Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French 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 Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature write by Lynn Tarte Ramey. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500.
Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide
Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide - 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 Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide write by James Muldoon. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The debate about when the middle ages ended and the modern era began, has long been a staple of the historical literature. In order to further this debate, and illuminate the implications of a longue durée approach to the history of the Reformation, this collection offers a selection of essays that address the medieval-modern divide. Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the volume asks fundamental questions about how we regard history, and what historians can learn from colleagues working in other fields that may not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links. By focussing on the concept of the medieval-modern divide - in particular the relation between the Middle Ages and the Reformation - each essay examines how a medievalist deals with a specific topic or issue that is also attracting the attention of Reformation scholars. In so doing it underlines the fact that both medievalists and modernists are often involved in bridging the medieval-modern divide, but are inclined to construct parallel bridges that end between the two starting points but do not necessarily meet. As a result, the volume challenges assumptions about the strict periodization of history, and suggest that a more flexible approach will yield interesting historical insights.
Nine Medieval Romances of Magic
Nine Medieval Romances of Magic - 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 Nine Medieval Romances of Magic write by Marijane Osborn. This book was released on 2010-03-05. Nine Medieval Romances of Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.
Recognition
Recognition - 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 Recognition write by Philip F. Kennedy. This book was released on 2009. Recognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern.
Iberian Jewish Literature
Iberian Jewish 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 Iberian Jewish Literature write by Jonathan P. Decter. This book was released on 2007-08-08. Iberian Jewish Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
