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Book Parva pro magnis munera

Download or read book Parva pro magnis munera written by Monique Goullet and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History  Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity  550   850

Download or read book History Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity 550 850 written by Helmut Reimitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental political, religious and social structures, including a change from the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces. Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing post-Roman world.

Book Medieval Allegory As Epistemology

Download or read book Medieval Allegory As Epistemology written by Marco Nievergelt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the Pélerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared, closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century, in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary-historical relations linking the work of the three poets, but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind, knowledge, and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers, but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms, deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first-person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.

Book The P  lerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville

Download or read book The P lerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville written by Marco Nievergelt and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on the unjustly neglected Pèlerinage works by de Guileville, showing in particular its huge contemporary influence. The fourteenth-century French pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville (or "Digulleville") shaped late medieval and early modern European culture. Portions of the Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, Pèlerinage de l'Ame and Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist survive in more than eighty medieval manuscripts and translations into English, German, Dutch, Castilian and Latin appeared by the early sixteenth century, along with adaptations into Frenchprose and dramatic forms and numerous early printed editions. This volume furnishes a better understanding of the allegories' circulation, creation and importance from the 1330s into the 1560s, via trans-national, multilingual and interdisciplinary perspectives. The collection's first section, on "Tradition", identifies the patterns that developed as Deguileville's corpus captured the attentions of adaptors, annotators and illustrators. The second section, on "Authority", addresses the cultural context of Deguileville himself, his approach to poetic craft and the status of his French and Latin poetry. The third section, on "Influence", closely examines selected connections between the Pèlerinages and the literary productions of later authors, translators and reading communities, including the French verse of Philippe de Mézières, Castilian print adaptation, and the early modern Croatian novel.Overall, the collection provides a variety of approaches to examining literary reception, attending not only to texts but also to evidence of surviving manuscripts and early printed editions; it offers new insights into a rich and complex allegorical corpus and its impact on European literary history. Marco Nievergelt is a Maître-Assistant in Early English Literature in the English department of the University of Lausanne.Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath studies English and French medieval literature, with a particular interest in allegory, translation studies, and the history of the material text. Contributors: Flor Maria Bango de la Campa, Robert L.A. Clark, Graham Robert Edwards, Dolores Grmaca, Andreas Kablitz, John Moreau, Ursula Peters, Fabienne Pomel, Pamela Sheingorn, Sara V. Torres, Géraldine Veysseyre

Book Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth  to Twelfth Century West

Download or read book Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth to Twelfth Century West written by Steven Vanderputten and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question "To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a `human resource' to the development of reformed monastic communities in the ninth- to twelfth-century west?" Covering a broad geographical area, papers consider one or several of three key points of interest: the direct contribution of abbots and abbesses to the shaping of reformed realities; their influence over future modes of leadership; and the way in which later generations of monastics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.

Book The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia  Update

Download or read book The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia Update written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliography includes material published from 2007 to 2009. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its first update (Brill 2007) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic and Muslim Invasions, and more. In addition, peoples such as the Vandals, Sueves, Basques, Alans and Byzantines are included. The book contains author and subject indexes and is extensively cross-indexed for easy consultation. A periodicals index of hundreds of journals accompanies the volume. Further updates are to be expected at intervals of three years.

Book Men in the Middle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steffen Patzold
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2016-05-24
  • ISBN : 3110436205
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Men in the Middle written by Steffen Patzold and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.

Book P  Ovidii Nasonis Qvae Svpersvnt

Download or read book P Ovidii Nasonis Qvae Svpersvnt written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ovid with an English Translation  Tristia  Ex Ponto

Download or read book Ovid with an English Translation Tristia Ex Ponto written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments

Download or read book How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments written by Philip L. Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 1083 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one of the seven sacraments, which defined the role of married folk in the church. Although it had ancient roots, this new way of regarding marriage raised many problems, to which scholastic theologians applied all their ingenuity. By the late Middle Ages, the doctrine was fully established in Christian thought and practice but not yet as dogma. In the sixteenth century, with the entire Catholic teaching on marriage and celibacy and its associated law and jurisdiction under attack by the Protestant reformers, the Council of Trent defined the doctrine as a dogma of faith for the first time but made major changes to it. Rather than focusing on a particular aspect of intellectual and institutional developments, this book examines them in depth and in detail from their ancient precedents to the Council of Trent.

Book The Broad Stone of Honour  Trancredus

Download or read book The Broad Stone of Honour Trancredus written by Kenelm Henry Digby and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tancredus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1846
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Tancredus written by Kenelm Henry Digby and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Broad Stone of Honour

Download or read book The Broad Stone of Honour written by Kenelm Henry Digby and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ovid s Revisions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francesca Martelli
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-12-05
  • ISBN : 1107037719
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Revisions written by Francesca Martelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizes Ovid's tendency to edit his major works and advertise their revised status, a distinctive feature of his literary career.

Book Latin Elegiac Verse

Download or read book Latin Elegiac Verse written by A.M. Devine and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking feature of Latin elegiac verse is its very free word order. One gets the impression that the word order is just random or that the rules of Latin syntax have been suspended for metrical convenience. Combining ample philological documentation with an overall theoretical stance, this book argues that these impressions are wrong and proceeds to analyze the syntax of Latin verse as a coherent system generated by the application of a small set of derivational rules. While these rules are independently available syntactic mechanisms like scrambling, stranding and verb raising, their systematically regular application both at the clausal and at the phrasal level is remarkable. Not only complete constituents but also partial constituents are constantly attracted towards the left edge of the phrase that contains them. The cumulative effect of this is to narrow the extent and attenuate the weight of the nuclear assertion, which reduces its processing domain and the span of its prosodic correlate. This book will be of interest both to Classicists and to linguists: it aims to solve an old problem in Classical philology, while at the same time working out a configurational syntax for a language with extreme free word order.

Book A los se  ores director y catedraticos del Establecimiento de Medicina de esta capital  en testimonio de gratitud  los alumnos del mismo   Signed  Estevan Zubisar  and others

Download or read book A los se ores director y catedraticos del Establecimiento de Medicina de esta capital en testimonio de gratitud los alumnos del mismo Signed Estevan Zubisar and others written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Eight Weeks  Journal in Norway   c   in 1852

Download or read book An Eight Weeks Journal in Norway c in 1852 written by Sir Charles Henry John Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: