Télécharger le livre :  Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author

This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England

Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature

Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women...
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Parution : 2011-08-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairies in Medieval Romance

This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
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Parution : 2011-05-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England

Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature

A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a  progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine...
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Parution : 2011-04-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Street Scenes

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-28
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lesbian Premodern

Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England

Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Disability in Medieval Literature

This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature

This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Margaret Paston's Piety

Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-06-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  On Farting

This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince

Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how René d Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer s House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) explore fame s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-04-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources.The contributors examine how money and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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