Medieval Mythography - 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 Medieval Mythography write by Jane Chance. This book was released on 1994. Medieval Mythography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Medieval Mythography, Volume One
Medieval Mythography, Volume One - 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 Medieval Mythography, Volume One write by Jane Chance. This book was released on 2019-11-26. Medieval Mythography, Volume One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth.
Medieval Mythography, Volume One
Medieval Mythography, Volume One - 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 Medieval Mythography, Volume One write by Jane Chance. This book was released on 2019-11-26. Medieval Mythography, Volume One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth.
The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216
The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216 - 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 Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216 write by Hugh M. Thomas. This book was released on 2014-08-14. The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the central Middle Ages. The secular clergy got their title from the Latin word for world, saeculum, and secular clerics kept the Church running in the world beyond the cloister wall, with responsibility for the bulk of pastoral care and ecclesiastical administration. This gave them enormous religious influence, although they were considered too worldly by many contemporary moralists - trying, for instance, to oppose the elimination of clerical marriage and concubinage. Although their worldliness created many tensions, it also gave the secular clergy much worldly influence. Contemporaries treated elite secular clerics as equivalent to knights, and some were as wealthy as minor barons. Secular clerics had a huge role in the rise of royal bureaucracy, one of the key historical developments of the period. They were instrumental to the intellectual and cultural flowering of the twelfth century, the rise of the schools, the creation of the book trade, and the invention of universities. They performed music, produced literature in a variety of genres and languages, and patronized art and architecture. Indeed, this volume argues that they contributed more than any other group to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Yet the secular clergy as a group have received almost no attention from scholars, unlike monks, nuns, or secular nobles. In The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216, Hugh Thomas aims to correct this deficiency through a major study of the secular clergy below the level of bishop in England from 1066 to 1216.
Reading the Ovidian Heroine
Reading the Ovidian Heroine - 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 Reading the Ovidian Heroine write by Kathryn McKinley. This book was released on 2017-09-18. Reading the Ovidian Heroine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.
