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The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems

Author : Mary-Jo Arn
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444032
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems written by Mary-Jo Arn and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is from the pen of Charles of Valois, duke of Orleans, who was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and not released until 1440. The longest single poem on the subject is James I of Scotland's The Kingis Quair, purportedly written at the time of his release from an eighteen-year imprisonment in England .This volume reflects the wide scope of these prison poems by bringing together a new edition of The Kingis Quair, a selection from Charles d'Orleans' Fortunes Stabilnes, a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.

The "kingis Quair"

Author : James I (King of Scotland)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "kingis Quair" written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortunes Stabilnes

Author : Charles (d'Orléans)
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Fortunes Stabilnes by : Charles (d'Orléans)

Download or read book Fortunes Stabilnes written by Charles (d'Orléans) and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

Author : Ruth Ahnert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040302
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century by : Ruth Ahnert

Download or read book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century written by Ruth Ahnert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of writings penned by early modern prisoners, including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt.

The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry

Author : Caitlin Flynn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526160803
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry by : Caitlin Flynn

Download or read book The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry written by Caitlin Flynn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglas’s The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunbar’s The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (c.1507). The narrative grotesque is exemplified in these poems, which fracture narratological boundaries by fusing disparate poetic forms and creating hybrid subjectivities. Consequently, these poems interrogate conventional boundaries in poetic making. The narrative grotesque is applied as a framework to elucidate these chimeric texts and to understand newly late medieval engagement with poetics and narratology.

Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic

Author : R. D. Perry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845679
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic by : R. D. Perry

Download or read book Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic written by R. D. Perry and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.

Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

Author : Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384575X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England by : Margaret Connolly

Download or read book Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England written by Margaret Connolly and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.

Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature

Author : Rory G. Critten
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845059
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature by : Rory G. Critten

Download or read book Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature written by Rory G. Critten and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book.

Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424–1540

Author : Joanna Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317109023
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424–1540 by : Joanna Martin

Download or read book Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424–1540 written by Joanna Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at late medieval Scottish poetic narratives which incorporate exploration of the amorousness of kings, this study places these poems in the context of Scotland's repeated experience of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance. The focus of this study is the presence of amatory discourses in poetry of a political or advisory nature, written in Scotland between the early fifteenth and the mid-sixteenth century. Joanna Martin offers new readings of the works of major figures in the Scottish literature of the period, including Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Sir David Lyndsay. At the same time, she provides new perspectives on anonymous texts, among them The Thre Prestis of Peblis and King Hart, and on the works of less well known writers such as John Bellenden and William Stewart, which are crucial to our understanding of the literary culture north of the Border during the period under discussion.

Metaphors of Confinement

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192577611
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Confinement written by Monika Fludernik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Author : Jamie C. Fumo
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783163496
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess written by Jamie C. Fumo and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - provides the first comprehensive overview of the critical history of Book of the Duchess - offers for the first time a thorough analysis of Book of the Duchess’s medieval and early modern reception - establishes Book of the Duchess’s structuring investment in the idea of ‘the book’ – its construction, consumption, and transmission - as it contributes to a poetics of intertextuality

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019252724X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer written by David Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness of Chaucer's work. At the time Chaucer's writings were not just literary adventures, but also a means of convincing the world that poetry and science, tragedy and astrology, could all be explored through the English language. French was still England's aristocratic language of choice when Chaucer was born; Latin was used for university education, theological discussion, and for burying the dead. Could a hybrid tongue such as English ever generate great writing to compare with French and Italian? Chaucer, miraculously, believed that it could, through gradual expansion of expressiveness and scientific precision. He was never paid to do this; he was valued, rather, as a capable civil servant, regulating the export of wool and the building of seating for royal tournaments. Such experiences, however, fed his writing, achieving a range of social registers, from noble tragedy to barnyard farce, unrivalled for centuries. His tale-telling geography is vast, his fascination with varieties of religious belief endless, and his desire to voice female experience especially remarkable. Many Chaucerian poets and performers, today, are women. In this book David Wallace introduces the life, performance, and poetry of Chaucer, and analyses his astonishing and enduring appeal.

Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317165934
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500 written by Caroline Goodson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely legal, economic or religious terms. Instead, they focus on modes of organisation, representation and identity formation that shaped the ways urban spaces were called into being, used and perceived. Their interdisciplinary analyses place narrative and archival sources in communication with topography, the built environment and evidence of sensory stimuli in order to capture sights, sounds, physical proximities and power structures. Paying close attention to the delineation of public and private spaces, and secular and sacred precincts, each chapter explores the workings of power and urban discourse and their effects on the making of meaning. The volume as a whole engages theoretical discussions of urban space - its production, consumption, memory and meaning - which too frequently misrepresent the evidence of the Middle Ages. It argues that the construction and use of medieval urban spaces could foster the emergence of medieval 'public spheres' that were fundamental components and by-products of pre-modern urban life. The resulting collection contributes to longstanding debates among historians while tackling fundamental questions regarding medieval society and the ways it is understood today. Many of these questions will resonate with scholars of postcolonial or 'non-Western' cultures whose sources and cities have been similarly marginalized in discussions of urban space and experience. And because these essays reflect a considerable geographical, temporal and methodological scope, they model approaches to the study of urban history that will interest a wide range of readers.

Last Words

Author : Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198790775
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Last Words written by Sebastian Sobecki and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.

Imprisoning Medieval Women

Author : Gwen Seabourne
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409417891
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Imprisoning Medieval Women by : Gwen Seabourne

Download or read book Imprisoning Medieval Women written by Gwen Seabourne and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By royal power and command" : maidens (and other women) in towers -- Confinement of women in war and armed conflict -- Other species of "garde" -- "A dreary and solitary place" or "honourable captivity"? -- Wrongful imprisonment and abduction -- "Countless ravishments of women"? -- Common law -- Escaping the confines of the common law -- "Not averse to the arrangement"? -- Other roles -- Agency and contagion.

The Lily and the Thistle

Author : William Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646659
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Lily and the Thistle written by William Calin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature. Calin proposes that much of traditional, medieval, and early modern Scottish culture, thought to be native to Scotland or primarily from England, is in fact strikingly international and European. By situating Scottish works in a broad intertextual context, Calin reveals which French genres and modes were most popular in Scotland and why. The Lily and the Thistle provides appraisals of medieval narrative texts in the high courtly mode (equivalent to the French dits amoureux); comic, didactic, and satirical texts; and Scots romance. Special attention is accorded to texts composed originally in French such as the Arthurian Roman de Fergus, as well as to the lyrics of Mary Queen of Scots and little known writers from the French and Scottish canons. By considering both medieval and renaissance works, Calin is able to observe shifts in taste and French influence over the centuries.

Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis

Author : Nora Clark
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387678X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis written by Nora Clark and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis is a broad, flexible source book of comparative literature and cultural studies. It promotes the wide-ranging presence and impact of prominent idiosyncratic personalities in fabled goddess mythology and its emphatic notions of endearment and allure. The book brings together seven hundred acknowledged sources drawn from successive historical, global and literary eras, including principal commentaries, along with factual information and important renditions in art, prose and verse, within and beyond mainstream western culture. A lengthy, detailed introduction presents a copious documented preview of the viable adaptation and mimesis of ‘divine’ characterization and its respective centrality from the long distant past to the present day. Myth, rarely latent, demonstrates varied modes of expression and open-ended flexibility throughout the six comprehensive chapters which illuminate and probe, in turn, aspects of the ideological presence, sensibilities, trials and triumphs and interventions of the goddess, whether sacred or profane. Particular literary extracts and episodes range across ancient cultures alongside quite recent expressions of hermeneutics, blending myth with the contemporary in the multi-layered reception or admonishment of the goddess, whether by one designation or the other. As such, this book is wholly relevant to all stages of the evolution and expansion of a dynamic European literary culture and its leading authors and personalities.