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Author: E. Francomano
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-05-26
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0230612466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.
Author: J. Arnold
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1137316551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.
Author: Nicholas R. Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1000264165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered and sexualized bodies in medieval and early modern textual production, including literary and historical documents. The volume’s embrace of the interpretative tools of Porn Studies also inscribes a critical provocation: in what ways can contemporary modes of reading the past serve to freshly illuminate not only the contours of that same past but also the very critical assumptions of the present upon which fields like medieval and early modern Hispanic Studies are built? In this way, Pornographic Sensibilities encourages at once both rigorous historicizations of pre- and early-modern culture, and playful engagement with "presentism," considered here as a critical tool to undress the hidden assumptions of both past and present. This move substantively challenges long-held critical orthodoxies among scholars of pre-Enlightenment periods, for whom the very category of "pornography" itself has often problematically been framed as an anachronism when applied to their work.
Author: Jennifer Nuttall
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-09-13
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 184384642X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right.
Author: P. Salmesvuori
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1137398930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340–1349.
Author: M. Toswell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-07
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1137444479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.
Author: E. Crosby
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-04
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1137352124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.
Author: T. Tinkle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 023011203X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
Author: J. Frakes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0230119190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the 'pre-post-colonializing' European cultures, the study provides important new perspectives.
Author: Ryan D. Giles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1487510047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian authors and thinkers from the pre- and early modern periods. Medievalists delve into the poetic interiorizations of the sensorial plane to show how sacramental and purportedly miraculous sensory experiences were central to the effort of affirming faith and understanding indigenous peoples in the Americas. Renaissance and early modernist essays shed new light on experiences of pungent, bustling ports and city centres, and the exotic musical performances of empire. This insightful collection covers a wide array of approaches including literary and cultural history, philosophical aesthetics, affective and cognitive studies, and theories of embodiment. Beyond Sight expands the field of sensory studies to focus on the Iberian Peninsula and its colonies from historical, literary, and cultural perspectives.
