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Author : W. Mark Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845814
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Winner and Waster and Its Contexts written by W. Mark Ormrod and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.
Author : W M Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843847090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Winner and Waster and Its Contexts written by W M Ormrod and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign. This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much earlier scholarship has insisted) around the state of public order and the costs of warfare in the 1350s. Instead, it proposes that the poem echoes debates about Edward III's ability to maintain concord between the members of his household, to manage the extravagance in clothing that prompted the sumptuary laws of 1363, and to run his peace-time finances of the 1360s in such a way as to guarantee the solvency of the crown. Drawing extensively on the records of parliament and on contemporary chronicles, this volume sets Winner and Waster within the wider context of other complaint literature of the fourteenth century, and characterizes it as one of the most politically - and socially - engaged works of the period.
Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030948862
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts written by Aidan Norrie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Author : Gwilym Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100040918X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.
Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226830179
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Waste and the Wasters written by Eleanor Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleanor Johnson corrects some commonly held (mis)assumptions concerning what the average medieval English person might've thought about what we now call the natural environment or the ecosystem. Reading both well-studied fourteenth- and fifteenth-century works (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and the Canterbury Tales), and lesser-known ones (Winner and Waster and Mum and the Sothsegger), as well as legal and municipal documents, sermons, moral and penitential tracts, practical and medical guides, plague narratives, and historical chronicles from the period, Johnson describes how poets used the resources of poetic language-meter, rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, plot, dramatic staging, repetition, and other literary devices-to think and feel their way into the problems of ecological peril, even though they lacked the science and scientific vocabulary we have today. Johnson explores how these writers combined multiple discourses from their particular, if narrow, vantage point to comment on ecological disasters, inventing their own "ecosystemic" language and commentary. As Johnson reminds us, the English Middle Ages had their share of environmental problems-air pollution, soil depletion, deforestation, Little Ice Ages, famines, and plagues-similar to the ones we face in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the word "waste" in its original usage across various texts, ranging from the literary to the legal, from the theological to the psychological, Johnson puts twenty-first-century concerned citizens in touch with kindred spirits in medieval England, fully aware of-and interested in-how human (mis)behavior might be connected to the natural world; how resource allocation, use, and pollution by one person might affect another; how environmental damage was linked to urbanization; and how one person's choices might affect the next generation. The book will be read primarily by those interested in medieval English literature, medieval historians, and literary scholars working in later periods, but Johnson also invites conversation with anyone working more broadly in the environmental humanities today"--
Author : Katharine Breen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677662X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Machines of the Mind written by Katharine Breen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them against existing moral and political paradigms. Specifically, different types of medieval personification should be seen as corresponding to positions in the rich and nuanced medieval debate over universals. Breen identifies three different types of personification—Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian—that gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters. Through a series of new readings of major authors and works, from Plato to Piers Plowman, Breen illuminates how medieval personifications embody the full range of positions between philosophical realism and nominalism, varying according to the convictions of individual authors and the purposes of individual works. Recalling Gregory the Great’s reference to machinae mentis (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, employing methods of personification as tools that serve different functions. Machines of the Mind offers insight for medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as for scholars interested in literary character-building and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages.
Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521272155
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages written by Christopher Dyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.
Author : Anthony Musson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148293
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Medieval law in context written by Anthony Musson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Offers a new perspective on both law and politics by focusing on the medium of legal consciousness and legal culture.. Makes the specialised area of law accessible for the general reader interested in the medieval period.
Author : Israel Gollancz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Select Early English Poems: A good short debate betweenm Winner and Waster written by Israel Gollancz and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Good Short Debate Between Winner and Waster written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Lowe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415972406
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Desiring Truth written by Jeremy Lowe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639502
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Arts of Possession written by D. Vance Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between economic sophistication and cultural practices. Smith reads well-known and less-appreciated works -- such as Winner and Waster, Sir Launfal, The Canterbury Tales, and Piers Plowman -- for what they can tell us about the surpluses and economies that drew the medieval imagination, and about the complex ethics of possession at the heart of the fourteenth-century household. In bringing this to light, Smith's book itself becomes an eloquent meditation on the poetics and ethics of possession.
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135813876
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical commonplace long before the term was coined: we have routinely recognized that, during the Middle Ages, texts consistently borrowed from one another and from the traditions they all shared. Those borrowings can take the form of thematic echoes, of the appropriation of characters and situations, and even of direct citation. This volume is a collection of essays discussing the intertextual dimensions of Arthurian literature.
Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141672
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book English Literature in Context written by Paul Poplawski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110709058X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Historical Introduction to English Law written by Russell Sandberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for those studying law for the first time, this book explores where the English common law came from.
Author : Barbara Hanawalt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452901176
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's England written by Barbara Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.
Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521890465
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature written by David Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: After the Norman Conquest ; Writing in the British Isles ; Institutional Productions ; After the Black Death and Before the Reformation . It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
