Télécharger le livre :  Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent
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Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Street Scenes
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Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-28
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lesbian Premodern
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Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
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Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that...

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Parution : 2011-01-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Outlawry in Medieval Literature
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Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
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This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature
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This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
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After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Margaret Paston's Piety
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Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
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This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-06-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  On Farting
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince
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Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how René d Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer s House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) explore fame s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-04-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe
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The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources.The contributors examine how money and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer
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In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Letters of Heloise and Abelard
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The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Julian of Norwich's Legacy
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Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies ofJulian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages
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The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Strange Beauty
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Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art
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Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing Chaucer
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This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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