Télécharger le livre :  Battlefronts Real and Imagined

This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-02-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality

This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Lydgate Matters

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and...
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Parution : 2007-12-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language

The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages

This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The King and the Whore

This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-11-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Langland's Early Modern Identities

This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-11-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-08-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's Visions of Manhood

This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-06-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-06-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England

This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776. Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the duchess's state...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-05-28
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Claustrophilia

Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-04-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medieval Chastity Belt

The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and demonstrates how a convenient misconception, or contorted imagination, of an allegedly historical practice has led to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-03-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the Twelfth to Fifteenth century.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-03-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages

Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-03-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-02-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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