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  • Morgan le Fay, Shapeshifter

    de Jill M. Hebert ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations. Hebert uses leFay as a lens to explore traditional ideas of femininity, monstrousness, resistance, identity, and social expectations for women and men alike. ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    de Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edición de Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    de Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders

    de Mary Dockray-Miller ...
    In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith’s marriages and commissions, Dockray-Miller argues that Judith consciously and successfully deployed patronage to support her political and marital ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

    A Life in Perspective

    de C. Keene ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman. ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany

    de J. Frakes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    de William McClellan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably changes how we read literature from the past. McClellan gives a thoroughgoing reading of the M**an of ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    de Amanda Hopkins, Margaret Robson, Michael Cichon, Robert Rouse, Simon Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Thomas Howard Crofts, Tony Grand, Cory Rushton0, Alexander Davis1, Anthony Bale2, Corinne Saunders3, Jane Bliss4, Kristina Hildebrand5 ...
    This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Ekphrastic Medieval Visions

    A New Discussion in Interarts Theory

    de C. Barbetti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature

    Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy

    Edición de J. Rider, J. Friedman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 characters. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

    Edición de K. Terrell, M. Bruce ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD