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“scott thompson smith”

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  • Land and Book

    Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Scott Thompson Smith ...
    In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    by John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Grettir's Saga

    Series series Heritage
    Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is outlawed; all the rest of his life he devotes, with remarkable composure, to fighting more and more ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages

    Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past

    by Samer M. Ali ...
    Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral ... Read more

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  • The Biblical Dante

    by V. Stanley Benfell ...
    Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination

    by Ebrahim Moosa ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

    Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England

    by Theresa Coletti ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Edited by Michelle Moseley-Christian, Carlee A. Bradbury ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

    History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate

    by Dominique Battles ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles explores the vernacular Theban narratives of the Middle Ages, including the Old French Roman de Thebes (1154), Boccaccio's Teseida , Chaucer's Theban poems (Anelida and Arcite (1370s), the Knights Tale , ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    by T. Tinkle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Edging Toward Iberia

    by Jean Dangler ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study of Iberia’s complex heterogeneity.In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler argues that new tools and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD