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  • - Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
    af Theresa Tinkle
    973,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts
    af Ralph Hanna
    1.098,95 kr.

    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
    af M. B. Pranger
    1.043,95 kr.

    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
    af Armando Petrucci
    722,95 kr.

    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
     
    832,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Rainer Warning
    992,95 kr.

    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
    af Virginia Burrus
    318,95 - 1.291,95 kr.

    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
    af Peter S. Hawkins
    447,95 - 1.973,95 kr.

    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
    af Sarah Kay
    1.138,95 kr.

    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
    af Catherine Brown
    933,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Juxtaposition of Contraries in Early Medieval Spanish Literature
    af James F. Burke
    981,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Daring and Error in Dante's 'Comedy'
    af John Kleiner
    963,95 kr.

    John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance.

  • - The Origins of Silent Reading
    af Paul Saenger
    443,95 - 778,95 kr.

    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
    af Peter Haidu
    368,95 - 1.478,95 kr.

    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
    af Daniel Boyarin
    278,95 - 1.298,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Paul Freedman
    363,95 - 1.728,95 kr.

    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
    af Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
    929,95 kr.

    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
    af Bruce W. Holsinger
    368,95 - 1.624,95 kr.

    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
    af Sylvia Huot
    776,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Social Reading of Chretien de Troyes's 'Conte du Graal'
    af Brigitte Cazelles
    1.123,95 kr.

    Focusing on the earliest extant version of the Grail legend, the author proposes a social interpretation of Chretien's romance as a story concerned with earthly violence and vendetta.

  • - Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy
    af M. Victoria Guerin
    981,95 kr.

    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.