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Isabelle Boursiers Book Of Hours A Dismembered Manuscript From Mary Bensons Collection
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Book Synopsis Isabelle Boursier's Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson's Collection by : Carla Rossi
Download or read book Isabelle Boursier's Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson's Collection written by Carla Rossi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed exploration of profit-driven biblioclasm, centring on the case of a Book of Hours, part of the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings until 2021. Facing financial difficulties exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum chose to deaccession and sell various pieces, among which was a manuscript from the Mary Benson bequest of 1919, later dismembered by an American dealer who had purchased it at auction. Whilst examining the moral complexities surrounding these sales and the destruction of irreplaceable European cultural artifacts, the book uncovers the identity of the original owner of the manuscript, and provides a digital reconstruction of the original text. This book not only brings to light a critical occurrence but also discusses wider issues of cultural conservation and ethical responsibility in the art world. Its global significance and focus on a notable event in art history render it an indispensable read for those dedicated to safeguarding our collective cultural heritage.
Book Synopsis Marie de France by : Sharon Kinoshita
Download or read book Marie de France written by Sharon Kinoshita and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marie de France is the author of some of the most important and influential works of the French Middle Ages: the Lais, her best-known work, the Ysopë (a translation from the Aesopic tradition), and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory). Taking Marie less as a biographical subject than as author of these three texts, this Companion rethinks standard questions of interpretation through a variety of perspectives that highlight both the unity of Marie's oeuvre and the distinctiveness of the individual works attributed to her name."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Life of Saint Audrey written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserved in a single manuscript in the British library, the Life of Saint Audrey or Vie Seinte Audree is the story of an Anglo-Saxon princess, who, though twice married, remains a virgin until her death. Her tale reveals that spiritual marriage was not an easy path to sainthood, particularly with an unwilling husband. The text is a fine example of what some critics have called a hagiographical romance--a saint's life that borrows many characteristics from secular romance. Recent scholarship, thoroughly discussed in this book's introduction, suggests that the Vie Seinte Audree is a fourth text by Marie de France, to whom the Fables, the Lais, and the Espurgatoire Seint Patriz have been attributed. Written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, the Vie Seinte Audree is published here for the first time in English, along with the Old French text. The editors of this new edition provide helpful material on the life of the historical Saint Etheldreda (as St. Audrey is called in Latin) and her Anglo-Saxon world. They also discuss women's writing in Anglo-Norman England as well as the subject of spiritual marriage. In addition, they examine secondary sources that have focused on the Vie Seinte Audree. A map of seventh-century England, a table of proper names and a genealogical chart of the Royal Lineage of Saint Audrey are all included.
Download or read book Trichier written by Alessandra Ceretto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage by : Stanley Wells
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.
Book Synopsis The Complete Poems of Michelangelo by : Michelangelo Buonarroti
Download or read book The Complete Poems of Michelangelo written by Michelangelo Buonarroti and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians by : Robert Wodrow
Download or read book Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians written by Robert Wodrow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Download or read book Antifascisms written by David Ward and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.
Book Synopsis Masculinity in the Reformation Era by : Scott H. Hendrix
Download or read book Masculinity in the Reformation Era written by Scott H. Hendrix and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays add a unique perspective to studies that reconstruct the identity of manhood in early modern Europe, including France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. The authors examine the ways in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authorities, both secular and religious, labored to turn boys and men into the Christian males they desired. Topics include disparities among gender paradigms that early modern models prescribed and the tension between the patriarchal model and the civic duties that men were expected to fulfill. Essays about Martin Luther, a prolific self-witness, look into the marriage relationship with its expected and actual gender roles. Contributors to this volume are Scott H. Hendrix, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Raymond A. Mentzer, Allyson M. Poska, Helmut Puff, Karen E. Spierling, Ulrike Strasser, B. Ann Tlusty, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.
Book Synopsis The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V by : John Donne
Download or read book The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V written by John Donne and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Book Synopsis Pictorial Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Pictorial Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe by : Kathleen P. Long
Download or read book Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe written by Kathleen P. Long and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the centrality of the hermaphrodite in early modern European thought. She explores the significance of this figure for the elaboration of notions of gender, national, racial, and religious identity.
Book Synopsis The Manly Masquerade by : Valeria Finucci
Download or read book The Manly Masquerade written by Valeria Finucci and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc./div
Book Synopsis Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England by : Valerie Fildes
Download or read book Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England written by Valerie Fildes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose work would not normally appear in one volume. Key aspects of motherhood in pre-industrial society are discussed, including women’s concepts of maternity, the experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and wet nursing, the fostering and disciplining of children, and child abandonment and neglect. This unique book provides a comprehensive introductory overview of its subject, with emphasis on women’s experiences and motives.
Book Synopsis Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 by : Sara Heller Mendelson
Download or read book Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.
Book Synopsis Arabic Manuscripts (3 Vols) by : Adam Gacek
Download or read book Arabic Manuscripts (3 Vols) written by Adam Gacek and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main sequence is comprised of approximately 200 entries dealing with almost all aspects of Arabic manuscript studies (codicology and paleography); includes appendices covering abbreviations, letterforms, sūrah-headings, major reference works, and a guide to the description of manuscripts, as well as charts of major historical periods and dynasties.
Book Synopsis Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England by : Alexandra Shepard
Download or read book Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England written by Alexandra Shepard and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women. Patriarchal concepts of manhood existed in tension both with anti-patriarchal forms of resistance and with alternative codes of manhood which were sometimes primarily defined independently of patriarchal imperatives. As a result the differences within each sex, as well as between them, were intrinsic to the practice of patriarchy and the social distribution of its dividends in early modern England.
