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Author : Mark Chinca,Christopher Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477642
A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.
Author : John Reynell Morell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Literature
ISBN : BL:A0026215322
Author : John Reynell Morell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0371381681
Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012822881
Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.
Author : Anita Obermeier
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042004053
This study outlines the history and anatomy of the European apology tradition from the sixth century BCE to 1500 for the first time. The study examines the vernacular and Latin tales, lyrics, epics, and prose compositions of Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Spanish, and Welsh authors. Three different strands of the apology tradition can be proposed. The first and most pervasive strand features apologies to pagan deities and-later-to God. The second most important strand contains literary apologies made to an earthly audience, usually of women. A third strand occurs more rarely and contains apologies for varying literary offenses that are directed to a more general audience. The medieval theory of language privileges an imitation of the Christian master narrative and a hierarchical medieval view of authorship. These notions express a medieval philosophical concern about language and its role, and therefore the role of the author, in cosmic history. Despite the fact that women apologize for different purposes and reasons, their examples illustrate, on yet another level, the antifeminist subtext inherent in the entire apology tradition. Overall, the apology tradition characterized by interauctoriality, intertextuality, and intratextuality, enables self-critical authors to refer not only backward but also-primarily-forward, making the medieval apology a progressive strategy that engenders new literature. This study would be relevant to all medievalists, especially those interested in literature and the history of ideas.
Author : Joseph Berington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : WISC:89094689197
Author : Aidan Conti,Orietta Da Rold,Philip A. Shaw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844150
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.
Author : Theodore L. Steinberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786481873
Medieval literature is separated from us by so many centuries that it may seem completely foreign, both in its concerns and its techniques. However, this literature has much to say to 21st century readers and Steinberg's book demonstrates its continuing relevance and appeal. This introduction to medieval literature provides some of the cultural context that readers need to know in order to understand the literature, such as the religious orientation of the people, often deep and sincere but sometimes treated casually or subjected to intense scrutiny. The first chapter provides a brief explanation of medieval religious thought, cosmology and intellectual history. The remaining chapters provide introductions to a number of individual works ranging from Beowulf to the works of Chaucer. Avoiding the tendency to regard the Middle Ages as an era dominated by Christian men, these discussions include works by women writers and Jewish writers and a chapter on the medieval Japanese masterpiece The Tale of Genji. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789
This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.
Author : Walter Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191078910
Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
Author : Charles Warren Hollister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 0394341864
The birth of Europe - Byzantium - Islam - The flowering of Medieval culture - Town and countryside - Conquests - Crusades - Monks and friars - Papacy and empire - The birth of states and representative governement in England and France - Literature, art and thought - The late Middle Ages - Troubles of church and state - Jews in history.
Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547766520
This book aims to trace the development of Europe and its civilization, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the opening of the sixteenth century. The Table of Contents indicates the general plan of the book, which is to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of France, England, Germany, Italy, and other countries of modern Europe. Content: The Roman Empire The Barbarian World Outside the Empire The Decline of the Roman Empire The Barbarian Invasions: 378-511 A.D. "The City of God" German Kingdoms in the West Justinian and the Byzantine Empire Gregory the Great and Western Christendom The Rise and Spread of Mohammedanism The Frankish State and Charlemagne The Northmen and Other New Invaders The Feudal Land System and Feudal Society Feudal States of Europe The Growth of the Medieval Church The Expansion of Christendom and the Crusades The Rise of Towns and Gilds The Italian Cities French, Flemish, English, and German Towns The Medieval Revival of Learning Medieval Literature The Medieval Cathedrals The Church Under Innocent III Innocent III and the States of Europe The Growth of National Institutions in England The Growth of Royal Power in France The Hundred Years War Germany in the Later Middle Ages Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages The Papacy and Its Opponents in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Humanism The Italian Renaissance: Fine Arts and Voyages of Discovery The Rise of Absolutism and of the Middle Class
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Criticism
ISBN : LCCN:89000901
Author : Maria Rosa Menocal,María Rosa Menocal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812200713
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary. Menocal reviews the Arabic cultural presence in a variety of key settings, including the courts of William of Aquitaine and Frederick II, the universities in London, Paris, and Bologna, and Cluny under Peter the Venerable, and she examines how our perception of specific texts including the courtly love lyric and the works of Dante and Boccaccio would be altered by an acknowledgment of the Arabic cultural component.
Author : Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421403328
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the time. Cerquiglini-Toulet challenges the standard ways of reading and evaluating literature, considering medieval literature not as separate from that in other eras but as part of the broader tradition of world literature. Her vast and learned readings of both canonical and lesser-known works pose crucial questions about, among other things, the notion of otherness, the meaning of change and stability, and the relationship of medieval literature with theology. Part history of literature, part theoretical criticism, this book reshapes the language and content of medieval works. By weaving together topics such as the origin of epic and lyric poetry, Latin-French bilingualism, women’s writing, grammar, authorship, and more, Cerquiglini-Toulet does nothing less than redefine both philosophical and literary approaches to medieval French literature. Her book is a history of the literary act, a history of words, a history of ideas and works—monuments rather than documents—that calls into question modern concepts of literature.