Performing Medieval Narrative - 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 Performing Medieval Narrative write by Evelyn Birge Vitz. This book was released on 2005. Performing Medieval Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction
Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction - 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 Narratives Between History and Fiction write by Panagiotis A. Agapitos. This book was released on 2012. Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic among scholars for at least two decades, but until now that debate has come with severe limitations, focusing on ‘modern’ French and German romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Attempting to find common ground among scholars from various disciplines and regions, Medieval Narratives between History and Fiction seeks to clarify the subject by including a wide range of medieval narratives irrespective of their modern label and affiliation to certain disciplines. The chapters collected here broaden the discussion by moving beyond the canonical French and German romances, focusing mainly on texts in Greek, Latin and Old Norse (and also some in Serbian), and by opting for a ‘peripheral’ and a long-term view of the subject. The chapters take us from Graeco-Roman antiquity to medieval France, then to the Scandinavian lands and from there to south-eastern Europe and Byzantium as the link back to the Graeco-Roman world. This disposition also follows a spiral motion in time, leading us from antiquity to late antiquity and from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By expanding the linguistic as well as the geographical and chronological scope of the debate, the book shows that we should not think of a ‘rise of fiction’ per se; rather, we should see fiction as a potential always imbued in and related to historical narratives – and recognize that non-fictional and non-vernacular writing are important for a modern understanding of medieval fiction."--
Medieval Narrative
Medieval Narrative - 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 Narrative write by Tony Davenport. This book was released on 2004-09-23. Medieval Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further. Medieval definitions and theories of narrative are considered in relation to modern narratology and the major medieval types of narrative are discussed. The perspective in this book is mainly English, with Chaucer as a central figure, but it refers to a range of well-known European texts and writers, such as Marie de France, Cretien de Troyes, the Niebelungenlied, the Poem of the Cid, Dante and Boccaccio.
Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond
Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond - 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 Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond write by . This book was released on 2016-09-27. Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked in order to meet the tastes and cultural expectations of new audiences, thus becoming common intellectual property of all the peoples around the Mediterranean shores. Among others, the volume examines for the first time popular eastern tales, such as Kalila and Dimna, Sindbad, Barlaam and Joasaph, and Arabic epics together with their Byzantine adaptations. Original Byzantine love romances, both learned and vernacular, are discussed together with their Persian counterparts and with later adaptations of western stories. This combination of such disparate narrative material aims to highlight both the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean world. Contributors are Carolina Cupane, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Massimo Fusillo, Corinne Jouanno, Grammatiki A. Karla, Bettina Krönung, Renata Lavagnini, Ulrich Moennig, Ingela Nilsson, Claudia Ott, Oliver Overwien, Panagiotis Roilos, Julia Rubanovich, Ida Toth, Robert Volk and Kostas Yiavis.
Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative
Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative - 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 Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative write by Suzanne M. Yeager. This book was released on 2008-11-06. Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.
