Télécharger le livre :  Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Plague

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani  argues for the necessity of placing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War followsElionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III. Despite the limited amount of personal information about Elionor, the large...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing the Holy Land

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England

This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish Travel Literature

The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-01
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Nature, René d’Anjou’s Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes’s Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut’s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages

Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerotics

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of “pornographic literary theory” to open up Chaucer’s ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis. By introducing and applying the notion of “Chaucerotics,” this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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