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Author : Siegfried Wenzel
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book The Moor Maiden - a contemporary view written by Siegfried Wenzel and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary Greentree
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916219
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem written by Rosemary Greentree and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.
Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859914840
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (148 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Lyric written by Peter Dronke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He shows the men and women who sang and played in medieval Europe as the heirs of both a Roman and a Germanic lyric tradition, united but differentiated from country to country; he introduces the scholars and musicians from the Byzantine world and the Paris schools, the German courts and Italian city-states, and he brilliantly presents their work, both sacred and profane.
Author : Robert Mullally
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545760
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance written by Robert Mullally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. The carole was performed by all classes of society - kings and nobles, shepherds and servant girls. It is described as taking place both indoors and outdoors. Its central position in the life of the people is underlined by references not only in what we might call fictional texts, but also in historical (or quasi-historical) writings, in moral treatises and even in a work on astronomy. Dr Robert Mullally's focus is very much on details relevant to the history, choreography and performance of the dance as revealed in the primary sources. This methodology involves attempting to isolate the term carole from other dance terms not only in French, but also in other languages. Mullally's groundbreaking study establishes all the characteristics of this dance: etymological, choreographical, lyrical, musical and iconographical.
Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191016292
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Simple Forms written by Douglas Gray and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.
Author : Siegfried Wenzel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854148
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric written by Siegfried Wenzel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in detail. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Richard Ledrede
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888440303
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Latin Poems of Richard Ledrede, O.F.M., Bishop of Ossory, 1317-1360 written by Richard Ledrede and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1974 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgiana Donavin
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813218853
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Scribit Mater written by Georgiana Donavin and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The English Lives of Mary -- 2. John of Garland, Gram/Marian -- 3. The Musical Mother Tongue in Anglo-Latin Poetry for Meditation -- 4. Chaucer and Dame School -- 5. Mary's Mild Voice in the Middle English Lyrics -- 6. Margery Kempe and the Virgin Birth of Her Book -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Author : Nigel Wilkins
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915656
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Music in the Age of Chaucer written by Nigel Wilkins and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer. An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French song of the period, consequently his wider view of Chaucer's musical background is well worth reading ... and he has much to say about Italy and England. The music is first-rate, and early music performers will find these songs a welcome addition to their repertory. EARLY MUSIC Although Chaucer himself was never described as a musician, a number of his poems are based on French models which belongto a well-established musical tradition, and there are also many references to musical activities in his larger works. This is the starting point for Dr Wilkins's book, which explores both the wider question of the relationship between music and literature in the fourteenth century and the specific area of Chaucer `songs'. He surveys the musical and literary scene in France, Italy and Britain during Chaucer's lifetime, with special emphasis on composers such as Machaut and Landini, and on the differences in national styles. The performance of music and the instruments used are also fully explored. The discussion of Chaucer's musical background is illustrated in the accompanyingsettings presented with words by Chaucer - ten ballades, three complaintes (or chants royaux), and one rondeau. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs and musical examples. New edition; first published 1979, 1980.
Author : Seeta Chaganti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654818X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Strange Footing written by Seeta Chaganti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.
Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119619297
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book A Book of Middle English written by Thorlac Turville-Petre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key middle English texts — including a new extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love — with helpful notes to direct students to key points within the text. Keeping in mind adopter feedback, this new edition includes a new model translation section with a student workbook and model exercise for classroom use. This new chapter will include sections on 'false friend' words, untranslatable idioms and notes on translating both poetry and prose. The text and references will be fully updated throughout and a foreword dedicated to the late J. A. Burrow will be included.
Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521245074
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Words and Music in the Middle Ages written by John Stevens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relation of words and music in England and France during the three centuries following the Norman Conquest. The basic material of the study includes the chansons of the troubadours and trouvères and the varied Latin songs of the period. In addition to these 'lyric' forms, the author discusses the relations of music and poetry in dance-song, in narrative and in the ecclesiastical drama. Professor Stevens examines the ready-made, often unconscious, and misleading assumptions we bring to the study and performance of early music. In particular he affirms the importance of Number, in more than one sense, as a clue to the 'aesthetic' of the greater part of repertoire, to the relation of words and melody. and to the baffling problem of their rhythmic interpretation. This is the first wide-ranging study of words and music in this period in any language. It will be essential reading for scholars of the music and the literature of medieval Europe and will provide a basic and comprehensive introduction to the repertoire for students.
Author : Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108346
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600 written by Michelle M. Sauer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444319101
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Poetry written by Corinne Saunders and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series oforiginal essays from leading literary scholars that explore Englishpoetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the15th century. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological andstylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English andPost-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextualessays, providing a valuable introduction to the society andculture of the time Combines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry,with specific consideration of texts and authors, includingBeowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer,Gower and Langland Features original essays by eminent scholars, including AndyOrchard, Carl Schmidt, Douglas Gray, and BarryWindeatt, who present a range of theoretical,historical, and cultural approaches to reading medieval poetry, aswell as offering close analysis of individual texts andtraditions
Author : Karen Saupe
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444156
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Middle English Marian Lyrics written by Karen Saupe and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels. The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone, and aesthetic quality in how they relate the iconic moments from Mary's life-the Annunciation, Nativity, and her experience of Christ's passion, for instance-as well as in their variety of praises for the Queen of Heaven. Taken together, the poems express the full range of a people's effort to voice anxieties and joys through Mary. This collection will spark an excellent discussion on English spirituality, Marian devotion, and Middle English lyrical poetry.
Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293169
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Elf Queens and Holy Friars written by Richard Firth Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the poor than between the learned and the lay, Green explores the church's systematic demonization of fairies and infernalization of fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. The recognition that medieval demonology, and indeed pastoral theology, were packed with coded references to popular lore opens up a whole new avenue for the investigation of medieval vernacular culture. Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife. That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded, and this fact makes a huge difference in the way we read medieval romance, the literary genre that treats them most explicitly. The war on fairy beliefs increased in intensity toward the end of the Middle Ages, becoming finally a significant factor in the witch-hunting of the Renaissance.
Author : Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384446X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Readings in Medieval Textuality written by Cristina Maria Cervone and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: III: Subjectivity and the Self -- 6. Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing -- 7. The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture -- IV: Reading for Form -- 8. The Inescapability of Form -- 9. Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer's Philomela -- 10. Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Dits -- 11. Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited -- 12. "I" and "We" in Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity -- V: Epilogue -- 13. Two Appreciations of A.C. Spearing -- 14. Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet -- Works Cited -- Index
