Download or read book Elye of Saint Gilles written by J. Aaron Gruben and published by Post Tenebras Lux Books. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dwarven outcast, a passionate princess, a haughty horse, and a knight far from home… Young Elye of Saint Gilles is whisked away from his home by Saracen invaders, mere hours after becoming a knight. But the king who kidnapped this bold, Frankish warrior soon regrets it! Aided by unexpected friends, Elye’s exploits in the colorful lands of Outremer are filled with humor and high adventure, culminating in a surprising conclusion you won’t soon forget. Dive into these pages to rediscover a long-lost heroic tale that real knights once delighted in, originally sung by 13th century troubadours to entertain nobles and teach chivalry. Retold as never before, this wonderful story is written for young readers in a whimsical yet edifying style, with original characters and plot intact. It is adorned with illustrations by the author, features six original songs, and includes historical footnotes and appendices!
Download or read book Stories Set Forth with Fair Words written by Marianne E. Kalinke and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narratives into the alien literary environment of Iceland and the acculturation of the import to indigenous literary traditions. The study focuses on the oldest Icelandic copies of three chansons de geste and four of the earliest indigenous romances, both types transmitted in an Icelandic codex from around 1300. The impact of the translated epic poems on the origin and development of the Icelandic romances was considerable, yet they have been largely neglected by scholars in favour of the courtly romances. This study attests the role played by the epic poems in the composition of romance in Iceland, which introduced the motifs of the aggressive female wooer and of Christian-heathen conflict.
Download or read book Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies written by Laine E. Doggett and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender, male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies - male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and socially encode them. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist scholars. Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Daniel E. O'Sullivan is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi. Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace Heller, Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
Download or read book Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century written by Peter J. A. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s. With an expansive survey of theological and literary texts, bringing a range of unedited manuscript material to light in the process, Peter J. A. Jones exposes how twelfth-century writers came to connect laughter with spiritual transcendence and justice, and how this connection gave humour a unique political and spiritual power in both text and action. Ultimately, Jones argues that England's popular images of laughing kings and saints effectively reinstated a sublime charismatic authority, something truly rebellious at a moment in history when bureaucracy and codification were first coming to dominate European political life.
Download or read book Rebel Barons written by Luke Sunderland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance. Traditionally seen as France's epic literary monuments - the Chanson de Roland is often presented as foundational of French literature - chansons de geste in fact come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel Barons reads this corpus across its full range of historical and geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt, Rebel Barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing political realities at a crux period in European history.
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Download or read book King Solomon the Magus written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explores the schools of Solomonic magic around the world and works such as The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King and The Hygromancy of Solomon • Examines Solomon’s magical possessions, including his famous ring that gave him command over animals, weather, demons, genies, and djinns, as well as his amulets, remedies, exorcisms, and charms • Looks at the extensive presence of Solomon in folklore around the world, including in Armenia, Malaysia, Russia, Bulgaria, Morocco, India, and Egypt Looking at the Solomonic magical tradition and Solomon’s profound influence on esoteric traditions around the world, Claude Lecouteux reveals King Solomon not only as one of the great kings of prehistory but also as the ancient world’s foremost magician and magus. Examining the primary sources on Solomon, such as the Bible, the Koran, and the writings of Flavius Josephus, the author explores Solomon’s judgments, his explorations, his literary and scientific works (including an herbal), and his constructions beyond the eponymous temple, such as the copper city in Andalus built by the djinns and the baths of Sulayman. He also looks at Solomon’s magical possessions, such as his famous ring and the Philosopher’s Stone. The author examines the supernatural powers granted to Solomon by his ring, which he received from the angel Gabriel, including command over animals, weather, and demons, and explores in detail Solomon’s power over genies and djinns. Following the esoteric threads hidden within the primary sources on Solomon, Lecouteux reveals the work of Solomon the Magician, exploring his amulets, remedies, exorcisms, charms, and his influence on Arab and Western magic. Providing illustrations of sigils, talismans, and other magic symbols related to Solomon, the author examines the schools of Solomonic Folkloremagic and works such as The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King and The Hygromancy of Solomon. He then looks at the extensive presence of Solomon in folklore worldwide, including in Armenia, Israel, Malaysia, Eastern Europe, Russia, Morocco, India, Mongolia, and among the Abyssinians of Ethiopia and the Copts in Egypt. He also looks at Solomon’s role within the Bulgarian tradition from which the Cathars derived. Painting an in-depth portrait of Solomon the Magician-King, Lecouteux reveals how this legendary magus left a deep impression upon the occult, magical traditions, and philosophies of the ancient world that can still be felt to this day.
Download or read book Crescent Tides written by J. Aaron Gruben and published by Post Tenebras Lux Books. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient war of ideas... A lost veterinarian with a horse sedative... The clash of hundreds of war galleys... The dawn of a new age... Dr. Calvin Schmitt, a burned-out veterinarian with a long neglected interest in medieval history, finds himself accidently whisked back to the 16th century Mediterranean. Or was it an accident? Cal and his friends are suddenly the major obstacle in the wild scheme of an enigmatic villain intent on reshaping the world, and must decide if preserving the future they once knew is worth risking their lives in the past. Within these pages, you will find carefully researched historical facts centered around the pivotal Battle of Lepanto combined with speculative science fiction, philosophical discussion, relevant debate about the religious wars between Christianity and Islam, quirky humor, and page-turning storytelling!
Download or read book A Theology of Beasts written by J. Aaron Gruben and published by Post Tenebras Lux Books. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who invented veterinary medicine? What should a Christian think about animals? Are people better than animals? Do animals have souls? In an age of confusion about how we should relate to animals, this little book offers refreshing clarity. Whether you’re a veterinarian, interested in going to veterinary school, or just want to know more about the theology of human-animal relations, this book is for you! Did you know Christians have been heavily involved in the discipline of veterinary medicine from its very start? By exploring their oft forgotten stories and highlighting passages from the Bible that inspired them, we will see that they found firm backing from the words of Scripture. What does the Bible say about veterinary medicine? Delve into the truth about what God thinks of His animal creation and learn how God means us to relate to the beasts. Follow in the forgotten footsteps of great Christian philosophers who fleshed out Biblical thinking about animals.
Download or read book Fuzzy Logic 2 written by J. Aaron Gruben and published by Post Tenebras Lux Books. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s another full dozen medical mysteries centered around more of your furry patients–and those nefarious humans tagging along. Laugh, learn, and languish through another week at Animal Haus Veterinary Clinic, as you work through a new set of fascinating, interactive veterinary cases. In these pages, you’ll go through real animal cases–complete with X-rays, bloodwork panels, and more–then choose tests, make diagnoses, and pick a treatment plan. In addition, you’ll learn critical thinking skills involving inductive and deductive logic, and how to use a differential list. But keep your eyes open, and your mind sharp! You may find more than medicine to occupy your detective brain, as you learn to think like a veterinarian...again.
Download or read book The Stalwart Supinator written by J. Aaron Gruben and published by Post Tenebras Lux Books. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness the inception of a hero unlike any you’ve met before: the stalwart Supinator! He proves with every punch he’s a man who cares, a man who dares great deeds saner men don’t deign to do. Once a mild-mannered veterinarian, Tom Charger’s life is altered by a crippling (and highly unusual) disability. His new choice of career shakes society. Joined by a stranded Chinese tourist, The Supinator sets out to right injustice and protect the weak on the dangerous streets of downtown DC. The world is about to witness the madness of a modern knight errant. But will that madness prove to be a miracle? As smaller crimes roll into a more terrible plot than anyone suspected, DC just might realize it sorely needs just such a hero! (#3 in the Tangled Eons, but also a completely stand-alone story)
Download or read book Par deviers Rome m en revenrai errant written by Autori Vari and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2017-08-02T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume raccoglie gli atti del XXème Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l’étude des épopées romanes (Sapienza - Università di Roma, 20-24 luglio 2015) e presenta lo stato dell’arte e le ricerche in corso sull’epica romanza medievale propriamente detta, sulla sua posterità nell’età moderna e sulla produzione non romanza a essa correlata, offrendo un panorama ricco ‒ se non completo ‒ degli attuali orientamenti scientifici e dei risultati raggiunti. Per il congresso di Roma ‒ cui hanno preso parte studiosi provenienti dall’Europa, dal Nord e dal Sud America e dall’Africa ‒ sono stati proposti i seguenti temi: I. Rome et l’Italie dans les chansons de geste; II. Phénomènes de cyclisation: grandes et petites gestes; III. Le XVe siècle: proses et renouvellements; IV. L’histoire des recherches sur la matière de France; a questi si aggiungono gli interventi raccolti nella sezione Varia.
Download or read book PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences written by American Academy of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining the Medieval Afterlife written by Richard Matthew Pollard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, innovative study of how medieval people envisioned heaven, hell, and purgatory - images and imaginings that endure today.
Download or read book De sens rassis written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These articles are mainly concerned with medieval French literature, particularly those areas in which the honorand of the volume, Rupert T. Pickens, has distinguished himself: Old French Arthurian romance, Marie de France, chanson de geste, later poetry (including Villon), and the Occitan troubadour lyric. Among the contributors are some of the most significant scholars from the U.S.A., Canada, France, Switzerland, and the U.K. working in Old French studies today. The volume will be of interest to specialists in Old French, Occitan, and medieval literature generally. Some of the articles deal with relatively unknown works, and all are informed by current developments in medieval literary studies.
Download or read book The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem A Corpus Volume 2 L Z excluding Tyre written by Denys Pringle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete corpus of all the church buildings, of both the western and the oriental rites, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem for the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. This volume completes the general topographical coverage begun in volume I, and will be followed by a third volume dealing specifically with the major cities of Jerusalem, Acre and Tyre (which are excluded from the preceding volumes). The project, of which this series represents the final, definitive publication, has been sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. On completion the corpus will contain a topographical listing of all the 400 or more church buildings of the Kingdom that are attested by documentary or surviving archaeological evidence, and individual descriptions and discussion of them in terms of their identification, building history and architecture. Some of the buildings have been published before, but many others are published here for the first time.
