Télécharger le livre :  Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources.The contributors examine how money and...
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Parution : 2010-03-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Letters of Heloise and Abelard

The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin...
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Parution : 2009-12-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Julian of Norwich's Legacy

Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies ofJulian...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages

The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Strange Beauty

Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art

Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing Chaucer

This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was...
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Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Post-Historical Middle Ages

This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing

This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein

This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-08
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary

Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages

These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales

The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Excrement in the Late Middle Ages

This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-09-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages

Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-08-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Light of Medieval Spain

This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-08-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature

This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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