著者:E. Jane Burns
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2014年07月14日
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to……続きを見る
著者:Alastair Minnis
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年02月12日
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from th……続きを見る
著者:Richard Firth Green
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2016年09月26日
In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyla……続きを見る
著者:Mary Dzon
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2017年01月25日
Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other childre……続きを見る
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking ……続きを見る
著者:Paul Stern
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2018年05月02日
When political theorists teach the history of political philosophy, they typically skip from the ancient Greeks and Cicero to Augustine in the fifth century and Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth, and……続きを見る
著者:Theresa Coletti
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年11月15日
A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of c……続きを見る
著者:R. D. Perry
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2024年05月21日
In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey……続きを見る
著者:Traugott Lawler
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2018年04月04日
The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval E……続きを見る
著者:Catherine Sanok
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年04月23日
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval Englandーthe lives of female saintsーand one of the period's primary modes of interpret……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin A. Saltzman
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2019年09月30日
How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations
What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It……続きを見る
著者:Sharon Kinoshita
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年03月01日
In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earlie……続きを見る
著者:Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2025年04月01日
Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whiteness
The Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Solomon
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2025年05月15日
From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, enc……続きを見る
著者:Heather Blurton
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2022年05月06日
William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe an……続きを見る
著者:Kim M. Phillips
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年11月14日
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulg……続きを見る
著者:Julie Orlemanski
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2019年03月25日
In the period just prior to medicine's modernityーbefore the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricismーEngland was t……続きを見る
著者:Ralph Hanna
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2017年03月15日
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and in……続きを見る
著者:Glenn D. Burger
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2017年09月26日
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a……続きを見る
著者:Lisa Lampert
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年04月09日
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, a……続きを見る
著者:Alastair Minnis
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2012年03月13日
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to d……続きを見る
著者:Sara S. Poor
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年03月26日
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy w……続きを見る
著者:Sarah Kay
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年08月22日
The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recogniza……続きを見る
著者:Amy Appleford
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2014年10月24日
Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380sーjust a generation after the Black Deathーand the first decade of t……続きを見る
著者:Ingrid Nelson
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2025年09月16日
Traces the development of media concepts across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains to offer a coherent theory of premodern media
Were there media before the printing press? Although……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Decter
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2018年08月14日
A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages to men of several ranks: scholars, communal lead……続きを見る
著者:Peggy McCracken
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年04月05日
Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Taylor
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2015年08月31日
Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical conte……続きを見る
著者:Susan L. Einbinder
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2018年05月18日
The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. N……続きを見る
著者:Rachel Koopmans
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2011年11月29日
While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories t……続きを見る