Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520018303
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Viator
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520018303
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Beowulf
Author: Roy LiuzzaPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551111896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the poem's final creation will help readers see Beowulf as an exploration of the politics of kingship and the psychology of heroism, and as an early English meditation on the bridges and chasms between the pagan past and the Christian present. A generous sample of other modern versions of Beowulf sheds light on the process of translating the poem.
Ingeld and Christ
Author: Michael D. ChernissPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110866412
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 2 (1971)
Author: The Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520313593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A Beowulf Handbook
Author: Robert E. BjorkPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261501
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The most revered work composed in Old English,Beowulfis one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience,A Beowulf Handbookwill be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own research. In its clear and comprehensive treatment of the poem and its scholarship, this book will prove an indispensable guide to readers and specialists for many years to come.
Latin Learning and English Lore
Author: Michael LapidgePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802089194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 937
Book Description
The essays in Latin Learning and English Lore cover material from the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon literary record in the late seventh century to the immediately post-Conquest period of the twelfth century.
Old English Biblical Verse
Author: Paul G. RemleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052147454X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
Perception and Action in Medieval Europe
Author: Harald KleinschmidtPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843831465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Study of the changing nature of the perception of an action and the action itself, and how thought-processes altered radically in the middle ages. Can dancers dance for a year and a day without drinking, eating and sleeping? Can pictures be made to speak to their viewers? Can lavender purify the soul? The modern mind regards it as impossible and simply regards reports that these things happened as typical of the `fantastic' Middle Ages. In his new book, however, Harald Kleinschmidt argues that we should not be so swift to dismiss such matters. In this thought-provoking study of the logic of perception and action behind these and other stories, and of the history of the five senses, he argues that modern Western rationalism is peculiar in seeing an opposition between perceivers and the targets of their curiosity, actors and their environments or, in general terms, subject and object. Instead, he shows that whether active or passive, people saw their deeds as correlated and mutually dependent. Using a wide range of textual and pictorial sources, he goeson to demonstrate that the assumption of an opposition between subject and object resulted from fundamental changes of standards of perception and patterns of action that took place during the Middle Ages, resulting in the emergence of a new rationalism. HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT teaches in the College of International Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
The Moral Economy of the Countryside
Author: Rosamond FaithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Shows the 'moral economy' of early medieval England transformed by 'feudal thinking' in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Recursive Desire
Author: Jeremy M. DownesPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Recursive Desire rereads the epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and highlights its vital, shifting, polyvocal array (and disarray) of textual forces.