Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
Author: A. Florschuetz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137343494
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Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
Author: A. Florschuetz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137343494
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Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Author: Amy Burge
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137593563
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This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture

Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture
Author: Marian Bleeke
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017
Genre: Motherhood
ISBN: 1783272503
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An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture.

Thinking Medieval Romance

Thinking Medieval Romance
Author: Katherine C. Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192514350
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Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.

Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend

Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Author: Katherine Marie Olley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Kinship
ISBN: 1843846373
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This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.

Melusine's Footprint

Melusine's Footprint
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004355952
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In Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine’s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure’s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud’Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.

Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Author: Mary C. Flannery
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137428627
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We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and why reading happened.

Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England

Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England
Author: Emily Dolmans
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 1843845687
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An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.

Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe

Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Author: Alfred Thomas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137542608
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Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.