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Taylor & Francis Ltd Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Byzantium Rus Russia Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th10th Centuries Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Medieval Europe 3001500
Book SynopsisThis book provides a survey of this complex period of European history, covering themes such as the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the Crusades and the intellectual and cultural life of the Middle Ages.Trade ReviewPraise for previous editions'Instructors seeking an alternative to the standard political and institutional narrative found in most medieval history texts will find the new edition of Blockmans and Hoppenbrouwers to be a superb choice. With its focus on social groups and cultural movements, the text is also written in a fluid style that will engage students. I look forward to using it in my next medieval history survey.'Edward Tabri, University of Texas at Tyler, USA'Introduction to Medieval Europe provides an excellent overview into the fascinating world of the Middle Ages. It covers issues such as mentalities of men and women as well as giving an insight into the world of medieval politics. Included is a thought-provoking chapter on continuities which provides a new framework for the understanding of a world distant to us both in time and place.'Thomas Småberg, Malmö University, Sweden'This is an extraordinarily wide-ranging introduction, covering Europe in its broadest sense from the British Isles to Turkey. It not only explains the political, intellectual and religious developments that occurred between the late Roman period and the Reformation but it also gives an insight into what life must have been like for most people. An essential first port of call for anyone wishing to understand the Middle Ages.'Jonathan Harris, Royal Holloway University, UK'The particular strength of this new edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1550 is the authors’ ability to trace the development and transformation over time of large scale social, economic, and religious structures and mentalities. How did pagans become Christians? How did slaves and peasants become serfs? How did armed horsemen become knights? Few if any other textbooks at this level can offer students such a sure guide along the path to understanding how the outlines of medieval society took shape.'Sean Field, University of Vermont, USA'This commendably clear and concise overview of the medieval period should be essential reading for all stu-dents coming to the subject for the first time. The coverage of social, economic and intellectual themes is particularly strong. Readers will appreciate the profusion of maps, diagrams and other illustrations which buttress the text.'Simon Barton, University of Exeter, UK'In their new edition on the Middle Ages, Blockmans and Hoppenbrouwers offer a rich, accessible, and valuable resource for students and lecturers of medieval history alike. With its expanded list of tables, figures, illustrations, color maps, primary source boxes, and annotated bibliographies, this revised text is a must-have for anyone interested in the formation of pre-modern Europe. Through a careful re-organization of materials and an extended treatment of the period along sensible thematic and chronological lines, this work will continue to reign among the leading introductory surveys on the medieval world.'Kriston Rennie, University of Queensland, Australia'In the crowded field of historical surveys of medieval Europe, Blockmans and Hoppenbrouwers have managed to produce something distinctive and original. Their book gives a clear, well-written overview of the political, social, economic and artistic developments in these important centuries with helpful explanations of technical terms and good suggested further reading. Eastern Europe is given full weight and thoughtful illustrations give valuable insights into a culture more visual than literate. But more than this the authors demon-strate why medieval Europeans deserve to be studied, their influence on later times and different places, how many of our own preoccupations derive from theirs. Blockmans and Hoppenbrouwers make the European Middle Ages not just fascinating, but relevant as well.'Andrew Roach, University of Glasgow, UK'This is a work that helps its reader to grasp the defining contours of medieval history, without being subjected to a whirlwind of narrative detail. It is refreshing in its pan-European scope, bringing Lithuania to stand along-side France, and in its effective location of key issues in broader frameworks of change and continuity. Most of all, it treats the alterity of the Middle Ages on its own terms – and explains just what it is that makes under-standing that fundamentally different world quite so interesting and worthwhile.'Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester, UK'Blockmans and Hoppenbrouwers' Introduction to Medieval Europe has established itself as the classic survey in English on the Latin West in the Middle Ages. The second edition is even more commendable: the book’s unique European perspective has been improved by situating the Latin West within neighbouring cultures and suggesting new ways of integrating European historiography. This is an indispensable starting point for students, scholars and, indeed, for any audience that wishes to familiarise itself with the essential European dimension of the history of the Latin West between 300 and 1500.'Martial Staub, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 The early Middle Ages, 300–1000 1. The end of the Roman Empire in the West 2. The establishment of two world religions: Christianity and Islam 3. The powerful and the poor: society and economy in the Frankish kingdoms and beyond Part 2: The Central Middle Ages, 1000-1300 4. Early kingdoms and principalities 5. Accelerated growth 6. Religious reform and renewal Part 3: Expansion and maturation, 1000-1500 7. The beginnings of European expansion 8. Thinking about man and the world 9. Towns and the urbanisation of medieval society Part 4: The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500 10. Between crisis and contraction: population, economy and society 11. The consolidation of states 12. Crisis in the Church and the reorientation of the faithful Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Classical Mythology
Book SynopsisThis new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and scholars since.In six clear and concise chapters, this book explains what myths are, sketches the main stories about divinities, heroes and heroines, and explores through specific case studies the ways in which they influenced modern culture, from Renaissance opera to contemporary video games and social movements. The second edition also features a new chapter analyzing how myths have been used in politics from antiquity to the present day. More than two dozen illustrations, maps, and charts complement the text. No prior knowledge of mythology is assumed, and the book incorporates the latest scholarship on classical mythology, providing annotated lists of further readings.Anyone who has encountered GreekTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "This excellent book, by Stanford classicist Richard Martin, gives a packed yet pellucid overview of Greek and Roman mythology.... Managing in addition to find space to discuss the appearance of ancient myths in a host of modern media, Martin offers a superb presentation of classical mythology." (https://readingreligion.org/books/classical-mythology) Robert A. Segal, Professor and Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK. Table of Contents1. Stories that stay, 2. Talking of gods, 3. Heroic dimensions, 4. Interpreting myths--symbols and societies, 5. Myths, media, memories, 6. Myth, politics, and the present.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe
Book SynopsisExpecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged.The book is organized in eleven chapters which reflect and explore the following arguments: the study of specific eschatological episodes in medieval Europe and their interpretations; the analysis of apocalyptic visionaries, apocalyptic authors, and their individual contributions; the social and political implications of eschatology in medieval society; the study of medieval apocalyptic literature from a rhetorical, narratological, and historiographical perspective; the history of the transmission of apocal
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Taylor & Francis The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance
Book SynopsisDescribed as âthe most beautiful book ever printedâ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphiloâs transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages A Book of
Book SynopsisMedieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and sewer systems. Heaven was at once the goal of the individual Christian life and the end of the cosmic plan. It was, simply stated, perfection. But interpretations varied from the traditional to the dangerously unique as artists and authors, theologians and visionaries struggled to define that perfection. Depending on the source, heaven''s attributes vary from height to depth, darkness to light, silence to symphony; the souls within it from activity to passivity, experience to essence, participation to distant admiration. Questions addressed in this anthology include: Are erotic and spiritual love mutually exclusive? Does the soul''s happiness depend on the resurrection of the body? What will be the nature of the transfigured body? Will it retain its gender? Will it have senses? Will it know desire? How can desire aTable of ContentsCorporeality: Harmony and the Senses in the Vision of Tundal, Jan S. Emerson, Eugene Oregon * The Sexualized Body in the Divine Comedy, F. Regina Psaki, University of Oregon * Desire and Fulfillment: John of F camp's Longing for Heaven, Hugh Feiss, O.S.B. * Ascension Priory Idaho, The Discourse of Heaven in Mechthild of Hackeborn's Booke of Gostlye Grace, Barbara Kline * Seattle, Washington * Heaven in Bernard of Cluny's De contemptu mundi, Ronald E. Pepin, Capital Community - Technical College 8 Hadewych of Antwerp's Dark Visions of Heaven, Mary Suydam, Kenyon College-Gambier * Transcendence: Heaven in the Theology of Hugh, Achard, and Richard of St. Victor, Hugh Feiss, O.S.B. * Ascension Priory, Idaho, Thomas Aquinas on Beatitude, Larry Hundersmarck, Pace University * Impassioned Failure: Memory, Metaphor, and the Drive toward Intellection, Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan University * Heaven on Earth: An Attempt to Replicate the Heavenly City through Municipal Legislation, Robert Laures, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee * Pyramus at the Mulberry Tree: De-petrifying Dante's Tinted Mind, Christian Moevs University of Notre Dame
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Library Editions Homer
Book SynopsisReissuing works originally published between 1958 and 1993, this five-volume set offers a selection of scholarship on the greatest classical poet, whose two monumental epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, remain foundational to the Western cultural tradition. Routledge Library Editions: Homer helps to situate this immense artistic achievement in its historical and cultural context, considering issues such as the relationship between the Homeric epics and the Mycenaean civilisation which preceded them, the importance of Homer for the flowering of Greek tragedy, and the reception of Homer during and after the Enlightenment.
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Taylor & Francis Global Medieval Contexts 500 â 1500
Book SynopsisGlobal Medieval Contexts 500â1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject, this textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. The expert author team aims to advance a global view of the period and introduce the reader to histories and narratives beyond an exclusively European context. Key Features: Divided into chronological sections, chapters are organized by four key themes: Religion, Economics, Politics, and Society. This framework enables students to connect wider ideas and debates across 500 to 1500. Individual chapters address current theoretical discussions, including issues around gender, migration, and sustainable environments. The authorsâ combined teaching experience and subject specialties ensure an engaginTrade Review'The book that many of us have long been waiting for: a collection of materials, generously framed for both instructors and students, for teaching history and culture c. 500 – 1500 from a global perspective. Rich in comparisons, contrasts, and entanglements, the texts collected here bring the diversity of the past to life for students. Interdisciplinary, engaging, and thoroughly accessible, Global Medieval Contexts connects past to present in illuminating and exciting ways.' Dr Jeffrey J Cohen, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA 'Global Medieval Contexts takes us on a breathtaking tour across time and space as it redraws the contours of the medieval world map in a novel way that ties cultures, peoples, and places. It is a stimulating and timely read that points back to the medieval world, only to point forward to current issues and debates. Thanks to the global and interdisciplinary aspect of the book, students anywhere in the world can find something to relate to. The book arouses curiosity, raises questions, and changes perspectives. While emphasizing diversity, Global Medieval Contexts emphasizes our basic human sameness.' Dr Sally Abed, Alexandria University, Egypt 'Global Medieval Contexts offers instructors and students a rich mosaic of the premodern world, building on thematic strands connecting disparate cultures. Equally comfortable discussing themes and objects, ranging from sails to sculptures, the authors present a range of entry-points for student discussion and analysis. Although the topics have considerable cultural breadth, the underlying global perspective is clear while the writing and framing make them accessible to a range of students, from those enrolled in first-year surveys to more advanced courses specifically on the medieval period.' Dr Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, USA Table of ContentsSection I: Orientation Section II: 500–900 1. Growth of Monotheisms 2. Caravan and Dhow 3. The Sword and the Pen 4. Sustainability and Climate Change Section III: 900–1300 5. Pathways to Paradise 6. For Sale 7. Soldiers and Civil Servants 8. Class Rites Section IV: 1300–1500 9. Devotion 10. Golden Opportunities 11. World Connected 12. Everyone Believes it is the End of the World
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Taylor & Francis Sound and the Ancient Senses
Book SynopsisSound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity. Trade Review"A superb guide to the burgeoning field of sound studies and a fitting capstone to the hugely successful series, The Senses in Antiquity. The range covered is as wide as classical antiquity itself: from embodied, urban, and literary soundscapes to noises emitted by objects to animal cries and intelligible voices to numinous and cosmic echoes, all of this at various pitches and decibel levels, likewise running from the sound of silence to silencing sounds. Antiquity will never sound the same again." - James Porter, University of California, Berkeley, USA"The volume will be important to scholars and students of the ancient senses, especially those that have been following this series and those with special interests in the acoustical past... the cumulative effect of the volume is quite dazzling as it amplifies the sonorous registers of our textual remains and recovers the acoustical residues of ancient experiences of sound." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review "An essential read for all those interested in the ‘soundscape’ of Antiquity – from rites to the human body, the physiology of hearing, myth, music on the stage, ancient emotions and contemporary attempts to reconstruct ancient sounds –, the volume offers a broad perspective on sounds and hearing... Thanks to the rich variety of views on sound and the ‘soundscapes’ in ancient Greece and Rome, this volume establishes itself as a staple in future research on sounds and their perception, and on acoustics and society in the Graeco-Roman world." - Greek and Roman Musical StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sounding hearingPart I. Ancient Soundscapes 1. The sound of the sacred2. Hearing ancient sounds through modern ears 3. Sounding out public space in Late Republican Rome 4. Vocal expression in Roman mourning Part II. Theories of Sound 5. Sound: an Aristotelian perspective 6. Greek acoustic theory: Simple and complex sounds 7. The soundscape of ancient Greek healing 8. Lucretius on sound Part III. Philology and Sound 9. Gods and vowels 10. The song of the Sirens between sound and sense 11. Auditory philology 12. Sounds of the stage 13. The erogenous ear 14. Principles of sound reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Latin Literature
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society. Readers are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts and through understanding the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile and accessible structure of Understanding Latin Literature makes it suitable for both individual and class use.Trade ReviewBraund provides a superb overview of pertinent issues related to Latin literature through her unique organization by topic. The second edition includes a new and instructive chapter on the reception of Latin literature, and effectively incorporates recent scholarship on such varied topics as gender, performance and spectacle, slavery, public v. private, and the relationship between literature and society. Braund’s takes on all are well informed, often thought-provoking, openly personal, and delivered in a crisp and clear, always accessible style. - Professor David Christenson, University of Arizona, USATable of ContentsList of figures About this book Acknowledgements1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid 2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy 3 What is Latin literature? 4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 5 Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature 6 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 7 Performance and spectacle, life and death 8 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 9 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 10 Writing ‘real’ lives 11 Introspection and individual identity 12 Literary texture and intertextuality 13 Metapoetics 14 Allegory 15 Overcoming an inferiority complex: constructing Roman literature BibliographyTimeline
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Hagiographies of Anantadas
Book SynopsisAnantadas is the first ''biographer'' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their ''biographies'' accordingly.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the early Hindi hagiographies by Anantadas; manuscripts used for this edition; earlier editions of paricayi literature; editorial methods; note on the Raghavadas Bhaktakamal. 1 the paracai of Namdev: English translation, Hindi text; 2 the paracai of Kabir: Hindi text; 3 the paracai of Dhana: English translation, Hindi text, Dhana in the Bhaktamal-s, pad-s of Dhana 4 the paracai of Trilochan: English translation, Hindi text, Trilochan in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Trilochan; 5 the paracai of Pipa: English translation, Hindi text, Pipa in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Pipa, the Pipa citavani; 6 the paracai of Raidas: English translation, Hindi text; 7 the paracai of Angad: English translation, Hindi text, Angad in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Angad; 8 the paracai of Seu Saman.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd J. R. R. Tolkien
Book SynopsisJ. R. R. Tolkien (18921973) is widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His popularity began with the publication in 1937 of The Hobbit, and was cemented by the appearance of The Lord of the Rings in the early 1950s. However, engagement with his work was until relatively recently sidelined by literary and other scholars. Consequently, many foundational analyses of his fiction, and his work as a medievalist, are dispersed in hard-to-find monographs and obscure journals (often produced by dedicated amateurs). In contrast, over the last decade or so, academic interest in Tolkien has risen dramatically. Indeed, interpretative and critical commentary is now being generated on a bewildering scale, in part aided by the continuing posthumous publication of his work (most recently, his Beowulf translation which appeared in 2014). The dizzying quantityand variable qualityof this later criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the u
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chaucer Langland and FourteenthCentury Literary
Book SynopsisAnne Middleton''s essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their ''crux-busting'' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: 'The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,' 'Chaucer''s ''New Men'' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,' 'The Physician''s Tale and Love''s Martyrs: ''Ensamples Mo than Ten'' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,' 'The Clerk and His Tale: Some LiteTable of ContentsContents: Publications of Anne Middleton; Introduction, Steven Justice; The idea of public poetry in the age of Richard II; Chaucer's 'new men' and the good of literature in the Canterbury Tales; The Physician's Tale and love's martyrs: 'ensamples mo than ten' as a method in the Canterbury Tales; The Clerk and his tale: some literary contexts; Playing the plowman: legends of 14th-century authorship; Narration and the invention of experience: episodic form in Piers Plowman; Making a good end: John But as a reader of Piers Plowman; William Langland's 'kynde name': authorial signature and social identity in late 14th-century England; Life in the margins, or, what's an annotator to do?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses
Book SynopsisLike us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh look at society in the ancient world and an opportunity to deepen the reading of classical literature. The book will appeal to readers in classical society and literature, philosophy and cultural history. All Greek and Latin is translated and technical matters are explained for the non-specialist. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explores the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.Trade Review"This agenda-setting collection challenges us to look beyond the 'visual/textual' paradigm and gives us a taste of the fascinating sensual and aesthetic possibilities afforded by the other senses, individually and in concert." - Victoria Wohl - University of Toronto "Previous forays into a sensory approach to the Classical world have been somewhat disparate, and an entire volume on the topic is to be welcomed - The thirteen chapters in this volume range widely from Homer to Quintilian, and flirt with all of the five senses as recognised in a modern western sensorium (vision, hearing, touch, taste and olfaction), individually and in a more multisensory manner." - Digressus: The Internet Journal for the Classical WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction, Shane Butler and Alex Purves; 1. Why Are There Nine Muses?, James I. Porter; 2. Haptic Herodotus, Alex Purves; 3. The Understanding Ear: Synaesthesia, Paraesthesia, and Talking Animals, Mark Payne; 4. Aristophanes, Cratinus and the Smell of Comedy, Mario Telo; 5. "Looking Mustard": Greek Popular Epistemology and the Meaning of aneiyo, Ashley Clements; 6. Plato, Beauty and "Philosophical Synaesthesia", Ralph M. Rosen; 7. Manilius' Cosmos of the Senses, Katharina Volk; 8. Reading Death and the Senses in Lucan and Lucretius, Brian Walters; 9. Colour as Synaesthetic Experience in Antiquity, Mark Bradley; 10. Blinded by the Light: Oratorical Clarity and Poetic Obscurity in Quintilian, Curtis Dozier; 11. The Sense of a Poem: Ovids Banquet of Sence (1595), Sean Keilen; 12. Saussure's Anaphonie: Sounds Asunder, Joshua Katz; 13. Beyond Narcissus, Shane Butler; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Prose
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Oxford University Press Virgil
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Oxford University Press Greek Historians
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Cambridge University Press Satires of Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Who Needs Greek Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
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Cambridge University Press Herodotus in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Arabian Epic v1 Heroic and Oral Storytelling Introduction University of Cambridge Oriental Publications Series Number 49
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Cambridge University Press The Arabian Epic v2 Heroic and Oral Storytelling Analysis University of Cambridge Oriental Publications Series Number 49
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Cambridge University Press Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: modern and medieval dreams; 1. Dreambooks and their audiences; 2. The doubleness and middleness of dreams; 3. The patristic dream; 4. From the fourth to the twelfth century; 5. Aristotle and the late-medieval dream; 6. Dreams and fiction; 7. Dreams and life; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Recognition in Wolframs Parzival
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Cambridge University Press Chaucers Legendary Good Women 38 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Listening and Reading
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Cambridge University Press sciencesandtheselfinmedievalpoetryalanoflillesanticlaudianusandjohn
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Cambridge University Press Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Lies Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature
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Cambridge University Press Irony in the Medieval Romance
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Chaucers English A Study of Words 39 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press Pedagogy Intellectuals and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press The Middle English Mystery Play
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Cambridge University Press Clerical Discourse Medieval England 37 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Book Synopsis'Tragedy' has been understood in a great variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle, via Roman ideas and practices, to the middle ages.Table of Contents1. Greek and Roman Poetics; 2. Modes and Subjects of Roman Tragedy; 3. Early Medieval Clues and Conjectures; 4. The Twelfth-Century Scene; 5. The High Middle Ages: Discoveries and Oblivions; 6. Final Variations; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Editing Piers Plowman The Evolution of the Text 28 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Fran OIS Villon
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Cambridge University Press Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisWhat were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' practices in medieval literary theory? This 1996 collection of essays by major scholars examines critical practices of the Middle Ages in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.Trade Review'Copeland is to be congratulated for having gathered an edition that manages to be both intelligent and thought-provoking.' PeritiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: dissenting critical practices Rita Copeland; 1. Rhetoric, coercion, and the memory of violence Jody Enders; 2. Rape and the pedagogical rhetoric of sexual violence Marjorie Curry Woods; 3. Heloise and the gendering of the literate subject Martin Irvine; 4. The dissenting image: a postcard from Matthew Paris Michael Camille; 5. The schools give a license to poets Nicolette Zeeman; 6. The science of politics and late medieval academic debate Janet Coleman; 7. Desire and the scriptural text: Will as reader in 'Piers Plowman' James Simpson; 8. 'Vae octuplex', Lollard socio-textual ideology, and Ricardian-Lancastrian prose translation Ralph Hanna III; 9. Sacrum Signum: sacramentality and dissent in York's theatre of Corpus Christi Sarah Beckwith; 10. Inquisition, speech, and writing: a case from late medieval Norwich Steven Justice; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century
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Cambridge University Press Women Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England 46 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 46
Book SynopsisWomen, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, Mary Erler illustrates the ways in which women read and the routes by which they passed books from hand to hand. These stories are prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and are followed by a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to religious women's ownership. Erler's narratives also provide studies of female friendship, since they situate women's reading in a network of family and social connections. The book uses bibliography to explore social and intellectual history.Trade Review'Mary Erler's discussion offers both new information and new ways of thinking about it.' The Ricardian'… excellent and ground-breaking case studies offered in each chapter … the evidence that this book yields is going to be essential to a better understanding of reading practices in the late-medieval period … The author should be praised for delivering such a wealth of information …'. Medium Aevum'… elegant and useful … Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England was a pleasure to read and ought to be on every medieval English scholar's bookshelf.' Canadian Journal of History'Women, Reading, and Piety is an interesting and compelling study … Erler has succeeded with this work, and provided her readers with a considered, highly detailed, frequently provocative, and undeniably important contribution to women's literary and social history.' Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary'… not only sets forth a compelling argument about the place of reading in medieval women's lives, but also opens up promising venues for future research … a pleasure to read … Erler's book provides persuasive answers to many questions surrounding women's reading practices.' Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist College'… rich and well-documented …'. Sharp News'… Erler's approach has much to offer the researcher interested in religion, spirituality, and indeed 'piety in late medieval England … Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England will be of as much interest to religious historians as it is to historians of the book. It is a thoughtful and reflective contribution to the history of female reading …'. The Library'Mary Erler's Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England offers a truly groundbreaking contribution to medieval studies.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer'This is an admirable book. It is well researched, well written, and well presented, and it represents a real advance in the ongoing re-evaluation of women's reading and literacy in late medieval England. … a fine piece of solid scholarship. It suggests a number of important avenues for further research, and it is a major contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the literary and intellectual culture of medieval religious women.' Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy'Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England illuminates a critical period in the development of a femaile reading public, and its appendices will doubtless facilitate further research in the field. This monograph should be widely read and admired by those interested in medieval book ownership and circulation, literacy, women's experience, and devotional culture.' SpeculumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Dinah's story; 1. Ownership and transmission of books: women's religious communities; 2. The library of a London vowess: Margery de Nerford; 3. A Norwich widow and her devout society: Margaret Purdans; 4. Orthodoxy: the Fettyplace sisters at Syon; 5. Heterodoxy: anchoress Katherine Manne and abbess Elizabeth Throckmorton; 6. Women owners or religious incunabula: the physical evidence; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Literacy Medieval Celtic Societies 33 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 33
Book SynopsisThis 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.Trade Review'Overall the collection deserves to be consulted by non-Celtics and not merely read within its own little academic ghetto. This is a set of meticulously evidence-based studies, with an excellent bibliography: the author's insights into matters such as the social context of literacy, charters, genealogy, and gender should be of interest to medievalists whose areas of special concern lie elsewhere.' Early Medieval EuropeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction Huw Pryce; 1. The uses of literacy in early medieval Wales Patrick Sims-Williams; 2. Literacy in Pictland Katherine Forsyth; 3. The context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland T. M. Charles-Edwards; 4. Orality, literacy and genealogy in early medieval Ireland and Wales David E. Thornton; 5. Charter-writing and its uses in early medieval Celtic societies Wendy Davies; 6. The context and uses of the Latin charter in twelfth-century Ireland Marie-Therese Flanagan; 7. Written text as performance - the implications for Middle Welsh prose narratives Sioned Davies; 8. More written about than writing? Welsh women and the written word Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan; 9. Celtic literary tradition and the development of a feudal principality in Brittany Noél-Yves Tonnerre; 10. Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland between 1124 and 1249 Dauvit Broun; 11. Inkhorn and spectacles: the impact of literacy in late medieval Wales Llinos Beverley Smith; 12. 'This my act and deed': the writing of private deeds in late medieval north Wales A. D. Carr; 13. Literacy and the Irish bards Katherine Simms; List of works cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Arthurian Romance The Verse Tradition from Chrtien to Froissart The Verse Tradition from Chrtien to Froissart 35 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 35
Book SynopsisThis 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to ChrÃtien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between ChrÃtien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing ChrÃtien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.Trade Review"In English the book reads with remarkable freshness. Scholarship on the verse romances has continued in recent years, but has concentrated on the production of (very welcome) new editions and articles on fashionable aspects of individual texts; Schmolke-Hasselmann's breadth of approach remains unparalleled. Like all the best criticism, Schmolke-Hasselmann's book raises as many stimulating questions as it answers." Rosemary Morris, AlbionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Response to Chrétien: Tradition and Innovation in Arthurian Romance: 1. The stigma of decadence; 2. Consolidation of the form; 3. Changes in the relationship between ideals and reality; 4. Knight or lover: Gawain as a paragon divided; 5. Old matiere, new sens: innovation in thought and content; 6. Aspects of the response to Chrétien: from plagiarism to nostalgia; Part II. An Historical Survey of the Impact of the Arthurian Verse Romances: 7. The popularity of Arthurian verse romances; 8. The audience; 9. Arthurian literature in French and its significance for England; Bibliography; Index.
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