by Michelle Karnes Pdf

A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief accepted only by simple-minded people, Michelle Karnes shows that these spectacular wonders were near impossibilities that demanded scrutiny and investigation. This is the first book to analyze a diverse set of writings on such wonders, comparing texts from the Latin West—including those written in English, French, Italian, and Castilian Spanish —with those written in Arabic as it works toward a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Karnes tells a story about the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that experiences of the strange and the unfamiliar travel across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space and offering an ideal vantage point from which to understand intercultural exchange. Karnes traverses this diverse archive, showing how imagination imbues marvels with their character and power, making them at once enigmatic, creative, and resonant. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, these marvels challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers a rare comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized as central to medieval culture.

Author : Tina Marie Boyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004316416

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The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature by Tina Marie Boyer Pdf

In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature, Tina Boyer offers an analysis of giants as antagonists and heroes in medieval European epics and romances.

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486278629

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Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages by H. A. Guerber Pdf

Medieval romance and other kinds of myth and legend from the Middle Ages offer a heady mix of Christian and pagan elements, reflecting both the passing of an ancient culture and the arrival of a new order. Not purely legend, not really history, these wonderful stories often involve pagan heroes reshaped to fit tales of knighthood and Christian endeavor. 36 illustrations.

Author : William Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0955275156

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A Heroes History of Medieval Britain by William Webb Pdf

The Medieval period was a fascinating time in British history. This book covers the period from the Norman conquest of England to the start of the Tudor monarchy, with the defeat of Richard III by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth.