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Author : Tina Marie Boyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004316416
In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature, Tina Boyer offers an analysis of giants as antagonists and heroes in medieval European epics and romances.
Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Miriam Mayburd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513619
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 : Willem Pieter Gerritsen,A. G. van Melle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157807
"The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.
Author : Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139894
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
Author : Gillian R. Overing,Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783847009528
"One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the period's popular uptake – cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists' brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages – this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the 'American' and the 'medieval'." – Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
Author : Lindy Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009225618
This holistic study demonstrates the interconnected nature of early medieval origin legends and traces their growth over time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520660
This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.
Author : Larissa Tracy,Geert H. M. Claassens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Dutch literature
ISBN : 9781843846345
This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.
Author : Assaf Pinkus
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271087696
Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in which it has been represented and understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in premodern conceptualizations of selfhood. Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments. Stripped from their devotional context and presented simply as brutal acts, these portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus describes as “visual aggressions.” Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger cultural concerns about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the conceptualization of early modern personhood. Innovative and convincing, this study heralds a fundamental shift in the scholarly conversation about premodern violence, moving from a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem in an ethical system. Scholars of medieval and early modern art, history, and literature will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research for years to come.
Author : Rachel E. Kellett
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905981489
Combat is one of the central themes of Middle High German narrative literature, and of significant interest to medievalists in general. Nevertheless, few studies to date have attempted a detailed analysis of the depiction of combat in literary texts. Rachel Kellett uses an inclusive approach to the details of combat descriptions in order to analyse minutely the scenes of single combat and battle presented in two major narrative works by Der Stricker, the epic Karl der Grosse and the Arthurian romance Daniel von dem Bluuml;henden Tal, written between 1220 and 1250. The author compares these works with a wide range of other texts, both French and German, and investigates the relationship between Stricker's depiction of combat and that found in the works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach among others. She also draws on historical research into medieval warfare, tournament and the tradition of the judicial combat, which adds valuable depth to her analysis of literary texts. Overall, this study provides new insights into the depiction of combat in Middle High German literature as a whole, while at the same time highlighting hitherto unnoticed aspects of the writings of Der Stricker as an individual author, and bringing a new perspective on the ambiguous role played by combat in the equally ambiguous Daniel von dem Bluuml;henden Tal.
Author : Melissa Ridley Elmes,Evelyn Meyer,Elizabeth Archibald,Nichole Burgdorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846871
An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects. This book brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory, philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from Culhwch and Olwen to Parzival, Roman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur. As a whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where the matter of ethics is concerned.
Author : Rosemary Morris
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780859910880
This study is based on literry works in various languages, from earliest times until approximately 1500. The 'biographer' of Arthur, tries to interlink the various sources.
Author : Annegret Oehme
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110624403
This publication uncovers two previously dismissed pre-modern adaptations of the Middle High German Wigalois (1215) by exploring their different approaches to female agency in comparison with the original Wigalois, the Yiddish Viduvilt (14th ct.) and the German Wigoleis (15th ct.). Traditionally, scholarship often concentrated on the Yiddish text presenting female figures as behaving in a "Jewish manner" or embodying famous Jewish mythical figures such as Lilith (see Achim Jaeger / Robert G. Warnock). Rather than trying to argue for or against a figure’s "Jewishness," I evaluate these interpretations from the perspective of Arthurian Literature by showing that the construction of female agency is at the center of all three adaptations of this important chapter of German-Jewish literature and culture.
Author : Natalie Le Clue,Janelle Vermaak-Griessel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801175647
For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.
Author : Mirjam Thulin,Markus Krah,Bianca Pick
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783869564937
The Jewish family has been the subject of much admiration and analysis, criticism and myth-making, not just but especially in modern times. As a field of inquiry, its place is at the intersection – or in the shadow – of the great topics in Jewish Studies and its contributing disciplines. Among them are the modernization and privatization of Judaism and Jewish life;integration and distinctiveness of Jews as individuals and as a group;gender roles and education. These and related questions have been the focus of modern Jewish family research, which took shape as a discipline in the 1910s. This issue of PaRDeS traces the origins of academic Jewish family research and takes stock of its development over a century, with its ruptures that have added to the importance of familial roots and continuities. A special section retrieves the founder of the field, Arthur Czellitzer (1871–1943), his biography and work from oblivion and places him in the context of early 20th-century science and Jewish life. The articles on current questions of Jewish family history reflect the topic’s potential for shedding new light on key questions in Jewish Studies past and present. Their thematic range – from 13th-century Yiddish Arthurian romances via family-based business practices in 19th-century Hungary and Germany, to concepts of Jewish parenthood in Imperial Russia – illustrates the broad interest in Jewish family research as a paradigm for early modern and modern Jewish Studies.