Author :
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1781383367
The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry.
Author : K. Sarah-Jane Murray
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843846535
First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide moralisé is a massive and influential work of synthesis and creativity, a remarkable window into a certain kind of medieval thinking. It is of major importance across time and across many disciplines, including literature, philosophy, theology, and art history. This three volume set offers an English translation of this hugely significant text - the first into any modern language. Based on the only complete edition to date, that by Cornelis de Boer and others completed in 1938, it also reflects more recent editions and numerous manuscripts. The translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction, situating the Ovide moralisé in terms of the reception of Ovid, the mythographical tradition, and its medieval French religious and intellectual milieu. Notes discuss textual problems and sources, and relate the text to key issues in the thought of theologians such as Bonaventure and Aquinas.
Author : Venetia Bridges
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843846160
Essays; medieval romance; Arthurian Iiterature; Elizabeth Archibald.
Author : Anne Laskaya
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580444679
This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.
Author : David Gordon White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 022671490X
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common dæmonological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the “inner demons” cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the “outer dæmons” that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a “connected histories” approach to Eurasian dæmonology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place at the heart of the discipline of the history of religions.
Author : Richard Sir Lodge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Delve into the intricate tapestry of history with "The Close of the Middle Ages, 1272-1494" by Richard Sir Lodge. This comprehensive account chronicles the pivotal events, cultural shifts, and political dynamics that shaped the end of the Middle Ages. Lodge's meticulous research and engaging narrative style provide readers with a deep understanding of a transformative period in history. A treasure trove for history buffs and scholars alike.
Author : Bernard Guenée
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226310329
"For the past several decades, French historians have emphasized the writing of history in terms of structures, cultures, and mentalities, an approach exemplified by proponents of the Annales school. With this volume, Bernard Guenée, himself associated with the Annalistes, marks a decisive break with this dominant mode of French historiography. Still recognizing the Annalistes' indispensable contribution, Guenée turns to the genre of biography as a way to attend more closely to chance, to individual events and personalities, and to a sense of time as people actually experienced it, without sacrificing the conceptual rigor made possible by crisply stated problématiques. His engaging and detailed study links in sequence the lives of four French bishops who, because of their office, were intellectuals and politicians as well. These men rose in the hierarchy that was medieval society by dint of talent and ambition, not birth. What Guenée reveals is the career patterns and politics of an era that privileged youth yet granted certain advantages to those, such as Guenée's subjects, who survived to old age. He illustrates not only how these and other medieval men of the church were schooled but also how they learned from life, illuminating medieval and early modern history through their writings."--Jacket.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1350154954
For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Mary Erler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0820323810
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Author : John Thomas McNeill
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN :
This is a masterful historical portrait of the whole movement of Calvinism for general readers and scholars alike.
