Kiss My Relics

Author : David Rollo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226724603
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss My Relics written by David Rollo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God’s order; and rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as “hermaphroditic” and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality. At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate fiction as a medium for truth and a source of legitimate enjoyment, while others began to explore and defend the pleasures of opulent rhetoric. Here David Rollo examines two such texts—Alain de Lille’s De planctu Naturae and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose—arguing that their authors, in acknowledging the liberating potential of their irregular written orientations, brought about a nuanced reappraisal of homosexuality. Rollo concludes with a consideration of the influence of the latter on Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140424386
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Total Pages : 824 pages
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Author : Robert Mills
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616912X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages written by Robert Mills and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took.

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Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Author : Victoria Blud
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844680
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 written by Victoria Blud and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.

Author : L. Patterson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137084510
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporal Circumstances written by L. Patterson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

Author : John Ross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern written by John Ross and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195175735
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales written by Lee Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Leonidas Warren Payne
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Total Pages : 860 pages
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Download or read book Selections from English Literature written by Leonidas Warren Payne and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: