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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409422846
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art written by Sherry C. M. Lindquist and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a strangely neglected key issue in the history of art, this volume engages the variety and complexity of medieval representations of the unclothed human body. The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art breaks ground by offering a variety of approaches to explore the meanings of both male and female nudity in European painting, manuscripts and sculpture ranging from the late antique era to the fifteenth century.
Author : Debra Mancoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656709
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Arthurian Revival written by Debra Mancoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is that the "Arthurian revival" is an ongoing event, and has become multivalent, multinational, and multimedia. Originally published in 1992.
Author : Richard James Moll
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802037220
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Before Malory written by Richard James Moll and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. Moll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.
Author : Hyonjin Kim
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916035
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Knight Without the Sword written by Hyonjin Kim and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three pictures, the author suggests, set behind the archetypal knight-errant in the foreground of Malory's chivalric narrative, illuminate not only Malorian chivalry, but also the mentality of the late medieval aristocracy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher : Slatkine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Arthurian Romance i written by and published by Slatkine. This book was released on with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Crane
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201701
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Performance of Self written by Susan Crane and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period. Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.
Author : Kenneth Varty
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859912507
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Mediaeval France written by Kenneth Varty and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric. The Arthurian studies range over verse (Béroul, Chrétien, Jean Renart, the Roman de Silence) and prose (Robert de Boron, the Queste del Saint Graal, Perlesvaus, Lancelot and the Tristan), reflecting a variety of different approaches, from an examination of the legal background to the work of Béroul to an iconographical survey of hitherto undiscussed and unpublished Tristan illustrations to close textual analysis of an episode in Robert de Boron's Joseph and Merlin.
Author : Isaac Hui
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423485
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Volpone's Bastards written by Isaac Hui and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.
Author : Edward Kennard Rand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Speculum written by Edward Kennard Rand and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews".
Author : M. Victoria Guerin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722902
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Kings and Princes written by M. Victoria Guerin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the book is Mordred, King Arthur's incestuous son, shown by Guerin to be an integral part of the Arthurian tradition from the very beginning. Mordred is seen as the tangible proof of the king's sin, committed in all innocence in his youth but resulting in a living incarnation of evil who will kill his father on Salisbury Plain, putting an end to the Arthurian world. But in the early stages of Arthurian romance, because this story cannot be told without the death of Arthur, it cannot be told at all, for Arthur's existence is the necessary condition of the genre: the story of his death would entail authorial suicide and the impossibility of further literary creation. Guerin argues that the authors of the texts examined in this study - Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrete and Le Conte du Graal and the anonymous Middle English Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - deliberately use the medieval reader's extra-textual knowledge of the Mordred story to create a second level of reading: behind Lancelot, Perceval, and Gawain is the shadowy figure of Mordred (never explicitly mentioned), and the modern reader must learn to see this shadow in order fully to appreciate the authors' purpose. Taking into account this hidden framework not only sheds a surprising new light on these texts, it also gives a convincing solution to the much-discussed question of why Chretien left two of his romances, Le Chevalier de la Charrete and Le Conte du Graal, unfinished. The first chapter, which deals with Arthurian tragedy in the thirteenth century Prose Cycle, is particularly timely as it coincides with the publication of the first English translation of the cycle, to which Guerin's study serves as an excellent introduction.
Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654043X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Danger of Romance written by Karen Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619363
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.
Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134817533
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Arthurian Women written by Thelma S. Fenster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the material of the Arthurian story. All the essays concentrate interpretation on a female creator and the work. This collection contains a useful bibliography of material devoted to female characters in Arthurian literature.
Author : R. Lexton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137353627
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur written by R. Lexton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon to engage with contemporary problems of kingship and rule.
Author : Pauline Maud Matarasso
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600035699
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Redemption of Chivalry written by Pauline Maud Matarasso and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1979 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cameron Hunt McNabb
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1950192733
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Medieval Disability Sourcebook written by Cameron Hunt McNabb and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present. This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints' lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices-to, from, and about those with disabilities-and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life. The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about medieval Europe as it intersects with the field of disability studies. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study. This sourcebook is the first in a proposed series focusing on disability in a wide range of premodern cultures, histories, and geographies.
