Chaucer's Queens - 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 Chaucer's Queens write by Louise Tingle. This book was released on 2021-01-04. Chaucer's Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the ways in which royal women were able to participate in traditional queenly customs such as intercession, and whether it was motherhood that gave power to a queen. This study focuses particularly on types of patronage, and also considers the importance of coronation, especially for Joan of Kent, who was neither a queen consort nor a dowager, yet still fulfilled some queenly duties. Crucially, the author highlights the transactional nature of the queen’s role at court, as she accumulated wealth from land, rights and traditions, which in turn funded patronage activities.
Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints
Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints - 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 Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints write by Denise Alvarado. This book was released on 2022-02-01. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A magical mystery tour of the extraordinary historical characters that have defined the unique spiritual landscape of New Orleans. New Orleans has long been America’s most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of mysteries, known for its decadence and haunted by its spirits. If Salem, Massachusetts, is famous for its persecution of witches, New Orleans is celebrated for its embrace of the magical, mystical, and paranormal. New Orleans is acclaimed for its witches, ghosts, and vampires. Because of its unique history, New Orleans is the historical stronghold of traditional African religions and spirituality in the US. No other city worldwide is as associated with Vodou as New Orleans. In her new book, author and scholar Denise Alvarado takes us on a magical tour of New Orleans. There is a mysterious spiritual underbelly hiding in plain sight in New Orleans, and in this book Alvarado shows us where it is and who the characters are. She tells where they come from and how they persist and manifest today. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints shines a light on notable spirits and folk saints such as Papa Legba, Annie Christmas, Black Hawk, African-American culture hero Jean St. Malo, St. Expedite, plague saint Roch, and, of course, the mother and father of New Orleans Voudou, Marie Laveau and Doctor John Montenée. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints serves as a secret history of New Orleans, revealing details even locals may not know.
Chaucer's Agents
Chaucer's Agents - 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 Chaucer's Agents write by Carolynn Van Dyke. This book was released on 2005. Chaucer's Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention
Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention - 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 Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention write by Steele Nowlin. This book was released on 2016. Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Gooth yet alway under": invention as movement in The house of fame -- "Ryght swich as ye felten": aligning affect and invention in The legend of good women -- A thing so strange: macrocosmic emergence in the Confessio amantis -- "The cronique of this fable": transformative poetry and the chronicle form in the Confessio amantis -- Empty songs, mighty men, and a startled chicken: satirizing the affect of invention in fragment VII of the Canterbury tales -- From ashes ancient come: affective intertextuality in Chaucer, Gower, and Shakespeare
The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance
The Orient in Chaucer and 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 Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance write by Carol Falvo Heffernan. This book was released on 2003. The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances. The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of anumber of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and Gower's treatment of the legend of Constance, as told by the Man of Law, demonstrating that Chaucer's addition of a pattern of mercantile details highlights the commercial context of the eastern Mediterranean in which the heroine is placed; she goes on to show how Chaucer's portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of Good Women, read against parallel texts, especially in Boccaccio, reveal them to be loci of medieval orientalism. She then examines Chaucer's inventive handling of details taken from Eastern sources and analogues in the Squire's Tale, showing how he shapes them into the western form ofinterlace. The author concludes by looking at two romances, Floris and Blauncheflur and Le Bone Florence of Rome; she argues that elements in Floris of sibling incest are legitimised into a quest for the beloved, and demonstrates that Le Bone Florence be related to analogous oriental tales about heroic women who remain steadfast in virtue against persecution and adversity. Professor CAROL F. HEFFERNAN teaches in the Department ofEnglish, Rutgers University.
