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Cambridge University Press Texts and Violence in the Roman World
Book SynopsisExamines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christian martyrdom narratives of Late Antiquity. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Greek and Roman literature and culture, and of cultural studies more broadly.Table of ContentsIntroduction – reading Roman violence Monica R. Gale and J. H. D. Scourfield; 1. Comic violence and the citizen body David Konstan and Shilpa Raval; 2. Contemplating violence: Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' Monica R. Gale; 3. Discipline and punish – Horatian satire and the formation of the self Paul Allen Miller; 4. Make war not love: militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy Donncha O'Rourke; 5. Violence and resistance in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' Carole E. Newlands; 6. Tales of the unexpurgated (Cert PG) – Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) John Henderson; 7. Dismemberment and the critics – Seneca's 'Phaedra' Duncan F. Kennedy; 8. Violence and alienation in Lucan's 'Pharsalia' – the case of Caesar Efrossini Spentzou; 9. Tacitus and the language of violence Bruce J. Gibson; 10. Cruel narrative: Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' William Fitzgerald; 11. Violence and the Christian heroine – two narratives of desire J. H. D. Scourfield.
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Cambridge University Press The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
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Cambridge University Press Antigone Interrupted
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Cambridge University Press Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press Collecting Early Christian Letters
Book SynopsisLetter collections in late antiquity reveal the flourishing of letter-writing, from exchanges between elites to correspondence by bishops, monks and Gothic kings. This is the first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines by focusing on Latin, Greek, Coptic and Syriac epistolary sources.Table of ContentsPart I. Introducing Early Christian Letters: 1. Continuities and changes in the practice of letter-collecting from Cicero to late antiquity Bronwen Neil; 2. Rationales for episcopal letter collections in late antiquity Pauline Allen; Part II. Collecting New Testament and Early Monastic Letters: 3. The Pauline letters as community documents Ian J. Elmer; 4. 2 Corinthians and possible material evidence for composite letters in antiquity Brent Nongbri; 5. The letter collections of Anthony and Ammonas: shaping a community Samuel Rubenson; 6. From letter to letter collection: monastic epistolography in late antique Egypt Malcolm Choat; Part III. Collecting Early Bishops' Letters: 7. Letters of Ambrose of Milan (374–97), Books I–IX J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz; 8. The letters of Basil of Caesarea and the role of letter collections in their transmission Anna Silvas; 9. The ins and outs of the Chrysostom letter collection: new ways of looking at a limited corpus Wendy Mayer; 10. The letters of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: personal collections, multi-author archives and historical interpretation Adam M. Schor; Part IV. Collecting Early Papal Letters: 11. Collectio Corbeiensis, Collectio Pithouensis and the earliest collections of papal letters Geoffrey D. Dunn; 12. De profundis: the letters and archives of Pelagius I of Rome (556–61) Bronwen Neil.
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Cambridge University Press Dionysius The Epic Fragments Volume 56
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Book 4
Book SynopsisA full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, which covers the years AD 2328 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the worse and withdrew to the island of Capri.Trade Review"A.J. Woodman's magnificent commentary on Book 4 is the capstone to his outstanding career as a scholar of Roman historiography, and especially of Tacitus, and it brings the scholarly coverage of these books on the reign of Tiberius to a triumphant conclusion." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Text; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Experience of Education in AngloSaxon
Book SynopsisThis engaging study explores how early medieval writers reflected on the nature of education and the acquisition of wisdom. By studying representations of teaching and learning in five early English texts, Irina Dumitrescu sheds light on the underappreciated emotional and cognitive complexities of Anglo-Saxon instruction.Trade Review'The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature does full justice to the Anglo-Saxon interest in pedagogy and the complexity of their attitudes to it. It is also beautifully written, peppered with deft turns of phrase … Dumitrescu has produced a hugely enjoyable, informative, and thought-provoking monograph, which will be of interest to all scholars of early medieval literature.' Susan Irvine, Speculum'Through its patient and generous attention to the literature of early medieval England, [this book] allows the emotional world of literate Anglo-Saxons to live again in its complexity and richness, and demonstrates how much can be evoked even from seemingly resistant works like grammars and translations. Elegant and stylish as well as learned, it is a lovely exemplar of genuinely humanistic scholarship.' Emily Thornbury, Anglia'Dumitrescu's readings are meticulous and thought-provoking.' Hana Videen, The Times Literary Supplement'… modern education owes much to a period that fused antique conceptions of education with Christian ascetic practices, generating a complex amalgam of educational techniques and understandings that would, with modification, furnish the materials from which modern educational establishments and relationships were built. Irina Dumitrescu's study furthers our understanding of this inheritance by exploring the logic of an alien but nonetheless related educational order. As it does so, it draws attention to what has become the disavowed underbelly of modern educational practice, studying the role of suffering and discomfort in Anglo-Saxon scenes of instruction.' Ansgar Allen, British Journal of Educational Studies'This is a book that should be read and digested by all Anglo-Saxonists. It is a model of clarity and well-structured argumentation. It is deeply informed by the author's wide reading and skill in critical interpretation, and forms a highly significant contribution to the field.' Greg Waite, Parergon'Irina Dumitrescu has written a learned, eloquent, and seminal book that exposes widespread pedagogical metaphors in pre-Conquest writings … Treating education as an emotional struggle, Dumitrescu observes how compositions, translations, and adaptations telegraph intricate 'fictions of teaching' that evoke an author's didactic experience - not just his schooling … With sublime prose, persuasive evidence, and extraordinary originality, it obviously achieves the highest standard of academic excellence.' Scott Gwara, English Studies'… the volume … traces a remarkable and personal history of teaching and learning in Anglo-Saxon England … the topic is fully elaborated upon and justified by a successful close reading of a wide range of texts, endorsed by innumerable cross-references to other Old English and Latin works as well as to literary criticism.' Patrizia Lendinara, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'… the readings in this volume are rich and persuasive, and Dumitrescu brings deserved attention to some underappreciated texts. Her writing is clear and sometimes lyrical, and even with its accounts of pain and frustration, The Experience of Education is a pleasure to read.' Nicole Guenther Discenza, Modern Philology'The Experience of Education is elegantly written and rigorously researched. Its new takes on much-studied texts will revitalize scholarly discussions … No doubt those studying these individual works, their respective genres, Old English and Latin literature, educational history, or monastic culture will have much to learn about learning from Dumitrescu's monograph.' Laura Saetveit Miles, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Letters: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; 2. Prayer: Solomon and Saturn I; 3. Violence: Ælfric Bata's colloquies; 4. Recollection: Andreas; 5. Desire: the life of St Mary of Egypt; Conclusion: the ends of teaching.
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Cambridge University Press Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia
Book SynopsisThe coming of Christianity to Northern Europe resulted in profound cultural changes. In the course of a few generations, new answers were given to fundamental existential questions and older notions were invalidated. Jonas Wellendorf''s study, the first monograph in English on this subject, explores the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. This original work draws on a range of primary sources ranging from Prose Edda and Saxo Grammaticus'' History of the Danes to less well known literary works including the Saga of Barlaam and the Hauksbók manuscript (c.1300). By providing an in-depth analysis of often overlooked mythological materials, along with translations of all textual passages, Wellendorf delivers an accessible work that sheds new light on the ways in which the old gods were integrated into the Christian worldview of medieval Scandinavia.Trade Review'… useful and interesting work relevant for researchers …' Luke John Murphy, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of Contents1. Retying the bonds; 2. The hierarchy of disbeliefs in antipagan polemics; 3. Universalist aspirations in Hauksbók; 4. The Byzantine Gods of Saxo Grammaticus; 5. Gods and humans in the Prose Edda; Epilogue: Óðinn and Odysseus.
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Cambridge University Press Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome
Book SynopsisThe Augustan Age was the Golden Age of Latin literature. This book explores how a Greek author of Augustan Rome bridged the gap between Greece and Rome, and between historiography and rhetoric. Indispensable for scholars of Augustan Rome and for students of Greek and Latin literature.Trade Review'… Dionysius of Halicarnassus comprises an excellent and coherent collection of papers focused on bridging genres and cultures.' Emma Nicholson, The Classical Review'… this volume will offer a highly valuable tool not only for scholars interested in Dionysius' works, but also for those investigating Augustan and Early Imperial literature in general as well as the cultural and social changes surrounding the Mediterranean world at that time.' Beatrice Poletti, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR)Table of ContentsIntroduction Casper C. de Jonge and Richard Hunter; Part I. Dionysius and Augustan Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: 1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the idea of the critic Richard Hunter; 2. Experiencing the past: language, time, and historical consciousness in Dionysian criticism Nicolas Wiater; 3. Dionysius' Demosthenes and Augustan Atticism Harvey Yunis; 4. Dionysius and Lysias' charm Laura Viidebaum; Part II. Dionysius and Augustan Historiography: 5. The expansive scale of the Roman Antiquities Stephen P. Oakley; 6. Ways of killing women: Dionysius on the deaths of Horatia and Lucretia Clemence Schultze; 7. The prehistory of the Roman polis in Dionysius Matthew Fox; Part III. Dionysius and Augustan Rome: 8. Dionysius on regime change Christopher Pelling; 9. How Roman are the Antiquities? The Decemvirate according to Dionysius Daniel Hogg; 10. Dionysius and Horace: composition in Augustan Rome Casper C. de Jonge; Envoi: migrancy Joy Connolly.
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Cambridge University Press The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic and philosophical thought. Brings together an international group of experts to consider naturalism in a wide variety of ancient authors including Cicero, Varro, Nigidius, Posidonius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.Table of ContentsIntroduction: first thoughts on language and nature Giuseppe Pezzini and Barnaby Taylor; 1. Posidonius' linguistic naturalism and its philosophical pedigree Alexander Verlinsky; 2. Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and usage Anna Chahoud; 3. Nigidius Figulus' naturalism: between grammar and philosophy Alessandro Garcea; 4. Naturalism in morphology: Varro on derivation and inflection Wolfgang D. C. De Melo; 5. What's Hecuba to him? Varro on the natural kinship of things and of words David Blank; 6. Linguistic naturalism in Cicero's Academica Tobias Reinhardt; 7. Linguistic naturalism and natural style: from Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus Casper C. de Jonge; 8. Natural law and natural language in the first century BCE James Zetzel.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Greek Lists
Book SynopsisAncient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Of immense value to students and scholars of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The tally of text; 1. A number of things: Homeric catalogue, numerical authority, and the uncountable; 2. 'Or such a woman as…': gender and exchange in the Hesiodic catalogue; 3. Displaying the past: inquiry as inventory in Herodotus; 4. Stone treasuries: the apodeictic inscribed inventory; 5. Citizens who count: Aristophanes' documentary poetics; 6. Unified I; 7. Conclusion and epilogue: the materialization of lists; Appendix of images.
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Cambridge University Press Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Book SynopsisIconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of Eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the period between 726 and 843. It was a period marked by violent passions on either side. This is the first comprehensive account of the extant contemporary texts relating to this phenomenon and their impact on society, politics and identity. By examining the literary circles emerging both during the time of persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843, the volume casts new light on the striking (re)construction of Byzantine society, whose iconophile identity was biasedly redefined by the political parties led by Theodoros Stoudites, Gregorios Dekapolites and Empress Theodora or the patriarchs Methodios, Ignatios and Photios. It thereby offers an innovative paradigm for approaching Byzantine literature.Trade Review'This is an impressive and lengthy book which deserves careful consideration given its focus on the period of the iconoclastic controversy.' Francesca Dell'Acqua, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Stoudite Milieu: the foundations of the literature of Iconoclasm; 2. The Methodian Milieu: literature conceived in the patriarchate after the iconoclast crisis; 3. The Dekapolitan Milieu: the integration of the third way after the restoration of icons; 4. Secular Milieux and their rewriting of the second Iconoclasm: the aristocracy, the army, the court and the imperial family; 5. The Ignatian Milieu: the management of inherited Iconodule literature; 6. The Photian Milieu: rewriting and updating of the Iconodule literature; 7. Mobility between Milieux: the hagiographer Sabas, from the Bithynian Olympos to the Constantinopolitan Milieux; 8. Final remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Catullus and Roman Comedy
Book SynopsisIn the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast of characters from Roman comedy in the poetry of Catullus. Despite this growing recognition of comedy''s allusive presence in Catullus'' work, there has never been an extended analysis of how he engaged with this foundational Roman genre. This book sketches a more coherent picture of Catullus'' use of Roman comedy and shows that individual points of contact with the theatre in his corpus are part of a larger, more sustained poetic program than has been recognized. Roman comedy, it argues, offered Catullus a common cultural vocabulary, drawn from the public stage and shared with his audience, with which to explore and convey private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry. It also demonstrates that Roman comedy continued to present writers after the second century BCE with a meaningful source of social, cultural, and artistic value.Trade Review'Recommended.' R. Withers, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Through the Comic Looking-Glass; 2. The Best Medicine: Comic Cures for Love in the 1st Century BCE; 3. Heroic Badness and Catullus' Plautine Plots; 4. Naughty Girls: Comic Figures and Gendered Control in Catullus; Epilogue. The Show Goes On: From Roman Comedy to Latin Love Elegy; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Pindar and Greek Religion
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Cambridge University Press Women and Medieval Literary Culture
Book SynopsisFocusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literature, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time.Trade Review'This book makes a statement, not simply about medieval women, but about medieval life. With chapters on ecclesiastical women, noble and royal women, townswomen, readers and patrons the volume offers a broad understanding of the interests, complexities, and dynamics of medieval life. The arrangement of the essays makes it easy to navigate among topics and interests. The essays are cogent; the bibliographies are good, and the entire volume gives readers a sense of the many ways in which women were involved with a broadly conceived literary culture in the Middle Ages.' Lynn Staley, Colgate University'This groundbreaking volume of essays extends our collective knowledge of medieval British women's literary culture, and indeed our sense of what constitutes a literary culture, in consistently learned and illuminating ways. The product of deep research and long conversation, it represents both a milestone in the field and a provocation to further work across the wide range of centuries, settings, and genres addressed by its contributors.' Nicholas Watson, Harvard University'As one might expect from two such distinguished scholars in the field of medieval women's writing, Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt have solicited a wealth of new research from their contributors on women and literary culture throughout the long medieval period. This excellent volume is not only brimful with information but shapes the role of women in freshly ambitious terms, ranging both widely and in illuminating detail across manuscript culture, female reading communities, medicine, genre, and language. It will become an indispensable scholarly and teaching resource.' Ardis Butterfield, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt; I. Patrons, Owners, Writers, and Readers in England and Europe: 1. 'Miserere, meidens': abbesses and nuns Elaine Treharne; 2. Creating her own story: queens, noblewomen, and their cultural patronage Mary Dockray-Miller; 3. Woman-to-woman initiatives between female religious: vertical and horizontal learning Mary C. Erler; II. Circles and Communities in England: 4. Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group as textual communities, Medieval and modern Michelle M. Sauer; 5. Syon Abbey and the Birgittines Laura Saetveit Miles; 6. What the Paston women read Diane Watt; III. Health, Conduct, and Knowledge: 7. Embracing the body and the soul: women in the literary culture of Medieval medicine Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa; 8. Gender and class in the circulation of conduct books Kathleen Ashley; 9. Women's learning and lore: magic, recipes and folk belief Martha W. Driver; 10. Women and devotional compilations Denis Renevey; IV. Genre and Gender: 11. Lyrics: meditations, prayers and praises; songs and carols David Fuller; 12. 'It satte me wel bet ay in a cave / To bidde and rede on holy seyntes lyves': women and hagiography Christiania Whitehead; 13. Tears, mediation, and literary entanglement: the writings of Medieval visionary women Liz Herbert McAvoy; 14. Convent and city: Medieval women and drama Sue Niebrzydowski; 15. Women and romance Corinne Saunders; 16. Trouble and strife in the Old French fabliaux Neil Cartlidge; 17. Chaucer and Gower Venetia Bridges; V. Women as Authors: 18. Marie de France: identity and authorship in translation Emma Campbell; 19. Julian of Norwich: a woman's vision, book, and readers Barry Windeatt; 20. The communities of The Book of Margery Kemp Anthony Bale; 21. Christine de Pizan: women's literary culture and Anglo-French politics Nancy Bradley Warren; 22. Beyond borders: women poets in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales up to c. 1500 Cathryn A. Charnell-White.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The History of British Womens Writing 7001500
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.Trade Review'This collection is a noteworthy addition to the bibliography on women's contributions to medieval literature...McAvoy and Watt are to be commended for compiling an outstanding collaborative history of women's writings, as well as a significant history of medieval literature. It will be profitably read by anyone interested in medieval literature or women's writing. With its assessments of prior and current scholarship and its generous notes and bibliography, it offers a thorough overview of the field for graduate students, and its informative, well-written, and original essays make it recommended reading for anyone studying women's writing.' - Monica Brzezinski Potkay, The Review of English Studies 'McAvoy and Watt aim with this volume to establish a more engaging and relevant dialogue between past and present, and they succeed. The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500 is, in fact, an exciting and valuable contribution to the study of medieval literature and feminist studies.' - Make MagTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: Writing a History of Women's Writing from 700 to 1500; L.Herbert McAvoy & D.Watt PART I: PRE-TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Women and the Origins of English Literature; C.A.Lees & G.R.Overing Literary Production Before and After the Conquest; C.A.M.Clarke The French of the English and Early British Women's Literary Culture; C.Batt Women Writers in Wales; J.Cartwright Medieval Antifeminism; A.Bernau PART II: BODIES, BEHAVIOURS AND TEXTS Romance; C.Saunders Saints' Lives; S.Horner Devotional Literature; M.M.Sauer Marian Literature; S.Niebryzdowski Late Medieval Conduct Literature; M.J.Seaman PART III: LITERACIES AND LITERARY CULTURES Women and their Manuscripts; C.M.Meale Women and Reading; L.Farina Women and Networks of Literary Production; E.Robertson Anonymous Writers; L.H.McAvoy Women Translators; A.Barratt Women's Letters, 1350-1500; J.Daybell PART IV: FEMALE AUTHORITY Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc; N.B.Warren Mary of Oignies; J.N. Brown Bridget of Sweden; L.Saetveit Miles Catherine of Siena; A.C. Grisé Julian of Norwich; A.Appleford Margery Kempe; D.Watt 'A Revelation of Purgatory'; M.C.Erler Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales An Anthology
Book SynopsisThis anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin.It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperorâs New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar âmodernâ versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperorâs new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity.This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.Table of Contents1. Introduction: who’s been telling my tale? 2. The classic fairy tale: Cupid and Psyche 3. Arts of variation: Cinderellas and Snow Whites 4. Otherworldly encounters 5. Siren women 6. Rewards and punishments I 7. Rewards and punishments II: three innocent slandered maidens 8. Tricksters 9. Traditional heroes, magic objects 10. Animal tales 11. Tiny people 12. Miscellaneous tales Appendix 1: the Sleeping Beauty (ATU 410, The Petrified Kingdom) Appendix 2: some fragmentary hints
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body
Book SynopsisThe medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Agesthe female bodyexists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it resists the customary marginalization that defined most other monstrous groups in the Middle Ages. Though medieval maps located the monstrous races on the distant margins of the civilized world, the monstrous female body took the form of mother, sister, wife, and daughter. It was, therefore, pervasive, proximate, and necessary on social, sexual, and reproductive grounds. Miller considers several significant texts representing authoritative discourses on female monstrosity in the Middle Ages: the Pseudo-Ovidian poem, De vetula (The Old Woman); a treatise on human generation erroneously attributed to Albert the Great, De secretis mulierum (On the Secrets of Women), and Julian of NoTrade Review"This is a fine, stimulating book which constructs a subtle, complex argument not only about monsters, but the theorizing of men and women in the thirteenth and fourtteenth centuries."-- The Medieval Review"Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex workings of medieval teratological discourse, its constructive and deconstructive capacities, and its role within the formation of medieval socioreligious material and textual identities."- Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Monstrous Borders of the Female Body 1: Ovidian Poetry, Virgins, Mothers, and Monsters: Ovidian and Pseudo-Ovidian Bodies 2: Gynecology, Gynecological Secrets: Blood, Seed, and Monstrous Births in De secretis mulierum 3: Mystical Theology, Monstrous Love: The Permeable Body of Christ in Julian of Norwich’s Showings Conclusion: The Monstrous Borders of the Self Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on the Art of Chaucers Verse
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Cambridge University Press Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon Books III
Book SynopsisThe Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius'' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader''s expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.Trade Review'… this book is an unquestionable success; it will be as useful to students meeting Leucippe and Clitophon for the first time as it will be to specialists, who will learn much here (however familiar they are with the novel).' Jean-Philippe Guez, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'The commentary is presented as an excellent and exhaustive reading guide and, together with the introduction, it is essential for anyone who wants to access a deep and personal analysis of this novel.' Roser Homar, Exemplaria Classica (translated from Spanish)Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Author, Date, Context; 2. Achilles and his Literary Context; 3. Books 1 and 2; 4. Allusion, Rhetoric, Narrative, Language; 5. Location, Setting, Environment; 6. Ethics, Philosophy, Culture; 7. Text; Sigla; Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II; Commentary.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Beyond Arthurian Romances
Book SynopsisLeaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services.Trade Review'Comprehensive in scope and specific in detail, there is much to interest scholar and lay reader, specialist and generalist, in the themes and subjects covered by this book.' - The Journal of William Morris StudiesTable of ContentsPART ONE: THE NEW/OLD FRAMEWORK FOR FEMAL VOCATION Where Medieval Romance Meets Victorian Reality: The "Woman Question" in William Morris's "The Wood Beyond the World"; L.Campbell Lessons from the Medieval Convent: Adelaide Proctor's "A Legend of Provence"; C.A.Colón PART TWO: COMMUNITY: DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY Norse Fatalism and Victorian Mourning in Matthew Arnold's "Balder Dead"; E.Hu & K.Zarins Designing Spaces of Inclusion: Victorian Medievalism and the Creation of Community; C.Wagner PART THREE: THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST "The Worship of Courage": William Morris's "Sigurd and Volsung" and Victorian Medievalism; R.Frith What's Wrong with Raphael? The Pre-Raphaelite Critique of High Renaissance Painting and Affirmation of Medieval Painting; I.Smithson PART FOUR: MODELS FOR FAITH AND AUTHORITY Counter-Medievalism: Or Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages; M.E.Burstein PART FIVE: VICTORIAN POPULAR CULTURE Charlotte Yonge's Victorian Normans in The Little Duke; S.Wakefield Victorian Medieval Performance; B.Bell Deconstructing the Knight in Shining Armor: The Disillusionment of the Turn of the Century; S.M.Schwab
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature
Book SynopsisThirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agency in the making.Trade Review"There is an intriguing misfit between Barthes's claim that the authoris deadand medieval textsfor whom theauthor may never haveexisted. A dozen leading French medievalists reflect here on our desire nevertheless to recognize the authors of the works we read - or on their desire to be recognized by us.Some essays address the play of authorial singularity and multiplicity; others the interplay between effacement and self-staging; yet others thegenesis of the medieval text. Greene's nuanced opening and closing remarksmaintain focus and pacein this excellent and diversevolume." - Sarah Kay, Princeton University "This provocative collection of essays explores authorial agency in a variety of medieval French texts from the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Contributors argue for the ways in which authorial identity is debated, contested, and constructed through the reuse and continuation of earlier texts, through contradiction and even violence, and through claims to authority, neutrality, and truth. This extended interrogation of medieval authorship offers important new understandings of medieval literary practices and of the textual negotiations that define the medieval author." - Peggy McCracken, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction: Saint Marcel, Asthmatic and Martyr; V.Greene Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrestien's Conte du Graal; M.Bruckner D'un masque l'autre: les vicissitudes de l'auteur du roman au temps de Perceforest; A.Berthelot Borrowing, Citation, and Authorship in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame; M.Switten The Roman de la Rose as a Moebius Strip (On Interpretation); A.Leupin The Names of the Rose; S.G.Nichols Experiencing Self and Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles; S.Marnette Neutrality Affects: Froissart and the Practice of Historiographic Authorship; Z.Stahuljak Christine de Pizan's Status as Author in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Miscellanies: The Evidence of Scribal Rubrics; K.Fresco Portraits d'auteurs a la fin du Moyen Age: Tombeaux en majeste et epitaphes carnavalesques; J.Cerquiglini-Toulet De face et de profil: le geste identitaire de l'auteur a la fin du Moyen Age; D.Bohler Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Printing: Melusine and Olivier de Castille; A.Pairet What Happened to Medievalists after the Death of the Author?; V.Greene
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German
Book SynopsisThis study addresses the topics of literacy and texuality in order to develop a new line of interpretation for a landmark of Middle High German literature. Albrecht's Der jüngere Titurel is an intellectually ambitious narrative written ca. 1270 as a prequel and sequel to the more famous Arthurian texts by Wolfram von Eschenbach.Table of ContentsLiteracy and Textual Culture: Letters, Lettering and Literature First and Second Language: Names, Etymologies and Natural Phenomena The 'Brackenseil' and the Grail: Chasing the Texts Wolfram and vrou Aventiure: Arguing with the Text The Poetological Program: Moral Instruction, Exemplarity and Allegory
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Comic Provocations
Book SynopsisThis collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary body's unsettling capacity.Trade Review'Comic Provocations provides new readings of an ever-popular genre, combining scholarly rigor with provocatively enjoyable prose that at times rivals the fabliaux themselves. Accessible to fabliaux readers at all levels, these essays are particularly helpful for rethinking the genre in terms of the bodies they describe. A welcome addition to fabliaux studies.' Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsNote on Texts and Translations Foreword; R.H.Bloch Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux; H.A.Crocker PART I Literalism and Eunuchs of God in the Fabliaux; J.Tschann The Comic Uses of Torture and Violence in the Fabliaux: When Comedy Crosses the Line; L.Tracy Coprus [sic] Christi: the Scatological Tales of the Old French Fabliaux; S.Nayar PART II Go-Betweens: the Old Woman and the Function of Obscenity in the Old French Fabliau; N. Sidhu Dressing the Undressed: Clothing and Social Structure in Old French Fabliaux; M.Leech The Lewd and the Ludic: Female Pleasure in the Fabliaux; L.Perfetti PART III Creative Choices: Notes on Translating Old French Fabliaux; N.E. Dubin Mobility and Resentment in a World of Flux: Arrogance in the Old French Fabliaux; K.Petkov Conflicting Economies in the Fabliaux; C.Sheridan PART IV Posterity of the Fabliaux: Georges Feydeau and Marcel Proust; S.Bloom Chaucer's French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the 'Shipman's Tale; P.G.Beidler Be Careful What You Wish For: Folkloric Caution in Les .iiii. Souhais Saint-Martin; E.Friedrich Notes on Contributors
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The King and the Whore
Book SynopsisThis 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.Trade Review"Drayson's study contributes fresh insights into the existing scholarship on the subject. The first three chapters of her study, in particular, provide an invaluable resource on the background of the 'King Roderick and La Cava' legend, as Drayson painstakingly and comprehensively differentiated between history and legend, and with great clarity documents the differernt directions the legent takes early in its existence . . . a worthwhile and engaging study." - Sixteenth-Century JournalTable of ContentsThe Birth of the Legend Cultural filters: Roderick and La Cava in the Eyes of Medieval Historians The Master Forger: Miguel de Luna's 'true history' of King Roderick Metamorphosis into Song New Life in Drama and Music The Eighteenth Century: Censored! Romanticism and Renewal in England and France Multiple Perspectives in Hispanic Romanticism The Once and Future King Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Lydgate Matters
Book SynopsisThis 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 in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.Trade Review'Lydgate scholars are back in town. This stylish posse takes aim at the following: medieval London's wealthy oligarchies, its eateries, the sewage systems, the laundromats, trade unions, and the multimedia outlets. The action is brisk and invigorating, the aim startlingly accurate. Each sharpshooter in this this superb collection holds his or her own.' -James Simpson, Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, USA. 'If any volume proves that Lydgate matters to current scholarship, criticism, and teaching of medieval literature, it is this one. The editors have assembled a remarkable collection of distinguished senior and promising junior scholars. Taken together, they illuminate Lydgate's place in post-Chaucerian poetry, in the material culture of late medieval England, and in the broader arc of English literary history." -Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA. 'This volume has an admirable conversational quality to it, a sense that many of the essays are really engaged in a collective reading of Lydgate and cross-pollinate ideas with each other and a larger discourse. A solid contribution to the ongoing interest in Lydgate's work.' -Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University, USA.Table of ContentsLydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'Markys…Off the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Book SynopsisThis 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 claimed only after queerness has been rejected.Trade Review"Adventurous, accessible, and fun, Pugh's study certainly qualifies as a must read for any medievalist interested in issues of sexuality and gender." - Speculum "Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature is an excellent, groundbreaking book and a major contribution to the ongoing project of recuperating the queer in medieval literature. Pugh's primary concern is with constructions of heterosexual masculinity, and the ways in which such constructions are enabled by the intercession of the queer. This has always been one of the main projects of Queer Theory, and Pugh's book serves as a demonstration of the power of Queer Theory to address pre-modern representations, as well as being an important intervention in the study of medieval literature itself." - Robert Sturges, Professor of English, Arizona State University and author of Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory and Dialogue and Deviance "Pugh s attention to questions of genre and narrative structure in the book is consistently engaging" - Studies in the Age of ChaucerTable of ContentsSexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl Queering Harry Bailey: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity under Duress in the Canterbury Tales 'He Nedes Moot unto the Pley Assente': Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Crime Compulsory Queerness and the Pleasures of Medievalism
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Sonnets and the English Woman Writer 15601621
Book SynopsisPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Smith shows that precedents of published women's writing can be as inhibiting as enabling, and therefore disrupts any smoothly progressive model of women's literary history.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Rosalind Smith has produced a well-organized and effective work, with much to recommend it...The strength of the work lies not only in its clearly defined remit but also in Smith's ability to range effortlessly from close textual analysis to a consideration of the wider context for these works, and to dovetail literary criticism with historical insight.' - Lucinda Becker, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aristophanes Lysistrata
Book SynopsisLysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risqué humour, vibrant battle of the sexes, and themes of war and peace, Lysistrata remains as daring and thought-provoking today as it would have been for its original audience in Classical Athens. Aristophanes: Lysistrata is a lively and engaging introduction to this play aimed at students and scholars of classical drama alike. It sets Lysistrata in its social and historical context, looking at key themes such as politics, religion and its provocative portrayal of women, as well as the play's language, humour and personalities, including the formidable and trailblazing Lysistrata herself. Lysistrata has often been translated, adapted and performed in the modern era and this book also traces the ways in which it has been re-Trade ReviewRobson succeeds throughout in combining infectious enthusiasm and dispassionate discussion with a lightness of touch and lucidity that should appeal to students, lay readers and scholars alike. A quiet relish comes across not only in his lively discussion of sexual language, and of the ins and outs of the play’s censorship history, but also in the warmth and humour of his translations of the Greek. * Times Literary Supplement *James Robson has written a richly informative and reliable guide to one of Aristophanes’ most lively and durable comedies and, in my view, accomplished his stated goal of keeping the material at a consistently high level that is both challenging and accessible to a wide range of readers. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Timeline of Ancient Events Introduction 1 Lysistrata in Context: Old Comedy and Athens in 411 BCE 2 The Action of the Play 3 People, Places and Politics 4 Laughter, Language and Logic 5 Lysistrata in the Modern World Notes Further Reading and Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Plautus Menaechmi
Book SynopsisThis new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'' most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A gluttonous parasite, manipulative courtesan, shrewish wife, crotchety father-in-law, bumbling cook, saucy handmaid, quack doctor, and band of thugs comprise the colourful cast of characters. Each encounter with a misidentified twin destabilizes the status quo and provides valuable insight into Roman domestic and social relationships. The book analyzes the power dynamics at play in the various relationships, especially between master and slave and husband and wife, in order to explore the meaning of freedom and the status of slaves and women iTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: TWINtroduction to Menaechmi, Plautus, and Roman Comedy Chapter 2: Persons (and Places) of TWINterest: Setting, Characters, and Themes Chapter 3: Bits, Banter, and Buffoonery: TWINterplay of Comic Language and Stage Business Chapter 4: TWINfluence on the Classical Tradition Appendix Texts, Translations, and Commentaries Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
Book SynopsisThe heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on those of the male playwrights, and offers multiple viewpoints and critiques that enable readers to understand the context of each play and form their own views. Four core themes bridge the depictions of the heroines: the socio-political dynamic of ancient Greek expectations of women and their roles in society, the conflict of masculinity versus femininity, the alternation of defiance and submission, and the interplay between deceit and rhetoric. Each chapter offers clear descriptions of plot and mythical background, and builds on the text of the plays to enable reflections on language and Trade ReviewA well-structured, clear and accessible book for researchers new to classics along with drama or classics students from A-Level beyond. * Classics for All *This book will be helpful for students who have never read a Greek play and help them identify major themes and interpretative problems. It provides necessary background information and stimulating questions for further study. -- Mary R. Lefkowitz, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Wellesley College, USA[W]e are lucky to have at our disposal R.’s new textbook, which we can now add to the list of pedagogical tools available for use in various courses on women and gender in antiquity, or to introductory courses on Greek literature and tragedy. * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Clytemnestra 2. Electra 3. Iphigenia 4. Antigone 5. Helen 6. Hecuba 7. Alcestis 8. Deianeira 9. Medea 10. Creusa 11. Phaedra Conclusion Glossary of Name and Terms Alphabetical List of Discussed Tragedies Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ptolemy I Soter
Book SynopsisPtolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great's successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror's death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt's incorporation into the Roman Empire. This book is not a standard biography, but rather an examination of the major issues surrounding Ptolemy's reign, the major controversies and questions surrounding his career and legacy. What were his ultimate ambitions? How did he administer his kingdom? What was his role in the demise of the unified empire created by Alexander? Ptolemy''s administration of this foreign land, although privileging colonists from Greece and Macedonia over native Egyptians, maintained a level of political stability in a land with a long history of resisting foreign rule. Each of the key themes discussed in the chapters follows a chronological order so that readers unfamiliar with tTrade ReviewAnson’s biography of Ptolemy is both authoritative and engaging. His lucid and clearly articulated narrative maintains an admirably strong focus on the most important themes of the king’s career: politics, administration, diplomacy, propaganda and especially all matters military and strategic. -- Daniel Ogden, Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsPreface List of Maps List of Abbreviations A Chronology Introduction 1. Ptolemy: An Introduction 2, An Early Life Imagined 3. The Man with a Plan 4. The Destruction of an Empire 5. The General 6. Lord of Egypt 7. Ptolemy and Religion 8. The Royal Historian 9. Ptolemy: A Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC What Is a Jewish Classicist
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society how should it? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece offer a refreshing and provocative contribution to these discussions. What Is a Jewish Classicist? analyses how the personal voice of a scholar plays a role in scholarship, how religion and cultural identity are acted out within an academic discipline, and how translation, the heart of any engagement with the literature of antiquity, is a transformational practice. Topical, engaging, revelatory, this book opens a sharp and personal perspective on how and why the study of antiquity has become such a battlefield in contemporary culture. The first essay looks at hTrade ReviewIn these self-reflective essays Simon Goldhill tackles big issues of our era: race and religion, exclusion and belonging, privilege and minoritization. He interrogates the past and present of classics and poses some serious questions to its future. -- Katherine Harloe, Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, UK[This book] repays reading because of its illumination of Jewish responses to prejudice and challenge. * Classics for All *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fitting In 1. The Personal Voice: Six Fragments of a Sentimental Education 2. What Is a Jewish Classicist? 3. Translation and Transformation Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC What Is a Jewish Classicist
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society how should it? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece offer a refreshing and provocative contribution to these discussions.What Is a Jewish Classicist? analyses how the personal voice of a scholar plays a role in scholarship, how religion and cultural identity are acted out within an academic discipline, and how translation, the heart of any engagement with the literature of antiquity, is a transformational practice. Topical, engaging, revelatory, this book opens a sharp and personal perspective on how and why the study of antiquity has become such a battlefield in contemporary culture. The firstTrade ReviewIn these self-reflective essays Simon Goldhill tackles big issues of our era: race and religion, exclusion and belonging, privilege and minoritization. He interrogates the past and present of classics and poses some serious questions to its future. -- Katherine Harloe, Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, UK[This book] repays reading because of its illumination of Jewish responses to prejudice and challenge. * Classics for All *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fitting In 1. The Personal Voice: Six Fragments of a Sentimental Education 2. What Is a Jewish Classicist? 3. Translation and Transformation Notes Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press AlJi Religious Knowledge
Book SynopsisOffers an unprecedented theological investigation into al-Ji's social empiricism.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
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Palgrave USA Performing Piety
Book SynopsisAddressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.Trade Review'...a text of limitless value and timeless relevance to all students of music, the middle ages and women religious.' - Lisa Padden, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland 'This excellent and accessible study is heartily recommended not only to those studying women's history, but also to anyone who is interested in gaining a better insight into medieval religious life, literature, music and spirituality.' - Lisa Colton, Early Music '...a labour of love...Yardley's book is a major contribution and highly recommended to readers interested in English ecclesiastical history, monastic spirituality and musical practices in the Middle Ages.' - Ecclesiastical History '...[Anne Bagnall Yardley] writes convincingly and persuasively of a topic she knows intimately. A richly rewarding book, it will be of great use for scholars of medieval monasticism and music history for years...Performing Piety is an impressively thorough and well-written monograph, and an entirely enjoyable read to boot. Yardley has made an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of medieval musical practice.' - Ars LyricaTable of ContentsIntroduction The Monastic Rules Musical Leadership in the Nunnery The Reality of Musical Life Everyday Musical Practices: Psalters, the Office of the Dead, and Polyphony Pomp and Piety: Processional Practices in Nunneries The Bride of Christ: Liturgies for the Consecration of Nuns A Case Study in Benedictine Practices: Barking Abbey Syon Abbey: The English Manifestation of St. Bridget's Order Conclusions
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Palgrave USA Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artifacts. The term visual culture has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and other contemporary representational forms and functions. But this interest in visuality is not only a modern phenomenon. Discourses on visual processes pervade the works of medieval theologians, scholastics, and secular poets alike. The Middle Ages was a highly visual period in which images, objects, and performance played a dominant communicative and representative role in both secular and religious areas of society. The essays in this volume, which present various perspectives on medieval visual culture, provide a critical historical basis for the study of visuality and visual processes.Trade Review'Together, these essays give an excellent overview of the state of the art by sampling these scholars' main concerns. They furnish proof that work on the German Middle Ages has much to offer to cultural studies as a whole.' - Times Literary Supplement 'This collection of essays...ought to play an important part in bridge-building between European and Anglo-American scholarship in medieval literary studies.' - Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Visual Culture in the Middle Ages PART I: NEW VISIONS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES Word and Image as a Research Field: Sound Methodologies or Just a Fashionable Trend?; N.H.Ott PART II: INTERMEDIALITY Writing Speech-Image: The Concurrence of Signs; J.Muller The Shield as a Poetic Screen: Early Blazon and the Visualisation of Medieval German Literature, 1150-1300; H.Wandhoff Intermediality in the Middle Ages: Representations of Writing in the Illustrated Epic; U.Ernst PART III: RETHINKING MANUSCRIPT CULTURE Images at the Interface: Orality, Literacy and the Pictoralization of the Roland Material; J.Rushing Visualizing Performance?: Of Music, Word and Manuscripts; V.Mertens PART IV: SPIRITUAL VISIONS The 'Handwritings of Humanity': Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingern's Liber Scivias; J.F.Hamburger Scripture, Vision, Performance: Visionary Texts and Medieval Religious Drama; N.Largier PART V: WORD, IMAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY Logos and the Press: Christ in the Wine Press and the Development of Printing; H.Wenzel From God's Word to Emblem: Justifying the Printed Word; T.Cramer Contributor Notes
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Palgrave USA Women Power and Religious Patronage in the Middle
Book SynopsisBy examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias.Trade Review'This is a valuable study, both of female power and of the nature of monastic patronage in a specific context.' Janet Burton - Ecclesiastrical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Countesses of Flanders and Hainaut Power and Authority in the Thirteenth Century: Noblewomen as Political Actors The Paradox of Gender: Exercising Power in a Patriarchal World The Conjunction of Piety and Politics Securing Salvation: Religious Patronage and Women Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Vergils Aeneid and its Tradition
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Terence
Book SynopsisA Companion to Terence is a useful research tool for the growing number of scholars, students and critics of Terence and Roman comedy.Trade Review"In this Volume, the editors have aimed to offer 'a wide-ranging guide to studying Terence's plays within the historical and social-political context in which they were produced'. Their goal has been realized- but neither fully nor without problems; and, although there is a wealth of information contextualizing the playright and his work, the notion that his plays were primarily comic strips designed for live performances should have been represented more strongly in the volume." (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill PART I Terence and Ancient Comedy 15 1. Terence and Greek New Comedy 17 Peter Brown 2. Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy 33 George Fredric Franko 3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts 52 Alison Sharrock 4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence 69 Heather Vincent 5. Meter and Music 89 Timothy J. Moore PART II Contexts and Themes 111 6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex 113 Daniel P. Hanchey 7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s bce 132 John H. Starks, Jr. 8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence 156 T.H.M. Gellar-Goad 9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence 175 Sharon L. James 10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence 195 Z.M. Packman 11. Masters and Slaves 211 Evangelos Karakasis PART III The Plays 223 12. Andria 225 Robert Germany 13. Heauton Timorumenos 243 Eckard Lef èvre 14. Eunuchus 262 David M. Christenson 15. Phormio 281 Stavros Frangoulidis 16. Hecyra 295 Ortwin Knorr 17. Adelphoe 318 Ariana Traill PART IV Reception 341 18. History of the Text and Scholia 343 Benjamin Victor 19. Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century bce to the Second Century ce 363 Roman Müller 20. Terence in Late Antiquity 380 Andrew Cain 21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence 397 Antony Augoustakis 22. ‘‘Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him’’: Terence in Early Modern England 410 Martine van Elk 23. mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder’s Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros 429 Mathias Hanses 24. Terence in Translation 446 John Barsby 25. Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now 466 Mary-Kay Gamel References 482 General Index 515 Index Locorum 523
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Taylor & Francis Letters from the East
Book SynopsisNo written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. They are not, of course, reflective pieces, but they do convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening. Those settled in the East faced crises all the time, while crusaders and pilgrims knew they were experiencing defining moments in their lives. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. These had an impact on the lives of all Latin Christians, but at the same time individuals felt impelled to describe both their own personal achievements and disappointments and the wonders and horrors of what they had seen. Moreover, the representatives of the military and monastic orders used lettersTrade Review'... in crusader studies, these letters will help to shed light on the feelings, motivations, and beliefs of the writers, which are not usually evident in the chronicles. This will be particularly relevant for teaching, as the material presented here is an anthology of sorts, which students at undergraduate and postgraduate level will find extremely useful for their research. The valuable work by Ashgate thus continues, and other volumes in the series are eagerly awaited.' Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 'Altogether, this book is an important contribution to research, and especially to teaching, about the crusading movement.' The Medieval Review 'This excellent and very useful collection... The book is now essential reading for any course in crusade history and takes a proud place in a distinguished publication series.' Edward Peters, Catholic Historical Review 'The great strength of the collection is its scope... [a] fascinating and accessible contribution to the growing body of literature on the crusades.' Parergon 'The translations are readable without compromising on accuracy ... The collection’s strength is in its potential contribution to a fully realised undergraduate reading-list, providing a source type often neglected and inaccessible, to be read alongside more familiar accounts.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Maps; Chronology of events; Introduction; Contents; Letters from the East; Sources; Sources in translation containing letters from the East; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Persian Prison Poem
Book SynopsisThrough a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.
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Manchester University Press Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval
Book SynopsisPracticing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to reinforce women’s chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.Trade Review'This is a timely book entering the field at a moment when the study of the history of both sex and emotion is suddenly exploding, and when greater attention is being paid to embodied experience, not least of emotion. Practising shame will be of interest to those exploring these issues across time and place because it both offers an account with unnerving relevance for today and provides a successful model of how to answer some of these questions within a particular historical moment.'Katie Barclay, Journal of British Studies'Flannery confronts the similitude between medieval and contemporary expectations and denigrations head-on. In so doing she has written a powerful and scholarly work that highlights both the relationship between interiority and outer behaviour, and the textual communities which have for so long created particular and gendered visions of identity.'Megan Cassidy-Welch, Emotions: History, Culture, Society'To say that Mary Flannery’s Practising shame is timely would be an understatement. Through close analysis of popular and understudied texts, Flannery gives the reader a thorough tour of the double bind that is shamefastness, a bind that encouraged women to practice humility and yet, simultaneously, excoriated them for being false practitioners of shamefastness, as the practice was an obstacle for men’s lust...In our own moment, when the integrity of women’s testimony has stood at the center of high-profile trials and convictions, Flannery’s book reveals how deeply this ideological misogyny is embedded.'Christopher Michael Roman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer'a powerful and scholarly work that highlights both the relationship between interiority and outer behaviour, and the textual communities which have for so long created particular and gendered visions of identity.'Emotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS) ' This well-written and carefully argued monograph... tells us a great deal about how medieval women were supposed to behave...'Speculum -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women’s bodies2 Lessons in shame3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless cravingAfterwordBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries
Book SynopsisThis unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.Trade Review'This collection will interest all readers of Chaucer. It is a fitting tribute, in the range andquality of its scholarship, to Stephanie Trigg, author of the great Congenial Souls (2001)… This book is a celebration of a great scholar, put together with care, containing scholarship of permanent value.'Renaissance Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine1 Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer – Paul Strohm2 First encounter: ‘snail horn perception’ in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde – Elizabeth Robertson3 Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens – Helen Cooper4 Chaucerian rhyme-breaking – Ruth Evans5 ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ – Stephanie Downes6 Heavy atmosphere – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen7 Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Frank Grady8 The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn – Thomas A. Prendergast9 Caxton in the middle of English – David Matthews10 ‘Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness – Stephen Knight11 Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception – Andrew Lynch12 Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions – John M. Ganim13 ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face – Louise D’Arcens14 Textual face: cognition as recognition – James SimpsonIndex
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