Télécharger le livre :  Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship
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Based on an exhaustive and varied study of predominantly unpublished archival material as well as a variety of literary and non-literary sources, this book investigates the relation between patronage, piety and politics in the life and career of one Late Medieval...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Joan de Valence
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Heir to an earldom, and wife and widow of William de Valence (half-brother of King Henry III), Joan de Valence was an important actor in the volatile political world of thirteenth-century England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Yet, astonishingly, her story of survival,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space
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Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Perilous Passages
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This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe
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Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-09-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature
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The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio's Decameron
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Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Consolation in Medieval Narrative
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Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France
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A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gnostic Paradigm
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No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-04-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Japanese and Russian Politics
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This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. A bi-national collaborative effort, the volume is structured to offer perspectives on each country from both Russian and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-01-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters
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Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
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Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Repentant Abelard
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The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long overlooked works...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Power and Sainthood
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Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340–1349.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-02
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination
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Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Motion Picture
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Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-02
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
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Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender inMedieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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