The Roman De Toute Chevalerie

Author : Charles Russell Stone
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487514174

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The Roman de toute chevalerie by Charles Russell Stone Pdf

The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse perspectives on the conqueror. Beginning with a discussion of the evolution of this corpus, this book examines the manuscripts, readership, and historical contexts of the earliest surviving Alexander romance in England, Thomas de Kent’s Anglo-Norman Roman de toute chevalerie. To shed light on the origins and treatment of this romance, Charles Russell Stone reads each manuscript within the contexts of its production, scribal interpolations, and patronage and readership in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. While Thomas recalls a range of attitudes towards his protagonist in the late twelfth century, when the recovery of classical histories and composition of vernacular romance informed conflicting attitudes towards Alexander’s legacy, scribes and readers of his poem appropriated it as a continuing commentary on power, politics, and the relevance of the Alexander legend in their own time. Each of the three major manuscripts of Thomas’s poem thus offers a unique text informed by unique literary and political contexts, which this book situates within the ongoing debate over Alexander’s reception as a paradigm of imperial authority or failure in late medieval England.

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464980

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Idols in the East by Suzanne Conklin Akbari Pdf

Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time. Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism.

Author : Thomas (of Kent)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
ISBN : NWU:35556007754377

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Le Roman de Toute Chevalerie, Romanes, Langues by Thomas (of Kent) Pdf

Author : Ananya Jahanara Kabir,Deanne Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521827310

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Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages by Ananya Jahanara Kabir,Deanne Williams Pdf

A collection of original essays exploring the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies.

Author : Markus Stock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442661318

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Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages by Markus Stock Pdf

In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and discovery, but also as representations of otherness, migration, translation, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Brought together in this wide-ranging collection, these essays testify to the enduring fascination and transcultural adaptability of medieval stories about the extraordinary Macedonian leader.

Author : H. Blurton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137115799

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Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by H. Blurton Pdf

This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.

Author : Venetia Bridges
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845027

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Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great by Venetia Bridges Pdf

An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.

Author : George Cary
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Medieval Alexander by George Cary Pdf

Author : Jon Whitman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042780

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Romance and History by Jon Whitman Pdf

A wide-ranging account of the relationship between romance and history from the medieval to the early modern period.

Author : Thomas Hahn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350299993

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A Cultural History of Race in the Middle Ages by Thomas Hahn Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experienced, and enacted racializing differences. Addressing events, texts, and images from the 5th to the 16th centuries, these essays by ten eminent scholars provide broad, multi-disciplinary analyses of materials whose origins range from the British Isles, Western Iberia, and North Africa across Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East. These diverse communities possessed no single word equivalent to modern race, a term (raza) for genetic, religious, cultural, or territorial difference that emerges only at the end of the medieval period. Chapter by chapter, this volume nonetheless demonstrates the manifold beliefs, practices, institutions, and images that conveyed and enforced difference for the benefit of particular groups and to the detriment of others. Addressing the varying historiographical self-consciousness concerning race among medievalist scholars themselves, the separate analyses make use of paradigms drawn from social and political history, religious, environmental, literary, ethnic, and gender studies, the history of art and of science, and critical race theory. Chapters identify the eruption of racial discourses aroused by political or religious polemic, centered upon conversion within and among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communions, and inspired by imagined or sustained contact with alien peoples. Authors draw their evidence from Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and a profusion of European vernaculars, and provide searching examinations of visual artefacts ranging from religious service books to maps, mosaics, and manuscript illuminations

Author : Hanna Liss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004194571

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Creating Fictional Worlds by Hanna Liss Pdf

Drawing on the literary and narrative patterns in Rashbam’s Torah Commentary this book offers a comprehensive rereading of one of the first Northern French peshaṭ-commentaries and shows Rashbam’s fascinating struggle to compete with the nascent vernacular literature.

Author : Raoul De Hodenc,Keith Busby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027280237

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'Le Roman des Eles', and the Anonymous: 'Ordene de Chevalerie' by Raoul De Hodenc,Keith Busby Pdf

Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical editions of the two earliest didactic poems of this kind in the vernacular (both date from the first quarter of the thirteenth century), was conceived partly to fill this need. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Old French literature, but also to those studying other literatures; both texts are known to have circulated in England in the fourteenth century and are therefore of importance for anglicists; L’Ordene de Chevalerie was adapted into Middle Dutch and Italian several times and provides excellent material for comparatists, netherlandists and italianists; moreover, given the germinal place of Old French literature in the culture of the Middle Ages, both poems are worthy of study in the context of the evolution of the ideals of courtesy and chivalry as European literary phenomenon. Each critical text is accompanied by an extensive literary introduction and philological apparatus, and translations into modern English prose have been appended to render the poems more accessible to non-romanists.

Author : Sylvia Federico
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153635

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The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham by Sylvia Federico Pdf

A comparative reading of the literary works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

Author : Charles Talbut Onions,Jack Arthur Walter Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B4918520

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Medium Aevum by Charles Talbut Onions,Jack Arthur Walter Bennett Pdf

Includes section "Reviews".

Author : G. H. V. Bunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015034303266

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Alexander the Great in the Literature of Medieval Britain by G. H. V. Bunt Pdf