Medieval category: 3965 books
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature
Power, Anxiety, Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.
by Terence Wise
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World
The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
What did commercialized sex really amount to in the ancient and medieval Eastern Mediterranean? This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...
by Robert G. Hoyland, Brian Gilmour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise "On...
by Byron Lee Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the...
Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of those...
In Their Own Words
Practices of Quotation in Early Medieval History-Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The...
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book
Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a particular set of Ovidian narratives-namely, those concerning the protean heroines of the Heroides and...
The Good Women of the Parish
Gender and Religion After the Black Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior...
by Virginia Langum
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
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, or greedy? If so, then is it...
by J. Ulin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill.
The Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning...
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.
Fragments and Assemblages
Forming Compilations of Medieval London
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as...