Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books VI and VII
Book SynopsisThis edition of Augustine's The City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential document. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro, a man revered by Augustine’s pagan contemporaries. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VI TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VIICOMMENTARY ON BOOK VI COMMENTARY ON BOOK VIIIndices
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Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books XIII and XIV
Book SynopsisThis is the only English edition of The City of God with Latin text and facing-page translation as well as a detailed introduction and commentary. In Books XIII– XIV, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues topics emerging from consideration of Adam's sin.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIII TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIVCOMMENTARY ON BOOK XIII COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIVIndices
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Liverpool University Press A Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert
Book SynopsisThis book consists of ten essays from an international group of scholars of medieval religion discussing the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations (French, German, Spanish and Middle Dutch).Trade ReviewThese volumes ['The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary' and 'A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert'] represent a very significant and welcome contribution to medieval scholarship and will undoubtedly influence much future work on vernacular religious writings. * Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIX *An unusually coherent collection of essays. * Journal of the Early Book Society *This is an outstanding collection. * Analecta Cartusiana, No 293 *These insightful and rigorous essays, accompanying the new critical edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert', will restore attention to an important family of devotional works. The Companion combines a valuable introduction to this largely neglected group of texts with a particular focus on the Middle English Doctrine. The authors are in productive conversation with each other, and the volume is clearly introduced and nicely cross-referenced. * Ecclesiastical History 63.2, *These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert.’ * Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1 *This book is a careful and ambitious attempt to cover the whole gamut of Latin and vernacular traditions of the Doctrine of the Hert, and deserves considerable credit as a pioneering work in its field which also manages to be a compendium of everything one needs to know about this text.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Editors and Contributors Introduction Denis Renevey, University of Lausanne Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick Part One: De doctrina cordis The Authorship of the De doctrina cordis Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford De doctrina cordis: Catechesis or Contemplation? Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick Part Two: The Doctrine of the Hert The Doctrine of the Hert: A Middle English Translation of De doctrina cordis Anne Elizabeth Mouron, University of Oxford; 'Comfortable Wordis' - The Role of the Bible in The Doctrine of the Hert Annie Sutherland, University of Oxford Meat, Metaphor and Mysticism: Cooking the Books in The Doctrine of the Hert Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford The Middle English Doctrine of the Hert and its Manuscript Context Catherine Innes-Parker, University of Prince Edward Island, United States Part Three: European Vernacular Translations The French Translations of De doctrina cordis Anne Elizabeth Mouron, University of Oxford A Middle Dutch Translation of De doctrina cordis: de bouc van der leeringhe van der herten in Vienna, Osterreichischen National Bibliothek, MS 15231 Marleen Cre, University of Antwerp, Belguim De doctrina cordis and fifteenth-century ecclesial reform: Reflections on the context of the German vernacular versions; Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, University of Vienna, Austria The Spanish Translation: Del ensenamiento del coracon (Salamanca, 1498) Anthony John Lappin, University of Manchester Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Alexander the Great
Book SynopsisWhat are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great’s romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion?Trade Review... will repay the attention of a readership far broader than the community of Alexander and Hellenistic scholars to which it is obviously directed. Thomas M Banchich, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Mawr Classical Review *"Highly recommended."Near Eastern Archaeological Society BulletinTable of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Son of the Thunderbolt: Alexander's birth myths and their dates 2. Son of the Snake: the original identity of Alexander's snake sire 3. Son of the Ram: Alexander as heir to the Macedonian foundation myths 4. Son of the Eagle: the heirs to Alexander's birth myths 5. Son of the Witch: traditions of polygamy in the Macedonian court 6. Alexander's wives in fact and tradition 7. Alexander's dalliances 8. Alexander's men in fact and tradition 9. Alexander the gynnis Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with
Book SynopsisPerforming Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford.Trade Review... a carefully researched, often entertaining account of the reception of Greek drama. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 09.37Table of Contents Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction: performing antiquity in Oxford, 1500s-2000s 2 The academic drama in the humanist curriculum and culture of Oxford 2.1 William Gager's defence of acting 2.2 Catalogue of plays in the 16th and 17th centuries 3. 'The Young Men in Women's Clothes': from the classical burlesques of the 1860s to the 1880 Agamemnon 3.1 Classical burlesques in Oxford and the great London scandal 3.2 The 1880 Agamemnon and Jowett's sanction of drama 4. Productions in ancient Greek by OUDS, 1887-1914 4.1 Alcestis in 1887: melodrama in the New Theatre! 4.2 Aristophanes revitalized: music and 'stage business' in the 1892 Frogs 4.3 The importance of Hubert Parry's music in OUDS' Aristophanic tradition, 1897-1914 5. Women, war and Gilbert Murray 5.1 Robert Bridges' Demeter at Somerville College, 1904 5.2 Penelope Wheeler, Greek plays at the Front, and the Boars Hill Players 5.3 Sybil Thorndike and post-WWI productions of Murray's translations 6. OUDS, college and Playhouse productions, 1920s-1960s 7. The Balliol Players, 1923-1927: social idealism and performances for Thomas Hardy 8. Balliol Players, 1928-1939: 'a first-class excuse for legitimate vagabondage' 8.1 The end of one era, and the beginning of another 8.2 The film of the 1934 Ajax 8.3 Towards the Second World War 9. The Aristophanic Balliol Players, 1947-1977 Bibliography Appendix 1. Production chronology Appendix 2. Prosopograph Appendix 3. Note on archival material in Balliol College, APGRD, and the Bodleian Index
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Liverpool University Press Introducing English Medieval Book History
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph Hanna presents a history of the English medieval book through a series of examples centred on carefully chosen texts and their physical and cultural surrounds.Trade ReviewReviews'Scholarship in this work is superb. Quotations, translations, bibliography are spot on. Professor Hanna’s lifetime of intelligent work in the field glows at all points of discussion.' MS referee'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographical and bibliographical study; it will have a wide readership. It will be an excellent partner for the recent Owen-Crocker volume 'Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.' Series Editors'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively qualified.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements On the reproductions 1. Texts and their books: the case of 'Beowulf' 2. Medieval authors and texts: the Middle English 'Benjamin' Appendix: The manuscripts of 'Benjamin' 3. The history of a book: Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.285 4. Shared exemplars: British Library, MS Cotton Galba E.ix and its relations 5. Scribal oeuvres: ‘Chaucer’s Scribe’ and his 'Canterbury Tales' 6. A book contract and its ‘set text’: John Forbor’s Psalter Appendix: The Slaithwaite indenture: a transcription, translation and notes 7. Provenances: some medieval libraries Appendix: Selections from medieval booklists John Erghome (OESA of York) Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester The lord Welles Index of manuscripts cited Index of scholars cited
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Traditional Romance and Tale How Stories Mean
Book SynopsisThis stimulating and controversial book suggests an original approach to the study of traditional literature, focussing on medieval romance and on folktale [especially fairytale]. Although a number of new and striking interpretations of such stories are offered, the emphasis is on how they 'work' - how stories mean, rather than what individual stories mean. Dr Wilson observes that such stories have survived for many centuries, though they are conspicuously lacking in everyday logic. She argues that since the story-telling experience is one of re-creation and creation on the part of both story-teller and audience, and since the process of following the story demands imaginative identification of teller and audience with hero or heroine, then it is possible to examine the story from the protagonist's - and the audience's - own exploratory dream. Dr Wilson then discusses the magical and pictorial structures and processes of such stories. This is a literary study, relatively short, non-technical, highly condensed, richly suggestive. It concentrates on stories as artistic entities; psychological and psychoanalytical insights are subordinate to the literary aim. Although original, this book takes its place alongside much other work in related fields of literary, psychological, folklore, anthropological and sociological studies, which recognises the supreme imaginative significance of traditional stories and examines the multiple ways in which they convey meaning.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd An Introduction to Malory
Book SynopsisThis introduction to Morte Darthuroutlines the book's basic character, followed by a study of the key concepts of love, loyalty, sin and shame. Malory's approach to his material is discussed, as are his sources, and his individual contribution; finally, Maloryand his book are placed in their historical context. Published in 1988 as Reading the Morte Darthur. `Presents in very accessible form the explanatory material which [students] will require. He is well-informed about the basic issues in Malory scholarship and criticism, and his approach is sound.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES`This book is aimed specifically at readers approaching Malory's Morte Darthur... it will be very useful both to new readers and to their instructors.' CHOICEThe Morte Darthuris a book of action and adventure, not a book of thought. It is full of unexplained and inexplicable customs,magic and mystery, love and hate, nobility, villainy and the highest ideals. Among its characters are the heroes and heroines of the greatest love stories in the western tradition, and it appeals to our most basic and powerful sentiments. Terence McCarthy's book is an introduction to Malory, and so the first section is designed to show how to go about reading the Morte Darthur, and to outline aspects of its basic character. The remaining sections offer an interpretation of it, beginning with the key concepts of love, loyalty, sin and shame. The reader is urged to resist the temptation to consider the Morte Darthuras an early novel, and Malory as omniscient narrator, in order to see him as he saw himself - a historian chronicling the public events of a kingdom. Even his much-praised style underlines the formal and traditional aspect of his book. The Morte Darthuris based on inherited material, and while it is not necessary to know all the intricacies of Malory's sources, Terence McCarthy shows how Malory worked and the extent and nature of his individual contribution. A brief final section puts Malory and his book in their historical context: the turmoil of late fifteenth-century England may be a striking contrast to the order and harmony Arthur achieved (and lost), but too precise an interpretation will remain fruitless until weknow more about Sir Thomas Malory -including who he actually was.Trade Review`Presents in very accessible form the explanatory material which [students] will require. He is well-informed about the basic issues in Malory scholarship and criticism, and his approach is sound.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES `This book is aimed specifically at readers approaching Malory's Morte Darthur... it will be very useful both to new readers and to their instructors. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart 1 How to read the "Morte Darthur": the rise of Arthur's kingdom; the glory of Arthur's kingdom; the fall of Arthur's kingdom. Part 2 A reading of the "Morte Darthur": love and licence; chivalry and shame. Part 3 Against interpretation: realism; characterization; style. Part 4 Methods and materials. Part 5 Background and biography. Part 6 The impact of the "Morte Darthur".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Origins of Beowulf
Book SynopsisA detailed and passionate argument suggesting that Beowulf originated in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia.Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first tell the tale? The poem exists now in just one manuscript, but careful study of the literary and historical associations reveals striking details which lead Dr Newton to claim, as he pieces together the various clues, a specific origin for the poem. Dr Newton suggests that references in Beowulf to the heroes whose names are listed in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies indicate that such Northern dynastic concerns are most likely to have been fostered in the kingdom of East Anglia. He supports his thesis with evidence drawn from East Anglianarchaeology, hagiography and folklore. His argument, detailed and passionate, offers the exciting possibility that he has discovered the lost origins of the poem in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia. SAMNEWTON was awarded his Ph.D. for work on Beowulf.Trade ReviewA thoroughly plausible scenario for the poet's interest in affairs long ago and far away * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Persuasive ... exciting. -- MICHAEL WOODCogent and fascinating attempt to place Beowulf in an 8c East Anglian context - an important book. -- Andy Orchard TorontoTable of ContentsThe "Beowulf" manuscript; the question of the poem's origin; "Beowulf" and the Old English royal pedigrees; the royal name "Hrodmund"; Wuffings and Wulfings; East Anglia and the making of "Beowulf".
£19.99
D. S. Brewer A Companion to the GawainPoet
Book Synopsis`Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICEThe essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre, vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Afull bibliography completes the volume. The late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham.Trade ReviewThis superb collection of introductory essays by leading scholars and critics provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet. * CHOICE *Impressive collection of essays... will surely become a key starting point for any new work on the poet and poems. * SPECULUM *A boon companion, an essential guide, for those setting out to explore the world of this fascinating poet. * ARTHURIANA *All students and scholars of the Middle English Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain will want to consult this valuable new compendium. * ANGLIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Derek S Brewer Theories of Authorship - Malcolm Andrew Poetic Identity - A C Spearing *** Gender and Sexual Transgression - Jane Gilbert The Historical Background - Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet - David Aers The Materials of Culture: Landscape and Geography - Ralph W V Elliott The Materials of Culture: Castles - Michael Thompson The Materials of Culture: Feasts - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: Jewels in Pearl - Felicity Riddy The Materials of Culture: The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anne Rooney The Materials of Culture: Armour I - Michael Lacy The Materials of Culture: Armour II: The Arming Topos as Literature - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: The Colour Green - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: Some Names - Derek S Brewer The Manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x - A S G Edwards Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect - Hoyt N Duggan Sources I: The Sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Elisabeth Brewer Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources - Richard G. Newhauser The Supernatural - Helen Cooper The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian - Nicholas Watson Allegory and Symbolism - Priscilla Martin Narrative Form and Insight - Nick Davis Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment - Derek Pearsall SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS The Grene Knight - Gillian E Rogers SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle: Novel and Opera - Barry A Windeatt SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS Sir Gawain in Films - David J. Williams Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ulrich von Zatzikhovens Lanzelet Narrative Style
Book SynopsisWide-ranging survey of a neglected but significant early German version of the Lancelot legend.Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long intrigued scholars both within and outside German studies: the only remaining trace of a Lancelot legend free of the adulterousaffair with Guinevere, it has been seen both as a precursor of classical Arthurian romance in Germany, and as a post-classical imitation, and attempts to interpret it have often run foul of its contradictions. This new study takesa fresh look at its place in the history of German romance, arguing that Ulrich placed his work firmly in the Arthurian romance tradition, adopting its familiar motifs, courtly vocabulary, and idealised knightly hero, but ratherthan presenting a hero who falls from grace (as did Chrétien), his Lanzelet is truly flawless from the outset. While the repeated episodes and adventures emphasise this aspect of Lancelot, they are also related in strikingly different narrative styles, which Dr McLelland suggests are not the result of authorial incompetence, but rather a source of entertainment, and a challenge to the genre as a whole. NICOLA McLELLAND is a Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin.Trade ReviewMcLelland's grounbreaking study will prove to be a reliable reference as well as a teaching tool for years to come. * ARTHURIANA *A knowledgeable, lucid and interesting survey of the critical literature... the elaboration of her argument is devoted largely to ways in which she believes Ulrich's romance distinguishes itself from the contemporary 'classical' romance... McClelland's basic theses remain compelling and doubtless will help scholars read Ulrich's Lanzelet with new eyes. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *A solid work of scholarship and analysis that contributes significantly to the understanding of Lanzelet. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsPart 1 The context and the problem: "Lanzelet" in context - source, author and the question of date, and reception; Ulrich and his narrator - prologue, reflections, appeals to the source and addresses to the audience; the problem of structure - variation within repetition. Part 2 Narrative style in "Lanzelet": defining style; the hero as a literary all-rounder - the first part of "Lanzelet"; a "post-classical" Arthurian hero - the second part of "Lanzelet". Part 3 The essence of a hero - a thematic analysis of "Lanzelet": "aventiure", "manheit" and "minne"; "gelucke", "heil", "soelde" and "wipsoelikheit"; conclusion.
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D. S. Brewer Chaucerian Tragedy
Book SynopsisA study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists.This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted tragedy; it suggests that it was not a common term, and that those few who used the term did not always intend the same thing by it. Kelly believes that it was Chaucer's work which shaped notions of the genre, and places his achievement in critical and historical context. He begins by contrasting modern with medieval theoretical approaches to genres, then discusses Boccaccio's concept of tragedy before turning to Chaucer himself, exploring the ideas of tragedy prevalent in medieval England and their influence on Chaucer, and showing how Chaucer interpreted the term. Troilus and Criseyde is analysed specifically as a tragedy, with an account of its reception in modern times; for comparison, there is an analysis of how John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, two of Chaucer's imitators, understood and practiced tragedy. Professor HENRY ANSGAR KELLY teaches at UCLA.Table of ContentsPart 1 Background: Boccaccio's non-tragedies; tragedy an obsolete dramatic genre; examples of illustrious men. Part 2 Chaucer on tragedy: "tragedy" in late-medieval England; a narrative genre; the lessons of tragedy; from dystopia to eutopia. Part 3 The tragedy of Troilus: establishing prosperity; future contingents; outrageous fortune; terminal misery; Troilus in receivership. Part 4 Lydgate on tragedy: the dramatic tragedy of old Troy; contemporary narrative tragedies. Part 5 Lydgate's fallen princes: Bochas in English - the first phase; the criminous tragedies of Book 2; fallings off and beginnings anew; the long goodbye. Part 6 Henryson's tragedy of Cresseid: a singular tragedy; public promiscuity vs secret shame; Cresseid's ugly vision - an action dream; the disappearance of the gods and the complaint against Fortune; reasons and morals.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Literature XX
Book SynopsisStudies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, and of one important novel by C. S. Lewis.Arthurian Literature continues the policy of alternating themed issues and miscellanies. This varied collection includes studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, and ofone important novel by C.S. Lewis. A controversial textual crux in Chrétien's Yvain, debated vigorously by scholars in the late 1980s, is revisited, while the narrative function of clothing in Chrétien's romances comes under review. An enigmatic and linguistically difficult passage from Der jüngere Titurel is translated and discussed, and an article on Der arme Heinrich studies this pious tale in the context of its generic affiliations: while not strictly speaking an Arthurian romance, it deserves consideration here as a work of one of medieval Germany's most significant writers of Arthurian romance. There is discussion of Thomas Chestre's adoption of the lai as a vehicle for social criticism in his Middle English adaptation of Marie de France's Lanval; the evolution of Arthurian romance in medieval England is also the primary concern in a study of The Awntyrs off Arthure. The figure of Arthur himself is central to an examination of the Middle English Prose Brut, and the delicate political implications of Malory's Morte Darthur are explored. Finally, C.S. Lewis's transformation and use ofthe figures of Uther Pendragon and Merlin in That Hideous Strength is explored. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, JANE DEWHURST, TAMAR DRUKKER, CYRIL EDWARDS, DINA HAZELL, DONALD KENNEDY, GERALD SEAMAN, KRISTA SUE-LO-TWU, JANINA P. TRAXLER, MONICA L. WRIGHT.Trade Review[Its] rich variety is no small part of the value of this work....Arthurian scholars in French, German and English will find something of value in this collection. It should be read by all interested in Arthur. * ARTHURIANA *Table of ContentsReassessing Chrétien's Elusive Vanz - Gerald Seaman Their Clothing Becomes Them: The Narrative Function of Clothing in Chrétien de Troyes - Monica L. Wright Generic Hybridity in Hartmann von Aue's Der Arme Heinrich - Jane Dewhurst The Grail Temple in Der jüngere Titurel [with Cyril Edwards] - Richard Barber The Grail Temple in Der jüngere Titurel [with Richard Barber] - Cyril Edwards The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Reliquary for Romance - Krista Sue-Lo Twu The Blinding of Gwennere: Thomas Chestre as Social Critic - Dinah Hazell Malory's Morte Darthur: A Politically Neutral English Adaptation of the Arthurian Story - Edward Donald Kennedy King, Crusader, Knight: The Composite Arthur of the Middle English Prose Brut - Tamar Drukker Pendragon, Merlin and Logos: The Undoing of Babel in That Hideous Strength - Janina P Traxler
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Maria Wickert Studies in John Gower
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroductionR. F. YeagerTranslator’s NoteAuthor’s Preface1. The Text and Development of the Vox Clamantis 2. The Vision of the Peasants’ Revolt3. The Vox Clamantis and the Medieval SermonA. The Homilist and the ArcherB. The Topology of the Prologue4. The Mirror for a Prince5. Gower’s Sense of Order6. Gower’s Narrative TechniqueBibliography
£44.65
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Chaucers Verse Art in its European Context
Book SynopsisIncorporating advances in historical linguistics but aimed at teachers and students of poetry, Chaucer's Verse Art in its European Context argues that between 1378 and 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer used his knowledge of how poets versified in other languages to devise a meter that would be a perfect fit for the newly respectable English. While Chaucer and Gower are largely responsible for the last stage of this evolution in Middle English and Anglo-Norman, Chaucer's risk in composing in English paid off and iambic pentameter and tetrameter endured to become the staples of English verse, while Gower's French stress-syllabic meters died with the Anglo-Norman dialect.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern
Book SynopsisA unique collection of essays that provides theoretical basis for the value of using creative teaching assignments in Medieval and Renaissance history and literature classes and offers a whole toolbox of practical suggestions that allow students to connect course material to their own experiences and help them care more about the material they are seeking to master. First and foremost for teachers of the pre-modern to adapt and use in college courses of all levels, many of the assignments are also adaptable for a high school classroom. In addition, this volume reaches into broader questions of pedagogical methodology, philosophy, and theory. The contributors reflect on the value and necessity of creative teaching and learning, on using non-traditional classroom activities to tether the students to the material in a more intimate, deeper conceived, and often transformative engagement.
£30.40
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Decameron A Critical Lexicon Lessico Critico
Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the normal sort of scholarship on Boccaccio's masterpiece, and its unique approach and contents are still valid and valuable today. The seventeen original essays in the volume focus on providing a comprehensive view of the Decameron through the analysis of particular aspects, particular problem areas in the reading and interpretation of the work. Each essay offers a critical window on a defined topic (indicated by the headwords), and, when taken together, these individual essays intersect with, supplement, and reinforce one another, thus emphasizing the harmonious nature of the work as a whole and the importance of examining it through a variety of lenses. The newness of the volume also consists in its introduction of innovative exegetical approaches and the identification of previously unidentified sources and influences. While not providing an orderly reading of the Decameron as a more traditional sTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition —by Christopher Kleinhenz Foreword —by Pier Massimo Forni and Renzo Bragantini 1. Architecture —by Franco Fido 2. Author / Narrators —by Michelangelo Picone 3. Action —by Eduardo Saccone 4. Communication —by Francesco Bruni 5. Dialogue —by Renzo Bragantini 6. Philogyny / Misogyny —by Claude Cazalé Bérard 7. Sources —by Costanzo Di Girolamo and Charmaine Lee 8. Irony / Parody —by Carlo Delcorno 9. Language —by Alfredo Stussi 10. Memory —by Giuseppe Velli 11. Morals —by Victoria Kirkham 12. Representation —by Giancarlo Mazzacurati 13. Reality / Truth —by Pier Massimo Forni 14. Rhetoric —by Andrea Battistini 15. Laughter —by Giulio Savelli 16. The Sacred —by Paolo Valesio 17. On the History of the Text of the Decameron —by Vittore Branca With an Update on the History of the Text —by Renzo Bragantini 18. Boccaccio and the Decameron in North-American Criticism —by Christopher Kleinhenz Works Cited
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Folgore da San Gimignano and his Followers The
Book SynopsisThis translation brings the complete works of three minor but important Italian poets Dante's contemporaries at the turn of the 14th century to English speakers for the very first time. Taken together, the three authors sketch an idealized portrait of courtly life juxtaposed to the gritty, politically fractured world of northern Italy's mercantile urban centers in which they lived. One poet, Folgore di San Gimignano, idealizes court life during the period; the second, Cenne da la Chitarra, looks at it more realistically and parodies Folgore; and the third, Pietro dei Faitinelli, takes inspiration from Folgore's political writings and focuses on the politics of the times. The juxtaposition of the three poets in this work is effective and arguably shows them to be a poetic school. Tournaments, dinner tables, and public squares spring to life through vivid, material details, which should catch the interest of cultural historians and literary scholars alike. This translation is especially deft at reproducing the rich variety of culinary and sartorial vocabulary offered by the poets, and the translations of Pietro dei Faitinelli are especially well-executed.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Folgore da San Gimignano and His Followers, Cenne da la Chitarra and Pietro dei Faitinelli Chapter 1 - Folgore da San Gimignano Chapter 2 - Cenne da la Chitarra Chapter 3 - Pietro dei Faitinelli, Nicknamed Il Mugnone
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Rhetoric in the Middle Ages 1974 A Bibliographic
Book SynopsisRhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theoryfrom Saint Augustine to the Renaissance was first published in 1974 by the University of California Press and won the national book award of the Speech Communication Association. It has since been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Polish. In 2001 it, along with its companion anthology, Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, was reprinted by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), and remains in print. In the more than four decades since the book first appeared, a vast number of studies of medieval rhetoric have appeared and the field has advanced enormously. This Bibliographic Supplement allows readers to survey scholarly developments since 1974. It is organized into four chapters following the four sections of the original book: ancient rhetoric and its continuations, ars dictaminis, arts of poetry and prose, and ars praedicandi. Each chapter consists of a bibliographic essay discussing key works sinceTable of ContentsIntroduction — James J. Murphy Part I. Continuities from Ancient to Medieval Rhetoric — Denise Stodola Part II. Poesis: The Art of Poetry and Prose in Treatises, Literary Masterpieces Commentaries, and Classrooms — Douglas Kelly Part III. Ars dictaminis: The Art of Letter-Writing — Morris Tichenor Part IV. Ars praedicandi: The Art of Preaching — Beverly M. Kienzle, Timothy M. Baker, and Jenny C. Bledsoe Epilogue —James J. Murphy
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Literary Speech Acts of the Medieval North
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together examinations of pragmatic meaning and proverbs of the Medieval North. Pragmatic meaning, which relies upon cultural and interpersonal context to go beyond the simple semantic and grammatical meaning of an utterance, has a fundamental connection with proverbs, which also communicate a deeper meaning than what is actually said. Essays in this volume explore this connection by examining the language of generosity, conversion, friendship, debate, dragon proverbs, and saints' lives. These essays are inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey, who has been a pioneer in the study of wisdom poetry and pragmatics in medieval literature.Table of ContentsForeword: An Awareness of Immanence -Tom Shippey Preface -Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames Acknowledgments -Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames Part I: Proverbial Speech Acts The Eddic Wisdom of Hreiðarr the Fool: Paroemial Cognitive Patterning in an Old Icelandic þáttr -Richard L. Harris Beowulf’s Bane, Fáfnir, and the Firedrake of Erebor: Proverbial Dragons and the Implicatures of Pragmatic Discourse -Jonathan Evans Examining The Proverbs of Hendyng for the Essentials: Its Meaning, Authorship, and Readership -Graham P. Johnson The Wisdom of Friendship in Hávamál -Michael Nagy Competitive Cooperation in Old and Middle English Debate Poetry: Solomon and Saturn II and Winner and Waster -Alexander Vaughan Ames Part II: Pragmatic Speech Acts Don’t Kill the Messenger: Felicity Conditions in Old Norse Conversion Narratives -Eric Shane Bryan Repetition, Class, and the Nameless Speakers of Beowulf -Michael R. Kightley Praising and Appraising Heroic Deeds: Generosity as Surplus Giving in Beowulf -Scott Gwara The Fall of the Angels as Apotropaic Weapon in Cynewulf’s Saints’ Lives -Jill M. Fitzgerald “Hwæt!”: Discourse Markers and Orality in Beowulf -Toby R. Beeny Teaching Good Manners: Civil Discourse Patterns in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -A. Keith Kelly Bibliography
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Harvard University Press The Slavonic Book of Esther
Book SynopsisThe Old Testament Book of Esther in Slavonic translation is known from East Slavic manuscripts of the late 14th to the late 16th centuries. Working from the Masoretic Hebrew texts and Greek translations, Horace Lunt and Moshe Taube examine textological clues to the circumstances of Esther's translation, sources, and redactions.
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). SAC also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the new Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). SAC also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book Synopsis Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisStudies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
£45.00
The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer Volume 40
Book SynopsisThe annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500).
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections Icelandic Baroque
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Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections The Enigma of Egill
Book SynopsisEgil''s Saga, composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the life and times of Egill Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet and Icelander of the tenth century, is a major prose narrative thought by many scholars to be written by Snorri Sturluson, the great medieval historiographer of Iceland. Essential elements for understanding Egils saga in its time and place include, among others, the settlement of Iceland, the relationship between Icelanders and Norwegian kings, and the Christianization of the Norse world as pagan beliefs receded. The saga, one of the longest and best-structured in the medieval Icelandic literary canon, is, in the words of Torfi Tulinius, a story of how people create an image of their past to give meaning to what is happening in their lives or of those that surround them.In a close reading of the saga, Tulinius brings forth the complex relationship between structure and meaning in the saga, as well as hitherto unnoticed references to Scripture that suggest
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Cornell University Library Wisdom of the North
Book SynopsisWisdom of the North studies how and for what purposes proverbs were used by the composers of the sagas, thereby demonstrating how awareness of proverbial occurrences in these narratives can enable us to engage in more penetrating literary criticism of these works. The methods offered here have already been applied to the reading of other medieval texts, particularly those originating in societies marked by the presence or persistent influence of preliterate culture.
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West Virginia University Press Heliand
Book SynopsisPresents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity. The volume also contains something that is exceptionally valuable and cannot be found in English: a compact and serviceable grammar of Old Saxon and an appended glossary that defines all of the vocabulary found in this edited version of the Heliand.
£35.96
King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Reading around the Epic
Book SynopsisContributors: Alexander Kerr, Jean Subrenat, Joseph J. Duggan, Judith Belam, Marianne Ailes, Philippe Verelst, François Suard, Karen Pratt, James Simpson, Philip E. Bennett, Peter Noble, Tony Hunt, Edward A. Heinemann, Finn Sinclair, Colin Smith, Gordon Knott, Jan A. Nelson
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Essays on AngloSaxon and Related Themes in Memory
Book SynopsisContributors: Harold Short, Janet Bately, Stewart Brookes, Mary Clayton, Julie Coleman, Patrick W. Conner, Janet M. Cowen, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Peter Jackson, Christian J. Kay, Hugh Magennis, Janet L. Nelson, Eamonn O Carragáin, Lucy Perry, Edward Pettit, Jane Roberts, Gopa Roy, Katharine Scarfe Beckett, Donald Scragg, E.G. Stanley, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Layamon Contexts Language and Interpretation
Book SynopsisContributors: Eric Stanley, Daniel Donoghue, Carole Weinberg, John Frankis, Cyril Edwards, Andrew Breeze, Herbert Pilch, Elizabeth J. Bryan, W.R.J. Barron, Richard Dance, Philip Durkin, Michiko Ogura, Robert McColl Millar, GloriaMercatanti, Rosamund Allen, James Noble, Lucy Hay, Joseph D. Parry, Marie-Françoise Alamichel, Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley, Kenneth J. Tiller, Lucy Perry, Wayne Glowka
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Teaching Writing Learning to Write
Book SynopsisEssays looking at the process of teaching and learning to write in the middle ages, with evidence drawn from across Europe.The capacity to read and write are different abilities, yet while studies of medieval readers and reading have proliferated in recent years, there has so far been little examination of how people learnt to write in the middle ages- an aspect of literacy which this volume aims to address. The papers published here discuss evidence adduced from the "a sgraffio" writing of Ancient Rome, through the attempts of scribes to model their handwriting after that ofthe master-scribe in a disciplined scriptorium, to the repeated copying of set phrases in a Florentine merchant's day book. They show how a careful study of handwriting witnesses the reception of the twenty-three letter Latin alphabet in different countries of medieval Europe, and its necessary adaptation to represent vernacular sounds. Monastic customaries provide evidence of teaching and learning in early scriptoria, while an investigation of the grammarians is a reminder that for the medieval scholar learning to write did not mean simply mastering the skill of holding a quill and forming one's letters properly, but also mastering a correct understanding of grammar and punctuation. Other essays consider the European reception of the so-called Arabic numbers, provide an edition of a fifteenth-century tract on how to use abbreviations correctly, and illustrate how images of writing on wax tablets and learning in school can throw light on medieval practice. The volume concludes with a paper on the ways in which a sixteenth-century amateur theologican deployed Latin, Greek and Hebrew alphabets. P.R. Robinson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Contributors: Paolo Fioretti, David Ganz, Martin Steinman, Patrizia Carmassi, Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Annina Seiler, Alessandro Zironi, Jerzy Kaliszuk, Aslaug Ommundsen, Erik Niblaeus, Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson, Cristina Mantegna, Irene Ceccherini, Jesús Alturo, Carmen del Camino Martinez, Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujao, Charles Burnett, Olaf Pluta, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Alison Stones, Berthold KressTrade ReviewA brief review cannot do justice to the rich material covered in this collection, or its path-breaking potential. * AMARC NEWSLETTER *[A] valuable collection of papers. * YEARS WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *Contains much of interest to a wider audience, especially to anyone working on medieval texts and on any aspect of written culture. * ENGLISH *Table of ContentsForeword - Pamela Robinson Ink writing and 'A sgraffio' writing in Ancient Rome: from learning to practical use - Paolo Fioretti Risk and fluidity in script: an Insular instance - David Ganz Lesen und Schreiben in den Klöstern des frühen Mittelalters - Martin Steinmann Litterae e scrittura nell'insegnamento della Grammatica in età altomedievale: premesse teoretiche e aspetti practici - Patrizia Carmassi A School for Scribes - Aliza Cohen-Mushlin Latinis regulis barbara nomina stringi non possunt, or how to write the vernacular - Annina Seiler Reading and writing Gothic in the Carolingian Age - Alessandro Zironi Latin script and the vernacular text in the Middle Ages: the case of Poland in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - Jerzy Kaliszuk The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers - Åslaug Ommundsen Learning to write in southern Sweden: liturgical fragments and the creation of the culture of the book - Erik Niblaeus Reading and writing in medieval Iceland - Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson Scritture di practici, scritture di giuristi, scritture di dotti: 'scuole' ed esperienze grafiche a confronto - Cristina Mantegna Teaching, function and social diffusion of writing in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Florence - Irene Ceccherini L'enseignement et l'apprentissage de l'ecriture en Catalogne au Moyen Age - Jesús Alturo Aprendizaje y modelos gráficos: entre el ámbito profesional y el privado - Carmen del Camino Martínez Apprendre à écrire dans le Portugal médiéval. Bilan des connaissances - Maria do Rosário Morujao Learning to write numerals in the Middle Ages - Charles Burnett Quaedam regulae de modo titulandi seu apificandi pro novellis scriptoribus copulatae: a late-medieval tutorial for novice scribes - Olaf Pluta 'Written with the Finger of God': fourteenth-century images of scribal practice in the Lichtenthal Psalter - The Valenciennes Papias and Learning in the grammar school in thirteenth-century France - Alison Stones From elementary school to divine revelation: the alphabets of Paul Lautensack - Berthold Kress Works cited Index of Manuscripts
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Rewriting Holiness
Book SynopsisRanging from Ireland to India and from the first to the third millennium, this collection brings together essays written from the perspective of gender, politics and national and cultural identities as well as the sociology of religion.Saints are more than distant figures from legends and wall paintings. Their lives and cults have been rewritten over and over again to suit changing cultural preconceptions and social and political agendas. The obscure Cambro-Breton saint Armel became a badge of loyalty to the Tudor dynasty; Eastern European countries have competed to lay claim to Cyril and Methodius, founding fathers of eastern Christianity; the Indian mystic and poet Kabir came from a Muslim background but was appropriated by both Hindus and Sikhs. And perhaps most bizarrely, right-wing groups in England march under the badge of the Middle Eastern saint George. While these ideas are familiar to historians of"popular" religion (that slippery term) in western Europe, they have a clear relevance to the study of religion in other continents and other faith traditions. Ranging from Ireland to India and from the first to the third millennium, this collection brings together essays written from the perspective of gender, politics and national and cultural identities as well as the sociology of religion. The main thrust is medieval and Christian but it also considers more recent developments in Sikh, Hindu and Muslim cults and in the heritagisation of religion. A substantial introduction offers an overview of the literature, sets out theoretical frameworks and suggests further avenues for exploration. Madeleine Gray is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of South Wales. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Slavia Barlieva, Karen Casebier, Adam Coward, James M. Hegarty, Kate Helsen, Andrew Hughes, John R. Black, Madeleine Gray, Svitlana Kobets, Samantha Riches, Anne Schuchman, Jayita Sinha,Trade ReviewEach essay clearly adds to the research in its own field, and altogether make for a fascinating insight into the changing roles of saints in society. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE *[T]he overall message from all the articles is how universal is the impetus to rewrite sanctity, to reimagine the holy men and women of the past as fitting one's contemporary vision of what a holy person should be like, so that whatever is holy now can be conceived as following in a grand old tradition. * SPECULUM *Reveal[s] the nature and impact of sainthood to be more complicated and far-reaching that has ever been acknowledged. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
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Classical Press of Wales Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Book SynopsisHow is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.
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Classical Press of Wales Dialectic in Action An Examination of Platos
Book SynopsisPlato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions.
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The Red Gull Press Books and Learning in TwelfthCentury England
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at England's place in the wider European community in the twelfth century, based on close study of the texts, scripts and decoration of manuscripts.This book is concerned with England's engagement with continental Europe, especially France and Normandy, from 1066 until around 1200. It is based primarily on a close scrutiny of the texts, script and decoration of the survivingmanuscripts, a wide range of which are illustrated here. It charts the transformation of the perceived view of England as isolated on the geographical and intellectual periphery of Europe to a position of crucial importance withinthe wider European community.Adapted and expanded from Rodney Thompson's Lyell Lectures delivered at Oxford University in 2001, this richly illustrated book has long been difficult to find. It will be of interest to cultural and art historians, researchers into British and European history, and anyone with an interest in the history of the book.
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Yale University Press Les Enluminures Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages
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