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Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953745494
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Medieval Legends of Love & Lust written by Rosalind Kerven and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1839781289
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Medieval Legends of Love & Lust written by Rosalind Kerven and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A UNIQUE collection of romantic stories from the 12th - 15th centuries.* Authentically and entertainingly retold from translations of the original, very lengthy and complex texts.* Almost thirty stories - both famous and little known - from England, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and Wales.* Dramatic adventures in courtly love, mystical passion, bawdy and jocular tales, tragedy, scandal and feminist longing.* Written by a highly acclaimed expert in world legends* Essential reading for anyone interested in the popular thought and culture of the Middle Ages'Rosalind Kerven, connoisseur of myths and folktales... has translated and condensed sprawling, beautiful but inaccessible original texts from the 12th to 15th centuries into concise, elegant tales. Capturing Christian, Muslim and folk influences at play in western Europe during this period, they celebrate romantic love at the same time as offering some salient points of comparison.' - THE INDEPENDENTDISCOVER:- The 12th century #MeToo scandal of Abelard & Heloise- Why a medieval feminist condemned the bestselling 'Romance of the Rose'- The secret heartache behind Dante's seminal work, 'Divine Comedy'- Bawdy tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio- Why men were banned from the mysterious City of Ladies- How Queen Guinevere's affair with Sir Lancelot brought down the legendary King Arthur- The tear-jerking twists and turns of Portuguese romantic epic, 'Amadis & Oriana'................................................................................................................................................"e;A fine collection of medieval stories...A great introduction to the whole area"e;- Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge"e;A spicy collection... authentically and accessibly retold"e; - The Bookseller'A well selected collection of accessible translations'- Dr. Andrew Dunning, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Author : Katherine Harvey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144884
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Fires of Lust written by Katherine Harvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much—or too little—sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
Author : Katherine Heinrichs
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039205
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Myths of Love written by Katherine Heinrichs and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccaccio, Machaut, and Froissart, rather than being ponderous didactic productions designed to instruct medieval audiences in the art of love, are true progeny of the Roman de la Rose,complex jeux d'esprit much closer in spirit and intention to the works of Chaucer than has been supposed.
Author : Donald Furber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Erotic Love in Literature written by Donald Furber and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Wagner
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8834192702
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)
Download or read book EPICS AND ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES - 23 Epic Medival Romances and Myths written by Wilhelm Wagner and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein is a collection of, at least, 23 illustrated, epic romances and legends from the middle ages. This volume contains the ever popular the Nibelung Hero as well as the tales of Beowulf, Roland the Paladin and Tristram and Isolde amongst the many recounted. The majority of these myths and legends have Northern European, British, Norse and Germanic origins, with the others sourced from the other regions of Europe. All are rich with cultural imagery and have captivating narratives. The virtues of knightly valour, so common to folklore and legends, are present in many of the stories, wrapped around and intertwined with the customs of royal courts, as we have come to know them. Fair maidens, and the practices of chivalry and courtship in their medieval form are a recurring theme. Enemies and nemeses, whether human or mythical beast are presented as vicious and foreboding, but, as always, a knight in shining armour on a white stallion sallies forth to save the damsel in distress and the day – well most times, at least. Originally published in 1884, this collection of stories was compiled by scholar of Medieval literature Wilhelm Wägner. The widely ranging stories within were chosen for their vivid imagery and emotive punch. ================ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Epic romances, tales, legends, middle ages, myths, sagas, wilhelm wagner, love, lust, knights in shining armour, Amelung, Kindred Legends, Langobardian, Alboin, Rosamund, King Rother, Ortnit, Hugdieterich, Wolfdieterich, King Samson, Dietwart, Dietrich Of Bern, Hildebrand, Comrades, action, Adventure, Faithful Ally, Ermenrich, Harlungs, King Etzel, Walter, Wasgenstein, Hildegunde, Reussen, Battle Of Ravenna, Going Home, Nibelung Hero, Siegfried, Youth, Burgundy, Dragonstone, dragon, Wooing, Brunhild, Treason, Death, Woe, Hunland, Lament, Hegeling Legend, Hagen, Hettel, Gudrun, Queen Gerlind, Victory, Beowulf, Grendel, Bold Diver, She-Wolf, Sea, Fight With The Dragon, Carolingian Legends, Children Of Haymon, Roland, Bugle, horn, William Of Orange, Legends Of King Arthur, Holy Grail, Titurel, Percival, Lohengrin, Tristram, Isolde, Tannhäuser
Author : John Cherry
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368396
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Medieval Love Poetry written by John Cherry and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of extracts and inscriptions from medieval poems and songs, romances and chansons, rings and brooches is illustrated with images drawn from a wide range of beautiful objects and illuminated manuscripts in the rich collections of the British Museum and the British Library.
Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729349
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Land of the Green Man written by Carolyne Larrington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the psyches of those who inhabit them? In this sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of fantastical beings has moulded the nation's cultural history. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee and Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Ranging from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, while evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where giants lie in wait
Author : Joan M. Ferrante
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111343227
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The conflict of love and honor written by Joan M. Ferrante and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000603660
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century written by Julian Young and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path taken by German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought, by turns radical and conservative and secular and religious. In this outstanding introduction, German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth—the third and final volume in his trilogy—Julian Young examines the work of eight German philosophers and theologians of the period. He discusses their engagement with the deepest existential questions, their critique of the rationalization and mechanization of modernity, and their commitment to varying forms of liberalism, socialism, and democracy. Young introduces and assesses the thought of the following figures: Wilhelm Dilthey: the need for ‘worldviews’, and the distinction between ‘explanation’ and ‘understanding’ as a bulwark against the reduction of human beings to scientific quanta Karl Jaspers: existentialism, the challenge of nihilism, and the turn to theology Edith Stein: the phenomenology of empathy, community versus society, and the turn to Catholicism Paul Tillich: philosophical theology and the ‘theonomous’ life Martin Buber: recovering the ‘thou’ in the face of modernity’s reduction of everything to an ‘it’; the kibbutz as the paradigm of a socialist community Hans Jonas: the mortal threat posed by the unknown consequences of modern technology and the ethics of responsibility for the planet Erich Fromm: the ‘art of loving’ as a bulwark against hard and soft totalitarianism; the replacement of capitalism by communitarian socialism Axel Honneth: contemporary Hegelianism and the ethics and politics of recognition; the nature of real freedom. Lucidly and engagingly written, German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth is essential reading for students of German philosophy, phenomenology, and theology and will also be of interest to students in related fields such as literature, political theory, and sociology. German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Weber to Heidegger (2018) and German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Lukács to Strauss (2020) are also available from Routledge.
Author : Jodie Medd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316453561
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature written by Jodie Medd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060964634
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Transformations of Myth Through Time written by Joseph Campbell and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.
Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785835555
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Viking Myths and Sagas written by Rosalind Kerven and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in consultation with leading academics.
Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113512888X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Outlaws of Medieval Legend written by Maurice Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderfully written and beautifully presented , The Outlaws of Medieval Legend brings the popular heroes of the Middle-Ages to life. Featuring both famous - Robin Hood and William Wallace - and now forgotten rogues such as Gamelyn and Fulke Fitzwarin, this book explains the popularity of these semi-mythical figures, and how their stories appealed to the common people of the Middle Ages. Long unavailable, and now featuring a new introduction from the author, this is the perfect book for anyone with a fondness for medieval history and folklore.
Author : G. Mieszkowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137085193
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus written by G. Mieszkowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rich, complex, literary tradition of the medieval go-between. Idealized going between usually leads to marriage and it develops a new dimension of the much debated question of courtly love and woman's part in it. Chaucer's Pandarus's place in this go-between tradition is a tour de force.
Author : H. David Brumble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136797378
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance written by H. David Brumble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes a brief account of the myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources. The entry then discusses how Medieval and Renaissance commentators interpreted the myth, and how poets, dramatists, and artists employed the allegory in their art. Each entry includes a bibliography and the volume concludes with appendices and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964960
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Eaten Heart written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....
