Télécharger le livre :  Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

158,24
Télécharger le livre :  English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

84,39
Télécharger le livre :  Writing Plague
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

105,49
Télécharger le livre :  Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

116,04
Télécharger le livre :  Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

126,59
Télécharger le livre :  Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

126,59
Télécharger le livre :  Writing the Holy Land
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

137,14
Télécharger le livre :  Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

68,56
Télécharger le livre :  Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish Travel Literature
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

89,66
Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-14
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

84,39
Télécharger le livre :  The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-01
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Nature, René d’Anjou’s Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes’s Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-30
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

84,39
Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-03
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

116,04
Télécharger le livre :  The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-27
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

126,59
Télécharger le livre :  Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-12
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

126,59
Télécharger le livre :  Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-31
Collection : The New Middle Ages
PDF, ePub

63,29
Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerotics
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

63,29
Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
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
PDF, ePub

84,39
123 >