Télécharger le livre :  Animal Languages in the Middle Ages
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Jews in Medieval England
This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Ecocriticism
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare,...

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Parution : 2017-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Memory in Late Medieval England
This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Tolkien and Alterity
This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Boccaccio the Philosopher
This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing
This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature
This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Piers Plowman
This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of human potential through...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering Richard Rolle
This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Franciscan Invention of the New World
This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Networks in Medieval France
This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500
This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy
Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Joan de Valence
Heir to an earldom, and wife and widow of William de Valence (half-brother of King Henry III), Joan de Valence was an important actor in the volatile political world of thirteenth-century England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Yet, astonishingly, her story of survival,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Perilous Passages
This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
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