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The Futures of Medieval French

Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay

by Jane Gilbert, Zrinka Stahuljak, Susan Boynton, Joseph R. Johnson, Virginie Greene, Stephen G. Nichols, Christine Bourgeois, Deborah McGrady, Sophie Marnette, Emily Kate Price0, Simone Ventura1, Miranda Griffin3, James R. Simpson4, Elizabeth Eva Leach5, Profesor Sharon Kinoshita6, Simon Gaunt7, Peggy McCracken8, William Burgwinkle9, Miriam Cabre0, Helen J. Swift1, Charlie Samuelson2, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne3 ...

Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its ... Read more

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Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its
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New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic ... Read more

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Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic
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New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate ... Read more

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NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate
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Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

by R. Howard Bloch ...

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the
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The Art of Conversation

by Peter Burke ...

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

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The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke
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Trans Historical

Gender Plurality before the Modern

Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...

Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Read more

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Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives
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The Discourse of Modernism

by Timothy J. Reiss ...

Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a ... Read more

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Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a
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The Mystic Fable, Volume Two

The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

by Michel de Certeau ...

Translated by Michael B. Smith ...

Series series Religion and Postmodernism
More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and theology, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern mysticism.Though the second ... Read more

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More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and theology, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern mysticism.Though the second
... Read more
Knowing Poetry

Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"

by Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay ...

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on ... Read more

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In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

Edited by Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Read more

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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

Edited by Ullrich Langer ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his ... Read more

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Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his
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Uncle John's Fully Loaded: 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader

by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...

Series Book 25 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
Take a seat and settle in—it's a gigantic treasury of trivia and humor for our twenty-fifth (is that porcelain?) anniversary!IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in HumorForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, ... Read more

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Take a seat and settle in—it's a gigantic treasury of trivia and humor for our twenty-fifth (is that porcelain?) anniversary!IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in HumorForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins,
... Read more

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