Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351560832
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages by : Sebastian Coxon

Download or read book Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages written by Sebastian Coxon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited its recipients to think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways.

Fifteenth-Century Studies

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571130778
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Fifteenth-Century Studies by : William C. McDonald

Download or read book Fifteenth-Century Studies written by William C. McDonald and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including medicine, philosophy, painting, religion, science, philology, history, theater, ritual and custom, music, and poetry. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century, a period that is the stepchild of research. The period defies consensus on fundamental issues: some dispute, in fact, whether the fifteenth century belonged to the Middle Ages at all, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the very tenor of an age that stood under the tripartite influence of Gutenberg, the Turks, and Columbus. Volume 25 offers a rich palette of art, theology, literature, and aesthetics of the 15th century, ranging geographically from the British Isles to Tibet, and thematically from witch trials and beast epic to early modern science and a definition of courtliness. Four studies on theatre make dramatic art the point of emphasis in volume 25: Clifford Davidson's on mystery plays, Jörn Bockmann and Judith Klinger's on the English Secunda pastorum, Michelle M. Butler's on the York and Townley pageants, and Jean Marc Pastré's on the carneval plays. Included as standard features are Edelgard DuBruck's article on the current state of fifteenth-century research and a book review section. William C. McDonald is professor of German at the University of Virginia. Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor in the Modern Languages Department at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan.

Order of Rituals

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351293745
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Order of Rituals by : Hans-Georg Soeffner

Download or read book Order of Rituals written by Hans-Georg Soeffner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those still accustomed to seeing social order depicted in classes, strata, central groups, or institutions, and who measure and classify the social world according to "centers" and "margins," modern society presents itself as ambiguous and unmanageable. This is not unprecedented. Human societies often discover themselves in situations in which the traditional grids of order and stratification lose their value and fail to serve as guideposts for individuals. In The Order of Rituals, Hans-Georg Soeffner aims to answer the question: Through what efforts of order and orientation are loosely organized societies like ours held together? Soeffner focuses on symbolic forms of self-presentation that bring focus and clarity to our lives, such as emblems, fashions, styles, and symbols. As these replace old orders of classes or strata, there is a further consequence. Economically, culturally, and ethnically "mixed" societies not only return to specific visible forms of presentation, but also present themselves and their worldviews as a public stage of life-styles, attitudes, and demeanor. Soeffner asserts that society preserves certain continuously handed-down forms of action and ritual as specific symbolic forms over a long period of time. The Order of Rituals describes these symbols and routines of everyday life in fascinating detail, coupled with thoughtful analysis. Sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers will all benefit immensely from this book.

Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631611654
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History by : Andrea Grafetstätter

Download or read book Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History written by Andrea Grafetstätter and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The studies presented in this book derive from a series of sessions held at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK...Four sessions, held from 2004 to 2006, bore the title 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', and three in 2007 the title 'Cities, Myths and Literatures'...The stated objective of the island sessions was the location of a 'starting point for a new investigation into the possible impact that myths and other fictitious stories about insular wonderlands had on the reasons why medieval men and women undertook their various missions, searches and explorations that finally led to the discovery of the New World.' Similarly, the cities sessions 'intended to find new connections between ancient myths and medieval constructions of real or imagined cities in literature'."--editors' pref. p.7

Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110222477
Total Pages : 328 pages
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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 2010-04-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of ‛voice’ in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.

Mapping the 'I'

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283978
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the 'I' written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mapping the ‘I’, Research on Self Narratives in Germany and Switzerland, the contributors, working with egodocuments (autobiographies, diaries, family chronicles and related texts), discuss various approaches to early modern concepts of the person and of personhood, the place of individuality within this context, genre and practices of writing. The volume documents the cooperation between the Berlin and Basel self-narrative research groups during its first phase (2000-2007). Next to addressing crucial methodological issues, it also demonstrates the richness of egodocuments as historical sources in contributions concentrating, for example, on the body and illness, on food, as well as on the early modern economy, group cultures and autobiographical considerations of one's own suicide. Contributors include Andreas Bähr, Fabian Brändle, Lorenz Heiligensetzer, Angela Heimen, Gabriele Jancke, Gudrun Piller, Sophie Ruppel, Thomas M. Safley, Claudia Ulbrich, Kaspar von Greyerz, and Patricia Zihlmann-Märki.

Individuum und Individualität im Mittelalter

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110148923
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)

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Book Synopsis Individuum und Individualität im Mittelalter by : Jan Aertsen

Download or read book Individuum und Individualität im Mittelalter written by Jan Aertsen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1996 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA präsentieren seit ihrer Gründung durch Paul Wilpert im Jahre 1962 Arbeiten des Thomas-Instituts der Universität zu Köln. Das Kernstück der Publikationsreihe bilden die Akten der im zweijährigen Rhythmus stattfindenden Kölner Mediaevistentagungen, die vor über 50 Jahren von Josef Koch, dem Gründungsdirektor des Instituts, ins Leben gerufen wurden. Der interdisziplinäre Charakter dieser Kongresse prägt auch die Tagungsakten: Die MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA versammeln Beiträge aus allen mediävistischen Disziplinen - die mittelalterliche Geschichte, die Philosophie, die Theologie sowie die Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaften sind Teile einer Gesamtbetrachtung des Mittelalters.

Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne by : International Arthurian Society

Download or read book Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne written by International Arthurian Society and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Images of the Medieval Peasant

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804733731
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis Images of the Medieval Peasant by : Paul H. Freedman

Download or read book Images of the Medieval Peasant written by Paul H. Freedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.

Court and Culture

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067776
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis Court and Culture by : F. P. van Oostrom

Download or read book Court and Culture written by F. P. van Oostrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While being compared favorably to Johan Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, this is in fact a livelier, more convincing analysis of the late fourteenth century."--Johan P. Snapper, University of California, Berkeley

Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes by : Gary C. Shockey

Download or read book Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes written by Gary C. Shockey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neidhart

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580442331
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Neidhart written by and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval German poet called Neidhart is one of the most important poets of his time. Set in the village among peasant maidens and their boorish male counterparts, Neidhart's satirical songs stand in marked contrast to courtly love song and enrich our understanding of medieval literary culture. This book presents for the first time annotated English translations of a substantial collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet. Its source is the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript, the oldest extensive collection of songs attributed to Neidhart. This book presents a representative survey of the songs in order to make this material accessible to a broad audience of students and scholars of medieval studies.

Prague

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391612
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Prague by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Download or read book Prague written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies the Fall 2005 exhibition that celebrates the flowering of art in medieval Prague, when the city became not only an imperial but also an intellectual and artistic capital of Europe. Scholars trace the distinctly Bohemian art that developed during the reigns of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his sons; the artistic achievements of master craftsmen; and the rebuilding of Prague Castle and of Saint Vitus' Cathedral. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Arthurian Bibliography III: 1978-1992

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913997
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthurian Bibliography III: 1978-1992 by : Caroline Palmer

Download or read book Arthurian Bibliography III: 1978-1992 written by Caroline Palmer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details of all published Arthurian work post 1978 to 1992. If one wants to scoop up nearly everything on an Arthurian subject, there is no substitute for the Arthurian Bibliography series. ANGLIA In 1981 the first Arthurian Bibliography appeared, an exhaustive alphabetical author-listing of all critical material recorded in the standard Arthurian bibliographies up to 1978. This was followed in 1983 by the second volume, giving full indexes by topic, key-word and individual work/author to form a complete subject-index of every topic in Arthurian literature. Summaries and reviews were also indicated where they existed. Arthurian Bibliography III updates this invaluable reference work for Arthurian scholars to 1992. Compiled from the BBSIA, it conveniently contains both author-listing and subject-index in one volume.

Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature by : Charlotte Spivack

Download or read book Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature written by Charlotte Spivack and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term archetype as applied to literature comes from the depth psychology of Carl Gustav Jung and refers to the inherited primordial motifs which emerge from universal and timeless human experiences. These motifs, appearing in myths, dreams, and literature, are to the psyche what instincts are to the body. Because of their universality they enable us to see a work of literature as a total form, not to be explained by partial points of view such as social, moral, or aesthetic.

Current Sociology

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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Current Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-4 contain v. 1-4 of International bibliography of sociology.

The Zimmern Chronicle

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351880187
Total Pages : 157 pages
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Book Synopsis The Zimmern Chronicle by : Erica Bastress-Dukehart

Download or read book The Zimmern Chronicle written by Erica Bastress-Dukehart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zimmern Chronicle: Nobility, Memory, and Self-Representation in Sixteenth-Century Germany brings the history of the Zimmern family to English readers for the first time. In it the author not only offers a new solution to the problem of the text's authorship, but examines the chronicle in the context of broader current debates, including the problem of the relationship of the early modern German nobility to the state; memory studies; and self-representation. The Zimmern Chronicle is arguably the most famous noble family chronicle to come out of sixteenth-century Germany. Unlike other noble chronicles that appeared at the same time, this work is distinctive in that it represents the collective memory of the Southwest German nobility. Not content to give voice only to their own ancestry-and by extension their own existence-the Zimmern authors included the voices of their noble contemporaries. By memorializing relationships within their community, they drew attention to the increasingly important issue of how their lineages had been historically constituted. Bastress-Dukehart first relates the history of the chronicle and introduces the long-standing mystery surrounding the text's authorship. She then draws attention to the importance of inheritance and the obligation for ancestral memorialization that property devolution demands. Put simply, inherited land and ancestral memory together manifested the nobility's social image and demonstrated its political power. She then sets the stage for the history the chronicle tells, recounting a feud between the Zimmern family and the more powerful Werdenberg family and examining how in general feuds helped to shape the German nobility's political relationships and personal values. Thus, Bastress-Dukehart portrays the Zimmern Chronicle as far more than just a family history. She argues that because the Zimmern authors filled their work with legends, sexual tales, and farcical stories of daily life in Southwest Germany, they proved themselves adept at offering their readers puzzles to solve, of sparking imagination and stimulating curiosity. In short, they developed a number of memory devices intended to make certain that their audience, once engaged, would read their work to its conclusion. Who, after all, would not want a glimpse into the minds, habits, and bedrooms of the pre-modern nobility? By adopting these devices, the Zimmern authors have proven the sanctity of the obligation to memorialize ancestral achievements: their chronicle has endured-the memory of the family continues.