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Book A critical edition of the 13th and 14th centuries Old French poem versions of the    Vie de Saint Alexis

Download or read book A critical edition of the 13th and 14th centuries Old French poem versions of the Vie de Saint Alexis written by Charles E. Stebbins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism.

Book The Lady as Saint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brigitte Cazelles
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2015-02-23
  • ISBN : 0812292308
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The Lady as Saint written by Brigitte Cazelles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and provides extensive commentary on the portrayal of female spirituality.

Book An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Alexis Studies  la Vie de Saint Alexis

Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Alexis Studies la Vie de Saint Alexis written by Christopher Storey and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invention of Saintliness

Download or read book The Invention of Saintliness written by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in late antique saints is growing Takes an approach which combines historical and literary studies - will appeal cross disciplines to both groups, as well as appealing to scholars of religion International range of eminent contributors

Book Christina of Markyate

Download or read book Christina of Markyate written by Samuel Fanous and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, and drawing on research from a wide range of disciplines, this interdisciplinary study provides students with a fascinating and comprehensive collection that surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman.

Book The Tradition of the Image of Edessa

Download or read book The Tradition of the Image of Edessa written by Mark Guscin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image of Edessa was an image of Christ, which, according to tradition, was of miraculous origin. It was taken from Edessa to Constantinople in 944, and disappeared from known history in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. It generated, however, a vast amount of literature and hundreds of copies in churches all over the Byzantine world. This book is a study of the literature, paintings, icons and other aspects related to the Image of Edessa. It examines how it was used as a tool to express Christ’s humanity and for various other purposes, and how some of the related literature became completely decontextualised and used as a magical charm, especially in the West.

Book Flesh Made Word

Download or read book Flesh Made Word written by Aviad M. Kleinberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful--the accounts of the lives of Christian saints. Kleinberg argues that these stories were more than edifying entertainment. By retelling the story of virtue and salvation, by expanding the religious imagination of the West, they were reshaping Christianity itself.

Book Jews and Christians in Thirteenth Century France

Download or read book Jews and Christians in Thirteenth Century France written by E. Baumgarten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.

Book The Vie de Saint Alexis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Download or read book The Vie de Saint Alexis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Alison Goddard Elliott and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first work of genuine literary merit in Old French is the Vie de saint Alexis, and later reworkings of it attest to its popularity. This volume offers two editions: a twelfth-century edition that was published inaccurately by Gaston Paris, and a thirteenth-century version that has not been published. These two revisions tell us a great deal about changing tastes and interests in the Middle Ages, and their implications exceed that of the fate of a particular work.

Book Fictions of Identity in Medieval France

Download or read book Fictions of Identity in Medieval France written by Donald Maddox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, first published in 2000, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood. These always arresting and highly significant moments of 'specular' encounter are examined in numerous Old and Middle French romances, hagiographic texts, epics and brief narratives. Maddox discloses the key role of identity in an original reading of the Lais of Marie de France as a unified collection, as well as in Arthurian literature, fictions of the courtly tryst, genealogies and medieval family romance. The study offers many new perspectives on the poetic and cultural implications of identity as an imaginary construct during the long formative period of French literature.

Book Medieval Marriage

Download or read book Medieval Marriage written by Neil Cartlidge and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Cartlidge analyses a number of continental texts which are central to any study of medieval marriage - the De amore of Andreas Capellanus, Erec et Enide, and the letters of Abelard and Heloise - but it is the concern with marriage in the medieval literature of England in particular that forms the substance of this book.

Book Tales in Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rella Kushelevsky
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2017-11-13
  • ISBN : 0814342728
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Tales in Context written by Rella Kushelevsky and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim. In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that becameSefer ha-ma'asim,the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe.The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover's wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant's daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories' meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight. The first part of Kushelevsky's work, "Cultural, Literary and Comparative Perspectives," presents the thesis that Sefer ha-ma'asim is a product of its time and place, and should therefore be studied within its literary and cultural surroundings, Jewish and vernacular, in northern France. An investigation of the scribe's techniques in reworking his Jewish and non-Jewish sources into a medieval discourse supports this claim. The second part of the manuscript consists of the tales themselves, in Hebrew and English translation, including brief comparative comments or citations. The third part, "An Analytical and Comparative Overview," offers an analysis of each tale as an individual unit, contextualized within its medieval framework and against the background of its parallels. Elisheva Baumgarten's epilogue adds social and historical background toSefer ha-ma'asim and discusses new ways in which it and other story compilations may be used by historians for an inquiry into the everyday life of medieval Jews. The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.

Book Saints and Scribes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Gehrke
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-02-17
  • ISBN : 0520097718
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Saints and Scribes written by Pamela Gehrke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-02-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this survey of thirteenth-century codices in Old French verse that contain at least one saint's life, the author finds a great variety among combinations, in contrast to the corpus of medieval Latin hagiographic manuscripts. She interprets the combinations of texts in four collections, demonstrating the value of codicological and textual analysis of entire manuscripts as an approach to medieval vernacular pious literature.

Book More about  Tirant lo Blanc    M  s sobre el  Tirant lo Blanc

Download or read book More about Tirant lo Blanc M s sobre el Tirant lo Blanc written by Anna Maria Babbi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and present. The knight Joanot Martorell wrote a classic of universal literature despite the fact that he belonged to a minority culture. Nowadays, after having been translated into numerous languages, it is studied in many European and American universities and elicits great interest among researchers, as proven by the contributions included in this book.

Book Hagiography  Romance and the Vie de Sainte Eufrosine

Download or read book Hagiography Romance and the Vie de Sainte Eufrosine written by Amy Victoria Ogden and published by Armstrong Monographs (Ecamml Press). This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saints and Heroes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Goddard Elliott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Saints and Heroes written by Alison Goddard Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: