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  • Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape

    Critical Essays

    de Cheryl Alison, Sarah Bouttier, Sarah Giragosian, Randy Schiff, David Tagnani, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Isabel Sobral Campos, Craig Santos Perez, John Charles Ryan, Heather H. Yeung0, Benay Blend1 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • The Politics of Ecology

    Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain

    de Randy P. Schiff, Joseph Taylor ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life in medieval Britain, whether animal or vegetable, was subject to the same legal machine that enabled ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    de Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

    de Homer ...
    Traducido por Hugh G. Evelyn-White ...
    A cornerstone of ancient Greek religious poetry, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter offers a profound exploration of divine power, maternal devotion, and the mysteries of life and death.Composed in the 7th century BC, this foundational text centers on the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, whose abduction by Hades catalyzes the seasonal cycle and the origin of the Eleusinian Mysteries-one of ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edición de Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    de Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Mythology

    Edición de Carolyne Larrington, Paul L. Acker ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

    Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England

    de Theresa Coletti ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)

    de E. Jenkins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success. ... Leer más

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  • Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

    Becoming the Chosen People

    de Professor Samantha Zacher ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Nidrstigningar Saga

    Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”

    de Dario Bullitta ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature

    A Casebook

    de Albrecht Classen ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem, and marriage was often characterized by brutality. Albrecht Classen brings together an ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD