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Framing Medieval Bodies

Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050107
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Framing Medieval Bodies written by Sarah Kay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, available at last in paperback, Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'. Kauppi conceptualises the European Union as both an arena for political contention and a nascent political order. In this evolving, multi-levelled European political field, individuals and groups construct material and symbolic structures of political power, grounded in a variety of social resources such as nationality, culture, and gender. The author shows how the dominance of both executive political resources and domestic political cultures has prevented the development of European democracy. Supranational executive networks have become more autonomous, reinforcing the dominance of the resources they control. At the same time, national political cultures condition the political status of elected institutions such as the European parliament. The book is particularly suited for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of European Politics, European Union Studies and International Relations.

Medieval Bodies

Author : Jack Hartnell
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 178283270X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Bodies written by Jack Hartnell and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body

Author : Sarah Alison Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923519
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body written by Sarah Alison Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages—the female body—exists in special relation to medieval conceptualizations of the monstrous. Because female corporeality is pervasive, proximate, and necessary, it illustrates the supreme allure and danger of the monster, thereby highlighting the powers and problems of teratology.

Framing Childhood in Eighteenth-century English Periodicals and Prints, 1689-1789

Author : Anja Müller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754665038
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Framing Childhood in Eighteenth-century English Periodicals and Prints, 1689-1789 written by Anja Müller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. In examining links between text and image, Müller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood prior to the 1790s, challenging the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century England.

Medieval Identity Machines

Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905815
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Identity Machines written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Handbook of Middle English Studies

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470655380
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Middle English Studies written by Marion Turner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across that contemporary cultural terrain.” James Simpson, Harvard University “Marion Turner has skilfully choreographed an exciting ensemble of fresh accounts of the English Middle Ages. We see the period in a new light that shows with compassion and imagination, as well as thoughtful scholarship, how the literature of the past speaks to contemporary preoccupations.” Ardis Butterfield, Yale University “Strikingly original: theory-literate and materially-grounded ways of reading Middle English texts.” David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania A Handbook of Middle English Studies presents twenty-six original and accessible essays by leading scholars, analyzing the relationship between critical theory and late-medieval literature. The collection offers a range of entry points into the rich field of medieval literary studies, exploring subjects including the depiction of the self and the mind, the literature of conquest, ideas of beauty and aesthetics, and the relationship between place and literature. Topics that have long been central to the field, such as authorship, gender, and race, feature alongside areas only recently coming under critical scrutiny, such as globalization, the environment, and animality. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the manuscript culture of late medieval literature raises key theoretical issues concerning the relationship between authors, texts, and readers. A Handbook of Middle English Studies models diverse approaches to medieval texts and stakes a claim in debates about topics ranging from class to the canon, from imagination to nationhood, from sexuality to the public sphere.

Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium

Author : Glenn Peers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047485
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium by : Glenn Peers

Download or read book Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium written by Glenn Peers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.

Chaucer

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.

The Saturated Sensorium

Author : Henning Laugerud
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771249613
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Saturated Sensorium written by Henning Laugerud and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saturated Sensorium is a book about the senses and their media in the Middle Ages: a book about what it meant to sense and perceive something. The book highlights the integrated and unified nature of medieval senses and media. It discusses the inter- and multi-mediality of cultic and cultural artefacts as well as the sensorial and inter-sensorial dimensions of a wide array of cultural concepts and practices within medieval religion, art, archaeology, architecture, literature, music, food, social life, ritual, devotion, cognition, and memory. These domains of sensory and media history are dealt with, not as isolated anthology articles in only loose connection with one another, but as coordinate and comparative chapters of a coherent book each covering a principal branch of the cultural history of the medieval senses. Across a number of academic disciplines, specialists address the interdisciplinary and compound character of visus (sight), auditus (hearing), tactus (touch), olfactus (smell) and gustus (taste), showing that there was far more to the senses and to sense experience than these five classical Aristotelian categories might suggest. A plentiful variety of sensory modes interacted, crossed, and permeated each other in mutually entangled and braided ways. The saturated sensorium nurtured the sacred and secular practices of mediation, representation, and consumption; the embodied and mental concepts of sanctity, memory, and imagery; the physical and spiritual spaces of environment, cult, and burial; the material and visual culture of sacraments, sensation, and incarnation.

The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group

Author : Susannah M Chewning
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783163631
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group written by Susannah M Chewning and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group (a collection of texts in English written by an unknown author in the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries). These works are unique in their context – written almost certainly for a group of women living as anchoresses and recluses who were literate in English and were interested in guidance both in spiritual and worldly issues. The book discusses and explains the impact and significance of these works and situates them within the continuum of medieval theological and literary culture.

Julian of Norwich

Author : Kevin Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134236999
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Julian of Norwich written by Kevin Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love. Going against the current trend to place Julian in the category of mystic - a classification which defines her visions as deeply private, psychological events - this book sets Julian’s thinking in the context of a visionary project used to instruct the Christian community. Drawing on recent developments in philosophy that debate the objectivity and rationality of vision and perception, Kevin J. Magill gives full attention to the depth and richness of the visual language and modes of perception in the Showing of Love. In particular, the book focuses on the ways in which Julian presented her vision to the Christian society around her, demonstrating the educative potential of interaction between the ‘isolated’ anchoress and the wider community. Challenging Julian’s identification as a mystic and solitary female writer, this book argues that Julian engaged in a variety of educative methods – oral, visual, conversational, mnemonic, alliterative – that extend the usefulness of her text.

The Discourse of Enclosure

Author : Shari Horner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450093
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Enclosure written by Shari Horner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose.

The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700

Author : Katherine Royer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731977X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700 written by Katherine Royer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, religious and cultural landscape of England evolved.

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Author : S. Biernoff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230508359
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages written by S. Biernoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.

Anne's Bohemia

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630547
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Anne's Bohemia written by Alfred Thomas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten chapters examine aspects of medieval Czech literature, with particular emphasis on women readers and subjects and the influence of the church. Individual manuscripts examined include The Dalimil Chronicle , The Ointment Seller , The Legend of Saint Procopius , The Life of St Catherine , The New Council and The Weaver, The Wycliffite Woman and The Dispute between Prague and Kutná Hora .

Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance

Author : Jan Shaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137450460
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance written by Jan Shaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and death—within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women’s agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a “textual habitus of wonder,” Jan Shaw explores the tale in relation to a range of Middle English traditions including love and marriage, the spatial practices of women, the operation of individual and collective memory, and the legacies of patrimony. Melusine emerges as a complex figure, representing a multifaceted feminine subject that furthers our understanding of Middle English women’s sense of self in the world.

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

Author : Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840084
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe written by Liz Herbert McAvoy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three archetypal representations of woman in the middle ages, as mother, as whore and as 'wise woman', are all clearly present in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; in examining the ways in which both writers make use of these female categories, Dr. McAvoy establishes the extent of their success in resolving the tension between society's expectations of them and their own lived experiences as women and writers."--Jacket.