Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World - 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 Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World write by Erin Sebo. This book was released on 2023-09-25. Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world.
Premodern ruling sexualities
Premodern ruling sexualities - 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 Premodern ruling sexualities write by Gabrielle Storey. This book was released on 2024-06-25. Premodern ruling sexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.
Early English Queens, 850–1000
Early English Queens, 850–1000 - 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 Early English Queens, 850–1000 write by Matthew Firth. This book was released on 2024-04-23. Early English Queens, 850–1000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen’s role from bed companion to institutional office. The period 850–1000 is critical to the development of English queenship. In the aftermath of viking invasion, the kings of Wessex expanded their hegemony over neighbouring regions, gradually establishing themselves as the kings of England. Parallel to this broad narrative of political change is the lesser-known story, told in this book, of the royal women who took part in it. The lives of three remarkable women – Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and the West Saxon consorts Eadgifu and Ælfthryth – are central to the story, here retold through the careful analysis and reappraisal of source documents. These biographies set the stage for detailed study of the agency and advocacy of all women who held queenly office in England between 850 and 1000, as well as their legacies and reception by later generations. Early English Queens, 850–1000 gives important insights into the role women played in the first 150 years of the West Saxon dynasty, offering a compelling narrative that will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval England and royal studies.
Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur
Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur - 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 Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur write by Rebecca Merkelbach. This book was released on 2024-06-11. Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, have hitherto received little scholarly attention. Previous generations of critics have unfavourably compared them to "classical" Íslendingasögur and fornaldarsögur, leading modern audiences to project their expectations onto narratives that do not adhere to simple taxonomies and preconceived notions of genre. As "rogues" within the canon, they challenge the established notions of what makes an Íslendingasaga. Based on a critical appraisal of conceptualisations of canon and genre in saga literature, this book offers a new reading of the relationship between the individual, paranormal, and social dimensions that form the foundation of these sagas. It draws on a multidisciplinary approach, informed by perspectives as diverse as "possible worlds" theory, gender studies, and social history. The "post-classical" sagas are not only read anew and integrated into both their generic and socio-historical context; they are met on their own terms, allowing their fascinating narratives to speak for themselves.
Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge
Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge - 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 Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge write by Hélène Lecossois. This book was released on 2020-11-26. Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.
