Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship - 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 Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship write by Kimberly Fonzo. This book was released on 2022-01-27. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates the creative ways in which William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer engaged with prophecy to cultivate their own identities and to speak to the problems of their age. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship examines the prophetic reputations of these well-known medieval authors whose fame made them especially subject to nationalist appropriation. Kimberly Fonzo explains that retrospectively co-opting the prophetic voices of canonical authors aids those looking to excuse or endorse key events of national history by implying that they were destined to happen. She challenges the reputations of Langland, Gower, and Chaucer as prophets of the Protestant Reformation, Richard II’s deposition, and secular Humanism, respectively. This intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works successfully makes the case that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in medieval authorial self-representations.
John of Rupescissa ́s VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE (1356)
John of Rupescissa ́s VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE (1356) - 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 John of Rupescissa ́s VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE (1356) write by Matthias Kaup. This book was released on 2016-12-08. John of Rupescissa ́s VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE (1356) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE was meant as an eschatological manual for the thirteen catastrophic years between its composition in December 1356 and the Thousand-Year Reign of Christ expected to begin in 1370. This manual, permeated by passion for clerical reform, was intended to give righteous Christians practical and spiritual advice on how to survive this period of tribulation. Likewise, it aimed to inform them about what to expect from the envoys of Satan, the Western and the Eastern Antichrists, but also from Christ’s warriors, the papal restorer and his secular assistant, the French-Roman Emperor. Moreover, it offered a brief outline of Christ’s Thousand-Year Reign and of Armageddon. The VADE MECUM was written by John of Rupescissa OFM (c. 1310-1366), the most prolific apocalyptic author of the Middle Ages, as the central work of in all three manuals designed to prepare Christendom for the impending crises. As a completely new text type and summary of the late Rupescissa’s doctrines, this eschatological manual fascinated numerous readers in the Late Middle Ages, who copied, reworked and translated it and made it thus a pivotal text of medieval apocalypticism: ten versions of the Latin VADE MECUM in more than forty manuscripts have come down to us. Rupescissa’s eschatological manual is his last known and most widely distributed work; the present study provides an annotated critical edition equipped with an English translation. It inducts in the manual’s contents, places them in the context of Rupescissa’s work and medieval prophetic literature, investigates important aspects of its reception and clarifies the relationships between its different versions. Furthermore, it ends with a critical edition of the VENI MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE, the most influential compendious version of the VADE MECUM. Thus this book offers an indispensable fundamental contribution to the flourishing studies of Rupescissa and medieval apocalypticism.
Humanities Index
Humanities Index - 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 Humanities Index write by . This book was released on 1991. Humanities Index available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Song of the Nibelungs
Song of the Nibelungs - 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 Song of the Nibelungs write by . This book was released on 2008-01-08. Song of the Nibelungs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 - 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 Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 write by Devoney Looser. This book was released on 2008-08-01. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
