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Author: N. Guynn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-03-05
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0230603661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuynn 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.
Author: Jody Enders
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1350135321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Author: Victoria Blud
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1843844680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Words and Other Fragments -- 1 Speaking Up and Shutting Up: Expression and Suppression in the Old English Mary of Egypt and Ancrene Wisse -- 2 What Comes Unnaturally: Unspeakable Acts -- 3 Crying Wolf: Gender and Exile in Bisclavret and Wulf and Eadwacer -- 4 Taking the Words Out of Her Mouth: Glossing Glossectomy in Tales of Philomela -- Conclusion: After Words -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: E. Upton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1137310073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Author: J. Goldberg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-25
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0230610277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid 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 then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St Leonard's Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories.
Author: M. Williams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1137057262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.
Author: V. Allen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-05-24
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230109063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.
Author: David Rollo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9004507329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context.
Author: L. Haywood
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1137040580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an innovative study of humour and the body in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330), using modern analytical techniques to examine the place of the Libro's bawdy and grotesque in relation to secular and sacred culture.
Author: C. Chazelle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1137123052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieval studies. Most of the issues examined span the period from roughly 400 to 1000 CE and regions stretching from westernmost Eurasia to the Black Sea and the Baltic. This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the heuristic structures and methodologies of research on "early medieval Europe." Because of its geographic, chronological, thematic, and methodological diversity and scope, the collection also showcases the breadth of early medieval studies currently practiced in the United States.
