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  • Remembering the Crusades

    Myth, Image, and Identity

    Edición de Nicholas Paul, Suzanne Yeager ...
    Series series Rethinking Theory
    Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe, Byzantium, North Africa, and the Near East. Remembering the Crusades examines the ways in which ... Leer más

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  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Leer más

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  • Iliad And Odyssey

    de Homer ...
    The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to the poet Homer and are the earliest surviving works of Western literature. Composed sometime around the eighth century BC, the ancient Greek poems has since been translated into many languages and serves as an important source of information on ancient Greek culture and mythology.In the Iliad it is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have ... Leer más

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Writing Medieval Women’s Lives

    Edición de C. Goldy, A. Livingstone ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was. ... Leer más

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  • The Medieval Python

    The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

    Edición de R. Yeager, T. Takamiya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature ... Leer más

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  • Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

    From Cædmon to Malory

    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, ... Leer más

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  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    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

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  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    de Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Leer más

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  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edición de Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Leer más

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  • The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622

    de J. Grogan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire. ... Leer más

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