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  • - The Juxtaposition of Contraries in Early Medieval Spanish Literature
    av James F. Burke
    991,-

    The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature.

  • - Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts
    av Ralph Hanna
    1 053,-

    An analysis of the importance of "textual criticism" as an act of historical interpretation and recovery in medieval literature. It points out the need for attention to the physical bearers of our knowledge of the English Middle Ages, the books and the features of manuscript culture.

  • - Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism
    av M. B. Pranger
    991,-

    In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.

  • - Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition
    av Armando Petrucci
    717,-

    Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing-on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters-to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

  • - The Legacy of Erich Auerbach
     
    823,-

    These fourteen essays draw on new biographical information and recent developments in literary theory and cultural studies to reinterpret Auerbach's work, both in the social and historical contexts of its author's life.

  • av Rainer Warning
    983,-

    What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas from Germany, France, England, and Spain: 10th-century Easter plays, 12th-century Adam plays, and 15th- and 16th-century Passion plays.

  • - Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity
    av Virginia Burrus
    359 - 1 326,-

    This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman empire.

  • - Essays in Scriptural Imagination
    av Peter S. Hawkins
    407,-

    This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"-the globe traversed by pilgrims and navigators.

  • - The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century
    av Sarah Kay
    1 062,-

    Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of courtly love? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions by way of contradiction, which is central both to medieval logic and to most modern protocols of reading.

  • - Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism
    av Catherine Brown
    938,-

    This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages.

  • - Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy
    av M. Victoria Guerin
    991,-

    This analysis aims to show how the greatest romance stories of medieval Europe contain the seeds of later versions of tragedy, and the stress this put upon the literary form and ideological function of the romance.

  • - Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
    av Theresa Tinkle
    930,-

    The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love.

  • - The Origins of Silent Reading
    av Paul Saenger
    494 - 924,-

    This book explains how a change in writing-the introduction of word separation-led to the development of silent reading during the period from late antiquity to the 15th century. It also explains why word separation was so long in coming.

  • - Text and Governance in the Middle Ages
    av Peter Haidu
    417 - 1 769,-

    This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation.

  • - Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
    av Daniel Boyarin
    327 - 1 241,-

    Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.

  • av Paul Freedman
    430 - 1 769,-

    This book examines the conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War-how they were represented as subhuman yet as close to God; as contemptible yet as exemplary Christians-and how such views formed the basis for social movements.

  • - Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature
    av Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
    938,-

    This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-12th century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks questions including what were the purposes of transforming classical myth?

  • - Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
    av Bruce W. Holsinger
    434 - 1 662,-

    Ranging chronologically from the 12th to the 15th centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages.

  • - The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony
    av Sylvia Huot
    777,-

    This book focuses on the literary artistry of the texts of Old French and bilingual motets, notably the special feature of motets that distinguished them from other medieval lyric forms: the phenomenon of polytextuality.

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