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Author : Margaret Adlum Gist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Love and War in the Middle English Romances, by Margaret Adlum Gist written by Margaret Adlum Gist and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Adlum Gist
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512816280
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Love and War in the Middle English Romances written by Margaret Adlum Gist and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Middle English romances to determine how accurately they reflect actual medieval attitudes and behavior in their treatment of relationships between the sexes and the theory and practice of warfare.
Author : Margaret A. Gist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Love and war in the middle English romances written by Margaret A. Gist and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fatemeh Chehregosha Azinfar
Publisher : Ibex Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1588140512
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World written by Fatemeh Chehregosha Azinfar and published by Ibex Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did god exist a thousand years ago? Atheism in The Medieval Islamic and European World discusses and analyzes the origins of questioning God and Religion in Medieval Middle Eastern and Europe literature and thought.In the Middle East, two Medieval Texts: A Thousand and One Nights and Gurganis Vis and Ramin are analyzed in terms of questioning God and His actions. In Europe, Dante; Abelard; Chaucer; the author of Chanson de Roland; and the author of The Pearl Poem ask similar questions. Azinfar argues that the Europeans were influenced by the religious skepticism inherent in Medieval Middle eastern texts.Azinfar also traces the roots of the ideas of Rationalism, Existentialism, Surrealism, and Feminism from the medieval Islamic world and follows them to the Medieval West. She shows how the period which we believed was steeped in religious dogmatism is actually an analytical period, rooted in rationality, advancement of science and skepticism. Tales about knights on quests rescuing damselsactually unveil theories on questioning traditional views on the stance of religion, the possibility of the existence of a physical world, and nihilism.
Author : H.A. Kelly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725209616
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer written by H.A. Kelly and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spicing erudition with wit, Professor Kelly takes a new look at medieval attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage, and he corrects a number of long-standing misconceptions embodied in the concept of courtly love. Through a close examination of canon law, the common practice of clandestine marriage, writings on mysticism, and medieval poetry - particularly Gower's 'Confessio amantis' and Chaucer's romances and their sources - he concludes that medieval lovers favored matrimony and did not consider sexual passion incompatible with virtue. His evidence contradicts the theory, closely associated with C.S. Lewis, that extramarital love was preferred in the Middle Ages, and that the sexual pleasures celebrated by poets were necessarily regarded as immoral by society at large. By placing religious and cultural conventions in their proper context, Professor Kelly shows that the hopes and fears of medieval lovers were much the same as those of lovers of all other ages.
Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913621
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance written by Geraldine Barnes and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.
Author : Emma Lipton
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268085897
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Affections of the Mind written by Emma Lipton and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class of society used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierarchy. Emma Lipton traces the unprecedented popularity of marriage as a literary topic and the tensions between different models of marriage in the literature of the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by analyzing such texts as Chaucer's Franklin's Tale, The Book of Margery Kempe, and the N-Town plays. Affections of the Mind focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues that the late medieval literature of sacramental marriage subverted aristocratic and clerical traditions of love and marriage in order to promote the values of the lay middle strata of society. This book will be of value to a broad range of scholars in medieval studies.
Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905815
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
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:
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book annual bibliopgraphy of english language and literature colume XXIX 1949 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Wilflingseder
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433100123
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Motifs and Characters in the Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy and in the Laud Troy Book written by Walter Wilflingseder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the alliterative Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy (c. 1400) and the Laud Troy Book (c. 1400), a metrical romance, deal with the lives and feats of chivalric heroes and place special emphasis on the psychological effects of love. This book is a study of the motifs in John Clerk's and the Laud-poet's narratives and of their characterization of the Trojan War's principal actors. Both writers used the same source, but their preferences for motifs and their attitudes toward the persons involved were often quite different. Thirteen illustrations, mainly from medieval Guido manuscripts, serve as a stimulus to those who want to know more about the medieval understanding of the Trojan War.
Author : Siobhain Bly Calkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135471649
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Saracens and the Making of English Identity written by Siobhain Bly Calkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199244588
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe written by Richard W. Kaeuper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displaysof prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Theknights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of theknighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.
Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001405063
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by Modern Humanities Research Association and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1924 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645424014
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Study Guide to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Works written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by an unknown poet, whose identity has been highly debated since the Middle Ages. Titles in this study guide include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Purity, Pearl, and Patience. As a collection of Medieval English literature, the alliterative poems each represented a high level of poetic achievement and are ranked alongside the works of Chaucer. Moreover, they contained many examples of symbolism and poetic technique and explored themes like the virtue of patience. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of the poet’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039140
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Song of Roland written by Gerard J. Brault and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monica E. McAlpine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802059130
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Knight's Tale written by Monica E. McAlpine and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale has been the subject of a vast body of comment by scholars and lay readers. Monica McAlpine provides access to this material in the first of the Chaucer Bibliographies series to deal with a narrative portion of that author's best-known work.
