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  • A New History of Medieval French Literature

    par Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet ...
    Traduit par Sara L. Preisig ...
    Collections series Rethinking Theory
    Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the time.Cerquiglini-Toulet challenges the standard ... En savoir plus

    $77.99 CAD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    par Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Collections series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Theory

    par Andrew Cole ...
    Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

    par B. Moloney ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the New Medievalism

    Modifié par R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, Jeanette Patterson ...
    Twenty years after Stephen Nichols transformed the study of medieval literature, leaders in the field pay tribute to his work and expand on it.In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Piers Plowman

    The Ethics and Epistemology of Love in Late Medieval Thought

    par David Strong ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 their theories of epistemology, ethics, and freedom of the will, Langland vivifies these ideas by contextualizing them in an ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Captivity of John II, 1356-60

    The Royal Image in Later Medieval England and France

    par Neil Murphy ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II’s four years in English captivity. Neil Murphy shows how the French king’s competition with Edward III led to a revolution in the presentation of the royal image, manifesting through developments to the sacral character of the French monarchy, lavish displays of gift giving, and ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD

  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    par T. Tinkle ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Boccaccio the Philosopher

    An Epistemology of the Decameron

    par Filippo Andrei ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach ... En savoir plus

    $108.99 CAD

  • Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative

    Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

    par B. Findley ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages

    Mother, Gladiator, Saint

    par Margaret Cotter-Lynch ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 thirteenth century, the story of Saint Perpetua was retold in dramatically different forms across the European Middle Ages. Her story ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Dante's Sacred Poem

    Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to The Divine Comedy

    par Dr Sheila J. Nayar ...
    Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical and theological tensions inherent in ideas of transubstantiation that rippled through Western culture up to the early fourteenth ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD