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Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality

Author : L. Sylvester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610316

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Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality by L. Sylvester Pdf

This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this period. This book tests current theories of language and desire through stylistic analysis, examining transitivity choices and speech acts in sexual encounters and conversations in medieval romances. In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of interest to scholars investigating language and sexuality as well as those researching and teaching medieval literature and culture.

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Author : Amy Burge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137593566

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Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance by Amy Burge Pdf

This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Fairies in Medieval Romance

Author : J. Wade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119154

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Fairies in Medieval Romance by J. Wade Pdf

This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.

The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature

Author : J. Rider,J. Friedman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339330

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The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature by J. Rider,J. Friedman Pdf

Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.

Medieval Romance and Material Culture

Author : Nicholas Perkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843900

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Medieval Romance and Material Culture by Nicholas Perkins Pdf

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

Medieval Literature: The Basics

Author : Angela Jane Weisl,Anthony Joseph Cunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317210634

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Medieval Literature: The Basics by Angela Jane Weisl,Anthony Joseph Cunder Pdf

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

Queering the Middle Ages

Author : Glenn Burger,Steven F. Kruger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816634041

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Queering the Middle Ages by Glenn Burger,Steven F. Kruger Pdf

The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, "queers" stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways. While not denying the force of gender and sexual norms, the authors consider how historical work has written out or over what might have been non-normative in medieval sex and culture, and they work to restore a sense of such instabilities. At the same time, they ask how this pursuit might allow us not only to re-envision medieval studies but also to rethink how we study culture from our current set of vantage points within postmodernity. The authors focus on particular medieval moments: Christine de Pizan's representation of female sexuality; chastity in the Grail romances; the illustration of "the sodomite" in manuscript commentaries on Dante's Commedia; the complex ways that sexuality inflected English national politics at the time of Edward II's deposition; the construction of the sodomitic Moor by Reconquista Spain. Throughout, their work seeks to disturb a logic that sees the past as significant only insofar as it may make sense for and of a stabilized present.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Author : Robin Netherton,Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843837367

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Medieval Clothing and Textiles by Robin Netherton,Gale R. Owen-Crocker Pdf

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose. Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretationof medieval European dress; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Böck, Maren Clegg Hyer, Louise Sylvester, ChrystelBrandenburgh, Lisa Evans, Patricia Williams, Katherine Talarico.

Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Author : K. Attar,L. Shutters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137465726

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Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters by K. Attar,L. Shutters Pdf

Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Author : T. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230114685

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Outlawry in Medieval Literature by T. Jones Pdf

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Writing Medieval Women’s Lives

Author : C. Goldy,A. Livingstone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137074706

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Writing Medieval Women’s Lives by C. Goldy,A. Livingstone Pdf

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was.

Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature

Author : M. Hayes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230118737

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Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature by M. Hayes Pdf

A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.

Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

Author : Serina Patterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137497529

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Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature by Serina Patterson Pdf

The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.

Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

Author : S. Hutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230118706

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Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent by S. Hutton Pdf

Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.