Télécharger le livre :  Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-10
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative

Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts

Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah

The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its commentaries...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600  explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades

This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)

Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Medieval Women's Lives

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Studies in the Medieval Atlantic

This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance

Boccaccio's  Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance  demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Python

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Market Power

Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Ekphrastic Medieval Visions

Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse

Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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