Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance
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Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
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This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
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Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature
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The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-01
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature
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This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Nature, René d’Anjou’s Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes’s Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages
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Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality
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This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400
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For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500
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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama
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Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerotics
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Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of “pornographic literary theory” to open up Chaucer’s ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis. By introducing and applying the notion of “Chaucerotics,” this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Black Middle Ages
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The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerian Ecopoetics
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.  Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Languages in the Middle Ages
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
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This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Jews in Medieval England
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This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-08
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Ecocriticism
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Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Memory in Late Medieval England
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This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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