Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature

S Shimomura

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this stud... Lees meer

The Medieval Motion Picture

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experienc... Lees meer

The Disney Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for... Lees meer

Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England

M Dockray-Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England sifts through the historical evidence to describe and analyze a world of violence and intrigue, where ... Lees meer

Street Scenes

S Aronson-Lehavi

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The pe... Lees meer

Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500

Murielle Gaude-Ferragu

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdo... Lees meer

Studies in the Medieval Atlantic

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays... Lees meer

Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

T Tinkle

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scho... Lees meer

The Vernacular Spirit

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology, ' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages ... Lees meer

Women's Networks in Medieval France

Kathryn L Reyerson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerso... Lees meer

Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

J Pitcher

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources... Lees meer

The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500

H Hurlburt

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study trac... Lees meer

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

N Hermes

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be ... Lees meer

Chaucerotics

Geoffrey W Gust

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of "pornographic literary theory" to ope... Lees meer

Chaucer's Jobs

D Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the p... Lees meer

Boccaccio the Philosopher

Filippo Andrei

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Offers knowledge and analysis for a wide range of scholars including philosophers, postcolonial scholars, literary medievalists, and those interested ... Lees meer

The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama

Robert S Sturges

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of p... Lees meer

Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College

Mary Dockray-Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Provides an important examination on the history of the study of Anglo-Saxon e and early medieval literature Connects historical issues of inclusion i... Lees meer

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the p... Lees meer

Writing Plague

Alfred Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague writing" from the late... Lees meer

The Lesbian Premodern

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing l... Lees meer

Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

E Jordan

• Hardcover | Engels | New Middle Ages
• By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronag... Lees meer

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages | nr. 2
• This volume of original essays employs the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reval why Joan of Arc was ... Lees meer

Micro Middle Ages

Paul Edward Dutton

• Paperback | Engels | New Middle Ages
• Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conc... Lees meer