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The Archpoet and Medieval Culture

Author : Peter Godman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198719221
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Archpoet and Medieval Culture written by Peter Godman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians.--Provided by publisher.

The Archpoet and Medieval Culture

Author : Peter Godman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191029963
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Archpoet and Medieval Culture written by Peter Godman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians.

Italy and Early Medieval Europe

Author : Ross Balzaretti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083267
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Italy and Early Medieval Europe written by Ross Balzaretti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work, to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of comparing this across time and space.

Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110245485
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by : Albrecht Classen

Download or read book Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.

A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500

Author : John M. Riddle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442246863
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 by : John M. Riddle

Download or read book A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 written by John M. Riddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events—both natural and human—that defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective, Riddle includes northern and eastern Europe, Byzantine civilization, and the Islamic states. Each, he convincingly shows, offered values and institutions—religious devotion, toleration and intolerance, laws, ways of thinking, and changing roles of women—that presaged modernity. In addition to traditional topics of pen, sword, and word, the author explores other driving forces such as science, religion, and technology in ways that previous textbooks have not. He also examines such often-overlooked issues as medieval gender roles and medicine and seminal events such as the crusades from the vantage point of both Muslims and eastern and western Christians. In addition to a thorough chronological narrative, the text offers humanizing features to engage students. Each chapter opens with a theme-setting vignette about the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. The book also introduces students to key controversies and themes in historiography by featuring in each chapter a prominent medieval historian and how his or her ideas have shaped contemporary thinking about the Middle Ages. Richly illustrated with color plates, this lively, engaging book will immerse readers in the medieval world, an era that shaped the foundation for the modern world.

Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great

Author : Venetia Bridges
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845024
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great by : Venetia Bridges

Download or read book Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great written by Venetia Bridges and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.

Handbook of Medieval Culture

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110377616
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Medieval Culture by : Albrecht Classen

Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Culture written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300

Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191027537
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 by : Paul Oldfield

Download or read book Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 written by Paul Oldfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of urban panegyric to major underlying transformations in the medieval city and explores praise of cities primarily in England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iberia, and Italy (including the South and Sicily). The volume demonstrates how laudatory ideas on the city appeared in extremely diverse textual formats which had the potential to interact with a wide audience via multiple textual and material sources. When contextualized within the developments of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries these ideas could reflect more than formulaic, rhetorical outputs for an educated elite, they were instead integral to the process of urbanisation. In Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300, Paul Oldfield assesses the generation of ideas on the Holy City, on counter-narratives associated with the Evil City, on the inter-relationship between the City and abundance (primarily through discourses on commercial productivity, hinterlands and population size), on landscapes and sites of power, and on knowledge generation and the construction of urban histories. Urban panegyric can enable us to comprehend more deeply material, functional, and ideological change associated with the city during a period of notable urbanization, and, importantly, how this change might have been experienced by contemporaries. This study therefore highlights the importance of urban panegyric as a product of, and witness to, a period of substantial urban change. In examining the laudatory depiction of medieval cities in a thematic analysis it can contribute to a deeper understanding of civic identity and its important connection to urban transformation.

Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French

Author : Catherine Léglu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319906380
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French written by Catherine Léglu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining the multiple versions of the Samson narrative via its many adaptations into verse, prose, visual art and musical. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this text draws together examples from several genres and media, focusing on the importance of book learning to secular works. In analysing this Biblical narrative, Léglu reveals the importance of the Samson and Delilah story as a point of entry into a fuller understanding of medieval translations and adaptations of the Bible.

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

Author : Kyle A. Thomas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513575
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) written by Kyle A. Thomas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.

Revisiting the Codex Buranus

Author : Tristan E. Franklinos
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783273798
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Codex Buranus written by Tristan E. Franklinos and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enables the less well-known aspects of the Codex Buranus to receive greater scrutiny, and bring new perspectives to bear on the more thoroughly explored parts of the manuscript. Making accessible existing discourse and encouraging fresh debates on the codex, the essays advocate fresh modes of engagement with its contents, contexts, and composition.

Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy

Author : Virginie Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316195104
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy by : Virginie Greene

Download or read book Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy written by Virginie Greene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes. This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature. Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction.

Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages

Author : Peter Godman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052151911X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages by : Peter Godman

Download or read book Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages written by Peter Godman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100938595X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature by : Anne Schuurman

Download or read book The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature written by Anne Schuurman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination

Author : Emma O. Bérat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009434756
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination written by Emma O. Bérat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.

Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

Author : Antony J. Hasler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139496727
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by : Antony J. Hasler

Download or read book Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland written by Antony J. Hasler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Author : Manuele Gragnolati
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110222469
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture by : Manuele Gragnolati

Download or read book Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture written by Manuele Gragnolati and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series in German medieval studies includes central topics of current research debates in medieval studies and provides a place for groundbreaking research in the subject literature. The series is intended to give international and young researchers/research teams the possibility to effectively present innovative surveys and discussions to the scientific community. The series sees itself as a 'young' research forum with a high standard of quality and is therefore also open to excellent degree theses, should they enhance the series.