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Author : Stephen Yeager
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442643471
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book From Lawmen to Plowmen written by Stephen Yeager and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487515391
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages written by Arvind Thomas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman’s preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions’ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem’s narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland’s mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today’s medievalists.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408339
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O’Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book.
Author : Fiona Griffiths
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110562863
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Sensory Reflections written by Fiona Griffiths and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.
Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192886738
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Poetry in English written by Helen Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.
Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844591
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The French of Medieval England written by Thelma S. Fenster and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.
Author : Ian Cornelius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108211089
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some of the most admired works of medieval English literature, and also among the most enigmatic. The formal practice of alliterative poets exceeded the conceptual grasp of medieval literary theory; theorists are still playing catch-up today. This book explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history. The startling formal variety of Piers Plowman and other Middle English alliterative poems comes into sharper focus when viewed in diachronic perspective: the meter was in transition; to understand it, we need to know where it came from and where it was headed at the moment it died out.
Author : Eric Weiskott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169658
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book English Alliterative Verse written by Eric Weiskott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author : Stephen M. Yeager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (988 download)
Download or read book From Lawmen to Plowmen written by Stephen M. Yeager and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick S. Calhoun
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Lawmen written by Frederick S. Calhoun and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1990 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the U.S. Marshals Service, the civilian enforcement arm of the federal government since 1789, is, in essence, the story of constitutional government in our country. In the early days, U.S. Marshals were the only national civilian police power; they have been on the scene in nearly every major event, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the second battle of Wounded Knee. Marshals fought in the moonshine wars, protected the U.S.-Mexican border, escorted black students at Southern universities to enforce desegregation. Even with the addition of specialized federal enforcement agencies, the Marshals retain their authority. This volume by Service historian Calhoun ( Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign Policy ) will be of special interest to students of government and the judiciary.
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525434887
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Tecumseh and the Prophet written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders." —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.
Author : Thora Brylowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988111285
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Old Media and the Medieval Concept written by Thora Brylowe and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called "Middle Ages" (media æva) were the mediating ages of European intellectual history, whose commentaries, protocols, palimpsests, and marginalia anticipated the forms and practices of digital media. This ground-breaking collection of essays calls for a new, intermedial approach to old media periodizations and challenges the epochs of "medieval," "modern," and "digital" with the goal of enabling new modes of historical imagining. Essays in this volume explore the prehistory of digital computation; the ideology of media periodization; global media ecologies; the technics of manuscript tagging; the haptic negotiations of authority in medieval epistularity; charisma; pedagogy; and more. Old Media and the Medieval Concept forges new paths for traversing the broad networks that connect medieval and contemporary media in both the popular and the scholarly imagination. By illuminating these relationships, it brings the fields of digital humanities, media studies, and medieval studies into closer alignment and provides opportunities for re-evaluating the media ecologies in which we live and work now.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Cadnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439440844
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Forbidden Forest written by Michael Cadnum and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles Little John, from his quiet life before joining Robin Hood through his adventures protecting a beautiful lady when she is wrongfully accused of murdering her husband.
Author : Noah Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald J. Kagay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812215359
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Usatges of Barcelona written by Donald J. Kagay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr Alison Gulley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472405951
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives written by Dr Alison Gulley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in Ælfric's s Old English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and martyrdom of young women who renounce sex and, in the first four stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin sources with Ælfric's versions suggests that his translation style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England and Ælfric's commitment to writing for a lay audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality distinct from physical intactness.
