Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
De Gruyter Education Materialised: Reconstructing Teaching
Book SynopsisManuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations. The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.
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De Gruyter Myth and History: Close Encounters
Book Synopsis The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
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De Gruyter The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western
Book SynopsisThe reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and extra-literary evidence presented by European intellectuals and artists explicitly or implicitly refers to the history of Cyprus, as well as to the myths and art produced on it or inspired by its landscape. This is a neglect that this volume wishes to address, by re-establishing the literary thread of the representation of ancient Cyprus beyond generic, spatial and temporal limits, and by thus shedding light on its depiction throughout the centuries, from the ancient Roman to the Western world up until modern times. The volume’s central thesis is that a number of Cypriot traditions constitute a unique example of intercultural and multi-level fusions of diverse European civilizations. By investigating the various and often contradictory ways in which Cyprus was represented in Latin literature and beyond, the volume treats its multifaceted reception as a vastly complex matter, and suggests that even though the island has always been an outlier, it has often been explored in literature as an intellectual landscape and a precious pathway between at times conflictual yet compatible worlds.
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De Gruyter The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature
Book SynopsisThe concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy. This concept is only modified by the social, political, and economic conditions that make our society different from theirs. In order to understand what was considered news in Ancient Greece, a lexical study of ἄγγελος and all of its derivatives attested in a representative corpus of the period spanning from the second millennium BC to the end of the fourth BC has been conducted. This piece of research provides new contributions both to studies in Classics (there are hardly any studies on the transmission of news in Antiquity) and in journalism. This study also reveals an interesting point: the presence of false news – similar to current fake news – in ancient Greek literature, especially in tragedy and historiography when it comes to the use of the derivatives of ἄγγελος.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman
Book SynopsisIn this book, published on the occasion of Pieter W. van der Horst's 60th birthday and his retirement from the chair of early Christian, Jewish, and Hellenistic studies at Utrecht University, the author presents a selection of 30 essays (most of them recent) on the religious and cultural milieu of early Christianity. The focus is especially on Jewish culture in the centuries around the turn of the era in its interaction with Hellenism. The book also contains various studies on translation problems in the New Testament in the light of Greek philology, on the Samaritan world in its conflict with Judaism, on beliefs and usages in the pagan Hellenistic world and on a variety of patristic documents. One finds studies thematically as far apart as the anthropology of the rabbis and the origins of Greek atheism. The unity in this variety is that all these studies aim at shedding new light on the world of the early Christians in the first six centuries of the Common Era, a field of research to which the author has been contributing for more than 35 years.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study
Book SynopsisThis book presents a selection of William Horbury's recent essays. Those collected in Part I seek to trace the profile of Herodian Jewish piety, its Greek and Roman setting, and its reflection in Christianity. Monotheism, mysticism, perceptions of Moses and the Temple are all considered in this way, and a Jewish context for the term 'gospel' and the institution of 'the Lord's Supper' is suggested. Part II treats modern New Testament study, with special attention to its links with study of the classical and Jewish traditions, and a survey on British study in its international setting.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of
Book SynopsisTal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them. Many methods are used to produce this end result: elimination of women or their words, denigration of the women and their role or unification of several significant women into one. These methods and others are illuminated in this book, as it uses the example of the Jewish queen Shelamzion Alexandra (76-67 BCE) for its starting point. Queen Shelamzion was the only legitimate Jewish queen in history. Yet all the documents in which she is mentioned (Josephus, Qumran scrolls, rabbinic literature etc.) have been reworked so as to minimize her significance and distort the picture we may receive of her. Tal Ilan follows the ways this was done and in doing so she encounters similar patterns in which other Jewish women in antiquity were silenced, censored and edited out.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Samaritans in Flavius Josephus
Book SynopsisThe first-century C.E. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is our main source of information for the early history of the Samaritans, a community closely related to Judaism whose development as an independent religion is commonly dated in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Josephus' two main works, Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities, contain a number of passages that purport to describe the origin, character and actions of the Samaritans. In composing his histories, Josephus drew on different sources, some identifiable others unknown to us. Contemporary Josephus research has shown that he did so not as a mere compiler but as a creative writer who selected and quoted his sources carefully and deliberately and employed them to express his personal views. Rather than trying to isolate and identify Josephus' authorities and to determine the meaning these texts had in their original setting, Reinhard Pummer examines what Josephus himself intended to convey to his audience when he depicted the Samaritans in the way he did. He attempts to combine composition criticism and historical research and argues that the differences in Josephus' portrayal of the Samaritans in War on the one hand and in Antiquities on the other are due to the different aims the historian pursued in the two works.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Theologie des Lobens in sumerischen Hymnen: Zur
Book SynopsisDie sumerische Literatur des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v.u.Z. bietet auch zahlreiche hymnische Texte, die überwiegend der kultischen Tradition entstammen. Sie feiern Macht, Ansehen und Fürsorge von Gottheiten, Königen, Tempeln, usw. Erhard S. Gerstenberger analysiert, ausgehend von dem formelhaften, archaischen Heilsruf: "[Name] sei Preis!" = "[dGN] zà-mí" (vergleichbar dem biblischen "Halleluja"), die mannigfachen Aussagen des Lobpreisens (zà-mí). Er zeigt, dass es im sumerischen Lob nicht nur um die untertänige, pflichtgemäße Anerkennung von Übermächten geht, sondern um eine effektive Kraftübertragung von Seiten der Lobenden auf die Rezipienten der Huldigung. Stärkendes oder Existenz begründendes Lob kann also nicht nur von Machtträgern ausgehen. Auch das Geschöpf Mensch nimmt am Welt gestaltenden, erhaltenden, heilsamen Preisen teil, vor allem durch Bitten und Loben. Es übernimmt damit seine Verantwortung inmitten der geheimnisvollen Interaktionen aller kosmischen Wirkkräfte personhafter sowie unpersönlicher Art.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in
Book SynopsisThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that shaped national identities in the Iberian Peninsula and, consequently, neighboring areas of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The innovative textual approach taken in these pages exposes the multifaceted ways in which the boundaries between the region’s most prestigious languages were contested, and demonstrates how linguistic identities were linked to ongoing struggles for political power. As the analysis reveals, the ideological construction of Occitan would play a crucial role in the construction of a unified Catalan, and Catalan would, in turn, give rise to a fervent debate around ‘Spanish’ language that has endured through the present day. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, Catalan language and linguistics, anthropological linguistics, Early Modern literature and culture, and the history of the Mediterranean.Trade Review“I find Lledó-Guillem‘s monograph to be brilliant, innovative, and groundbreaking. … this book is a must-have to both students and scholars in Medieval and Early Modern political, cultural, and intellectual history, European studies, Romance languages, historical sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. It is a work that will be referenced and cited for years to come.” (Josef Fioretta, Scripta, Issue 11, June, 2018)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.Part I: The political use of the Occitan language by the Catalan-Aragonese monarchy; Chapter 2: The Rise of Catalan as a Royal Language: Bernat Desclot’s account of the Battle of Castellammare in response to Bernat d’Auriac’s sirventés;Chapter 3: The politics of the linguistic discontinuity of Occitan versus the continuity of Catalan: the Sermó by Ramon Muntaner.Chapter 4: Catalan and Occitan versus Aragonese: the poetic ceremony following the Coronation of Alfonso the Benign in Muntaner’s Crònica.Part II: The interpretation of the Catalan-Occitan relationship in the construction of the Spanish Empire.- Chapter 5: The historical (dis)continuity of the Catalan language and the linguistic creation of the Spanish Empire: Ausiàs March in the Early Modern Period.Chapter 6: A unitary Catalan-Occitan language in the Early Modern Period: the exaltation of Apitxat Valencian.Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG On Reasoning and Argument: Essays in Informal Logic and on Critical Thinking
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Springer International Publishing AG Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
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Museum Tusculanum Press Antiphon: A Study in Argumentation
Book SynopsisCONTENTS: Preface; Index of Greek Words; List of Works Referred to; The Problem; Notes to Chapter One; Antiphon''s First Speech; Notes to Chapter Two; Antiphon''s Fifth Speech; Notes to Chapter Three; Antiphon''s Sixth Speech; Notes to Chapter Four; Conclusion; Notes to Chapter Five.
£999.99
John Benjamins Publishing Co Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard
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Double 9 Books Idylls Of The King
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Chinese Poetic Writings
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Broadview Press Ltd The Odyssey: Selections
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Homer’s epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections, totalling almost half the full work, include all the most famous and most frequently taught episodes. The edition features numerous explanatory footnotes, an illuminating introduction, a glossary of names (with a guide to pronunciation), maps, examples of scenes from the Odyssey depicted in ancient art, and a range of other background materials that help set Homer’s classic in its historical and literary context.Trade Review“This is a lovely translation—clear and accessible: it captures the flow of the Greek, it is accurate in handling subtle nuances of that language, and it gives the story a brisk and powerful pace. This significantly shortened edition conveys the essential elements of the story and should be especially welcome for some readers and classroom settings.” — Miles Beckwith, Iona College“Ian Johnston’s abridged version of his translation of Homer’s Odyssey is an accessible and highly convenient text for use on courses of many different kinds. Comprising forty per cent of the original poem, the text both captures the essential elements of the narrative and makes it manageable for courses with other texts. The introduction is both brief and mostly complete in its range, and is supported by an excellent glossary and collection of parallel literary texts.” — Murray McArthur, University of WaterlooTable of Contents Introduction The Gods Odysseus A Note on Poetic Form and on the Translation Map The Odyssey Book One: Athena Visits Ithaca Book Two: Telemachus Prepares for His Voyage Book Three: Telemachus Visits Nestor in Pylos Book Four: The Suitors Plan to Kill Telemachus Book Five: Odysseus Leaves Calypso's Island Book Six: Odysseus and Nausicaa Book Seven: Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous in Phaeacia Book Eight: Odysseus is Entertained in Phaeacia Book Nine: Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops Book Ten: Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe Book Eleven: Odysseus Meets the Shades of the Dead Book Twelve: The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun Book Thirteen: Odysseus Leaves Phaeacia and Reaches Ithaca Book Fourteen: Odysseus Meets Eumaeus Book Fifteen: Telemachus Returns to Ithaca Book Sixteen: Odysseus Reveals Himself to Telemachus Book Seventeen: Odysseus Goes to the Palace as a Beggar Book Eighteen: Odysseus and Irus the Beggar Book Nineteen: Eurycleia Recognizes Odysseus Book Twenty: Odysseus Prepares for his Revenge Book Twenty-One: The Contest with Odysseus's Bow Book Twenty-Two: The Killing of the Suitors Book Twenty-Three: Odysseus and Penelope Book Twenty-Four: Zeus and Athena End the Fighting In Context Literary Contexts from Xenophanes, Fragments (c. fifth century bce) from Pindar, Nemean 7 (c. fifth century bce) from Plato, The Republic (c. 380 bce) from Aristotle, Poetics (c. 335 bce) from Longinus?, On the Sublime (c. 1st century ce) from Demetrius?, On Style (c. 1st century ce) The Odyssey in Ancient Art Maps Glossary
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Harvard University Press Invectives
Book SynopsisFrancesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. This new critical edition of the Invectives, intended to revive the eloquence of Cicero, are directed against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture.Trade ReviewImpeccably edited and translated by David Marsh. -- Anthony T. Grafton * New York Review of Books *
£999.99
Harvard University Press OneWay Street
Book SynopsisPresented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces.Trade ReviewThe prose in One-Way Street is positively electrified by the historical moment…Far more important than any residues of past literature, however prevalent, are the ways in which One-Way Street ushers in a wholly original literary aesthetics. Its formal daring is unmatched by any of Benjamin’s earlier work…One-Way Street is dead set on a new mode of materialism, one that shares with Surrealism an esteem for everyday objects, debris, junk, and dross—for whatever is marginal, marginalized, outmoded, or fleeting. This edition’s index testifies to the dizzying thematic diversity of Benjamin’s undertaking: children’s toys, capital punishment, money, mobs, utopia, fancy goods, misery, souvenirs, beggars, and red neon advertising signs reflected in pools of dirty rain. Form in One-Way Street is no mere envelope, but the very arena in which these objects and phenomena clash and generate their sparks. Benjamin’s aphorisms mimic the rhythms of the street, instantiating the experiences most proper to it: distraction, reverie, shock, haste, detour, etc. Scathing critique is mixed with imagistic commentary and surrealistic prose poetry—all broken into shards and scattered like a mosaic of fragments. But however atomized and heterogeneous, the little pieces of One-Way Street pursue a common goal: an idiosyncratic exposé on history (specifically, the disintegration of culture) as deciphered in the most concrete of its artifacts and rituals. -- Michael Blum * Los Angeles Review of Books *One-Way Street is Benjamin’s most daring and experimental book; though short, it contains a wide range of genres ranging from aphorisms and political satire to maxims and instructions. -- Carolin Duttlinger * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press The Purpled World
Book SynopsisDuring the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World, Silver reveals how Minoan and Mycenaean textile producers embedded commercial motivation into traditional rituals, and considers collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces as a manifestation of disintegration in the textile industry.
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Harvard University Press Greek and Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisAngelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRL 14) translated into English for the first time.Trade ReviewKnox’s first-rate talent as a translator remains in evidence on every page, even and especially when the text of more than a few poems is unapologetically risqué. Kudos to Peter Knox for pulling no punches. And plaudits to him for superb work all around. -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press Tria sunt
Book SynopsisThe anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled in the late fourteenth century for rhetorical composition at Oxford. Of all the major Latin arts of poetry and prose, it is the only one not previously edited or translated into English.
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Harvard University Press Fragmentary Republican Latin Volume IV
Book SynopsisBased on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap. Claudius Caecus (340273 BC) and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.
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Harvard University Press Orations Volume II
Book SynopsisAelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essays on a wide variety of subjects.
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Harvard University Press Hippocrates Volume II
Book SynopsisVolume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate the value of medical theory and clinical methods, and propose a new model of medical education. Included are Prognostic, Regimen in Acute Diseases, The Sacred Disease, The Art, Breaths, Law, Decorum, and Dentition.
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Princeton University Press Alexander the Great
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Cornell University Press Ariadnes Thread A Guide to International Stories
Book SynopsisFrom Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an...Trade ReviewAriadne's Thread may prove an invaluable sourcebook not only for classicists but, perhaps more importantly, for folklorists.... Written in Hansen's clear, pleasant style, it is overall a fascinating collection that, one hopes, will encourage folklorists to learn more about the earliest extant versions of many tales and motifs and the labyrinthine paths they follow in their migrations. -- Debbie Fulton * Marvels and Tales Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies *Hansen's volume will be an indispensable addition to the libraries of classicists working on traditional tales and myths, but the audience that will benefit from it is much wider... Pleasant surprises and interesting connections lurk on almost every page.... This is an important reference and a joy to use. -- Stephen M. Trzaskoma * Religious Studies Review *
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Cornell University Press Four Texts on Socrates
Book SynopsisTranslations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense and on the charges against him.Table of ContentsTranslators' NoteIntroduction The Modem Rejection of Reason The Socratic Alternative Plato's Euthyphro Plato's Apology of Socrates Plato's Crito Aristophanes' CloudsPlato's EuthyphroPlato's Apology of SocratesPlato's CritoAristophanes' CloudsSelected Bibliography
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Making the East Latin The Latin Literature of
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection A Commentary on Nigel of Canterburys Miracles of
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Johns Hopkins University Press Medievalism and the Ideologies of the
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no onewith the exception of a few obscure antiquarianswas seriously interested in the Middle Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to medieval studies in France and altered their orientation, removing them from the realm of legal and ecclesiastical dispute and bringing them into a new framework of general history. Concentrating his investigation of Enlightenment medievalists on the most influential of them, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Gossman describes Sainte-Palaye's social and intellectual milieu and follows him in his relations with scholars and philosophes in France and abroad. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Walpole, Muratori, and Herder are some of the figures whose paths crossed that of Sainte-Palaye. Far from being opposed to philosophie, tTable of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviations Frequently Used in NotesPart I: An Eighteenth-Century Scholar and His WorldChapter 1. Background and EducationChapter 2. A Diplomatic CareerChapter 3. Interllectual Societies, Salons, and FriendsChapter 4. Scholars of the robe and philosophesChapter 5. Amateur of the Arts and Royal AcadmicianPart II. New Approaches to Medieval StudiesPart III. Works of Medieval ScholarshipChapter 1. LanguageChapter 2. The Publication of Documents Relative to French HistoryChapter 3. Catalogues of Manuscripts Relative to Medieval History: The Notices de manuscitsChapter 4. Problems and Methods of Editing Medieval TextsChapter 5. Study of the Chronicle Sources of Medieval HistoryChapter 6. Studey of the LIterary Sources of Medieval HistoryChapter 7. The Questions of the Publication of Medieval TestsChapter 8. The Dictionnaire des antiquitesChapter 9. The Memoires sur l'ancienne chevaleria and the Memoires historiques sur la chasseChapter 10. The Historie litteraire des troubadoursPart IV: Conclusion: Medievalism and EnlightenmentChapter 1. The Contribution of Sainte-Palaye to the Thought of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Discussion of Medievalism in the EnlightenmentChapter 2. The Place of Sainte-Palaye's Word in the History of Historiography and of Historical ScholarshipAppendicesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Dantes Tenzone with Forese Donati
Book Synopsis‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’ Dante''s poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs.Dante''s Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante''s writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante''s Tenzone with Forese DonTable of Contents* Acknowledgements and Dedication * Introduction: Dante's Harsh New Style* Chapter One: La debita correzione: The Poetics of Insult in the Duecento* Chapter Two: Ad personam, ad stipitem: Readings of the Sonnets* Chapter Three: Hellish Echoes: Reminiscences of the Correspondence in Inferno XXIX and XXX* Chapter Four: The Terrace of the Tenzone: Purgatorio XXIII and XXIV* Chapter Five: Citations and Interpretations: The Literary Memory of the Sonnets in Boccaccio and Others* Conclusion* Appendix: Manuscripts and Stemmas* Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Localism in Hellenistic Greece
Book SynopsisLocalism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding world.Table of ContentsPreface Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck 1. Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece Hans Beck 2. Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin Ruben Post 3. Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia Chandra Giroux 4. The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf Alex McAuley 5. Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts Sara Saba 6. Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria Denver Graninger 7. The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians Joseph B. Scholten 8. Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World Peter Funke 9. The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos Elena Franchi 10. “Sparta is my country”: Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta Sebastian Scharff 11. Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas James Roy 12. Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani Chelsea A.M. Gardner 13. Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World Mark Thatcher 14. Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia Tim Howe 15. Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism Sheila L. Ager List of Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press The Mind of Thucydides
Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.Trade ReviewRawlings has done a great favor to students of Thucydides by making Romilly's work available to an English-speaking audience. With this work Romilly revolutionized how scholars approached and studied Thucydides. Instead of analyzing the accuracy of his narrative on the Peloponnesian War, Romilly examines how Thucydides thought. She treats the history like a piece of intellectual art and Thucydides like an artist. -- Nikolaus Overtoom, Louisiana State University * H-War *Table of ContentsEditors' and Translator’s PrefaceEditors’ IntroductionAuthor’s DedicationIntroduction1. Narrative Methods2. Battle Accounts: Analysis and Narration3. The Antithetical Speeches4. Investigating the Past: The "Archaeology"ConclusionWorks CitedIndex of Thucydidean Passages DiscussedGeneral Index
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University of Minnesota Press Noah's Arkive
Book SynopsisA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and an uncomplicated vision of survival. Noah’s ark, however, will forever be haunted by what it leaves to the rising waters so that the world can begin again.In Noah’s Arkive, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates examine the long history of imagining endurance against climate catastrophe—as well as alternative ways of creating refuge. They trace how the elements of the flood narrative were elaborated in medieval and early modern art, text, and music, and now shape writing and thinking during the current age of anthropogenic climate change. Arguing that the biblical ark may well be the worst possible exemplar of human behavior, the chapters draw on a range of sources, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and Ovid’s tale of Deucalion and Pyrrah, to speculative fiction, climate fiction, and stories and art dwelling with environmental catastrophe. Noah’s Arkive uncovers the startling afterlife of the Genesis narrative written from the perspective of Noah’s wife and family, the animals on the ark, and those excluded and so left behind to die. This book of recovered stories speaks eloquently to the ethical and political burdens of living through the Anthropocene.Following a climate change narrative across the millennia, Noah’s Arkive surveys the long history of dwelling with the consequences of choosing only a few to survive in order to start the world over. It is an intriguing meditation on how the story of the ark can frame how we think about environmental catastrophe and refuge, conservation and exclusion, offering hope for a better future by heeding what we know from the past.Trade Review "Noah’s Arkive is an indispensable book—one that takes on a central charismatic narrative equipped to address the shuddering socio-ecological transition within which we (a vastly differentiated “we”) find ourselves. Magisterial yet wisely irreverent, it touches upon urgent challenges, including ecofascism, decolonialization, and racial justice, while also delivering a learned, meticulously researched exhibit of historical ark narratives."—Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon "Aboard Noah’s Arkive you’ll experience the Flood from the perspectives of its human and animal passengers and the multitude of creatures drowning shipside, accompanied by the sanctimonious dove and the raucous raven. This beautiful, deep, funny, ardent, rageful book will float the boat of anyone interested in ecocriticism, material culture, science studies, and design."—Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Reading Homer's Iliad
Book SynopsisWe still read Homer’s epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer’s own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning of honor and fame? What are the consequences of intense emotion and violence? What does recognition of one’s mortality teach? We also turn to Homer’s Iliad in the twenty-first century for the poet’s preoccupation with the essence of human life. His emphasis on human understanding of mortality, his celebration of the human mind, and his focus on human striving after consciousness and identity has led audiences to this epic generation after generation. This study is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s 24 parts, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.Trade Review“This book will likely find a wide audience of readers looking to read the Iliad for the first time or to become more intimate with its depths. Myrsiades brings a lifetime of reading and teaching Homer to the task of initiating new audiences to the Iliad.”— Joel Christensen, coauthor of Homer: A Beginner's Guide “An in-depth and engaging overview for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the Iliad’s story. The many thoughtful insights into tradition-based narrative patterns reveal an author who possesses an intimate and long-lived relationship with the epic.”— Andrew Porter, author of Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer “A clear and insightful commentary on the Iliad. Close attention to ancient Greek terms is joined to generously humane interpretation. New and returning readers of the Homeric epic will profit from this meticulously detailed and thematically comprehensive work.”— Jonathan S. Burgess, author of Homer “A clear and insightful commentary on the Iliad. Close attention to ancient Greek terms is joined to generously humane interpretation. New and returning readers of the Homeric epic will profit from this meticulously detailed and thematically comprehensive work.”— Jonathan S. Burgess, author of Homer “An in-depth and engaging overview for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the Iliad’s story. The many thoughtful insights into tradition-based narrative patterns reveal an author who possesses an intimate and long-lived relationship with the epic.”— Andrew Porter, author of Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer “This book will likely find a wide audience of readers looking to read the Iliad for the first time or to become more intimate with its depths. Myrsiades brings a lifetime of reading and teaching Homer to the task of initiating new audiences to the Iliad.”— Joel Christensen, coauthor of Homer: A Beginner's GuideTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Poem, the Poet, and the Myth 1 Achilles’ Wrath Exposed: Il. 1 (Days One to Twenty-One) Book 1 2 The First Battle: Il. 2–7 (Days Twenty-Two to Twenty-Four) Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 3 The Second Battle: Il. 8–10 (Day Twenty-Five) Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 4 The Third Battle: Il. 11–18 (Day Twenty-Six) Book 11 Book 12 Book 13 Book 14 Book 15 Book 16 Book 17 Book 18 5 The Fourth Battle: Il. 19–23 (Day Twenty-Seven) Book 19 Book 20 Book 21 Book 22 Book 23 6 Achilles’ Wrath Concluded: Il. 24 (Days Twenty-Eight to Fifty-Three) Book 24 Appendix A: Days Covered by the Iliad Narrative Appendix B: Character Names in the Iliad Appendix C: Place-Names in the Iliad Appendix D: Greek Terms Cited Acknowledgments Notes General Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and
Book SynopsisEssays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday knowledge. This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to holda mirror to the self. MICHAEL D.J. BINTLEY is Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London; THOMAS WILLIAMS is a former curator of Early Medieval Coins at the British Museum. Contributors: Noël Adams, John Baker, Michael D. J. Bintley, Sue Brunning, László Sándor Chardonnens, Della Hooke, Eric Lacey, Richard North, Marijane Osborn, Victoria Symons, Thomas J. WilliamsTrade ReviewAn engaging and thought-provoking overview of various types of evidence that shed light on both medieval perceptions of beasts and the often blurred boundaries between them and humans....The varieties of beasts and diverse source materials considered here make this volume valuable not only to those interested in natural history, but also for those interested in medieval allegories for, and expressions of, identity, warfare and the supernatural. * EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE *This collection of essays combines rigorous analysis with insightful guidance. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *An excellent volume for anyone with an interest in early medieval England and Scandinavia. * TIME & MIND *A welcome addition to the growing collection of studies of medieval human-animal relations. Its contribution is that it goes beyond the simple juxtaposition of traditional zooarchaeological analyses and more discursive artistic/literary pieces. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *The essays in Representing Beasts cogently and vividly convey a broader understanding of human and non-human interaction during the Middle Ages in England and Scandinavia . This tightly constructed collection of essays would be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in ecomedievalism and/or animal studies. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsBetween Myth and Reality: Hunter and Prey in Early Anglo-Saxon Art - Noël Adams '(Swinger of) the Serpent of Wounds': Swords and Snakes in the Viking Mind - Sue Brunning Wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah: Confronting Serpents in Beowulf and Beyond - Victoria Symons The Ravens on the Lejre Throne: Avian Identifiers, Odin at Home, Farm Ravens - Marijane Osborn Beowulf's Blithe-Hearted Raven - Eric Lacey Do Anglo-Saxons Dream of Exotic Sheep? - László Sándor Chardonnens You Sexy Beast: The Pig in a Villa in Vandalic North Africa and Boar-Cults in Old Germanic Heathendom - Richard North 'For the Sake of Bravado in the Wilderness': Confronting the Bestial in Anglo-Saxon Warfare - Thomas J.T. Williams Where the Wild Things Are in Old English Poetry - Michael D.J. Bintley Entomological Etymologies: Creepy-Crawlies in English Place-Names - John Baker Beasts, Birds and Other Creatures in Pre-Conquest Charters and Place-Names in England - Della Hooke
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth
Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe. The house of Luxembourg between 1308 and 1437 is best known today for its principal royal and imperial representatives, Henry VII, John the Blind, Charles IV, and Charles's two sons, Wenceslas and Sigismund - a group of rulers who, for better or worse, shaped the political destiny of much of Europe during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. While some of the Luxembourg cultural legacy can still be experienced directly today in and around Prague and southern Germany, and through the literary and musical works of Machaut, Froissart, and Wolkenstein, it reached much further across Europe: from England to present-day Romania, and from the Baltic Sea to the Italian peninsula, alongside the dynasty's homelands in what is now Luxembourg, Belgium and France. However, this culture has not always attracted the scholarly attention it deserves. This volume explores the pan-European impact and influence of the Luxembourgs in a variety of fields: art and architectural history, material culture, Czech, French, German and Latin text production, gender and intellectual history, and music. Embracing the subject matter from multi-disciplinary and transnational perspectives, the essays here offer new insights into the late medieval cultures of the Luxembourg court. Particular subjects treated include the making of the "Wenceslas Bible"; Machaut at the court of John of Luxembourg; and Charles IV's patronage of multilingual literature. On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The 'Long Luxembourg Century' (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic Legacy Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, Václav Žůrek PART I: John the Blind and his Progeny in France 1. The 'Luxembourgness' of Things: Machaut C, Glazier 52, and Dynastic Presence in Early Fourteenth-century France - Uri Smilansky 2. Guillaume de Machaut at the court of John of Luxembourg: Defining a Social Milieu - Jana Fantysová Matějková 3. The Vyšší Brod Cycle and its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s - Lenka Panušková PART II: Marvelous Objects and Culture at the Court of Charles IV 4. Charles of Luxembourg and his Reliquary Cross: the Significance of Precious Stones - Ingrid Ciulisová 5. Charles IV and the Patronage of Multilingual Literature at his Court and Beyond - Václav Žůrek 6. Miraculous Objects and Foundational Sins: Verbal and Material Reality in the Dalimil Chronicle, the Chronicle of Přibík Pulkava of Radenín, and Charles IV's Autobiography - Matouš Jaluška PART III: Wenceslas and Sigismund: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy 7. The Making of the Wenceslas Bible, with Special Consideration of the Theological Concept of its Genesis Initial - Maria Theisen 8. The Naked King: Representing Wenceslas in his Illuminated Bible - Gia Toussaint 9. Dealing with the Luxembourg Court: Ellwangen Abbey and their Imperial Overlord - Mark Whelan 10. Assessing the Luxembourgs: The Image of Wenceslas and Sigismund in the Correspondence of Italian Ambassadors - Ondřej Schmidt PART IV: Studying the Luxembourgs: What has been Neglected 11. Heiresses, Regents, and Patrons: Female Rulers in the Age of the Luxembourgs - Julia Burkhardt 12. Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg Monarchy - Len Scales 13. The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, their Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y - Karl Kügle Select Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of
Book SynopsisA newly identified medieval play for the Feast of Fools, with a new English translation and musical edition ready for performance. Scholars and non-scholars alike have long been fascinated by the medieval "Feast of Fools", the annual celebration on or around the New Year that came to be known for its inversion of established hierarchies, its boisterousness, and its scurrilous, even sacrilegious, clerical behaviour. However, we now know that many of the most obscene and subversive practices associated with the feast were, in fact, the misunderstandings, exaggerations, or even fabrications of overzealous ecclesiastical reformers. Our most reliable information about the Feast comes from the scant extant liturgical items that clerical communities actually used during their celebrations. This book shows that the twelfth-century Ordo Joseph from Laon, in France - a play long-known to scholars, telling the story of Joseph the patriarch and his brothers -- is in fact a drama for the Feast of Fools, long hidden in plain sight, intended for performance at Epiphany. It situates the play within the context of the cathedral community's history of biblical exegesis under its school-master Anselm of Laon, proposing "performative gloss" as an important new tool for understanding how medieval liturgical dramas generated meaning. It Includes a new Latin edition of the text, accompanied by an English translation, as well as a musical reconstruction that harnesses the music of Laon's liturgy and finally makes possible a performance of this spectacular, newly identified Feast of Fools drama.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on the Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: A New Play for the Feast of Fools Part I: Study 1: The Ordo Joseph in Context 2: The Scriptures and the Staging 3: The Joseph Story as Model and Reversal 4: Anti-Jewish Sentiment and the Passion Part II: Text, Music, and Commentary Text and Translation The Music of the Ordo Joseph Notes and Commentary Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Lancelot-Grail: 1. The History of the Holy Grail:
Book SynopsisAlthoughThe History of the Holy Grail opens the Vulgate Cycle, it was added after the events described in Lancelot and The Quest of the Holy Grail were already an established part of the Arthurian story. It is, in Hollywood terms, a `prequel', and relates the story of the Grail from its first appearance at the Crucifixion up to the point where it is placed by Alain, the Fisher King, in the castle of Corbenic, whose inhabitants then await the arrival of the chosen Grail knight. Many points in the narrative are designed to foreshadow or to explain the later adventures connected with the Grail, but it also draws on the stories in the apocryphal gospels and other legends of the crucifixion such as the story of Veronica, as well as unrelated material such as the story of Hippocrates. But it also provides many details about the Grail itself which are not found anywhere else. It is less chivalric in tone from the subsequent books of the Vulgate Cycle, and relatively few copies of the original survive. For a full description of the Vulgate Cycle see the blurb for the complete set.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Lancelot-Grail: 9. The Post-Vulgate Cycle. The
Book SynopsisThe revised version of The Quest of the Holy Grail gives a greater role to Perceval, and introduces a number of knights not found in the Vulgate; but the largest change is that much of the story of Tristan (and of his rivalPalamedes) is incorporated into the story. The achievement of the Grail quest centres on Galahad's healing of Pellehan, which has to be accomplished before the knights can reach the Grail itself. The Death of Arthur is little more than a relatively brief postscript, bringing the story of the adventures of the kingdom of Logres to an end; Lancelot and Guenevere are revealed as lovers, and Arthur fights both Lancelot and then the Romans. Despite thisvictory, he is betrayed and killed by Mordred, as has been foreshadowed from the outset of the new material. The romance ends with king Mark of Cornwall's death when he attempts to kill Lancelot and Bors at the hermitage to whichthey have retreated. For a full description of the Post-Vulgate Cycle see the blurb for the complete set.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Lancelot-Grail: 4. Lancelot part III and IV: The
Book SynopsisLancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur's court come to the fore. These chivalric elements contain the seeds of Arthur's destruction and the dissolution of the Round Table, as Lancelot's love for Guinevere undermines his bond to Arthur; the tension between love, prowess and loyalty is the undercurrent of the long romance which describes the exploits which he performs in her service. It also includes many stories which are chivalric adventures largely unrelated to the main theme, and uses the device of interweaving these stories to form a huge stream of narrative. This series of episodic pictures leads ultimately to the birth of Lancelot's son Galahad, who is destined to become the hero of the Grail. Parts three and four of Lancelot begin with the episode of the false Guinevere, in which Guinevere is accused of being an impostor; Lancelot is then abducted and imprisoned by Morgan le Fay, who out of hatred for Arthur intends to reveal their love to the king. When he escapes, Guinevere is abducted by Meleagant, and Lancelot has to rescue her. In the course of these adventures, the Grail appears for the first time: Lancelot comes to the Burning Tomb, where he learns that his sins will prevent him from succeeding in the Grail Quest; and Gawain reaches the Grail Castle, but fails the test. For afull description of the Vulgate Cycle see the blurb for the complete set.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation
Book SynopsisNew edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. The Old English Martyrology is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in Anglo-Saxon England; it also represents one of the most impressive examples of encyclopaedic writing from the European Middle Ages.Probably intended as a reference work, it was used and transmitted for over 200 years, providing its readers with information on native and foreign saints, time measurement, the seasons of the year, biblical events, and cosmology. Its lively and engaging vignettes illustrate the importance of miracle stories for the early medieval cult of saints. This new edition presents a revised text, with a facing-page, newly-prepared English translation; they are accompanied by a commentary based on a fresh comparison with some 250 Latin and Old English texts, the first published glossary for this text, and extensive bibliographical information and indices. Dr Christine Raueris a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.Trade ReviewWinner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2015 Publication Prizes: Best Edition * . *Rauer's edition of OEM does what an edition should: combine a clean, reliable text with a clear, literal translation and ancillary materials that review scholarship, deepen understanding, point out problems, and facilitate future work. . . . It is learned, useful, and stimulating, the product of much expert work, and for most purposes should now be the edition of choice. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING *This is an important and diligently executed book; and it is arranged to facilitate reference-whatever one is looking for is easy to find. It is a work of reference for martyrology in the first place, and it will be found useful for many other related subjects. * NOTES & QUERIES *Rauer's edition...is an important and welcome contribution, sure to stimulate new research. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Any scholar interested in the Martyrology will need, at least, to refer to this edition. * TOEBI NEWSLETTER *A valuable contribution that will appeal to a range of readers....This will certainly be the standard text to turn to...for at least the next generation of research.... The commentary is excellent. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY *Everyone from the most seasoned expert to the total neophyte will be able to benefit from the volume, which should immediately become both an indispensable research tool for the specialist and a stimulating way to introduce undergraduates (and even some members of the general reading public) to a broad range of medieval ideas about saints and sanctity. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sigla Text and Translation Commentary Appendices
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body,
Book SynopsisAnalysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend. Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion inthe audiences which heard these texts performed or read. The presentation and depiction of emotion in the single most prominent and influential story matter of the Middle Ages, the Arthurian legend, is the subject of this volume.Covering texts written in English, French, Dutch, German, Latin and Norwegian, the essays presented here explore notions of embodiment, the affective quality of the construction of mind, and the intermediary role of the voice asboth an embodied and consciously articulating emotion. FRANK BRANDSMA teaches Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht University; CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford; CORINNE SAUNDERS is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham. Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Frank Brandsma, Helen Cooper, Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Jane Gilbert, Carolyne Larrington, Andrew Lynch, Raluca Radulescu, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Corinne Saunders.Trade Review[Works] admirably to replace reflexive responses to romance literature and the culture that produced it with informed understanding, illuminating both the past and the present. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *The essays . . . offer groundbreaking interpretations of medieval representations of emotion. * BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE *[T]his collection serves as a perfect springboard for more research on emotion in Arthurian literature, medieval and especially post-medieval. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Frank Brandsma and Carolyne Larrington Being-in-the-Arthurian-World: Emotion, Affect and Magic in the Prose Lancelot, Sartre and Jay - Jane Gilbert Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval English Arthurian Romance - Corinne Saunders 'What cheer?' Emotion and Action in the Arthurian World - Andrew Lynch Ire, Peor and their Somatic Correlates in Chrétien's Chevalier de la Charrette - Anatole Pierre Fuksas Kingship and the Intimacy of Grief in the Alliterative Morte Arthure - Anne Baden-Daintree Tears and Lies: Emotions and the Ideals of Malory's Arthurian World - Raluca Radulescu Mourning Gawein: Cognition and Affect in Diu Crône and some French Gauvain-Texts - Carolyne Larrington Emotion and Voice: 'Ay' in Middle Dutch Arthurian Romances - Frank Brandsma Translating Emotion: Vocalisation and Embodiment in Yvain and Ívens saga - Sif Rikhardsdottir Afterword: Malory's Enigmatic Smiles - Helen Cooper
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors,
Book SynopsisFirst full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower. Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By attending to the ways in which birds were actually observed and experienced, this book aims to offer new perspectives on how and why they were meaningful in five major poems -- The Seafarer, the Exeter Book Riddles, The Owl and the Nightingale, The Parliament of Fowls and Confessio Amantis. In a consideration of sources from Isidore of Seville and Anglo-Saxon place-names to animal-sound word lists and Bartholomew the Englishman, the author shows how ornithological truth and knowledge are integral to our understandings of his chosen poems. Birds, he argues, are relevant to the medieval mind because their unique properties align them with important religious and secular themes: seabirds that inspire the forlorn Anglo-Saxon pilgrim; unnamed species that confound riddling taxonomies; a belligerent owl who speaks out against unflattering literary portraits. In these poems, human actions and perceptions are deeply affected by the remarkable flights and voices of birds.Trade ReviewIn his soaring exploration of the avian, Warren urges us to look beyond the human preoccupations of medieval poetry to see how writers have persistently attempted to...bridge the gap between human and bird, at least temporarily, by inviting us to listen more closely to the melody those 'smale foweles' make all around us. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Warren's handling of medieval material in a way that reminds us of both the innate value of the species we run the risk of destroying and the dangers of human exceptionalism is a welcome and, moreover, a significant contribution to the field. * MEDIUM ÆVUM *[I]t is not a bad thing for a book to leave readers wanting more when the readings are this perspicacious. ...Birds in Middle English Poetry contributes significantly to ecocritical, literary, and medieval studies. It shows that asking new questions of familiar texts reveals exciting insights into how medieval people understood their natural environment and how allegory operates. It invites us to remember the dynamic importance of birds in the Anthropocene and concludes with a generous glossary of bird names that will facilitate further study. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Combining ornithological and literary history, this book is an important contribution to environmental history and ecocriticism, unpacking the complex relationships between human and other creatures and their shared environments. * PARERGON *Table of ContentsIntroduction Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in The Seafarer Avian Pedagogies: Wondering with Birds in the Exeter Book Riddles A Bird's Worth: Mis-Representing Owls in The Owl and the Nightingale 'Kek Kek': Translating Birds in The Parliament of Fowls Birds' Form: Enabling Desire and Identities in Confessio Amantis Epilogue Glossary: Old and Middle English bird names Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation:
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book. The Annunciation remains one of the most recognizable scenes in western Christianity: the angel Gabriel addressing the Virgin Mary, capturing the moment when Christ becomes incarnate. But one consistent detail has evaded our scrutiny - Mary's book. What was she reading? What does her book mean? This innovative study traces the history of Mary's book at the Annunciation from the early Middle Ages through to the Reformation, focusing on a wide variety of religious treatises, visionary accounts, and art. It argues that the Virgin provided a sophisticated model of reading and interpretation that was foundational to devotional practices across all spectrums of society in medieval England, and especially for enclosed female readers. By imitating the Virgin, readers learned how to read; they learned how to pray; they learned how to channel God through vision and revelation. Most of all, they learned how to conceive God spiritually, just as Mary had conceived him physically, and just as she had conceived intellectually her reading of the Old Testament prophecies foretelling the Incarnation - that she herself was part of their fulfillment. The Annunciation offered a hermeneutic model of conception radically based on the reproductive female body, otherwise deeply problematic in medieval culture. Scholars have long studied the importance of the Virgin Mary for medieval people. But few would think of her as an intellectual role model. Yet that is what this book contends - that Mary's reading at the Annunciation is, essentially, a missing link for understanding how reading, interpretation, and devotion worked in the Middle Ages.Trade ReviewThe book is thought-provoking and a delight for visually oriented readers. The book would be most beneficial to those with academic backgrounds in religious art, spirituality, and mysticism. * MAGISTRA *Miles's book is an interesting, thought-provoking, and informative investigation that relies on a variety of sources in order to shed light on the role of the book of Mary in medieval England. * Journal of British Studies *This is a brilliantly conceived volume. Combining literary analysis, historical reconstruction, and feminist enquiry, Miles (English, Univ. of Bergen, Norway) finds in literary and artistic depictions of the Annunciation-from the early Middle Ages until the Reformation-a prompt for women's identification with the literate virgin who reads and interprets texts (including the Psalms and Isaiah), prays, predicts, sings, meditates, and contemplates and so creates her own meaning. Highly Recommended. * CHOICE *This is a wide-ranging and penetrative study that will remain important to scholarship - and feminist scholarship, in particular - for some considerable time. It will provide a turn-to work for anybody interested in this highly visible and deeply arresting image of a pre-modern woman engaging in an act of private reading. * Speculum *Throughout the book, each aspect of the Annunciation is meticulously examined from a body of texts, the choice of which, systematically justified by Miles, reveals the work of an informed researcher. * Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique *The volume's production quality is superb [...] Miles' methodology is genuinely exciting, and this book demonstrates what a historically and theologically literate literary criticism can achieve. * International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church *Miles builds a longitudinal study of Mary-as-reader that is also a deep dive into how medieval readers learned to pray meditatively. While Miles's book is valuable for attending to this form of imitatio Mariae, it also models an interpretation of medieval meditative practices useful to other approaches to devotional culture. * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *Laura Saetveit Miles has set about her work with concentrated earnestness and refreshing enthusiasm. -- Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryRiveting...The book is thought-provoking and a delight for visually oriented readers. * AVE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Imitatio Mariae: Mary, Medieval Readers, and Conceiving the Word Performing the Psalms: The Annunciation in the Anchorhold Reading the Prophecies: Meditation and Female Literacy in Lives of Christ Texts Writing the Book: The Annunciations of Visionary Women Imagining the Book: Of Three Workings in Man's Soul and Books of Hours Inhabiting the Annunciation: The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Pynson Ballad Coda: Mary and Her Book at the Reformation Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature XXXVIII
Book SynopsisArthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.Table of Contents1. Animals at the Feast: Strange Strangers and Courtly Power in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - C. M. Palmer 2. The Kindred of a Boy without a Father: Merlin's British Forebears and Irish Cousins -John Carey 3. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Subtle Subversion: Active Double-Voiced Discourse in the Historia regum Britanniae - Vanessa K. Iacocca 4. 'Cornwall, up in the North': Geography and Place Names in the Source of the Old Icelandic Brut - Hélène Tétrel 5. Enacting Arthurianism in the Order of the Garter and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Matt Clancy 6. Deviants and Dissenters: Theorizing Shame and Punishment in Malory's Morte - Richard Sévère 7. Loyalty and Worshyp in Conflict in Malory's Lancelot - Manabu Agari 8. Emotional Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur: Shame and the Lott-Pellinore Feud - Karen Cherewatuk 9. Navigating and Indexing Arthurian Romance in Benoît Rigaud's Edition of Lancelot du Lake (1591) - Jane H. M. Taylor and Leah Tether 10. 'A great many strange puppets': Queen Caroline, Merlin's Cave, and Symbolic Arthurianism in the Age of Reason - Amy Louise Blaney 11. 'How Galahad Regained his Virginity: Dead Women, Catholicism, and the Grail in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry' - Kenneth Hodges 12. 'Merlin's Woodland House: Irish Cosmology in the Vita Merlini?' - Jennifer Lopatin and A. Joseph McMullen 13. Malory and the Book of St Albans - P. J. C. Field
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance:
Book SynopsisThis book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of resistance within it offer a point of tension, where normative scripts and expectations are exposed and opened up to challenge. This book explores such resistance as a widespread motif in the genre, tracing the subversive possibilities it presents, and through them uncovering how romance constitutes particular kinds of love as desirable, shaped by intersecting factors, including gender, status, race, religion, and morality. Drawing upon contemporary work on consent, the politics of desire, and asexuality, it examines how resistance is often transformed into acceptance, through consensual negotiation or coercive force: the romances discussed here demonstrate that a certain level of force, pressure, and persuasion is accepted as a means of forming relationships within the genre, but this reliance on coercion reveals the effort to which romances must go to uphold normative structures of desire. Considering a variety of works, from Marie de France's twelfth-century Guigemar to Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale to William Caxton's fifteenth-century prose romances, this book argues that romance teaches its readers what and whom to desire, as well as how to behave when negotiating their desires, and explores the wider implications for understanding consent, gender, and desire in medieval England. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative-Commons License CC-BY-NC-NDTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'Ar ye a knyght and ar no lovear?' Men Who Resist Love 2. 'But of love to lere': The Proud Lady in Love 3. 'Ne feolle hit þe of cunde / To spuse beo me bunde': Resisting Mésalliance 4. 'What wonder is it thogh she wepte'? Hierarchies of Desire, Race, and Empathy 5. 'What deyntee sholde a man han in his lyf / For to go love another mannes wyf'? Resisting Adultery, Resisting Rape Culture Conclusion: The Ends of Romance Bibliography Index
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