Place Space And Landscape In Medieval Narrative

Author : Laura L. Howes
Publisher : Tenn Studies Literature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073889969

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Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative by Laura L. Howes Pdf

This collection contains essays from thirteen authors, on topics ranging from an Old English transfiguration homily, to Galbert of Bruges, Marie de France's lais, Chaucer's gardens, Boccaccio's Decameron, and others. In each of these chapters, analyses of space map a variety of ways medieval narratives encoded meaning. In some, lost historical associations are uncovered. In others, a new way of theorizing space-even seeing bodies and minds as spaces to be imagined or marked-leads to interpretations that add significantly to our understanding of medieval narrative art. In still others, broadly political and ideological concerns find expression in the spatial world.

Author : Christina M. Heckman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845652

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Debating with Demons by Christina M. Heckman Pdf

A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.

Author : Michael Leslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995475

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by Michael Leslie Pdf

The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

Author : Elizabeth Moores
Publisher : Patricia Rose
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Landscapes
ISBN : 9780646580333

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Knowing Places by Elizabeth Moores Pdf

Author : Corinne Dale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844648

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The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles by Corinne Dale Pdf

An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.

Author : Emma Lipton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812298468

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Cultures of Witnessing by Emma Lipton Pdf

In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship.

Author : James N. Bade
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : German literature
ISBN : 9783826040771

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Fontane's Landscapes by James N. Bade Pdf

Aimed primarily at English-speaking undergraduate students of German literature, but also with graduate students and a general readership in mind, this book deals with the literary landscapes in Theodor Fontane's best known novels - 'Schach von Wuthenow' (1882), 'Irrungen, Wirrungen' (1888), and 'Effi Briest' (1895). It is an illuminating introduction to one of Europe's finest novelists. "It is an excellent idea to guide readers through the novels by way of focusing on the landscapes. James Bade brings an enormous amount of material into the discussion and is always detailed and precise. The book reads very well and enriches the Fontane literature.--publisher website.

Author : Nicole Guenther Discenza
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500658

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Inhabited Spaces by Nicole Guenther Discenza Pdf

In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.

Author : M. Cassidy-Welch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230306400

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Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400 by M. Cassidy-Welch Pdf

This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110610963

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Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists' employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis).

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
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.

Author : Louise Campion
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838315

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Cushions, Kitchens and Christ by Louise Campion Pdf

This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including the spiritual guidance text, Life of Christ, and collection of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.

Author : Francis Tobienne, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496048

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Mandeville's Travails by Francis Tobienne, Jr. Pdf

Mandeville’s Travails challenges the less than serious stereotyping of travel as both genre and theoretical framework. Instead, and by examining the position of travel, a deeper sense of the human species can be appreciated beyond the displaced borders of language, ritual, and culture.

Author : Sarah Elliott Novacich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177055

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Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England by Sarah Elliott Novacich Pdf

Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature.

Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317194262

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The Signifying Power of Pearl by Jane Beal Pdf

This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.