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Author : P. S. Langeslag
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844259
A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.
Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Miriam Mayburd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513862
This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Author : Derek Albert Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:466415062
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654207567
Author : Phebe Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317034957
Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces the medieval evolution of the calendar into its early modern format against the background of the English Reformation, and presents a history of the English almanac in the context of the rise of the printing industry in England. The book includes a primer on deciphering early modern printed almanacs, as well as an illustrated guide to the rich visual and verbal iconography of seasons, months, and days of the week, gathered from material culture, farming manuals, almanacs, and continental prints. As a practical guide to English calendars and the social, mathematical, and scientific practices that inform them, Astrology, Almanacs,and the Early Modern English Calendar is an indispensable tool for historians, cultural critics, and literary scholars working with the primary material of the period, especially those with interests in astrology, popular science, popular print, the book as material artifact, and the history of time-reckoning.
Author : Eleanor Parker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789146714
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England—now in paperback. Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories, and religious literature, Eleanor Parker investigates how Anglo-Saxons felt about the annual passing of the seasons and the profound relationship they saw between human life and the rhythms of nature. Many of the festivals celebrated in the United Kingdom today have their roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, and this book traces their surprising history while unearthing traditions now long forgotten. It celebrates some of the finest treasures of medieval literature and provides an imaginative connection to the Anglo-Saxon world.
Author : Derek Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003887481
Author : Kristýna Králová
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783831648269
This work is concerned with time reckoning and perception in Old Norse culture. Based on an analysis of various prose and poetic works, the author reconstructs the native images of time, as well as their changes in relation to social development, namely the arrival of Christianity and feudalism to the North. The primary sources are divided into three groups. The first group comprises works that contain traces of the original domestic understanding of time, the „Poetic Edda“, „Snorri’s Edda“, legendary and family sagas. The second group includes different types of texts, all of which adopt foreign concepts of time that spread to Iceland especially through various learned treatises and the influence of the Church. Lastly, it is examined how foreign time reckoning and perception affected the temporal structure of kings’ and bishops’ sagas included in the third group of sources.
Author : Marie Collins,Virginia Davis
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 0283999608
Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300260212
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.
Author : Siân Grønlie,Carl Phelpstead
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501516597
This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.
Author : Marie Collins,Virginia Davis
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0060168218
"A vivid insight into the country life and seasonal activities of the year in the later middle ages.""--Cover.
Author : Siân Grønlie,Carl Phelpstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501524836
This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The contents of the volume reflect the range of current research on Old Norse and related literatures, featuring original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga; related languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe; and accounts of the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. This collection demonstrates the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects. In doing so, it celebrates Heather O'Donoghue's extraordinary and enduring influence on the subject, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Will Kynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191083198
An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature" considers the definitional issues long plaguing Wisdom scholarship. Will Kynes argues that Wisdom Literature is not a category used in early Jewish and Christian interpretation. It first emerged in modern scholarship, shaped by its birthplace in nineteenth-century Germany. Kynes casts new light on the traits long associated with the category, such as universalism, humanism, rationalism, empiricism, and secularism, which so closely reflect the ideals of that time. Since it was originally assembled to reflect modern ideals, it is not surprising that biblical scholars have faced serious difficulties defining the corpus on another basis or integrating it into the theology of the Old Testament. The problem, however, is not only why the texts were perceived in this one way, but that they are perceived in only one way at all. The book builds on recent theories from literary studies and cognitive science to create a new alternative approach to genre that integrates hermeneutical insight from various genre proposals. This theory is then applied to Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, mapping out the complex textual network contributing to their meaning. With the death of the Wisdom Literature category, both the so-called Wisdom texts and the concept of wisdom find new life.