The Medieval Risk Reward Society

Author : Will Hasty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814252656

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The Medieval Risk-Reward Society by Will Hasty Pdf

"The Medieval Risk-Reward Society" offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg-showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes one of wagers and investments. Will Hasty's sociological approach to medieval courtly literature, informed by the analytic tools of game theory, reveals the blossoming of a worldview in which outcomes are uncertain, such that the very self (of a character or an authorial persona) is contingent on success or failure in possessing the things it desires-and upon which its social identity and personal happiness depend. Drawing on a diverse selection of contrasting canonical works ranging from the "Iliad" to the biblical book of Joshua to High Medieval German political texts to the writings of Leibniz and Mark Twain, Hasty enables an appreciation of the distinctive contributions made in antiquity and the Middle Ages to the medieval emergence of a European society based on risks and rewards. "The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages" takes a descriptive approach to the competitions in religion, politics, and poetry that are constitutive of medieval culture. Culture is considered always to be "happening, " and to be happening on the cultural cutting edge as competitions for rewards involving the element of chance. This study finds adventure and love--the principal concerns of medieval European romance poetry--to be cultural game changers, and thereby endeavors to make a humanist contribution to the development of a cultural game theory. Will Hasty is Professor of German and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville."

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666917871

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The Secret in Medieval Literature by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110623079

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Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can gain a much deeper understanding of medieval and early modern society when we consider how people pursued pleasure and how they structured their leisure time. The contributions examine a wide gamut of approaches to pleasure, considering health issues, eroticism, tournaments, playing music, reading and listening, drinking alcohol, gambling and throwing dice. This large issue was also relevant, of course, in non-Christian societies, and constitutes a critical concern both for the past and the present because we are all homines ludentes.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350042865

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Telecinematic Stylistics by Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig Pdf

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line. This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic showcase. It presents current developments from the field from two complementary perspectives, looking stylistically at the discourse in film and the discourse of and around film. This latter phrase comes to mean the approaches which try to account for the pragmatic effects induced by cinematography. This might be the camera work or the lighting, or the mise en scène or montage. The volume takes a multimodal approach, looking at word, movement and gesture, in keeping with modern stylistics. The volume shows how pragmatic themes and methods are adapted and applied to films, including speech acts, (im)politeness, implicature and context. In this way, it provides systematic insights into how meanings are displayed, enhanced, suppressed and negotiated in both film and televisual arts.

Author : Wojtek Jezierski,Kim Esmark,Hans Jacob Orning,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000200119

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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III by Wojtek Jezierski,Kim Esmark,Hans Jacob Orning,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson Pdf

This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the chapters cover the Scandinavian realms and Free State Iceland. Thematically the authors cover a wide palette of cultural practices and historical sources: hagiography, historiography, spaces and palaces, literature, and international connections, which rulers, magnates or ecclesiastics used to compete for status and to reserve haloing glory for themselves. The volume is divided in three sections. The first looks at the sacral, legal, and acclamatory means through which privilege was conferred onto kings and ruling families. Section Two explores the spaces such as aristocratic halls, palaces, churches in which the social elevation of elites took place. Section Three explores the traditional and novel means of domestic distinction and international cultural capital which different orders of elites – knights, powerful clerics, ruling families etc. – wrought to assure their dominance and set themselves apart vis-à-vis their peers and subjects. A concluding chapter discusses how the use of symbolic capital in the North compared to wider European contexts.

Author : Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139894

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The End-times in Medieval German Literature by Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski Pdf

Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443848787

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An English Translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart by Albrecht Classen Pdf

To expand our understanding of medieval literature in its wider context, there is a desperate need for more translations, since not every text in the Middle Ages was written in Latin, English, or French. Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart (ca. 1220) represents a major contribution to thirteenth-century German romance literature. The present English translation will allow those without knowledge of Middle High German to read and enjoy this significant composition and gain remarkable insights into a literary discourse that was to transform the late medieval canon. Rudolf’s work deserves particular attention because it includes remarkable examples of medieval multilingualism, tolerance, and multiculturality. The poet developed new aesthetic and ethical values, and presented an innovative relationship between a humble yet intelligent and compassionate individual and God by introducing, as his protagonist, a Cologne merchant, who supersedes even the Emperor Otto in his religious devotion, humbleness, and goodness. Finally, Der guote Gêrhart is clearly based on an eleventh-century Jewish narrative by Rabbi Nissim, though we cannot yet explain the lines of transmission from the Judeo-Arabic text to the Middle High German romance.

Author : Tristan E. Franklinos,Henry Hope
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783273799

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Revisiting the Codex Buranus by Tristan E. Franklinos,Henry Hope Pdf

Enables the less well-known aspects of the Codex Buranus to receive greater scrutiny, and bring new perspectives to bear on the more thoroughly explored parts of the manuscript. Making accessible existing discourse and encouraging fresh debates on the codex, the essays advocate fresh modes of engagement with its contents, contexts, and composition.

Author : Elizabeth S. Leet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031198526

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Contact Zones by Elizabeth S. Leet Pdf

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020.

Author : Melissa Ridley Elmes,Evelyn Meyer,Elizabeth Archibald,Nichole Burgdorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846871

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Ethics in the Arthurian Legend by Melissa Ridley Elmes,Evelyn Meyer,Elizabeth Archibald,Nichole Burgdorf Pdf

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 : Anu Mänd,Marek Tamm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000076936

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Making Livonia by Anu Mänd,Marek Tamm Pdf

The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of the Baltic Sea in the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries. These radical changes have received increasing scholarly notice over the last few decades. However, less attention has been devoted to the interplay between the new and the old structures and actors in a longer perspective. This volume aims to study these interplays and explores the history of Livonia by concentrating on various actors and networks from the late twelfth to the seventeenth century. But, on a deeper level, the goal is more ambitious: to investigate the foundation of an increasingly complex and heterogeneous society on the medieval and early modern Baltic frontier – ‘the making of Livonia’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCBK:C117509736

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Monatshefte by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498585811

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Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.

Author : Jeremy duQuesnay Adams
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034880257

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Patterns of Medieval Society by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams Pdf

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.