Author : F. Grady
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137123672
This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower. Grady also illustrates the way these figures have been used to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues.
Author : Frank Grady
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : E. Upton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137310073
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Author : M. C. Bodden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2011-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230337651
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Author : K. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230621627
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was depicted in literature by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate. Kennedy uses close readings and medieval letter collections to provide a documentary look at how lords and men communicated information about their relationships and reveals surprising information about both medieval law and society.
Author : J. Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230620728
Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Author : T. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0230610528
This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.
Author : M. Krummel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023011718X
Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England.
Author : Valerie B. Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501514210
Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.
Author : J. Citrome
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1137096810
Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.
