Télécharger le livre :  Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England

?Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-12-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Micro Middle Ages

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about  medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-10-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-07-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for “late stage”...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function...
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Parution : 2023-03-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen's Books of Visions

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-12-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Constance of France

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography ofConstance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-10
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-25
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Plague

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani  argues for the necessity of placing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War followsElionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III. Despite the limited amount of personal information about Elionor, the large...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing the Holy Land

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England

This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish Travel Literature

The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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