Author: Heath, Peter Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Explores the use of allegory in the writing of the renowned eleventh-century Muslim philosopher known in the West as Avicenna, paying special attention to the ways he influenced theological, mystical,...
Author: Besserman, Lawrence Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in ei...
Author: Besserman, Lawrence Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in ei...
Description: Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic pe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic pe...
Author: Jaeger, Stephen Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work is the first complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, bishop of Seville (c. 560 636). Isidore compiled the work between c. 615 and the early 630s and it takes the fo...
Author: Mallette, Karla Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mallette examines Orientalist philology in southern Europe produced between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. Focusing on Italy, Spain, and Malta, she conducts close comparative readings o...
Author: Maddox, Donald Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on cru...
Author: Newman, Barbara Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."—Caroline Walker By...
Author: Nolan, Maura Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth ...
Author: Higham, N. J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This highly original study provides an essential insight into why the Arthurian myth has caught the imagination of so many people. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the origins and evolutio...
Author: Wenzel, Siegfried Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe and analyse the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of m...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descr...
Author: Hayes, E. Bruce Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of Rabelais' writing, and of farce'...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the first woman and a prototype for her daughters, the significance of the figure of Eve is a well-established commonplace of literary and gender studies. However, despite frequent nods at Eve's im...
Author: Neville, Jennifer Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, ...
Author: Coon, Lynda Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynd...
Description: This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historica...
Author: Bayless, Martha Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historica...
Description: In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book exp...
Author: Bardzell, Jeffrey Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this study Bardzell unveils the way signification in medieval allegorical narrative depends not on Aristotelian theories of language, but rather on an alternative theory of language, which began wi...
Author: Green, D. H. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the ...
Author: McCracken, Peggy Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood ...
Author: Mallette, Karla Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250, Karla Mallette writes the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The study contains an extensive selection of poe...
Author: Brown, Cynthia Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Queen's Library, Cynthia J. Brown examines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production in late medieval and early Renaissance France.
Author: Ghosh, Kantik Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kantik Ghosh argues that one of the main reasons for Lollardy's sensational resonance for its times, and for its immediate posterity, was its exposure of fundamental problems in late medieval academic...
Author: Warren, Nancy Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women in the later medieval and early modern periods, from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled duri...
Author: Koopmans, Rachel Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on fresh work in the social sciences, Rachel Koopmans offers a new model for understanding how medieval miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated within an oral environment. S...
Author: Higgins, Iain Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A remarkable analysis of an important medieval text. . . . This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the...
Author: Minnis, Alastair Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Available again with a new preface, this classic work of medieval literary scholarship argues that discussion of late-medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume emphasizes theories and concepts that highlight global interconnectedness through a range of interpretative and critical approaches to understanding the global significance and impacts of ...
Author: Warner, J. Christopher Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke...
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