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A Medieval Book of Beasts

Author : Pierre (de Beauvais)
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Medieval Book of Beasts written by Pierre (de Beauvais) and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of the short version of the French Bestiary of Pierre de Beauvais. The original text, the Physiologus was probably written during the 2nd century, in Greek, then translated to Latin, and then translated into Old French by de Beauvais. These are stories of animals given as symbols of Man's eternal fears and hopes. This bestiary can be used as a means of understanding the thought processes of people in the Middle Ages.

Romancing the Past

Author : Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915569
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Romancing the Past written by Gabrielle M. Spiegel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy. 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 1994. In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have

Picturing the Celestial City

Author : Michael Watt Cothren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691120805
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Celestial City written by Michael Watt Cothren and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure--its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284--and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly written book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral. Chapter by chapter, Michael Cothren traces the glazing through four successive campaigns that bridged the century between the 1240s and the 1340s. The reader is transported back in history, gaining fascinating insight into what the glazing of Beauvais actually would have looked like as well as what it would have communicated to those who frequented the cathedral. Contrary to the widespread assumption that these windows are heavily restored, Cothren shows that they are in fact surprisingly well preserved, especially in light of the cathedral's infamous history of architectural disaster. More importantly, Cothren goes far to dismantle a long-held misconception about medieval painted windows, and indeed monumental medieval pictorial art in general: the notion that it was conceived and produced as a substitute text for ignorant, illiterate folks, providing for them a "Bible of the Poor." Indeed, Cothren shows us that stained glass windows, rich with shaded meanings, functioned more like sermon than scripture. As an ensemble, they created a radiant interpretive backdrop that explicated and situated the performance of the Mass in this giant liturgical theater.

Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Author : Helen Deeming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062632
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts and Medieval Song written by Helen Deeming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643687X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries written by Sarah Kay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent genre challenged the boundary between its human readers and other animals. Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait. In a highly original argument, Kay suggests that the association of beasts with books is here both literal and material, as nearly all surviving bestiaries are copied on parchment made of animal skin, which also resembles human skin. Using a rich array of examples, she shows how the content and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the continual references in the texts to the skins of other animals, as well as the ways in which the pages themselves repeatedly—and at times, it would seem, deliberately—intervene in the reading process. A vital contribution to animal studies and medieval manuscript studies, this book sheds new light on the European bestiary and its profound power to shape readers’ own identities.

Beasts of Love

Author : Jeanette M. A. Beer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802036124
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Beasts of Love written by Jeanette M. A. Beer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Bestiare d'amour and the Response, a medieval chancellor's erotic bestiary to a woman is countered by the woman's passionate protest against the cleric's misogynistic presuppositions. Beer presents a close, linear reading of the two literary texts.

Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries

Author : Florence McCulloch
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries written by Florence McCulloch and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

Emblems and the Natural World

Author : Paul J. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347070
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Emblems and the Natural World written by Paul J. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.

The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution

Author : François Guizot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution written by François Guizot and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Civilization

Author : François Guizot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The History of Civilization written by François Guizot and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Civilization

Author : Guizot (M., François)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The History of Civilization written by Guizot (M., François) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General History of Civilization in Europe

Author : Guizot (M., François)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book General History of Civilization in Europe written by Guizot (M., François) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Civilization

Author : François Guizot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book History of Civilization written by François Guizot and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New History of Medieval French Literature

Author : Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140303X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Medieval French Literature written by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the time. Cerquiglini-Toulet challenges the standard ways of reading and evaluating literature, considering medieval literature not as separate from that in other eras but as part of the broader tradition of world literature. Her vast and learned readings of both canonical and lesser-known works pose crucial questions about, among other things, the notion of otherness, the meaning of change and stability, and the relationship of medieval literature with theology. Part history of literature, part theoretical criticism, this book reshapes the language and content of medieval works. By weaving together topics such as the origin of epic and lyric poetry, Latin-French bilingualism, women’s writing, grammar, authorship, and more, Cerquiglini-Toulet does nothing less than redefine both philosophical and literary approaches to medieval French literature. Her book is a history of the literary act, a history of words, a history of ideas and works—monuments rather than documents—that calls into question modern concepts of literature.

The History of Civilization

Author : F. Guizot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385225744
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The History of Civilization written by F. Guizot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

The History of Civilization

Author : Francois Guizot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375178379
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The History of Civilization written by Francois Guizot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Canadian Archives

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
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Download or read book Canadian Archives written by and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: