Author: Rosalind Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384219X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England
Author: Rosalind Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384219X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384219X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
Magic and Religion in Medieval England
Author: Catherine Rider
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy condemned some of these as magic, many of these practices involved religious language, rituals, or objects. For instance, charms recited to cure illnesses invoked God and the saints, and love spells used consecrated substances such as the Eucharist. Magic and Religion in Medieval England explores the entanglement of magical practices and the clergy during the Middle Ages, uncovering how churchmen decided which of these practices to deem acceptable and examining the ways they persuaded others to adopt their views. Covering the period from 1215 to the Reformation, Catherine Rider traces the change in the church’s attitude to vernacular forms of magic. She shows how this period brought the clergy more closely into contact with unofficial religious practices than ever before, and how this proximity prompted them to draw up precise guidelines on distinguishing magic from legitimate religion. Revealing the necessity of improving clerical education and the pastoral care of the laity, Magic and Religion in Medieval England provides a fascinating picture of religious life during this period.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy condemned some of these as magic, many of these practices involved religious language, rituals, or objects. For instance, charms recited to cure illnesses invoked God and the saints, and love spells used consecrated substances such as the Eucharist. Magic and Religion in Medieval England explores the entanglement of magical practices and the clergy during the Middle Ages, uncovering how churchmen decided which of these practices to deem acceptable and examining the ways they persuaded others to adopt their views. Covering the period from 1215 to the Reformation, Catherine Rider traces the change in the church’s attitude to vernacular forms of magic. She shows how this period brought the clergy more closely into contact with unofficial religious practices than ever before, and how this proximity prompted them to draw up precise guidelines on distinguishing magic from legitimate religion. Revealing the necessity of improving clerical education and the pastoral care of the laity, Magic and Religion in Medieval England provides a fascinating picture of religious life during this period.
The King of Tars
Author: John H Chandler
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442382
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442382
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Author: Miri Rubin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials--each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field--the collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions assembles sources reflecting different genres, regions, and styles, including prayer books, chronicles, diaries, liturgical books, sermons, hagiography, and handbooks for the laity and clergy. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives, and explores such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority. Enriched by expert analysis and suggestions for further reading, Medieval Christianity in Practice gives students and general readers alike the necessary background and foundations for an appreciation of the creativity and multiplicity of medieval Christian religious culture.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials--each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field--the collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions assembles sources reflecting different genres, regions, and styles, including prayer books, chronicles, diaries, liturgical books, sermons, hagiography, and handbooks for the laity and clergy. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives, and explores such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority. Enriched by expert analysis and suggestions for further reading, Medieval Christianity in Practice gives students and general readers alike the necessary background and foundations for an appreciation of the creativity and multiplicity of medieval Christian religious culture.
Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance
Author: Rosalind Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
Author: Anthony Bale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England
Author: R. B. Dobson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852851201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses aspects of church life in each of the three dioceses of Carlisle, Durham and York, identifying the main features of religion in the north and placing contemporary religious attitudes in both a social and a local context
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852851201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses aspects of church life in each of the three dioceses of Carlisle, Durham and York, identifying the main features of religion in the north and placing contemporary religious attitudes in both a social and a local context
English Medieval Romance
Author: William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance
Author: Emily Houlik-Ritchey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472133357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An innovative comparative study of Middle English and medieval Castilian romance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472133357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An innovative comparative study of Middle English and medieval Castilian romance