Télécharger le livre :  Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature
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Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Post-Historical Middle Ages
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This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature
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Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing
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This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein
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This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-08
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary
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Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages
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These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales
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The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Excrement in the Late Middle Ages
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This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages
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Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-08-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Light of Medieval Spain
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This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-08-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature
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This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Battlefronts Real and Imagined
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This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
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This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-02-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality
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This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Lydgate Matters
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This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages
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Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language
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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages
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This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The King and the Whore
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This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-11-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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