Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

2007-08-06 Literary Criticism

Author : S. Lightsey
Release : 2007-08-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature written by S. Lightsey. This book was released on 2007-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

2007-09-24 Literary Criticism

Author : S. Lightsey
Release : 2007-09-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature written by S. Lightsey. This book was released on 2007-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.

Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles

2002 History

Author : Timothy S. Jones
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Download or read book Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles written by Timothy S. Jones. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities to ask what legacy the medieval confrontations with marvels left for the modern world. These excellent essays look at issues that have long perplexed readers, such as the meaning of marvels, and whether we can read them in earnest or whether they can be appreciated only as play. The different authors bring their expertise to the fore to discuss the development of thoughts on marvels from the classical tradition through the concept's development in the medieval and early modern tradition. This collection is essential reading for any analysis of the marvelous in these periods and the state of scholarship surrounding them.

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages

2020-09-02 History

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Release : 2020-09-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 121/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages written by Jacques Le Goff. This book was released on 2020-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle, and the cloister. Roaming between the boundaries of the natural and the supernatural, between earth and the heavens, the medieval universe is illustrated by a shared iconography, covering a vast geographical span. This imaginative history is also a continuing story, which presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present, and openness to the future.

The King’s Bishops

2013-09-04 History

Author : E. Crosby
Release : 2013-09-04
Genre : History
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Download or read book The King’s Bishops written by E. Crosby. This book was released on 2013-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

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