A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages write by David Zuwiyya. This book was released on 2011-07-27. A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance write by Roberta L. Krueger. This book was released on 2000-06-22. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages write by Markus Stock. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and discovery, but also as representations of otherness, migration, translation, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Brought together in this wide-ranging collection, these essays testify to the enduring fascination and transcultural adaptability of medieval stories about the extraordinary Macedonian leader.
Companion to Medieval English Literature
Companion to Medieval English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Companion to Medieval English Literature write by Michael Murphy. This book was released on 2009-01. Companion to Medieval English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion consists of slightly over 100 entries on some of the more important forms and conventions of Old and Middle English literature, especially as they are encountered in college classes and seminars. It is a Handbook that provides a short commentary on a range of items that include Alliteration, Cokayne, Demande D Amour, Exemplum, Flyting, Gentilesse, Kenning, Rhyme Royal, Senex Amans, Trivium, Ubi Sunt, Virgil, and Wyrd. There is information on classical figures like Aristotle, Alexander and Virgil about whom medieval literary legends were common, stories that portray them very differently from the way we usually think of them.Also biblical figures like Cain, Herod, Judas, and Pilate about whom various legends were current in the Middle Ages that are no longer well-known. The entries list the recurrence of a given topic in the literature as fully as is consistent with the size of the book. With most entries there is also a very brief bibliography of scholarly work. About the AuthorsMichael Murphy is Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York. James Clawson teaches in New York City.
The Medieval Alexander
The Medieval Alexander - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Alexander write by George Cary. This book was released on 1956. The Medieval Alexander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
