Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dyaloge Called Funus written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Renaissance English Text Society. This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divine and politike observations newly translated out of the Dutch language wherein they were lately divulged upon some lines in the speech of the Arch B of Canterbury pronounced in the Starre Chamber upon 14 June 1637 Translated by Theophilus written by William Laud and published by . This book was released on 1638 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pearl written by Jane Beal and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its language (the Northwest Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices.
Download or read book Orpheus in Middle Ages written by John Block Friedman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orpheus, the Thracian signer who charmed nature with the music of his lyre and traveled to the underworld to win back his wife, Ewydice, is a familiar figure in Western culture. Yet, as each age modified his deeds and altered the narrative to make the Orpheus myth conform to the values of the day, his legend acquired many new and surprising meanings. Friedman examines the various reshaping's of the myth from the Hellenistic age through the late Middle Ages. He presents primarily a literary study, but draws as well upon art and iconography, indicating how literary characterizations of Orpheus gave rise to new iconographical details for his portrayals in art, which in turn led to different portrayals in literature. He first outlines the figure of Orpheus in antiquity. He continues with an examination of the significant conceptual changes in the Orpheus myth. In the religious and philosophical writings of Hellenistic Jews and, later, Christians, Orpheus appears as a monotheist. He emerges as a Good Shepherd figure in late antique art and eventually is identified with Christ as a guide of men's souls to the afterlife. In the Middle Ages, Orpheus' relationship with Ewydice gains importance. The pair first serve a didactic and moralizing purpose, coming together as in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, more as the abstractions of reason and passion than as tragic lovers. In the later Middle Ages, however, they appear as a secular couple who illustrate the power of the god Amor over the human heart. Orpheus becomes a courtly knight and the writer of elegant love lyrics. The blending of these two medieval traditions is seen in Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice. Friedman pays special attention to this work as well as to the romance Sir Orfeo. Thus, the propagation of religious belief—one of the primary concerns of the early Middle Ages— was reflected in the early conceptions of Orpheus. Later, with the growth of the courtly love tradition Orpheus and Eurydice became significant as lovers. This book illustrates the vitality and flexibility that a myth must possess as it adapts to different eras and embodies the interests and concerns of each.
Download or read book Genesis and the Chemical Philosophy written by Michael Thomson Walton and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the following pages, I will outline the complex intellectual traditions surrounding the interaction of chemistry and Genesis from classical times into the seventeenth century. I will detail the baptism of chemistry into a Christian natural philosophy by Paracelsus and his heirs in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Chemical philosophers reexamined matter theory in light of Genesis. They developed a new epistemology, which focused on experiencing nature rather than relying on accepted texts. This attitude fostered quantitative experimentation, which ultimately transformed chemistry. With this transformation, Genesis itself lost its importance; the 'reading' of nature was no longer dependent on theological considerations. Chemistry moved from a theological to secular interpretation of nature, as is found in modern science."--Preface, p. xiii.
Download or read book Women Murder and Equity in Early Modern England written by Randall Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.
Download or read book Symbolism Allegory and Autobiography in the Pearl written by William Henry Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gawain Poet written by and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the five poems contained in this book, two are acknowledged masterpieces. The plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian romance, brilliantly interweaves elements of suspense and high comedy.
Download or read book Boethius in the Middle Ages written by Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German philosophical culture of the Middle Ages is inextricable linked to the thought of Albert the Great. This volume brings together 14 papers, which deal with Albert's influence from the points of view of mysticism, philosophy, and the history of universities.
Download or read book The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript written by Malcolm Andrew and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been newly revised and updated, taking account of some of the more important textual and interpretative notes and articles published on the poems since the appearance of the first edition in 1978.
Download or read book Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature written by Linda Lomperis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.
Download or read book Medieval Mythography From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres A D 433 1177 written by Jane Chance and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth.
Download or read book Biblia Pauperum written by Albert C. Labriola and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a 15th-century illustrated blockbook. The 40-leaf blockbook presents 120 illustrations of the most significant episodes in Scripture. Transcriptions of the Latin text are included, as well as complete English translations. There is also an extensive commentary.
Download or read book Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture written by Valerie Traub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analysing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns - humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theatre - in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject. The scope of this analysis expands the terrain explored by feminist theory, while its feminist focus reveals that the subject is always gendered - although the terms in which gender is conceived and represented change across history. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture not only explores the representation of gendered subjects, but in its commitment to balancing the productive tensions of methodological diversity, also speaks to contemporary challenges facing feminism.
Download or read book Text and Matter written by Robert J. Blanch and published by Whitston Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . 'Text and Matter' offers fourteen original, never- before-published essays on all four Pearl-poet poems. A fifteenth essay . . . summarizes [an] earlier book-length study. . . . Each essay has something to teach us and each essay adds to the critical momentum of Text and Matter, making it a valuable scholarly resource."South Atlantic Review
