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Medieval Conduct

Author : Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816635757

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Medieval Conduct by Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark Pdf

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records -- the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Medieval Conduct

Author : Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816635765

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Medieval Conduct by Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark Pdf

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records -- the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Medieval Conduct Literature

Author : Kathleen M. Ashley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802098320

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Medieval Conduct Literature by Kathleen M. Ashley Pdf

"Conduct literature is a term used to identify writings that address how one should 'conduct' oneself in social situations. In the medieval period conduct literature was essential reading for nearly all literate children and adolescents to educate them in the expected social behaviours for their culture, gender, and status. Using a comparative approach, this anthology pairs together pieces of male-directed and female-directed medieval conduct literature, many being translated into English for the first time, to present an illuminating picture of medieval gender norms, parenting, literary style, and pedagogy." "Containing texts written in six vernacular languages, each section is also accompanied by textual notes, an introduction, and an English translation. A fascinating examination of a diverse range of regions and cultures, Medieval Conduct Literature is a remarkable window into medieval life, customs, behaviour, and social expectations." --Book Jacket.

Medieval Conduct

Author : Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452904766

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Medieval Conduct by Kathleen M. Ashley,Robert L. A. Clark Pdf

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records -- the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy

Author : Nicolino Applauso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498567794

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Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy by Nicolino Applauso Pdf

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.

Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman

Author : Tabitha Kenlon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785273155

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Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman by Tabitha Kenlon Pdf

The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. “Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women’s roles and abilities. Close readings of numerous conduct manuals from Britain and America, written by men and women, explain and contextualize the legacy of sexism as represented in prescriptive writing for women from 1372 to the present. While existing period-specific studies of conduct manuals consider advice literature within the society that wrote and read them, “Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” provides the only analysis of both the volumes themselves and the larger debates taking place within their pages across the centuries. Combining textual literary analysis with a social history sensibility while remaining accessible to expert and novice, this book will help readers understand the on-going debate about the often-contradictory guidelines for female behavior.

Conduct Becoming

Author : Glenn Burger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812249606

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Conduct Becoming by Glenn Burger Pdf

Glenn D. Burger argues that, over the course of the long fourteenth century, the "invention" of the good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, private devotion, and personal conduct reconfigures how female embodiment is understood.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author : Annette Kern-Stähler,Nicole Nyffenegger
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823393269

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Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England by Annette Kern-Stähler,Nicole Nyffenegger Pdf

This volume explores practices of secrecy and surveillance in medieval and early modern England. The ten contributions by Swiss and international scholars (including Paul Strohm, Sylvia Tomasch, Karma Lochrie, and Richard Wilson) address in particular the intersections of secrecy and surveillance with gender and identity, public and private spheres, religious practices, and power structures. Covering a wide range of English literary texts from Old English riddles to medieval romances, the Book of Margery Kempe, and the plays and poems of Shakespeare, these essays seek to contribute to our understanding of the practices of secrecy, exclusion, and disclosure as well as to the much-needed historicisation of Surveillance Studies called for in the opening article by Sylvia Tomasch. ---

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107167742

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics by Thomas Williams Pdf

Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.

Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy

Author : Roisin Cossar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971899

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Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy by Roisin Cossar Pdf

Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests’ lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.

Medieval Fabrications

Author : E. Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137096753

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Medieval Fabrications by E. Burns Pdf

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Author : Juliann Vitullo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030290450

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Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy by Juliann Vitullo Pdf

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the household and community management of wealth, emotion, and trade in luxury “goods,” including enslaved women, as moral questions. Juliann Vitullo considers how this mercantile economy affected paternity and the portraits of ideal fatherhood, which in some cases reconceived the role of fathers and in others reconfirmed traditional notions of paternal authority.

Becoming Human

Author : J. Allan Mitchell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452941578

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Becoming Human by J. Allan Mitchell Pdf

Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects—including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments—and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present.

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age

Author : Jo Ann Moran Cruz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350238763

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A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age by Jo Ann Moran Cruz Pdf

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The medieval world was a rich blend of cultures and religions within which individuals were shaped and schooled. Men and women learned, taught, worked, fought, and prayed in social contexts that witnessed an expansion of literacy and learning. The chapters in this volume illustrate the extent to which medieval education formed the foundation of the modern educational enterprise. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education.