Dante's Testaments

Peter S Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancien... Lees meer

Literary History and the Challenge of Philology

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on... Lees meer

'Begotten, Not Made'

Virginia Burrus

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine ... Lees meer

The Unholy Grail

Brigitte Cazelles

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• The history of the Grail legend begins with a romance composed by Chretien de Troyes in the last decades of the twelfth century, Perceval ou Le Conte ... Lees meer

Space Between Words

Paul Saenger

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in ... Lees meer

Dying for God

Daniel Boyarin

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quit... Lees meer

Reading Myth

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of t... Lees meer

Contrary Things

Catherine Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the ... Lees meer

Dante's Testaments

Peter S Hawkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancien... Lees meer

The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama

Rainer Warning

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to a... Lees meer

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Bruce W Holsinger

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges sta... Lees meer

'Begotten, Not Made'

Virginia Burrus

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine ... Lees meer

The Subject Medieval/Modern

Peter Haidu

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in med... Lees meer

Image of the Medieval Peasant as Alien and Exemplary

Paul Freedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires... Lees meer

The Subject Medieval/Modern

Peter Haidu

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in med... Lees meer

Writing the Dead

Armando Petrucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin--and why have they continu... Lees meer

Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

Sylvia Huot

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• The motet began as a form of sacred vocal music in several parts; a cantus firmus or tenor, drawn from sacred Latin chant, served as a foundation for ... Lees meer

Courtly Contradictions

Sarah Kay

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of "courtly love"? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Midd... Lees meer

Desire Against the Law

James F Burke

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature... Lees meer

Mismapping the Underworld

John Kleiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• A Stanford University Press classic. Lees meer

The Artificiality of Christianity

M B Pranger

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercis... Lees meer

Dying for God

Daniel Boyarin

• Paperback | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quit... Lees meer

Pursuing History

Ralph Hanna

• Hardcover | Engels | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• A Stanford University Press classic. Lees meer

Space Between Words

Paul Saenger

• Hardcover | Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
• This book explains how a change in writing-the introduction of word separation-led to the development of silent reading during the period from late an... Lees meer