Télécharger le livre :  The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)
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Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Medieval Women's Lives
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's Feminine Subjects
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This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Studies in the Medieval Atlantic
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This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance
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Boccaccio's  Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance  demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Python
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
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Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Market Power
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Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women
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Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse
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Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecofeminist Subjectivities
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This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-10
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author
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This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairies in Medieval Romance
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This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
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Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature
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A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a  progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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