Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric
Author: Douglas Gray
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric
Author: Douglas Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 042958881X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.
Telling Images
Author: V. A. Kolve
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0804755833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelling Images is a study of Chaucer's narrative art and its use of symbolic images in the visual arts of his time.
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 1135314179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Cultivating the Heart
Author: Ayoush Lazikani
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1783162783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK•Detailed close analysis of early Middle English homiletic, hagiographic, guidance, and lyrical-meditative texts: provides readers with an insight into the affective literary strategies of a body of neglected material. •Contextualization of English material in Latin and Anglo-Norman: provides readers with a deeper knowledge of the multilingual culture of medieval England in the post-Conquest centuries. •Substantial commentary on church wall paintings: provides readers with a nuanced understanding of the ways in which the affective strategies of visual resources can be mapped onto texts.
Constructing Medieval Sexuality
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Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781452903194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Literature in the Age of Chaucer
Author: Dieter Mehl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1317871553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.
An Introduction to Medieval English Literature
Author: Anna Baldwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-15
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1350310050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a group of genres primarily associated with a particular social class – from the Drama and Saints' Lives accessible to the illiterate, to the sophisticated Romances of Love savoured by the aristocracy and the Court. Lively historical narratives place each group of texts in their social, political and cultural contexts. Significant or typical texts are given more detailed analysis that includes critical issues and questions to guide the reader's own approach, and each section is supported by a detailed bibliography of further reading.
Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art
Author: Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9004355588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPathos as Communicative Strategy in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the strategies employed to trigger emotional responses in late-medieval dramatic texts from several Western European traditions, and juxtaposes these texts with artistic productions from the same areas, with an emphasis on Britain. The aim is to unravel the mechanisms through which pathos was produced and employed, mainly through the representation of pain and suffering, with mainly religious, but also political aims. The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu.
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
Author: Laura Varnam
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1526121824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only for the church’s sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church’s status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously – but profitably – dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.
