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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Tolkien and Alterity Yvette Kisor , Christopher Vaccaro 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 PDF, ePub 31,79 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Boccaccio the Philosopher Filippo Andrei 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 PDF, ePub 90,09 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing Allyson Carr 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 PDF, ePub 95,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Stasis in the Medieval West? Michael D.J. Bintley , Martin Locker , Victoria Symons , Mary Wellesley 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 ePub 95,39 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature Kisha G. Tracy 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 PDF, ePub 58,29 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Philosophy of Piers Plowman David Strong 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 PDF, ePub 95,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Amy Burge 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 PDF 84,79 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Queering Richard Rolle Christopher M. Roman 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 PDF, ePub 58,29 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Chaucer and the Child Eve Salisbury 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 PDF, ePub 95,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe Patricia Skinner 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 PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Franciscan Invention of the New World Julia Mcclure This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-30 Collection : The New Middle Ages PDF, ePub 116,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Tolkien, Self and Other Jane Chance This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized—namely, the Other. Jane Chance... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-21 Collection : The New Middle Ages PDF, ePub 28,61 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz William Mcclellan 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 PDF, ePub 58,29 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Medieval Religion and its Anxieties Thomas A. Fudgé 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 PDF, ePub 105,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages Margaret Cotter-Lynch 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 PDF, ePub 68,89 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture Virginia Langum 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 PDF, ePub 105,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Women's Networks in Medieval France Kathryn L. Reyerson 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 PDF, ePub 95,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy Edward M. Schoolman 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 PDF, ePub 63,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500 Murielle Gaude-Ferragu , Angela Krieger 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 PDF, ePub 95,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance Jan Shaw 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 PDF, ePub 63,59 € PDF ePub
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