Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature

Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature
Author: S. Shimomura
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137105216

This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession about ends and changes, reflected in different genres spanning several hundred years.

Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe
Author: T. Earenfight
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230106013

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.

Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing

Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing
Author: A. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230620736

This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.

Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship

Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship
Author: N. Silleras-Fernandez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230612962

Based on an exhaustive and varied study of predominantly unpublished archival material as well as a variety of literary and non-literary sources, this book investigates the relation between patronage, piety and politics in the life and career of one Late Medieval Spain's most intriguing female personalities, Maria De Luna.

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
Author: Anne McTaggart
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137039523

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

Constructing Chaucer

Constructing Chaucer
Author: G. Gust
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2009-05-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230621619

This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

Women and the Medieval Epic

Women and the Medieval Epic
Author: S. Poor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137066377

These essays explore the place, function and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs and symbols in Medieval epics from Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany and Scandinavia. Usually believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, this book looks at the key roles often played by women and the impact of this on the history of gender.

Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century Spain

Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century Spain
Author: L. Haywood
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137040580

This book is an innovative study of humour and the body in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330), using modern analytical techniques to examine the place of the Libro's bawdy and grotesque in relation to secular and sacred culture.

The King and the Whore

The King and the Whore
Author: E. Drayson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230608817

This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.

Langland's Early Modern Identities

Langland's Early Modern Identities
Author: S. Kelen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2007-11-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230608760

This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages.