Lybeaus Desconus

Author : Bonnie J. Erwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632622
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zöopedagogies written by Bonnie J. Erwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, fight, survive, and live according to medieval culture’s highest ideals. Zöopedagogies explores the pedagogical role of animals in medieval romance, a genre whose fantastical elements enable animal characters to behave in ways inspired by, but not limited to their real-world actions. Situated at the intersection of animal studies and medieval studies, Zöopedagogies claims medieval roots for posthumanism by telling a new story about the role of animals in constructing Western culture. Bonnie Erwin brings together a diverse array of texts, including chivalric romances like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and popular romances like Bevis of Hampton and Richard Coer de Lyon. She puts these into conversation with medieval texts on natural science, horsemanship, hawking, and hunting that inform the representation of creatures who teach. In so doing, she reveals a rich and nuanced sense of animals as participants in interspecies collaborative culture-making.

Author : Melissa Ridley Elmes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384687X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Arthurian Legend written by Melissa Ridley Elmes and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects. This book brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory, philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from Culhwch and Olwen to Parzival, Roman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur. As a whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where the matter of ethics is concerned.

Author : Eve Salisbury
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444598
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lybeaus Desconus written by Eve Salisbury and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lybeaus Desconus (the Fair Unknown) is the mid-fourteenth-century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur to prove himself worthy of joining Arthur's knights. The young knight is tested in a variety of ways, and in the course of this testing he learns both chivalric codes of conduct and the truth of his parentage. Six extant manuscripts of the poem attest to its popularity, placing it in company with Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and Sir Isumbras among the most popular of Middle English Romances. The current edition offers readers a chance to compare two manuscript versions of the poem, one preserved in Lambeth MS 306 and the other in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples.

Author : J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137037415
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts written by J. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.

Author : Valerie B. Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514210
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture written by Valerie B. Johnson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient English Metrical Romances: Launfal. Lybeaus Disconus. The Geste of Kyng Horn. The Kyng of Tars. Emare. Appendix ( Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild) written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn A. Duys
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843919
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling the Story in the Middle Ages written by Kathryn A. Duys and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The essays in this volume raise and discuss a number of questions concerning the strategies, contexts and narratalogical features of medieval storytelling. They look particularly at who tells the story; the audience; how a story is told and performed; and the manuscript and social context for such tales. Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer, Department of French, Barnard College; Kathryn Duys is Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of St Francis; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French, Montclair State University.

Author : Myra Seaman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526143836
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objects of affection written by Myra Seaman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages – human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible – collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript’s material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MLN. written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Shuffelton
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444423
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Codex Ashmole 61 written by George Shuffelton and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.