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Author: J. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1137037415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.
Author: Vern L. Bullough
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780815336624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined here in 19 articles written specifically for this handbook. This volume seeks to offer a useful guide to the wealth of material and research that is available yet often overlooked.
Author: Susannah Chewning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1351926357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs distinct from the many recent collections and studies of medieval literature and culture that have focused on gender and sexuality as their major themes, this collection considers and serves to re-think and re-situate religion and sexuality together. Including 'traditional' works such as Chaucer and the Pearl-poet, as well as less well known and studied texts - such as alchemical texts and the Wohunge group - the contributors here focus on the meeting point of these two often-examined concepts. They seek an understanding of where sex and religion distinguish themselves from one another, and where they do not. This volume locates the Divine and the Erotic within the continuum of experience and devotion that characterize the paradox of the medieval world. Not merely original in their approaches, these authors seek a new vision of how these two inter-connected themes - sexuality and the Divine - meet, connect, distinguish themselves, and merge within medieval life, language, and literature.
Author: Raluca Radulescu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3110462486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matière de Bretagne. The bibliography aims to include all books, reviews and articles published in the year preceding its appearance, an exception being made for earlier studies which have been omitted inadvertently. The present volume contains over 700 entries on relevant publications that were published in 2013.
Author: Serina Patterson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1137497521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.
Author: Bradford K. Mudge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 110718407X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.
Author: K. Walter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1137084642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Author: C. Schrock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-05-13
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1137447818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions and City of God .
Author: E. Crosby
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-04
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1137352124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Mary C. Flannery
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1137428627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and why reading happened.
