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Author : George Economou
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature written by George Economou and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Economou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783722535
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)
Download or read book The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature written by George Economou and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., is the most comprehensive and penetrating study of King's legacy in law, politics, and religion that has thus far appeared. It is brilliant in analysis, interpenetrating in synoptic overview, and relevant for policy building and nonviolent action.
Author : Karl David Gottschalk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Converting the Goddess written by Karl David Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh White
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198187301
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition written by Hugh White and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nature' is a highly important term in the ethical discourse of the Middle Ages and, as such, a leading concept in medieval literature. This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showinghow-particularly in the erotic sphere-the influences of nature are not always conceived as wholly benign. Though medieval thinkers often affirm an association of nature with reason, and therefore with the good, there is also an acknowledgement that the animal, the pre-rational, the instinctivewithin human beings may be validly considered natural. In fact, human beings may be thought to be urged almost ineluctably by the force of nature within them towards behaviour hostile to reason and the right.
Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582331
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Medieval World of Nature written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.
Author : Emilie Kutash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567697401
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory written by Emilie Kutash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of philosophy and literature? Emilie Kutash explores these questions, beginning from the premise that cultural memory, a collective cultural and social phenomenon, can last thousands of years. Kutash demonstrates a continuing practice of interpreting and allegorizing ancient myths, tracing these goddesses of archaic origin through history. Chapters follow the goddesses from their ancient near eastern prototypes, to their place in the epic poetry, drama and hymns of classical Greece, to their appearance in Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, Medieval allegory, and their association with Christendom. Finally, Kutash considers how goddesses were made into Jungian archetypes, and how some contemporary feminists made them a counterfoil to male divinity, thereby addressing the continued role of goddesses in perpetuating gender binaries.
Author : Victoria Blud
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844680
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 written by Victoria Blud and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Words and Other Fragments -- 1 Speaking Up and Shutting Up: Expression and Suppression in the Old English Mary of Egypt and Ancrene Wisse -- 2 What Comes Unnaturally: Unspeakable Acts -- 3 Crying Wolf: Gender and Exile in Bisclavret and Wulf and Eadwacer -- 4 Taking the Words Out of Her Mouth: Glossing Glossectomy in Tales of Philomela -- Conclusion: After Words -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Barbara Newman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812202915
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book God and the Goddesses written by Barbara Newman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many daughters—including Lady Philosophy, Lady Love, Dame Nature, and Eternal Wisdom. God and the Goddesses is a study in medieval imaginative theology, examining the numerous daughters of God who appear in allegorical poems, theological fictions, and the visions of holy women. We have tended to understand these deities as mere personifications and poetic figures, but that, Barbara Newman contends, is a mistake. These goddesses are neither pagan survivals nor versions of the Great Goddess constructed in archetypal psychology, but distinctive creations of the Christian imagination. As emanations of the Divine, mediators between God and the cosmos, embodied universals, and ravishing objects of identification and desire, medieval goddesses transformed and deepened Christendom's concept of God, introducing religious possibilities beyond the ambit of scholastic theology and bringing them to vibrant imaginative life. Building a bridge between secular and religious conceptions of allegorized female power, Newman advances such questions as whether medieval writers believed in their goddesses and, if so, in what manner. She investigates whether the personifications encountered in poetic fictions can be distinguished from those that appear in religious visions and questions how medieval writers reconcile their statements about the multiple daughters of God with orthodox devotion to the Son of God. Furthermore, she examines why forms of feminine God-talk that strike many Christians today as subversive or heretical did not threaten medieval churchmen. Weaving together such disparate texts as the writings of Latin and vernacular poets, medieval schoolmen, liturgists, and male and female mystics and visionaries, God and the Goddesses is a direct challenge to modern theologians to reconsider the role of goddesses in the Christian tradition.
Author : International Arthurian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne written by International Arthurian Society and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. David Brumble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136797378
Total Pages : 315 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 1998-02-01 with total page 315 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 a
Author : Pamela Gossin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011060
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Literature and Science written by Pamela Gossin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and literature have always been strange bedfellows. Like puzzle pieces, they fit because they're different. Some of the greatest works of world literature have been inspired by the marvels of the scientific world. Scientists have written works of the imagination. Even formal scientific writings have been known to employ rhetoric. There is a tendency to think of literature—and the humanities in general—as having little to do with science. Yet scholars have conducted fruitful studies of the history and philosophy of science. With the rise of technology, scholars have also applied scientific analysis to the study of literature and the creative process. The intersection of scientific and humanistic inquiry is finally being mapped. This volume includes more than 650 A-Z entries on topics and themes in science and literature, significant writers, key scientists, seminal works, and important theories and methodologies. This reference defines the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of literature and science. An introductory essay traces the history of the field, its growing reputation, and the current state of research. Broad in scope, the volume covers world literature from its beginnings to the present day and illuminates the role of science in literature and literary studies. A wide range of experts contributed entries to this volume, each of which concludes with a brief bibliography. The entire volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
Author : Peter Remien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496814
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature written by Peter Remien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297814
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Marvels of the World written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal. Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a whole, The Marvels of the World reveals how many of these early writers cared as much about the natural world as we do today.
Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913188
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Gower's Confessio Amantis written by Peter Nicholson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism.
Author : Willemien Otten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406176
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book From Paradise to Paradigm written by Willemien Otten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a study of twelfth-century humanism seen as an all-embracing discourse in which the human and the divine interact on equal terms. The book focuses on a number of twelfth-century intellectuals, especially Thierry of Chartres, Peter Abelard, William of Conches, Bernard Silvestris, and Alan of Lille. Defining characteristic of their texts is the fact that God, nature and humanity enter into a trialogue of sorts involving many disparate subjects and aiming to bring out the archetypal relatedness of all kinds of knowledge with respect to human nature. As the authors studied here engage the divine and the universe in a joint conversation, the book ultimately concentrates on trying both to understand its appeal and to explain its subsequent demise.
Author : David I. Shyovitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293975
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book A Remembrance of His Wonders written by David I. Shyovitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth and thirteenth centuries witnessed an explosion of Christian interest in the meaning and workings of the natural world—a "discovery of nature" that profoundly reshaped the intellectual currents and spiritual contours of European society—yet to all appearances, the Jews of medieval northern Europe (Ashkenaz) were oblivious to the shifts reshaping their surrounding culture. Scholars have long assumed that rather than exploring or contemplating the natural world, the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz were preoccupied solely with the supernatural and otherworldly: magic and mysticism, demonology and divination, as well as the zombies, werewolves, dragons, flying camels, and other monstrous and wondrous creatures that destabilized any pretense of a consistent and encompassing natural order. In A Remembrance of His Wonders, David I. Shyovitz disputes this long-standing and far-reaching consensus. Analyzing a wide array of neglected Ashkenazic writings on the natural world in general, and the human body in particular, Shyovitz shows how Jews in Ashkenaz integrated regnant scientific, magical, and mystical currents into a sophisticated exploration of the boundaries between nature and the supernatural. Ashkenazic beliefs and practices that have often been seen as signs of credulity and superstition in fact mirrored—and drew upon—contemporaneous Christian debates over the relationship between God and the natural world. In charting these parallels between Jewish and Christian thought, Shyovitz focuses especially upon the mediating role of polemical texts and encounters that served as mechanisms for the transmission of religious doctrines, scientific facts, and cultural mores. Medieval Jews' preoccupation with the apparently "supernatural" reflected neither ignorance nor intellectual isolation but rather a determined effort to understand nature's inner workings and outer limits and to integrate and interrogate the theologies and ideologies of the broader European Christian society.
Author : Elizabeth B. Keiser
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300069235
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (692 download)
Download or read book Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia written by Elizabeth B. Keiser and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key issues facing us in the next millennium is the ability to manipulate the genetics of living organisms. The possibility of manipulating human genetics raises many theological, ethical land socio-political issues. These include specific decisions about whether the technology will be developed, how it will be applied and more general questions about the technical manipulation of natural processes.
