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Book Myth  Man  and Sovereign Saint

Download or read book Myth Man and Sovereign Saint written by Maureen Slattery and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work demonstrates a methodology to extract the full cultural richness of a medieval text composed within a largely oral culture. Maureen Slattery re-examines the traditional literary manner of reading Joinville's classic medieval portrait of the famous thirteenth century king and saint: Louis IX of France. By distingui- shing and analyzing the royal motifs of Joinville's oral, eye-witness and written sources, the study illustrates a plurality of social meanings surrounding King Louis. Joinville's oral sources speak the collective popular myths and primi- tive mentalities surrounding the French monarchy. His visual witness, one of the first lay accounts of a Capelian king, individualizes Louis with the emerging modern vision of noble lineage. His written sources eulogize the king within clerical literary traditions of the public monarch and sovereign saint. This textual analysis unearths distinct layers of tradition surrounding the king. Both Louis and Joinville emerge very different from what they were in earlier scholarship.

Book Myth  Man  and Sovereign Saint

Download or read book Myth Man and Sovereign Saint written by Maureen Slattery and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work demonstrates a methodology to extract the full cultural richness of a medieval text composed within a largely oral culture. Maureen Slattery re-examines the traditional literary manner of reading Joinville's classic medieval portrait of the famous thirteenth century king and saint: Louis IX of France. By distingui- shing and analyzing the royal motifs of Joinville's oral, eye-witness and written sources, the study illustrates a plurality of social meanings surrounding King Louis. Joinville's oral sources speak the collective popular myths and primi- tive mentalities surrounding the French monarchy. His visual witness, one of the first lay accounts of a Capelian king, individualizes Louis with the emerging modern vision of noble lineage. His written sources eulogize the king within clerical literary traditions of the public monarch and sovereign saint. This textual analysis unearths distinct layers of tradition surrounding the king. Both Louis and Joinville emerge very different from what they were in earlier scholarship.

Book Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities

Download or read book Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities written by Jacqueline Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

Book The Making of Saint Louis

Download or read book The Making of Saint Louis written by Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to King Louis IX of France's canonization in 1297 and the consolidation and spread of his cult.

Book Crusading in the Age of Joinville

Download or read book Crusading in the Age of Joinville written by Caroline Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusading in the Age of Joinville enhances the current literature dealing with the issue of crusaders' motivations by providing a detailed examination of the ideas and experiences of those who promoted and participated in the crusades of Louis IX of France in the mid-thirteenth century. It assesses the possibilities and problems associated with the source material available to historians of crusading in the thirteenth century and highlights the unique nature and value of John of Joinville's Life of Saint Louis. Two distinct approaches are taken to the analysis of these sources in order to demonstrate their richness. The first of these is thematic and is employed to reveal contrasts between the idealised images of crusading depicted by its promoters and the experiences of those who responded to their calls to take the cross. Secondly, the careers of Joinville and his close contemporary Oliver of Termes provide extended case studies demonstrating that involvement with crusading could have very different origins and expressions. Overall, Crusading in the Age of Joinville provides an innovative and accessible study of crusaders and crusading in the thirteenth century.

Book Magna Carta Ancestry  A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families  2nd Edition  2011

Download or read book Magna Carta Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families 2nd Edition 2011 written by and published by Douglas Richardson. This book was released on with total page 2635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France

Download or read book Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France written by William Chester Jordan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt officials, Jews (particularly moneylenders), heretics, and Muslims. A number of the essays also describe the execution of royal policies with respect to these groups and evaluate their impact, both in terms of the groups affected and their influence on further developments in royal ideology. A key figure is that of Louis IX, Saint Louis (r. 1226-1270).

Book Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature written by Robert T. Lambdin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most influential works; its emphasis is on English texts, but also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Germanic, Italian, and Russian works.

Book The New Historians of the Twelfth century Renaissance

Download or read book The New Historians of the Twelfth century Renaissance written by Peter Damian-Grint and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the striking new style of writing history in the twelfth century, by men such as Gaimar, Wace and Ambroise.

Book Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination  c  1150 1400

Download or read book Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination c 1150 1400 written by M. Cassidy-Welch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians.

Book The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church written by Andrew Louth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 4474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; other church leaders; saints; and mystics. In this new edition, great efforts have been made to increase and strengthen coverage of non-Anglican denominations (for example non-Western European Christianity), as well as broadening the focus on Christianity and the history of churches in areas beyond Western Europe. In particular, there have been extensive additions with regards to the Christian Church in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Australasia. Significant updates have also been included on topics such as liturgy, Canon Law, recent international developments, non-Anglican missionary activity, and the increasingly important area of moral and pastoral theology, among many others. Since its first appearance in 1957, the ODCC has established itself as an essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, and an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.

Book Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages written by Jennifer Lawler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world. There are entries on queens, empresses, and other women in positions of leadership as well as entries on topics such as work, marriage and family, households, employment, religion, and various other aspects of women's lives in the Middle Ages. Genealogies of queens and empresses accompany the text in an appendix.

Book Masculine Submission in Troubadour Lyric

Download or read book Masculine Submission in Troubadour Lyric written by Sandra Resnick Alfonsi and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough examination of the theme of masculine submission as manifest in approximately 1000 poems, created by some 80 troubadours who lived from the 10th-13th centuries. The theories of the origins of Courtly Love have been reviewed for possible sources for the theme of masculine submission. A study of the vocabulary of submission has been presented so as to illustrate the carefully construed nature of this theme and to give testimony to its fundamental importance in the formulation of the Courtly Love casuistry.

Book Christian Muslim Relations  A Bibliographical History  Volume 4  1200 1350

Download or read book Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 4 1200 1350 written by David Thomas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 1045 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 4 (CMR 4) is a history of all the known works on Christian-Muslim relations in the period 1200-1350. It comprises introductory essays and detailed entries containing descriptions, assessments and compehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

Book European Monarchy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heinz Duchhardt
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9783515062336
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book European Monarchy written by Heinz Duchhardt and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus dem Inhalt: E. Fr�zouls: De la maiestas populi Romani � la majest� imp�riale � B. Bedos-Rezak: Ritual in the Royal Chancery: Text, Image, and the Representation of Kingship in Medieval French Diplomas (700-1200) � S. Bagge: Kingship in Medieval Norway. Ideal and Reality � D. Sadler: The King as Subject, the King as Author: Art and Politics of Louis IX � G. Klaniczay: Representations of the Evil Ruler in the Middle Ages � G. Melville: H�rauts et h�ros � M.D. Birnbaum: Matthias Corvinus in Humanist and Popular Perspective � M.S. Flier: The Iconography of Royal Procession: Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite Palm Sunday Ritual � L. M. Bryant: Politics, Ceremonies, and Embodiments of Majesty in Henry II's France � H. Weber: Das �Toucher Royal� in Frankreich zur Zeit Heinrichs IV. und Ludwigs XIII. � D. J. Sturdy: The Royal Touch in England � A. Wolf: Ein �Comic� fuer den Kaiser � A. Gu�ry: L'Image perdue des Rois de France (XVIIIe-XXe si�cle) � D. E. Barclay: Ritual, Ceremonial, and the �Invention� of a Monarchical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Prussia.

Book Caribbean Sovereignty  Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

Download or read book Caribbean Sovereignty Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization written by Linden Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of these nations, and the increasing economic vulnerabilities of the region have generated much popular and policy discussions over the attainability of these goals. The geo-political significance of the region, its growing importance as a major transshipment gateway for illegal drugs coming from Latin America to the United States, issues of national security, vulnerability to corruption, and increases in the level of violence and social disorder have all raised serious questions not only about the notions of sovereignty, democracy, and development but also about the long-term viability of these nations. This volume is intended to make a strategic intervention into the discourse on these important topics, but the importance of its contribution resides in its challenge to conventional wisdom on these matters, and the multidisciplinary approach it employs. Recognized experts in the field identify these concerns in the context of globalization, economic crises, and their impact on the Caribbean.