Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions
Author | : Lynn Staley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 027104022X |
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Author | : Lynn Staley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 027104022X |
Author | : Margery Kempe |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0140432515 |
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.
Author | : Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323655 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271046761 |
In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial. Richard II, who ruled from 1377 to 1399, succeeded to the throne as a child after the fifty-year reign of Edward III, and found himself beset throughout his reign by military, political, religious, economic, and social problems that would have tried even the most skilled of statesmen. At the same time, these years saw some of England's most gifted courtly writers, among them Chaucer and Gower, who were keenly attuned to the political machinations erupting around them. I n Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II Staley does not so much "read" literature through history as offer a way of "reading" history through its refractions in literature. In essence, the text both isolates and traces what is an actual search for a language of power during the reign of Richard II and scrutinizes the ways in which Chaucer and other courtly writers participated in these attempts to articulate the concept of princely power. As one who took it upon himself to comment on the various means by which history is made, Chaucer emerges from Staley's narrative as a poet without peer.
Author | : Rosemary Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon P. |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Norman P. Tanner |
Publisher | : PIMS |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780888440662 |
Author | : Catherine Sanok |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812239865 |
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity—the repeated injunction to imitate the saints—not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition.
Author | : Margaret Walters |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019280510X |
This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
Author | : Katharine W. Jager |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-07-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030183343 |
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Author | : Ronald Carter |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780415243179 |
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.