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  • The Ends of the Body

    Identity and Community in Medieval Culture

    by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Jill Ross ...
    Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its role in performing meaning.The collection is divided into four clusters. ‘Foundations’ traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form ... Read more

    $63.39 USD

  • Figuring the Feminine

    The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature

    by Jill Ross ...
    Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

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    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... Read more

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  • Hymn To Demeter

    by Hugh G.Evelyn-White ...
    Hymn To DemeterTranslated by Hugh G.Evelyn-WhiteApart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many, to be a snare for the ... Read more

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  • The King's Body

    Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England

    by Nicole Marafioti ...
    The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could ... Read more

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  • Easy Spanish Phrases for Kids | Children's Learn Spanish Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    This is another good addition to your kids’ foreign language education book. Focusing on the Spanish language, this book contains easy phrases for young beginners. For better results, you may also want to check out the higher levels of Spanish lesson books. Go and grab a copy of this book now! ... Read more

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  • Writing History for the King

    Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography

    by Charity L. Urbanski ...
    Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace's Roman de Rou (c. 1160–1174) and Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Chronique des ducs de Normandie (c. 1174 ... Read more

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  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Read more

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  • Sanctity in the North

    Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia

    Edited by Thomas DuBois ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia.For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral traditions ... Read more

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  • Murder by Accident

    Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions

    by Jody Enders ...
    Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater.Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders ... Read more

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  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

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  • The Soul as Virgin Wife

    Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart

    by Amy Hollywood ...
    The Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and imagistic mysticism, arguing that Mechthild, Porete, and Eckhart challenge the sexual ideologies ... Read more

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