Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Author: T. Pugh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230610528

This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Author: T. Pugh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781403984876

This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.

Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life

Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life
Author: Philip Daileader
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137532939

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, Ferrer spent the final two decades of his life traversing Europe, preparing the world for its imminent destruction. Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), His World and Life reassesses the controversial preacher's motives, methods, and impact, tracing Ferrer's journey from obscure logician to angel of the apocalypse, as he came to be known. At the same time, the book offers new insights into the depth and breadth of late medieval apocalyptic anticipation, and into the processes that ultimately led to the expulsions of Spain's Jews and Muslims.

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.

The King’s Bishops

The King’s Bishops
Author: E. Crosby
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137352124

This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots
Author: C. Keene
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137035641

Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.

Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages

Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages
Author: M. Shadis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230103138

The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (queen of France), Urraca (queen of Portugal), Costanza (a Cistercian nun of Las Huelgas) and Leonor, (queen of Aragon) provide the context for a study focusing on Berenguela of Castile, queen of Leon through marriage and of Castile by right of inheritance, whose most significant accomplishment was to enable the successful rule of her son Fernando.

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard
Author: M. McLaughlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2009-12-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230101879

The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin McLaughlin's edition is the complete correspendence with commentary.

Julian of Norwich's Legacy

Julian of Norwich's Legacy
Author: S. Salih
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009-11-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230101623

Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies of Julian may remark in passing on her popularity, but none have attempted a detailed study of her reception. This collection fills that gap: it outlines the full reception history from the extant manuscripts to the present day, looking at Julian in devotional cultures, in modernist poetry and present-day popular literature, and in her iconography in Norwich, both as a pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction.

Strange Beauty

Strange Beauty
Author: A. Siewers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2009-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023010052X

Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.