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Publisher : Slatkine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by and published by Slatkine. This book was released on 1975 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Léonard P. Kurtz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by Léonard P. Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Paul Kurtz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by Leonard Paul Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard P. Kurtz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book ˜Theœ Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by Leonard P. Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Luther Adams
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802842671
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Grotesque in Art and Literature written by James Luther Adams and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.
Author : Leonard Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Genève : Slatkine Reprints
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by Leonard Paul Kurtz and published by Genève : Slatkine Reprints. This book was released on 1975 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandra Koutny-Jones
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004305254
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe written by Aleksandra Koutny-Jones and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones examines the remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), through a range of Baroque artworks such as coffin portraits, funerary decorations, tomb chapels and religious landscapes.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444260X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.
Author : Amy Appleford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246691
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540 written by Amy Appleford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art of dying" (ars moriendi). An educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of families and households but also to the practices of cultural memory, the building of institutions, and the good government of the city itself. In fifteenth-century London in particular, where an increasingly laicized reformist religiosity coexisted with an ambitious program of urban renewal, cultivating a sophisticated attitude toward death was understood as essential to good living in the widest sense. The virtuous ordering of self, household, and city rested on a proper attitude toward mortality on the part both of the ruled and of their secular and religious rulers. The intricacies of keeping death constantly in mind informed not only the religious prose of the period, but also literary and visual arts. In London's version of the famous image-text known as the Dance of Death, Thomas Hoccleve's poetic collection The Series, and the early sixteenth-century prose treatises of Tudor writers Richard Whitford, Thomas Lupset, and Thomas More, death is understood as an explicitly generative force, one capable (if properly managed) of providing vital personal, social, and literary opportunities.
Author : Felicia Hardison Londre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317954270
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Love's Labour's Lost written by Felicia Hardison Londre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815309840
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Love's Labour's Lost written by Felicia Hardison Londré and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110436973
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.
Author : David A. Lines
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847104098
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe written by David A. Lines and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2015 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural and intellectual dynamism often stand in close relationship to the expression of viewpoints and positions that are in tension or even conflict with one another. This phenomenon has a particular relevance for Early Modern Europe, which was heavily marked by polemical discourse. The dimensions and manifestations of this Streitkultur are being explored by an International Network funded by the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom). The present volume contains the proceedings of the Network's first colloquium, which focused on the forms of Renaissance conflict and rivalries, from the perspectives of history, language and literature.
Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113472487X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book From the Brink of the Apocalypse written by John Aberth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York The later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have seemed like the end of the world was truly at hand. And yet, as John Aberth reveals in this lively work, late medieval Europeans' cultural assumptions uniquely equipped them to face up postively to the huge problems that they faced. Relying on rich literary, historical and material sources, the book brings this period and its beliefs and attitudes vividly to life. Taking his themes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John Aberth describes how the lives of ordinary people were transformed by a series of crises, including the Great Famine, the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Yet he also shows how prayers, chronicles, poetry, and especially commemorative art reveal an optimistic people, whose belief in the apocalypse somehow gave them the ability to transcend the woes they faced on this earth. This second edition is brought fully up to date with recent scholarship, and the scope of the book is broadened to include many more examples from mainland Europe. The new edition features fully revised sections on famine, war, and plague, as well as a new epitaph. The book draws some bold new conclusions and raises important questions, which will be fascinating reading for all students and general readers with an interest in medieval history.
Author : Ashby Kinch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245812
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Imago Mortis written by Ashby Kinch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death).
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137103493
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The Black Death written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider.
Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107513316
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Romanticism and Caricature written by Ian Haywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, monstrosity and resistance. New light is cast on major Romantic controversies including the 'revolution debate' of the 1790s, the impact of Thomas Paine's 'infidel' Age of Reason, the introduction of paper money and the resulting explosion of executions for forgery, the propaganda campaign against Napoleon, the revolution in Spain, the Peterloo massacre, the Queen Caroline scandal, and the Reform Bill crisis. Overall, the volume offers important new insights into the relationship between art, satire and politics in a key period of history.
