Author: Keith Busby
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9789042013797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stewart Gregory
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780947623326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1: Psalms I-XXXV ; volume 2: Psalms XXXVI-L.
Author: Keith Busby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-08
Total Pages: 954
ISBN-13: 9004485988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Russell Stone
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1487501897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse perspectives on the conqueror. Beginning with a discussion of the evolution of this corpus, this book examines the manuscripts, readership, and historical contexts of the earliest surviving Alexander romance in England, Thomas de Kent's Anglo-Norman Roman de toute chevalerie. To shed light on the origins and treatment of this romance, Charles Russell Stone reads each manuscript within the contexts of its production, scribal interpolations, and patronage and readership in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. While Thomas recalls a range of attitudes towards his protagonist in the late twelfth century, when the recovery of classical histories and composition of vernacular romance informed conflicting attitudes towards Alexander's legacy, scribes and readers of his poem appropriated it as a continuing commentary on power, politics, and the relevance of the Alexander legend in their own time. Each of the three major manuscripts of Thomas's poem thus offers a unique text informed by unique literary and political contexts, which this book situates within the ongoing debate over Alexander's reception as a paradigm of imperial authority or failure in late medieval England.
Author: David Zuwiyya
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9004183450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.
Author: Domenic Leo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-08-16
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9004250832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.