Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Author: K. Kennedy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0230621627

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Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was depicted in literature by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate. Kennedy uses close readings and medieval letter collections to provide a documentary look at how lords and men communicated information about their relationships and reveals surprising information about both medieval law and society.

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

Author: S. Livingston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 113701086X

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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.

The Disney Middle Ages
The Disney Middle Ages

Author: T. Pugh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 113706692X

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For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for corporate ends, but to examine how and why these medieval visions prove so readily adaptable to themed entertainments many centuries after their creation. What results is a scrupulous and comprehensive examination of the intersection between the products of the Disney Corporation and popular culture's fascination with the middle ages.

Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages
Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

Author: E. Upton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1137310073

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This 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.

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Author: M. Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-10

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1137057262

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From 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.

Maintenance in Medieval England
Maintenance in Medieval England

Author: Jonathan Rose

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1108210236

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This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated complaint in medieval England. This book reveals for the first time what actually transpired in the resultant litigation. Extensive study of the primary sources shows that the statutes prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their objectives because legal proceedings were rarely brought against those targeted by the statutes: the great and the powerful. Illegal maintenance was less extensive than frequently asserted because medieval judges recognized a number of valid justifications for intermeddling in litigation. Further, the book casts doubt on the effectiveness of the statutory regulation of livery. This is a treasure trove for legal historians, literature scholars, lawyers, and academic libraries.

Outlawry in Medieval Literature
Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Author: T. Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0230114687

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Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Women in Old Norse Literature
Women in Old Norse Literature

Author: J. Friðriksdóttir

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1137118067

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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

Author: N. Hermes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-09

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1137081651

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Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.

The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature
The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

Author: R. Waugh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0230391877

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This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.