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Author : Albrecht Classen
Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 213/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry written by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
Author : Cynthia J. Cyrus
Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany by : Cynthia J. Cyrus
Download or read book The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany written by Cynthia J. Cyrus. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Release : 2012-02-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 776/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures written by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2012-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.
Author : Roland Greene
Release : 2016-11-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by : Roland Greene
Download or read book The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries written by Roland Greene. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and comprehensive guide to poetry throughout the world The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe. With more than 165 entries, the book combines broad overviews and focused accounts to give extensive coverage of poetic traditions throughout the world. For students, teachers, researchers, poets, and other readers, it supplies a one-of-a-kind resource, offering in-depth treatment of Indo-European poetries (all the major Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages, and others); ancient Middle Eastern poetries (Hebrew, Persian, Sumerian, and Assyro-Babylonian); subcontinental Indian poetries (Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, and more); Asian and Pacific poetries (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Nepalese, Thai, and Tibetan); Spanish American poetries (those of Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile, and many other Latin American countries); indigenous American poetries (Guaraní, Inuit, and Navajo); and African poetries (those of Ethiopia, Somalia, South Africa, and other countries, and including African languages, English, French, and Portuguese). Complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding poetry in an international context. Drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Provides more than 165 authoritative entries on poetry in more than 100 regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world Features extensive coverage of non-Western poetic traditions Includes an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a general index
Author : Albrecht Classen
Release : 2011-12-22
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2011-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shift initiated, as there is an overwhelming body of evidence to show that in medieval and early modern times too there were close emotional relations between parents and children. The contributors to this volume demonstrate conclusively on the one hand how intensively parents concerned themselves with their children in the pre-modern era, and on the other which social, political and religious conditions shaped these relationships. These studies in emotional history demonstrate how easy it is for a subjective choice of sources, coupled with faulty interpretations – caused mainly by modern prejudices toward the Middle Ages in particular – to lead to the view that in the past children were regarded as small adults. The contributors demonstrate convincingly that intense feelings – admittedly often different in nature – shaped the relationship between adults and children.
