{"product_id":"the-middle-ages-in-texts-and-texture-9781442604902","title":"The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in this collection present a textured picture of the medieval world and offer models for how to reflect fruitfully on medieval sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThink of being the instructor for the year-long undergraduate survey and of inviting a series of friends to give guest lectures, each lecture centering around an assigned source and now being delivered with a degree of polish that we are more likely to devote to a one-off and flattering guest appearance than to the regular Tuesday-Thursday stand up performance. -- The Medieval Review This book presents a series of twenty-six insightful, short essays, each about a different medieval author or text, written to appeal to undergraduate students and their instructors. The essays are concise and digestible and offer a variety of perspectives on approaching medieval authors and texts. -- Comitatus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword      Acknowledgements       A Note on References       Introduction    Jason Glenn      1. Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity: An Aural Approach to Augustine's Confessions   William North      2. Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism: The Lives of Saints Antony and Martin    John M. McCulloh      3. The Barbarian Ethos: The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint Boniface   Judith Beall      4. The Written World of Gregory of Tours   Sam Collins      5. Two Lives of Saint Radegund   Jason Glenn      6. The Avenging Abbot: Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict    Carole Straw      7. Crime and Punishment: Anglo-Saxon Law Codes    Kathleen Casey      8. Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede's Ecclesiastical History    Jay Rubenstein      9. Between Two Empires: Einhard and His Charles the Great   Jason Glenn      10. Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World: Bernard of Angers and The Book of Sainte Foy's Miracles   Kathleen Stewart Fung      11. William of Poitiers Talks about War   Jay Rubenstein      12. Epic Values: The Song of Roland    Susan P. Millinger      13. Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as Poet   Lawrence R. Jannuzzi      14. Odo of Deuil's The Journey of Louis VII to the East: Between The Song of Roland and Joinville's Life of Saint Louis   Rudi Paul Lindner      15. Encountering the Cid   Helen Nader      16. Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by Example   Adnan Husain      17. Between History and Literature: Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot and Marie de France's Lais   Amy G. Remensnyder      18. Walter Daniel's Life of Aelred of Rievaulx: The Heroism of Intelligence and the Miracle of Love    Katherine Christensen      19. Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval   Nancy Partner      20. Mission to Crusade: Friar William of Rubruck's Journey to the Mongols   Adnan Husain      21. Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam: The Franciscan Experience of Family   Victoria M. Morse      22. Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West: Joinville's Louis IX and Paris   John Tuthill      23. The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria   Amy G. Remensnyder      24. Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman Crowd   Jennifer A. Heindl      25. Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and Possibility   Dallas G. Denery II      26. Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should Care   Clementine Oliver      Contributors       Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408346816855,"sku":"9781442604902","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-middle-ages-in-texts-and-texture-9781442604902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}