Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wid……続きを見る
Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, alon……続きを見る
Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their ow……続きを見る
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting……続きを見る
A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religi……続きを見る
著者:M. Drout
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年07月17日
This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with tradi……続きを見る
著者:L. Noble
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2011年04月11日
The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literar……続きを見る
The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent sc……続きを見る
著者:E. Jenkins
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年08月06日
Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional ……続きを見る
著者:S. Collins
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年01月14日
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-cent……続きを見る
著者:M. Carlson
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2010年08月16日
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating concept……続きを見る
著者:C. Cyrus
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年06月13日
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban ……続きを見る
著者:K. Pérez
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2014年04月02日
The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth of Morgan la Fey reveals her true identity through a comprehensive investigation o……続きを見る
著者:C. Barbetti
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2011年10月27日
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre an……続きを見る
著者:M. C. Bodden
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2011年08月14日
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patria……続きを見る
著者:P. Salmesvuori
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2014年10月02日
Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the f……続きを見る
著者:N. Birns
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年10月23日
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late anti……続きを見る
著者:L. Kordecki
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2011年10月10日
This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak ……続きを見る
This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossi……続きを見る
著者:R. Ladd
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2010年10月18日
This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theor……続きを見る
Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga litera……続きを見る
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the pr……続きを見る
著者:M. Toswell
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2014年11月07日
The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medieval……続きを見る
著者:G. Atkins
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年08月29日
Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and ……続きを見る
著者:M. Williams
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年12月10日
From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives t……続きを見る
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topi……続きを見る
著者:F. Tolhurst
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年11月12日
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The History of the Kings of Britain and The Life of Merlin……続きを見る
著者:R. Lexton
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2014年06月18日
Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical an……続きを見る
著者:S. Verderber
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2013年05月14日
Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments ……続きを見る
著者:T. Jones
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2010年11月22日
Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England ……続きを見る