Télécharger le livre :  Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz

Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Religion and its Anxieties

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-20
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages

This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put? One of the most popular and venerated saints from 200 CE to the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-23
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-15
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Networks in Medieval France

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-01
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy

Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500

This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance

This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship

Based on an exhaustive and varied study of predominantly unpublished archival material as well as a variety of literary and non-literary sources, this book investigates the relation between patronage, piety and politics in the life and career of one Late Medieval...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-24
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Joan de Valence

Heir to an earldom, and wife and widow of William de Valence (half-brother of King Henry III), Joan de Valence was an important actor in the volatile political world of thirteenth-century England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Yet, astonishingly, her story of survival,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space

Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Perilous Passages

This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-09-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-29
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio's Decameron

Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-04
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Consolation in Medieval Narrative

Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-13
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-05
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gnostic Paradigm

No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-04-09
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Japanese and Russian Politics

This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. A bi-national collaborative effort, the volume is structured to offer perspectives on each country from both Russian and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-01-22
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : The New Middle Ages
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