Télécharger le livre :  Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a...

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Parution : 2012-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other...

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Parution : 2012-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Market Power
Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women
Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
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 and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and...

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Parution : 2011-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse
Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.

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Parution : 2011-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecofeminist Subjectivities
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 of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author
This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
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 patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature
Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women...

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Parution : 2011-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairies in Medieval Romance
This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature
A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a  progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent
Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Street Scenes
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, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Outlawry in Medieval Literature
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 in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-14
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