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In Virgin Whore**, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary's sexuality**. Although history is ……続きを見る

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" b……続きを見る

In Staging Harmony**, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more modera……続きを見る

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gi……続きを見る

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspectiveーthe baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, a……続きを見る

Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based o……続きを見る

Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns……続きを見る

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the dipl……続きを見る

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspire……続きを見る

Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship. E……続きを見る

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of spaceーthe everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we moveーunderwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centu……続きを見る

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be convert……続きを見る

The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional statesーlove, melancholy, grief, and madnessーwith gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to……続きを見る

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derri……続きを見る

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of King……続きを見る

"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"ーthe terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of C……続きを見る

This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasureーone finding hygienic or therapeutic value in e……続きを見る

The Transmission of "Beowulf" like The Iliad and The Odyssey**, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances.** In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Ne……続きを見る

Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer’s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In this volume, leading s……続きを見る

Middle English devotional compilations – consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts – have often be……続きを見る

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clo……続きを見る

From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dut……続きを見る

This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allego……続きを見る

Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling – especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow – in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirtee……続きを見る

Gerald of Wales (c.1146–c.1223), widely recognized for his innovative ethnographic studies of Ireland and Wales, was in fact the author of some twenty-three works which touch upon many aspects of tw……続きを見る

Dyma’r astudiaeth gyflawn gyntaf o eirfa Dafydd ap Gwilym. Dangosir ynddi sut y creodd Dafydd farddoniaeth gyfoethog ac amlweddog trwy gyfuno ieithwedd hen a newydd, llenyddol a llafar, brodorol ac ……続きを見る

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Penins……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types. Based on an intimate knowledge of t……続きを見る

Le Bone Florence of Rome　is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s　Man of Law’s Tale, it*　follows the adventures of a ……続きを見る

Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing. The act of reading engages deeply with our emotions and psychology, and this book broadens our understanding of that process by the s……続きを見る