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Translating Hell - Vernacular Theology And Apocrypha In The Medieval North Sea

de Stephen C. E. Hopkins

~~121,97€~~ 109,77€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England, Wales, and Iceland. This book explores how apocrypha about hell encouraged early vernacular literary experiments with hefty theological and local implications, as writers harnessed creativity in the face of uncertainty. -- .
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From Iceland To The Americas - Vinland And Historical Imagination

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 This volume looks at how Leif Eirikssonâ€™s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .
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Contemporary Chaucer Across The Centuries

~~40,56€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research. -- .
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The Politics Of Middle English Parables - Fiction, Theology, And Social Practice

de Mary Raschko

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 This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. -- .
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Saga Emotions

~~129,65€~~ 116,69€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies. -- .
Objects Of Belief - Material Culture And Religious Writings In Late Medieval England

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry. -- .
Strange Matter - Medieval Disruptions Of Time

~~121,67€~~ 109,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time scrutinises a wide range of European and non-European texts and artworks to generate innovative perspectives on objects from the Middle Ages and the various ways they inform and complicate our perception of temporality. -- .
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Saga Emotions

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 A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies. -- .
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Medieval Afterlives - Transforming Traditions In Shakespeare And Early English Drama

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 A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays.
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Fantastic Histories - Medieval Fairy Narratives And The Limits Of Wonder

de Victoria Flood

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 Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.
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Conceiving Bodies - Reproduction In Early Medieval English Medicine

de Dana Oswald

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 Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women’s medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous translators reduced the remedies to a general category of women’s medicine, but sustained examination of language reveals important distinctions: remedies for menstruation indicate social concerns about fertility, where remedies for ‘cleansing’ do not provide a clear path to conception, but rather foreclose it. Rarest of all are the remedies for childbirth, but their rarity is compounded by the practices of translators who conflate the language for women’s reproduction into an amorphous singularity. Through an original method of hysteric philology—the combining of traditional philology with contemporary feminist and medical epistemologies—this book situates itself in the historical treatment of reproductive people as both objects and subjects of medical practice, and gestures forward in time to the contemporary struggle for bodily autonomy.
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Approaches To Emotion In Middle English Literature

de Carolyne Larrington

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 Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature — in particular secular literature — as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences — those who read them or hear them read or performed?
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White Before Whiteness In The Late Middle Ages

de Wan-Chuan Kao

~~78,70€~~ 70,83€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates in the history of racialisation in the late medieval West, it does not denote skin tone alone. The ‘before’ of whiteness, presupposing essence and teleology, is less a retro-futuristic temporisation - one that simultaneously looks backward and faces forward - than a discursive figuration of how white becomes whiteness. Fragility delineates the limits of ruling ideologies in performances of mourning as self-defence against perceived threats to subjectivity and desire; precarity registers the ruptures within normative values by foregrounding the unmarked vulnerability of the body politic and the violence of cultural aestheticisation; and racialicity attends to the politics of recognition and the technologies of enfleshment at the systemic edge of life and nonlife.
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Conceiving Bodies - Reproduction In Early Medieval English Medicine

de Dana Oswald

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The Old English remedies for womenâ€™s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as womenâ€™s medicine. -- .
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Fantastic Histories - Medieval Fairy Narratives And The Limits Of Wonder

de Victoria (Senior Lecturer) Flood

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality. -- .
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Borrowed Objects And The Art Of Poetry - Spolia In Old English Verse

de Denis (Assistant Professor) Ferhatovic

~~27,04€~~ 24,34€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia â€" creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .
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Riddles At Work In The Early Medieval Tradition - Words, Ideas, Interactions

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 The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions. -- .
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Approaches To Emotion In Middle English Literature

de Carolyne Larrington

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fictionality and the emergence of interiority. -- .
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Medieval Afterlives - Transforming Traditions In Shakespeare And Early English Drama

~~121,67€~~ 109,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and popular dramatic tropes. -- .
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Marian Maternity In Late-Medieval England

de Mary Beth Long

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 Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts. By bringing together texts and authors that are not often discussed in tandem, this study offers a rich examination of the multiple factors at play as Marian material circulated among experienced devotional readers. Taking a close look at the private devotional reading of late-medieval patrons, the book shows how texts including Chaucer’s poetry, Margery Kempe’s Boke, and legendaries of female saints are saturated with indirect references to and imitations of the Virgin. Marian maternity in late-medieval England employs a matricentric feminist approach to discern how readers’ devotional literacies inform their understanding and imitation of the Virgin’s maternal practice. Attending to internal cues in the texts, to manuscript contexts, and to the evidence and content of readers’ multiple literacies, the author examines Marian maternity as both theological concept and imitable practice. The result is a book that explains late-medieval perceptions of Mary’s maternity and sets them against readers’ devotional, emotional and relational circumstances.
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Fantasies Of Music In Nostalgic Medievalism

de Helen Dell

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval â€" musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception â€" have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home. -- .
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White Before Whiteness In The Late Middle Ages

de Wan-Chuan (Assistant Professor Of English) Kao

~~74,35€~~ 66,92€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the â€˜beforeâ€™ of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes. -- .
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Literatures Of The Hundred Years War

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 This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337â€"1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approach that moves beyond the Anglo-French core. -- .
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Difficult Pasts - Post-Reformation Memory And The Medieval Romance

de Mimi Ensley

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 Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, though, the Middle English romance genre remained popular across the early modern period. Difficult pasts examines the reception of Middle English romances after the Protestant Reformation in England, arguing that the genre’s popularity rested not in its violent or superstitious qualities, but in its multivocality. Incorporating insights from book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, Ensley argues that the medieval romance book became a flexible site of memory with which early modern readers could both connect with and distance themselves from the recent ‘difficult past’, a past that invited controversy and encouraged divided perspectives. Central characters in this study range from canonical authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser to less studied figures, such as printer William Copland, Elizabethan scribe Edward Banister and seventeenth-century poet and romance enthusiast, John Lane. In uniting a wide range of romance readers’ perspectives, the book complicates clear ruptures between manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. Difficult pasts reveals how the romance book offers a new way to understand the simultaneous change and continuity that defines post-Reformation England.
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