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Johns Hopkins University Press Women and War in Antiquity
Book SynopsisWomen in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.The martial virtuescourage, loyalty, cunning, and strengthwere central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat.The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, fromTrade ReviewThe essays in this volume open up important but neglected topics for further inquiry, and will be valuable for literary and military historians alike. In addition, the international perspectives represented will challenge scholars to venture beyond traditional interpretations and methodologies, especially regarding the study of gender in antiquity. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith's volume, Women & War in Antiquity, provides meaningful contributions to the advancement of this question. Whereas the premise of this book is bold, the scope is equally impressive; articles range in chronology from Homer and the mythohistoric Trojan origins of the classical world to the fall of Christian Rome CLOELIA Women and War in Antiquity is a remarkable collection of historical and literary research, one that has much to interest the generalist, yet is sure to be an essential text for scholars of both ancient warfare and gender in antiquity... This excellent volume lights the way. CJ-Online Fabre-Serris and Keith have assembled an impressive collection of papers that offer insightful interpretations of the relationship between women and war in a variety of Greco-Roman literary and historical contexts...To scholars interested in gender more generally or in the specific topics of individual chapters, this volume's penetrating exploration of a variety of evidence will prompt productive questions for further thought. New England Classical Journal ... ope paths and offer fresh ideas for future research... Classical Word Fabre-Serris and Keith have assembled an impressive collection of papers that offer insightful interpretations of the relationship between women and war in a variety of Greco-Roman literature and historical contexts... To scholars interested in gender more generally or in the specific topics of individual chapters, this volume's penetrating exploration of a variety of evidence will prompt productive questions for further thought. New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction1. War, Speech, and the Bow Are Not Women's Business2. Women and War in the Iliad: Rhetorical and Ethical Implications3. Teichoskopia: Female Figures Looking on Battles4. Women Arming Men: Armor and Jewelry5. Woman and War: From the Theban Cycle to Greek Tragedy6. Women after War in Seneca's Troades: A Reflection on Emotions7. Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity inStatius's Thebaid8. Elegiac Women and Roman Warfare9. Warrior Women in Roman Epic10. War in the Feminine in Ancient Greece11. To Act, Not Submit: Women's Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece12. Women's Wars, Censored Wars? A Few Greek Hypotheses (Eighth to FourthCenturies BCE)13. The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archeology,History, and Historiography14. Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Woman Warrior15. Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial Perspectives16. The Feminine Side of War in Claudian's Epics
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Johns Hopkins University Press Comic Democracies
Book SynopsisAfter recovering these lost chapters of our democratic past, Comic Democracies concludes with a draft for the future, using the old methods of comedy to envision a modern democracy rooted in the diversity, ingenuity, and power of popular art.Trade ReviewFletcher's main theory is convincing and will open up new fields of inquiry. This accessible work is for those interested in political science, cultural history, and comic theory as well as classical literature. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Ancient History of Comedy and Demokratia2. Fortune Favors the Impetuous3. The Virtù of Imitation4. The Pursuit of Indolence5. Quixotic Governance6. Amending Ourselves7. Demokratia at DenshawaiConclusionThe Futures of Comic DemocracyNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Life in Greece and Rome A Source Book in
Book SynopsisMany notes and explanations have been revised with the non-classicist in mind.Trade ReviewRecommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface to the fourth editionAcknowledgements1. Women's Voices2. Men's Opinions3. Philosophers on the Role of Women4. Legal Status in the Greek World5. Legal Status in the Roman World6. Public Life7. Private Life8. Occupations9. Medicine and Anatomy10. ReligionAbbreviationsBibliographyConcordance of sourcesIndex of women and goddessesGeneral Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Neronian Age
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Neronian Age is an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and comprehensive collection of essays on the literature, history, archaeology and the reception of the Neronian Age.Trade Review“Buckley and Dinter must be commended for producing a Companion as stimulating as it is wide-ranging.” (Language & Literature, 1 October 2014) “All the essays are clear, detailed and relevant… Buckley and Dinter must be commended for producing a Companion as stimulating as it is wide-ranging.” (Journal of Roman Studies, 17 October 2014) "This book is a must-have for anyone working on the Neronian Age, but it will also be a valuable asset to those interested in Roman culture more broadly." (Classical Journal, 9 May 2014) “Many of its essays should become the standard discussions on the topic, whereas others gesture importantly toward future work to be done in the field. Moreover, the clarity of the chapters makes them suitable to be used pedagogically in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 29 February 2014) “It is very hard to do justice to this excellent addition to the series of Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. The editors have done a splendid job in selecting and organising the material, together with some helpful cross-referencing within the contributions.” (Journal of Classics Teaching, 1 June 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) ‘‘Renaissance’’ 1 Martin T. Dinter Part I Nero 1 The Performing Prince 17 Elaine Fantham 2 Biographies of Nero 29 Donna W. Hurley 3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man’s World 45 Sigrid Mratschek Part II the Empire 4 The Empire in the Age of Nero 65 Myles Lavan 5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier 83 David Braund 6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero 102 Michael J. Mordine 7 Religion 118 Darja Šterbenc Erker 8 Neronian Philosophy 134 Jenny Bryan Part III Literature, Art, and Architecture 9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 151 Christopher L. Whitton 10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus’ Eclogues 170 John Henderson 11 Seneca’s Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales 188 Jonathan Mannering 12 Senecan Tragedy 204 Emma Buckley 13 Lucan’s Bellum Civile 225 Philip Hardie 14 Petronius’ Satyrica 241 Tom Murgatroyd 15 Persius 258 Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols 16 Columella, De Re Rustica 275 Christiane Reitz 17 Literature of the World: Seneca’s Natural Questions and Pliny’s Natural History 288 Aude Doody 18 Greek Literature Under Nero 302 Dirk Uwe Hansen 19 Buildings of an Emperor – How Nero Transformed Rome 314 Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg 20 Portraits of an Emperor – Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium 332 Marianne Bergmann 21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective 363 Katharina Lorenz Part IV Reception 22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation 385 Harry O. Maier 23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century 405 Yanick Maes 24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama 425 Susanna Braund 25 ‘‘Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre’’: The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the ‘‘Grotesque’’ 444 Michael Squire Epilogue 26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero 467 Miriam Griffin Index 481
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction, Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. Forms and Media, Naomi Weiss (Harvard University, USA) 2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Rosa D'Andújar (King's College London, UK) 3. Communities of Production and Consumption, Eirene Visvardi (Wesleyan University, USA) 4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Austin Busch (College at Brockport, USA) 5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University, Denmark) 6. Politics of City and Nation, Robert Cowan (University of Sydney, Australia) 7. Society and Family, Marcel Widzicz (Southern Virginia University, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The Art of the Scribe
Book SynopsisFolios from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the collections of the British Library and other international institutions provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects. Seven classic scripts are explored in turn by expert Patricia Lovett. She explains their characteristics, origins and development and creates exemplar diagrams to show basic letter shapes and the pen strokes required to produce them. Each chapter ends with three complementary projects drawing on aspects of the historical manuscripts illustrated on the preceding pages. These projects are suited to a range of abilities and are illustrated with step-by-step photographs and beautiful images of the finished works.Following on from these chapters, an authoritative section provides vital guidance on specialist tools and materials, as well as practical techniques, including cutting quills, preparing pigments and applying gold leaf and shell gold, to enable you to truly re-capture this medieval artform.
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Ovid Amores II
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Horace Satires
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Tacitus Histories I
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Tacitus Annals I
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Ovid Heroides
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Horace Odes III
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Virgil Aeneid VIII
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Apuleius Metamorphoses V
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Broadview Press Ltd Richard Coeur de Lion
Book SynopsisThe Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion transforms the historical Richard I of England—a Frenchman by upbringing, who spent only four months of his reign in England and who once joked that he would sell London to finance his Crusade if he could only find a buyer—into an aggressively English king. This act of historical revision involves the invention of several fantastic elements that give Richard the superhuman force necessary to unite the English nation and elevate it above all others. Springing from a supernatural birth and endowed with exceptional strength and an insatiable and transgressive appetite, Richard embodies a vision of triumphant Englishness that humiliates and decimates England’s foes, whether they be French, German, or Muslim. Katherine Terrell’s faithful but poetic new modern English translation is fully annotated. Appendices include materials on cannibalism, the Crusades, and English national myths.Trade Review“Richard Coeur de Lion stands out in the Middle English romance tradition for its union of historical details of the Third Crusade with fantastical elements, including royal cannibalism, a flying demonic mother, and almost magical feats of technology. Katherine H. Terrell’s translation is well crafted and clear, while her abundant selections from historical chronicles and documents in the appendices open up the twelfth-century context of Richard’s reign to the reader. This volume is an excellent addition to courses on medieval studies, history of the Crusades, romance, and fantasy literature through the ages. It also sheds light on women’s history, through the romance’s elaborate yet oblique treatment of the historical Richard’s powerful mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.” — Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto“Terrell’s edition offers the first complete modern English translation of Richard Coeur de Lion. This provocative Middle English romance reimagines the events of the Third Crusade and provides valuable insight into fourteenth-century identity formation contingent on crusading involvements and religious competition. The fictive account, which presents a King Richard I of England who engages in crusader cannibalism, invites students and scholars to explore the historical exigencies of premodern religious warfare as well as to examine the management and production of a royal, proto-national image. Terrell’s meticulous and elegant translation will provide undergraduate students and general readers with a welcome entrance into this complex poem. Richard Coeur de Lion in translation will certainly find its place in university classrooms alongside other fourteenth-century Middle English crusade romances such as Boyarin’s Siege of Jerusalem, and canonical works such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale.” — Suzanne M. Yeager, Fordham UniversityTable of Contents Appendix A: The Middle English Richard Coer de Lyon 1. Cassodorien’s marriage 2. First episode of cannibalism 3. Richard’s message to Saladin 4. King Richard at Jaffa Appendix B: Calls to Crusade 1. Pope Urban II’s Call for a Crusade (1095) 2. Pope Gregory VIII’s Call for a Crusade (1187) Appendix C: Cannibalism 1. Crusader Cannibalism a. letter from leaders of crusade to Pope Urban II (1099) b. Gesta Francorum (c.1100) c. Raymond d’Aguilers (c. 1102) d. Fulcher of Chartres (c. 1106) e. Guibert of Nogent (c. 1109) f. Ralph of Caen (c. 1118) g. William of Malmesbury (c. 1127) h. Oderic Vitalis (c. 1142) i. William of Tyre (c. 1184) j. Chanson d’Antioch (c. 1200) 2. Religious Cannibalism a. Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne (early 14th c.) b. On the Feast of Corpus Christi (late 14th c.) 3. Literary Cannibalism a. Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138) b. The Alliterative Morte Arthur (late 14th c.) Appendix D: Richard I and the Third Crusade 1. Richard’s Character a. Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (c. 1220) 2.Richard in Sicily a. Roger of Howden: Siege of Messina (c. 1200) b. Roger of Howden: Richard does penance (c. 1200) 3. Richard at Acre a. Letter from Richard (1191) b. Richard of Devizes (c. 1192) c. Two accounts of the killing of hostages 1. Bah?’ al-D?n Ibn Shadd?d (c. 1198-1215) 2. Ambroise (c. 1194-99) 4. Richard at Jaffa a. Letter of Richard I (1 October, 1191) b. Richard of Devizes (c. 1192) c. Gift of a horse: Conquest of Jerusalem (mid-13th c.) Appendix E: National and Family Legends 1. Demonic Ancestry: Gerald of Wales (c. 1216-23) 2. Eleanor of Aquitaine a. John of Salisbury (c. 1164) b. Walter Map (1181-92) c. William of Tyre (1184) d. Richard of Devizes (c. 1192) e. Gerald of Wales (c. 1216-23) f. A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel’s Chronicle (c. 1260) g. French Chronicle of London (early 14th c.) 3. Englishmen with Tails a. Richard of Devizes (c. 1192) b. Layamon’s Brut (c. 1205)
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsC. David Benson, "What then does Langland Mean? Authorial and Textual Voices in Piers Plowman" Edwin D. Craun: "'Ye, by Peter and by Poul!': Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal Correction" Response by David C. Fowler Response by Lawrence M. Clopper Lawrence M. Clopper, "Langland and Allegory: A Proposition" Response by Ann W. Astell Sick of Allegory: A Response by James J. Paxson Alan J. Fletcher, "The Essential (Ephemeral) William Langland: Textual Revision as Ethical Process in Piers Plowman" "Plowing Parallel Furrows? The Textual Cultures of Piers and Preaching": A Response by Wendy Scase "The Author, the Dreamer, his Wife, and their Poet: Thoughts on an Essential-Ephemeral Langland": A Response by Judith Dale Anna Baldwin, "Patient Politics in Piers Plowman" Response by Fiona Somerset Andrew Galloway, "Piers Plowman and the Subject of the Law" Response by David Lawton Response by Louise M. Bishop Anne M. Scott, "'Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide': Piers Plowman and the Value of Poverty" Response by Bruce W. Hozeski Response by Joan Baker Joseph S. Wittig, "'Culture Wars' and the Persona in Piers Plowman" "Culture Wars? All's Not Quiet on the Langland Front": A Response by Gregory J. Wilsbacher Thomas D. Hill, "'Dumb David': Silence and Zeal in Lady Church's Speech, Piers Plowman C.2.30-40" Thomas D. Hill, " The Problem of Synecdochic Flesh: Piers Plowman B.9.49-50" REVIEWS Thorlac Turville-Petre and Hoyt Duggan, eds., The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. B.15.17 (W) (John T. Sebastian) David Aers, Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England, 1360-1409 (Denise N. Baker) Susanna Fein, ed., Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents and Social Contexts of British Library MS. Harley 2253 (Christopher Cannon) Bonnie Millar, The 'Siege of Jerusalem' in its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts (David Lawton) John Scattergood, The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Maura B. Nolan) Andrew Cole, "Annual Bibliography, 2000"
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Medieval Institute Publications Pearl
Book SynopsisPearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Select Bibliography Pearl Notes Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes,
Book SynopsisStudies in the Harley Manuscript is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature. In an Introduction and fifteen essays a team of scholars considers many aspects of the 140 folios of this trilingual miscellany that preserves 121 items (or 122 depending on how one counts) from which we get a strange and privileged glimpse into the rich literary heritage that existed in England prior to the flourishing of vernacular poetry in the Richardian era. As the Contents indicates, the history and composition of the manuscript are considered, as are the Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin compositions that it preserves. This is a companion volume to the three volume complete edition of Harley 2253.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Note on the Presentation of Text from MS Harley 2253 List of Plates, Tables, Figures, and Appendices Introduction: British Library MS Harley 2253: The Lyrics, the Facsimile, and the Book Scribe and Provenance Miscellany or Anthology? The Structure of Medieval Manuscripts: MS Harley 2253, for Example An Electric Stream: The Religious Contents Authority and Resistance: The Political Verse Historicity and Complaint in Song of the Husbandman Debate Verse Dreams and Dream Love Authors, Anthologies, and Franciscan Spirituality Frankis rimes here i redd, / Communlik in ilk[a] sted...: The French Bible Stories in Harley 2253 Anthologizing Ribaldry: Five Anglo-Norman Fabliaux Evading Textual Intimacy: The French Secular Verse A Saint Geynest under Gore: Marina and the Love Lyrics of the Seventh Quire Layout, Punctuation, and Stanza Patterns in English Verse The Language of the English Poems: The Harley Scribe and His Exemplars Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature in Pre-Chaucerian England Bibliography of Works Cited Index of Items in MS Harley 2253 Index of Manuscripts General Index
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsLawrence Warner, "The Ur-B Piers Plowman and the Earliest Production of C and B" Thorlac Turville-Petre, "Putting It Right: The Corrections of Huntington Library MS. Hm. 128 and BL Additional MS. 35287" Thomas D. Hill, "Green and Filial Love: Two Notes on the Russell-Kane C Text: C.8.215 And C.17.48" Traugott Lawler, "The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman", Miceal F. Vaughan, "Response" Margaret Kim, "Hunger, Need, and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman" Ralph Hanna, "Two New (?) Lost Piers Manuscripts(?)" REVIEWS Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P., The Place of God in 'Piers Plowman' and Medieval Art (Jill Mann) Joseph S. Wittig, Piers Plowman: Concordance (J. A. Burrow) D. Vance Smith, The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century (Christine Chism) Andrew Cole, "Annual Bibliography, 2005"
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 17 (2003)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsAndrew Cole, "Introduction: Langland and Lollardy: The Form of the Matter" Derek Pearsall, "Langland and Lollardy: From B to C" Andrew Cole, "William Langland's Lollardy" David Aers, "John Wyclif: Poverty and the Poor" Fiona Somerset, "Expanding the Langlandian Canon: Radical Latin and the Stylistics of Reform" Anne Hudson, "Langland and Lollardy?" Lawrence Warner, "Becket and the Hopping Bishops" Matthew Giancarlo, "Piers Plowman, Parliament, and the Public Voice" Kathleen E. Kennedy, "Retaining a Court of Chancery in Piers Plowman" J. A. Burrow, "Wasting Time, Wasting Words in Piers Plowman B and C" FORUM Traugott Lawler, "The Secular Clergy (again): A Brief Rejoinder to Miceal Vaughan's Response" REVIEWS Christina von Nolcken, Joseph S. Wittig, Stephen A. Barney, Ralph Hanna ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Kalpen Trivedi
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Medieval Institute Publications Siege of Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Siege of Jerusalem has been called by Ralph Hanna "the chocolate-covered tarantula of the alliterative movement" for its apparent anti-Semitism and is, as Livingston notes in his introduction, "simply difficult for twenty-first-century readers to like." The poem, which describes the destruction of the Second Temple by Roman forces in AD 70, is graphic in detail and unpleasant in its relish of the suffering of the Jews. But as Livingston points out, "Like the gritty violence of Alliterative Morte Arthure, the gore in Siege is perhaps best read as a grim awareness of the terrible realities of war, not as a bloodthirsty and berserk cry for further bloodshed. The poem chronicles a historical war, and it is this historical quality that must stand out: the poem not only has resonances of the bloodshed that battle inevitably brings, but it also is, in a very literal sense, history. This is to say, the war is over. The vengeance of Jesus has been accomplished. The Siege-poet's answer to the social-political-religious question of whether there is such a thing as a just war is that there was one: Titus and Vespasian's vengeance for the death of Christ. . . . Further efforts to avenge Christ were unnecessary. . . . That the poem is a call to action and to crusade, then, seems to be a claim that is far less sustainable than its opposite: a call to peace and to remembrance."Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction History of the Temple The Vengeance of Our Lord Tradition Date and Provenance of the Poem Overview of the Poem Initial Critical Issues: Genre, Jews, and Violence Sources for the Poem The End of the Fourteenth Century: The Idea of Just War The Structure of the Poem: Architecture of Divine Providence The Laud Manuscript and Its Vocabulary Manuscripts Siege of Jerusalem Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 18 (2004)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsJill Mann, The Nature of Need Revisited A. V. C. Schmidt,Ars or Scientia? Reflections on Editing Piers Plowman George Shuffelton, Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill, The longe man ys seld wys: Proverbial Characterization and Langlands Long Will Frank Grady, Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus Noriko Inoue, A New Theory of Alliterative A-Verses Simon Horobin, The Dialect and Authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger Reviews Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England. (Ethan Knapp) J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. (Helen Cooper) Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500. (Ad Putter) Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. (Maura Nolan) William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in Piers Plowman. (James J. Paxson) James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Revolution. The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 2. 1350-1547. (Larry Scanlon) D. Vance Smith, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. (Matthew Goldie) Fiona Somerset, Jill C. Havens, and Derrick G. Pitard, eds., Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England. (Katherine C. Little) Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature. (Chris Baswell) Kalpen Trivedi, "Annual Bibliography 2003"
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Medieval Institute Publications The Game and Playe of the Chesse
Book SynopsisDespite its title, Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it ... Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good. Readers first meet the king, queen, bishops (imagined as judges), knights, and rooks, here depicted as the king's emissaries. They are then introduced to the eight different pawns, who represent trades that range from farmers to messengers ... Paired with each profession is a list of moral codes ... These pairings reinforce the idea of a kingdom organized around professional ties and associations, ties that are in turn regulated by moral law. - from the IntroductionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Game and Playe of the Chesse 1. Preface and Table of Contents 2. Book One 3. Book Two 4. Book Three 5. Book Four Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications AElfric of Eynsham: His Life, Times and Writings
Book SynopsisOriginally delivered as a lecture at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, this volume was published in 2002 as "Ælfric von Eynsham und seine Zeit," introducing, as Gneuss says, "an Anglo-Saxon author . . . who was the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English."Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviated References Introduction Ælfric’s Name and Career Ælfric’s Writings and Their Circulation Ælfric’s Homiletic Writings Ælfric’s Language and Style Ælfric as Language Teacher Anglo-Saxon Literature in the Vernacular Ælfric as Adviser of the Episcopacy and Nobility The Royal House and the Scandinavian Wars Art and Culture in Winchester The Survival of Ælfric’s Writings Index of Scholars
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Medieval Institute Publications Confessio Amantis, Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 2 contains Books 2, 3, and 4, which follow in their structure the outline of Vice and its children found in the early French poem the Mirour de l'Omme.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Confessio Amantis Book 2: Envy i. On Envy Sorrow for Another's Joy Tale of Acis and Galatea ii. Joy Over Another’s Grief Tale of the Travelers and the Angel iii. Detraction Tale of Constance Tale of Demetrius and Perseus iv. False-Semblant Tale of Deianira, Hercules, and Nessus v. Supplantation Tale of Geta and Amphitrion Tale of the False Bachelor Tale of Pope Boniface vi. The Pallor of Envy Charity and Pity as Remedy Tale of Constantine and Sylvester Book 3: Wrath i. On Melancholy Tale of Canace and Machaire Tale of Tiresias and the Snakes ii. Contention Patience of Socrates Of Jupiter, Juno, and Tiresias Tale of Phebus and Cornide Jupiter and Laar iii. Hate Tale of King Namplus and the Greeks iv. Contek and Homicide Tale of Diogenes and Alexander Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe On Daunger Tale of Phebus and Daphne Tale of Athemas and Demephon Tale of Orestes v. Evil of War Tale of Alexander and the Pirate On Crusades Tale of Telaphus and Teucer Book 4: Sloth i. On Lachesce, or Procrastination Tale of Aeneas and Dido Tale of Ulysses and Penelope The Great Clerk Grosseteste The Foolish Virgins ii. Pusillamité, or Cowardice Pygmalion and His Statue Tale of Iphis and Iante iii. Forgetfulness Tale of Demophon and Phyllis iv. Negligence Tale of Phaeton Tale of Icarus v. Idleness Tale of Rosiphelee Tale of Jephthah’s Daughter vi. Decerte, or Meritoriousness Tale of Nauplus and Ulysses Examples of Prowess: Protesilaus Saul Education of Achilles Tale of Hercules and Achelons Penthesilea, Philemenis, Aeneas Gentilesse vii. On the Uses of Labor Discoverers and Inventors Alchemy Three Philosopher Stones First Alchemists Letters and Language viii. Somnolence On Dreams Tale of Ceix and Alceone Prayer of Cephalus Tale of Argus and Mercury ix. Tristesse and Despondency Tale of Iphis and Araxarathen Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Illustration Figure 1, MS Bodley 902, Fol. 8r.
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Medieval Institute Publications Books Most Needful to Know : Contexts for the
Book Synopsis"Books Most Needful to Know" is the newest edition in the Richard Rawlinson Center's OEN Subsidia series. It includes essays covering topics such as Old English, Old Norse, Anglo-Latin literature, and Early Medieval Ireland.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Anglo-Latin Literature in the Foreground 2. North Sea Currents: Old English and Old Norse in Comparison and in Contact 3. Legend hErenn: ''The Learning of Ireland'' in the Early Medieval Period
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Medieval Institute Publications Accessus ad auctores: Medieval Introductions to
Book SynopsisMedieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the twelfth century these introductions were anthologised, referred to now as Accessus ad auctores. They served as the first handbooks of literary criticism. The earliest and most comprehensive example, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, saec. XII,is presented here for the first time in a faithful critical edition, with a new translation and explanatory notes addressing different aspects of the text. This book's aim is to present an accurate version of the text while respecting the arrangement and integrity of the anthology as a whole, and includes previously unpublished material from the anthology.Trade Review“Accessus ad auctores is a splendid addition to scholarship on the repurposing of classical literature by medieval scholars... Scholars are sure to adopt this volume for classroom use, as students will benefit as much from access to this important text in English translation as they will from Wheeler's formidable erudition. Moreover, Accessus ad auctores boasts a thorough bibliography on the medieval reception of classical authors and an attentive index, both of which add to the value of the book as a tool for further research." Scott G. Bruce, University of Colorado at Boulder, The Medieval Review 17.05.08 "To read Wheeler's text, translation, and commentary of the accessus collection in Munich, Clm 19475 is to plunge oneself into the world of the high medieval classroom, where works largely forgotten today, like the elegies of Maximianus and the Ilias Latina, enjoyed a privileged status, and Ovid could be read seriously as a source of ethical instruction. In addition to serving as a necessary companion to the composite accessus edition of R.B.C. Huygens, Wheeler's volume could also serve as an ideal reader for students transitioning from classical to medieval Latin, since the texts are short, fairly simple, and representatively medieval in their idiom. In sum, Stephen M. Wheeler has produced a scrupulously accurate edition and translation of the accessus anthology assembled in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, and a useful commentary that facilitates our understanding of the methods and priorities of the medieval classroom." --Justin Lake, Texas A&M University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.43Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Text and Translation Explanatory Notes Bibliography Index
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Medieval Institute Publications The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2
Book SynopsisBritish Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction MS Harley 2253: Texts and Translations Booklet 3 8. ABC a femmes / ABC of Women 9. De l'Yver et de l'Este / Debate between Winter and Summer 10. Vorte make cynople / How to Make Red Vermilion 11. Vorte temprene asure / How to Temper Azure 12. Vorte make gras-grene / How to Make Grass-Green 13. Vorte maken another maner grene / How to Make Another Kind of Green 14. Yet for gaude-grene / Another for Yellow-Green 15. Vorte couche selverfoyl / How to Apply Silverfoil 16. Vorte maken iren as hart as stel / How to Make Iron as Hard as Steel 17. Vorte maken blankplum / How to Make White Lead Booklet 4 18. Incipit vita sancti Ethelberti / The Life of Saint Ethelbert 19. Anima Christi, sanctifica me / Soul of Christ, Sanctify Me 20. Quant voy la revenue d'yver / A Goliard's Feast 21. Alle herkneth to me nou / Harrowing of Hell 22. In a thestri stude Y stod / Debate between Body and Soul 23. Sitteth alle stille ant herkneth to me / A Song of Lewes 24. Chaunter m'estoit / Lament for Simon de Montfort 24a. Charnel amour est folie / Carnal Love Is Folly 24a*. Momentaneum est quod delectat / What Allures Is Momentary 24b. Erthe toc of erthe / Earth upon Earth 25. Lystneth, lordynges! A newe song Ichulle bigynne / The Execution of Sir Simon Fraser 25a. Lord that lenest us lyf / On the Follies of Fashion 26. Enseignement sur les amis / Lesson for True Lovers 27. Middelerd for mon wes mad / The Three Foes of Man Booklet 5 28. Ichot a burde in a bour ase beryl so bryht / Annot and John 29. Bytuene Mersh ant Averil / Alysoun 30. With longyng Y am lad / The Lover's Complaint 31. Ich herde men upo mold / Song of the Husbandman 32. Herketh hideward ant beoth stille / The Life of Saint Marina 33. Weping haveth myn wonges wet / The Poet's Repentance 34. Most I ryden by Rybbesdale / The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale 35. In a fryht as Y con fare fremede / The Meeting in the Wood 36. A wayle whyt ase whalles bon / A Beauty White as Whale's Bone 37. Gilote e Johane / Gilote and Johane 38. Les pelrinages communes que crestiens fount en la Seinte Terre / Pilgrimages in the Holy Land 39. Les pardouns de Acres / The Pardons of Acre 40. Ne mai no lewed lued libben in londe / Satire on the Consistory Courts 41. Of a mon Matheu thohte / The Laborers in the Vineyard 43. Lenten ys come with love to toune / Spring 44. In May hit murgeth when hit dawes / Advice to Women 45. Heye Louerd, thou here my bone / An Old Man's Prayer 46. Ichot a burde in boure bryht / Blow, Northern Wind 47. Alle that beoth of huerte trewe / The Death of Edward I 48. Lustneth, lordinges, bothe yonge ant olde / The Flemish Insurrection 49. Marie, pur toun enfaunt / The Joys of Our Lady 50. Suete Jesu, king of blysse / Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss 51. Jesu Crist, heovene kyng / Jesus Christ, Heaven's King 52. Wynter wakeneth al my care / A Winter Song 53. When Y se blosmes springe / A Spring Song on the Passion 54. Ferroy chaunsoun / I Pray to God and Saint Thomas 55. Dum ludis floribus / While You Play in Flowers 56. Quant fu en ma juvente / Song on Jesus' Precious Blood 57. Marie, mere al Salveour / Mary, Mother of the Savior 58. Dulcis Jesu memoria / Jesus, Sweet Is the Love of You 59. Une petite parole / Sermon on God's Sacrifice and Judgment 60. Stond wel, moder, under rode / Stand Well, Mother, under Rood 61. Jesu, for thi muchele miht / Jesus, by Your Great Might 62. I syke when Y singe / I Sigh When I Sing 63. Nou skrinketh rose ant lylie-flour / An Autumn Song 64. My deth Y love, my lyf Ich hate / The Clerk and the Girl 65. When the nyhtegale singes / When the Nightingale Sings 66. Blessed be thou, Levedy / Blessed Are You, Lady 67. Ase Y me rod this ender day / The Five Joys of the Virgin 68. Herkne to my ron / Maximian 69. Mayden, moder milde / Maiden, Mother Mild 70. The Geste of Kyng Horn / King Horn Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253 Volume 2: Index of First Lines Volume 2: Index of Manuscripts Cited Volume 2: Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3
Book SynopsisBritish Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction MS Harley 2253: Texts and Translations Booklet 5 71. Ludlow Scribe, Estoyres de la Bible / Ludlow Scribe, Old Testament Stories 72. Nomina librorum bibliotece / Names of the Books of the Bible Booklet 6 73. God that al this myhtes may / God Who Wields All This Might 74. Lustneth, alle, a lutel throwe / The Sayings of Saint Bernard 75. Le jongleur d'Ely e le roi d'Angleterre / The Jongleur of Ely and the King of England 75a. Les trois dames qui troverunt un vit / The Three Ladies Who Found a Prick 76. Le dit des femmes / The Song on Women 77. Le blasme des femmes / The Blame of Women 78. Nicholas Bozon, Femmes a la pye / Nicholas Bozon, Women and Magpies 79. Un sage honme de grant valour / Urbain the Courteous 80. Talent me prent de rymer e de geste fere / Trailbaston 81. Mon in the mone stond ant strit / The Man in the Moon 82. Le chevaler e la corbaylle / The Knight and the Basket 83. De mal mariage / Against Marriage 84. La gagure, ou L'esquier e la chaunbrere / The Wager, or The Squire and the Chambermaid 85. A bok of swevenyng / A Book of Dreaming 86. Ordre de bel ayse / The Order of Fair Ease 87. Le chevaler qui fist les cons parler / The Knight Who Made Vaginas Talk 88. Of rybauds Y ryme ant red o my rolle / Satire on the Retinues of the Great 89. Mon that wol of wysdam heren / Hending 90. When man as mad a kyng of a capped man / The Prophecy of Thomas of Erceldoune 91. La destinccioun de la estature Jesu Crist Nostre Seigneur / Distinguishing Features of the Bodily Form of Jesus Christ Our Lord 92. Lutel wot hit any mon hou love hym haveth ybounde / The Way of Christ's Love 93. Lutel wot hit any mon hou derne love may stonde / The Way of Woman's Love 94. Enseignements de saint Lewis a Philip soun fitz / The Teachings of Saint Louis to His Son Philip 95. L'enqueste que le patriarche de Jerusalem fist / The Land of the Saracens 96. Les armes des roys / Heraldic Arms of Kings 97. Scriptum quod peregrini deferunt / Letter for Pilgrims on the Relics at Oviedo 98. Legenda de sancto Etfrido, presbitero de Leoministria / The Legend of Saint Etfrid, Priest of Leominster 99. Quy chescun jour de bon cuer cest oreisoun dirra / Prayer for Protection Booklet 7 100. Quant vous levez le matyn / Occasions for Angels 101. Quy velt que Dieu sovyegne de ly / Occasions for Psalms in French 102. Gloria in excelsis Deo en fraunceis / Glory to God in the Highest in French 103. Confiteor tibi, Deus, omnia peccata mea / Prayer of Confession 104. Gloriouse Dame / Prayer on the Five Joys of Our Lady 105. Rex seculorum et Domine dominator / Prayer for Contrition 106. Um doit plus volentiers juner le vendredy / Reasons for Fasting on Friday 107. Quy est en tristour / Seven Masses To Be Said in Misfortune 108. Cely que fra ces messes chaunter / Seven Masses in Honor of God and Saint Giles 108a. Je vous requer, Jaspar, Melchior, e Baltazar / Prayer to the Three Kings 109. Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est / All the World's a Chess Board 109a. Quy chescun jour denz seissaunte jours / Three Prayers That Never Fail 110. Contra inimicos si quos habes / Occasions for Psalms in Latin 111. Seint Hillere archevesque de Peyters ordina ces salmes / Occasions for Psalms Ordained by Saint Hilary of Poitiers 112. Eulotropia et celidonia / Heliotrope and Celandine 113. De interrogandi moribundis beati Anselmi / Saint Anselm's Questions to the Dying 114. Dieu, roy de mageste / Against the King's Taxes 115. Contemplacioun de la passioun Jesu Crist / Seven Hours of the Passion of Jesus Christ 116. De martirio sancti Wistani / The Martyrdom of Saint Wistan Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253 Volume 3: Index of First Lines Volume 3: Index of Manuscripts Cited Volume 3: Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Richard Coer de Lyon
Book SynopsisOne of the most engaging Middle English crusading poems, Richard Coer de Lyon recounts in verse the exploits, both historical and fanciful, of Richard I, king of England. While Richard's participation in the Third Crusade serves as its main subject, the poem disrupts its historical narrative with a number of fabulous interpolations, two of which are particularly notorious: the depiction of Richard's mother as a demon, and the portrayal of the king himself as a voracious cannibal. Once the source of critical disparagement, the poem's blending of history and fantasy—its historical distortions—have recently become the focus of renewed interest in the poem. With a substantial introduction and comprehensive explanatory and textual notes, this new edition of Richard Coer de Lyon signally contributes to the reappraisal and understanding of what became—during the centuries-long process of its composition—one of the most popular of medieval romances.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Richard Coer de Lyon Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses:
Book SynopsisComposed around 1250 by an unknown author in the region of Orléans, the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses is the most widely disseminated and reproduced medieval work on Ovid's epic compendium of classical mythology and materialist philosophy. This commentary both preserves the rich store of twelfth-century glossing on the Metamorphoses and incorporates new material of literary interest, while the marginal glosses in many respects reflect the scholar interests of an early thirteenth-century schoolmaster. The Vulgate Commentary is always transmitted as a series of interlinear and marginal glosses surrounding the text manuscript, whereas other earlier commentaries were independent of a full text of the poem. The Vulgate Commentary exercised a wide-ranging influence on the understanding and presentation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages and Renaissance, and the commentary exists in both French and Italian manuscripts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Metamorphoses, Translation of Book 1 The Vulgate Commentary Notes to the Vulgate Commentary Textual Problems Select Bibliography Index
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Medieval Institute Publications The King of Tars
Book SynopsisThe King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The King of Tars Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Variant Readings from the Vernon Manuscript Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Oton de Granson, Poems
Book SynopsisOton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. He was almost certainly a personal friend to both Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps and among the first and most successful of the poets who were also courtiers. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English readers.Trade Review"Granson is well worth the effort of studying alongside Chaucer, and this edition will do much to help students understand Chaucer's place in a complex literary environment heavily influenced by French traditions." Kristen M. Figg, The Medieval Review, 15.11.05Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations Poems Rondels [Rondeaux] Vyrelay [Virelai] Balades [Ballades] Other Works Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Concordance to Grenier-Winther's Edition Le Livre Messire Ode: Concordance to Piaget's Edition Index of First Lines Index of Titles Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Nicholas of Lyra, Literal Commentary on Galatians
Book SynopsisThough little-known today, Nicholas of Lyra's commentaries are arguably among the most widely-read and influential commentaries of all time. For more than two hundred years, from the time of their composition, well into the Reformation era, they were copied and recopied, printed and reprinted, as an indispensable guide to the meaning of scripture. Naumann presents here a complete translation of Lyra's literal commentary on Galatians in English for the first time, with a freshly-edited Latin text, and provides ample notes on its significance in relation to the works of previous authors.Trade Review"This book serves multiple purposes: it reproduces both the Latin texts of the Postilla literalis and the English translation of the author, and it provides a number of details to deepen any reader's interest in St. Nicholas of Lyra and his commentary. [...]An interesting and advanced version of the comments of Nicholas..." Cosmin Tudor Ciocan, The Medieval Review 16.12.05Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Nicholas of Lyra, Commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and
Book SynopsisMary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century. It also may be compared to Everyman, described as a treatise "in the manner of a moral play." Mary of Nemmegen is an analogue of the Faustus story. As such, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Mary of Nemmegen Mariken van Nieumeghen (Dutch text) Mariken of Nijmegen (English translation) Notes to Mary of Nemmegen and Mariken van Nieumeghen Abbreviations Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Early Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse
Book SynopsisMany commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the seventh and eighth centuries. On the Mysteries of the Apocalypse of John is part of a large one-volume "Reference Bible" composed about 750. Written probably by an Irish teacher residing in northern France, it answers difficulties arising from the biblical text. The Handbook on the Apocalypse of the Apostle John, attributed erroneously to Jerome and written before 767, contains brief moral and allegorical interpretations of particular words and phrases of the Apocalypse. The introduction highlights the unique features of each commentary and the interrelationship of the three texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Reference Bible, On the Mysteries of the Apocalypse of John Pseudo-Jerome, Handbook on the Apocalypse of the Apostle John Bibliography Indices
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Medieval Institute Publications The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34): Religious
Book SynopsisThe Katherine Group brings together for the first time newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, Hali Meidenhad; and a psychologically astute sermon, Sawles Warde ("The Guardianship of the Soul"). These works are important witnesses to the development of Middle English writing after the Conquest and to the rigorous anchoritic spiritual life pursued by female recluses in medieval England.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Martyrdom of Sancte Katerine Explanatory Notes Textual Notes The Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Margarete Explanatory Notes Textual Notes The Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Juliene Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Hali Meithhad Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Sawles Warde Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and
Book SynopsisGuillaume de Machaut is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. His unique and inventive output is the subject of this new, integrated edition of Machaut's complete poetry and music. Volume 1, The Debate Series, presents the two "judgment" poems, which are among his most important artistically in terms of their formal innovations and their influence on contemporaries, notably Geoffrey Chaucer, and the associated Lay de plour, presented here with its music. This volume includes the French originals and facing English translations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre Le Lay de Plour Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Notes to the Music by Uri Smilansky Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England:
Book SynopsisThis full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays acquired and reflected authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance. The work demonstrates the subtly different purposes and contents and outlines the unique ways in which they operate within late medieval England.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical Connections between Sermons and Plays 2. Performing Sermons 3. Preaching on Stage 4. Performing Authority: Expositors and Preachers 5. Audience Interaction in Sermons and Plays 6. The Sacrament of Penance in Sermons and Plays Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Medieval Institute Publications The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early
Book SynopsisIn the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and fecund. The flowering of Scottish writing owed itself to a subtle combination of literary praxis, the ideal of eloquentia, and ideological deftness, which enabled writers to service a burgeoning national literary tradition.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scottish Latinitas by Ian Johnson and Alessandra Petrina Part I: Rewriting the Classical and Medieval Legacy Classical Reception and Erotic Latin Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Scotland: The Case of Thomas Maitland (ca. 1548-1572) by Steven J. Reid Mnemoic Frameworks in The Buke of the Chess by Kate Ash-Irisarri Part II: Writing the Scottish Nation Defining Scottish Identity in the Early Middle Ages: Bede and the Picts by Tommaso Leso Universals, Particulars, and Political Discourse in John Mair's Historia Maioris Britanniae by John Leeds A "Scottish Monmouth"? Hector Boece's Arthurian Revisions by Elizabeth Hanna Topography, Ethnography, and the Catholic Scots in the Religious Culture Wars: From Hector Boece's Scotum Historia to John Lesley's Historie of Scotland by John Cramsie A View from Afar: Petruccio Ubaldini's Descrittione del Regno di Scotia by Alessandra Petrina Part III: The Vagaries of Languages and Texts Reading Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: Sentence and Sensibility by Ian Johnson Seget's Comedy: A Scots Scholar, Galileo, and a Dante Manuscript by Nick Havely The Inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart by Jeremy Smith Afterword by Nicola Royan
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Medieval Institute Publications The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
Book SynopsisThe Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. Its origins and auspices remain unknown, but linguistic evidence situates the play in the now widely-recognized late medieval East Anglian dramatic tradition. Beyond its importance for the history of early English drama, the Digby Mary Magdalene provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Taking full advantage of the saint’s complex symbolism and rich resources of late medieval religious culture, the Digby Mary Magdalene play has attracted attention from scholars in a variety of disciplines. Yet until now an accessible, affordable edition of the play has been beyond their reach. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition is an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama.Trade ReviewThis attractive edition by Theresa Coletti, an expert on medieval English drama and the author of a monograph on the play and its contexts, [1] may--I hope--kickstart a more general interest in this remarkable work, especially by historians of both English theater and gender and sexuality. . . . This is an excellent edition for graduates, and advanced scholars, and even for undergraduates. It is accessible, informative, scholarly, and completely reliable. --Ruth Evans, University of St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Digby Mary Magdalene Play Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and
Book SynopsisGuillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This long overdue new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a single composer in this period, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. This user-friendly format indicates variants on the scores and has a layout that makes each work's structure clearly visible; the lyrics, with full English translation, are presented at the end of each work. The supporting materials include: an introduction that discusses the life of the author and his artistic achievement and provides fresh insights into the poetry and music of the motets; notes for their performance and pronunciation; an art-historical commentary on the accompanying manuscript illuminations; and detailed commentaries, including collation of manuscript variants, for each motet.Table of ContentsIntroduction Art historical commentary Edition of the motets, with their lyrics and English translation Commentaries Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation
Book SynopsisIn this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized worship of the Church had a central role in medieval life. Studying its forms and genres allows readers not only to become aware of one of the most important influences on culture and religion, but also to consider these texts, which were widely disseminated and had fundamental effects on daily life.Trade Review"Matthew Cheung Salisbury has done a signal service to both instructors of European medieval history and scholars unfamiliar with its liturgy. He has produced a compact (120 pages) guide to the Western Latin liturgy (in the largest sense) that, if read through, provides a solide understanding of this large topic." --John B. Wickstrom, The Medieval Review 18.11.11Table of ContentsIntroduction The Mass Selected Mass Propers The Divine Office Feastdays Votive Services Occasional Services and Private Prayer Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading
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Medieval Institute Publications The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
Book SynopsisThe Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare, surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition adds to the METS Drama series an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama.Trade ReviewThis attractive edition by Theresa Coletti, an expert on medieval English drama and the author of a monograph on the play and its contexts, [1] may--I hope--kickstart a more general interest in this remarkable work, especially by historians of both English theater and gender and sexuality. . . . This is an excellent edition for graduates, and advanced scholars, and even for undergraduates. It is accessible, informative, scholarly, and completely reliable. --Ruth Evans, University of St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Digby Mary Magdalene Play Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and
Book SynopsisGuillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This long overdue new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a single composer in this period, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. This user-friendly format indicates variants on the scores and has a layout that makes each work's structure clearly visible; the lyrics, with full English translation, are presented at the end of each work. The supporting materials include: an introduction that discusses the life of the author and his artistic achievement and provides fresh insights into the poetry and music of the motets; notes for their performance and pronunciation; an art-historical commentary on the accompanying manuscript illuminations; and detailed commentaries, including collation of manuscript variants, for each motet.Table of ContentsIntroduction Art historical commentary Edition of the motets, with their lyrics and English translation Commentaries Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century
Book SynopsisEthan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Sullied Sacrament 2. The Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism 3. The Anticlerical Poetics of Cleanness 4. The Reluctant Priest of Patience 5. The Late-Arriving Priest of Pearl 6. The Devilish Priest of Sir Gawain
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Medieval Institute Publications The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
Book SynopsisIn The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Latin Doctors and the Concept of Metagender Metagender, Gender, and Aelfric's Lives of Saints Metagender Brides and Soldiers of Christ Material & Spiritual Bodies Material & Spiritual Rulership Chaste Marriage Conclusion: Metagender, Gender, and Aelfric Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems,
Book SynopsisThese six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction The Balletis of the Nine Nobles Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland The Talis of the Fyve Bestes Biography of Sir David Lyndsay Answer to the Kingis Flyting Introduction to the Squyer Meldrum Poems The Historie of Squyer Meldrum The Testament of Squyer Meldrum The Historie of Squyer Meldrum Notes The Testament of Squyer Meldrum Notes Appendix: Lawson and Haldane Family Trees Bibliography
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