Author : T. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,23 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 : T. Pugh
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403984876
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 : Philip Daileader
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137532939
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, Ferrer spent the final two decades of his life traversing Europe, preparing the world for its imminent destruction. Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), His World and Life reassesses the controversial preacher's motives, methods, and impact, tracing Ferrer's journey from obscure logician to angel of the apocalypse, as he came to be known. At the same time, the book offers new insights into the depth and breadth of late medieval apocalyptic anticipation, and into the processes that ultimately led to the expulsions of Spain's Jews and Muslims.
Author : A. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230620736
This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
Author : E. Crosby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1137352124
This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.
Author : C. Keene
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1137035641
Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.
Author : M. Shadis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0230103138
The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (queen of France), Urraca (queen of Portugal), Costanza (a Cistercian nun of Las Huelgas) and Leonor, (queen of Aragon) provide the context for a study focusing on Berenguela of Castile, queen of Leon through marriage and of Castile by right of inheritance, whose most significant accomplishment was to enable the successful rule of her son Fernando.
Author : M. McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230101879
The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin McLaughlin's edition is the complete correspendence with commentary.
Author : S. Salih
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230101623
Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies of Julian may remark in passing on her popularity, but none have attempted a detailed study of her reception. This collection fills that gap: it outlines the full reception history from the extant manuscripts to the present day, looking at Julian in devotional cultures, in modernist poetry and present-day popular literature, and in her iconography in Norwich, both as a pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction.
Author : A. Siewers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023010052X
Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.
