This collection, comprising nine critical essays from prominent and emerging medievalists, seeks to explore the different ways in which French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social ……続きを見る
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s t……続きを見る
著者:Suzanne Keen
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2015年07月28日
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to ……続きを見る
著者:V. Ferme
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2015年06月04日
Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within a……続きを見る
著者:N. Elias
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2015年04月09日
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late med……続きを見る
Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its indust……続きを見る
著者:Ethan Knapp
出版社: Ohio State University Press
発売日: 2015年10月20日
One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of ekphrasis. The original meaning of this term is simply an ex……続きを見る
If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the l……続きを見る
The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the I……続きを見る
著者:Piotr Spyra
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年02月17日
Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continu……続きを見る
Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adapt……続きを見る
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engagi……続きを見る
Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on ques……続きを見る
著者:A. Florschuetz
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2014年03月20日
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are rep……続きを見る
This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles ……続きを見る
For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasin……続きを見る
著者:J. Grogan
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2014年02月18日
The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that wri……続きを見る
A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the chan……続きを見る
著者:A. Gerber
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2015年03月20日
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian reviva……続きを見る
著者:F. Tolhurst
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年02月12日
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and ……続きを見る
著者:C. Schrock
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2015年05月13日
Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely us……続きを見る
著者:B. Moloney
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年10月09日
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……続きを見る
Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued imp……続きを見る
The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz examines the role of occasional verse in the works of the celebrated colonial Mexican nun. The poems that Sor Juana wrote for special occasions ……続きを見る
著者:Hannah Lavery
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月03日
The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the lo……続きを見る
著者:Shifra Armon
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月03日
Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as divers……続きを見る
著者:C. Keene
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年11月19日
Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life ……続きを見る
著者:M. Grudin
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年06月04日
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, hum……続きを見る
著者:J. Ulin
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2013年11月13日
Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conque……続きを見る
This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post……続きを見る