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Author | : Lisa M. Bitel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199887489 |
Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors. Together, they built their faith over many years, brick by brick, into their churches and shrines, cemeteries, houses, and even their markets and farms.
Author | : Lisa M. Bitel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199714398 |
Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors. Together, they built their faith over many years, brick by brick, into their churches and shrines, cemeteries, houses, and even their markets and farms.
Author | : Lisa M. Bitel |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501711776 |
Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Author | : Emma O. Bérat |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009434756 |
Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.
Author | : Jessica Berman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2001-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139430777 |
In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.
Author | : Amy C. Mulligan |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526141124 |
Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place – developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes – in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.
Author | : Cillian O'Hogan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191086878 |
Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity. Cillian O'Hogan sets Prudentius in the context of other late antique authors, including Lactantius, Jerome, Augustine, and Endelechius, and argues that the poet makes use of allusion to Augustan and early imperial Latin authors to present the late Roman landscape as one markedly altered by the arrival of Christianity, though retaining the grandeur of the pagan past. This volume examines his conception of the world as a text, his use of intertextuality to describe literary journeys, his view of the civic function of Christian martyrdom, his conception of heaven, and his attitude towards art and architecture, combining philological and intertextual criticism with approaches drawn from the fields of book history, cultural geography, and theology to paint a fuller and richer picture of the greatest of the Christian Latin poets.
Author | : Lyn Hejinian |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2000-12-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0520922271 |
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.
Author | : Martin Locker |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2015-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784910775 |
This book seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of Britain to investigate the practicalities of travel along the Medieval road network.
Author | : Nina A. Mallory |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-11-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0429708866 |
A study of the art and artists of seventeenth-century Spain examines historical, religious, cultural, and political influences. Including entries on the School of Madrid, Baroque painting of Seville and artists; El Greco, Luis Tristan, Juan Sanchez Cotan, Pedro Orrente, Juan Bautista Mayno, Juan van der Hamen, and Vicencio Carducho.