Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerotics

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of “pornographic literary theory” to open up Chaucer’s ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis. By introducing and applying the notion of “Chaucerotics,” this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-18
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Black Middle Ages

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerian Ecopoetics

Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.  Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Jews in Medieval England

This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-08
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Ecocriticism

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Memory in Late Medieval England

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Tolkien and Alterity

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-11
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Boccaccio the Philosopher

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-07
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Stasis in the Medieval West?

This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the flowerings...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-16
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-06
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Piers Plowman

This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of human potential through...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering Richard Rolle

This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-19
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer and the Child

This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-21
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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