Télécharger le livre :  Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and...
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Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Repentant Abelard

The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long overlooked works...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Power and Sainthood

Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340–1349.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-02
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination

Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Motion Picture

Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-02
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender inMedieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Footprints of Michael the Archangel

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The King's Bishops

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Received Medievalisms

This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Fold

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Old Norse Literature

Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-01-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-28
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Disney Middle Ages

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-10
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-10
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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