Pilgrimage In Medieval English Literature 700 1500

Author : Dee Dyas
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859916233
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500 written by Dee Dyas and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of pilgrimage and its development over 800 years, reflected in contemporary writings.

Author : Diana Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403913803
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval European Pilgrimage c.700-c.1500 written by Diana Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the one hand; to innumerable local shrines on the other. The routes that they followed by land and water made up a complex web which covered the face of Europe, and their travels required a range of support services, including the protection of rulers (who were themselves often pilgrims). Pilgrimage left its mark not only on the landscape but also on the art and literature of Europe. Diana Webb's engaging book offers the reader a fresh introduction to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. As well as exploring this multi-faceted activity, it considers both the geography of pilgrimage and its significant cultural legacy.

Author : Raluca Radulescu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429588984
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature written by Raluca Radulescu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume: Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture. Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts. This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317276
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church And Society In England 1000-1500 written by Andrew Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact did the Church have on society? How did social change affect religious practice? Within the context of these wide-ranging questions, this study offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between Church, society and religion in England across five centuries of change. Andrew Brown examines how the teachings of an increasingly 'universal' Church decisively affected the religious life of the laity in medieval England. However, by exploring a broad range of religious phenomena, both orthodox and heretical (including corporate religion and the devotional practices surrounding cults and saints) Brown shows how far lay people continued to shape the Church at a local level. In the hands of the laity, religious practices proved malleable. Their expression was affected by social context, status and gender, and even influenced by those in authority. Yet, as Brown argues, religion did not function simply as an expression of social power - hierarchy, patriarchy and authority could be both served and undermined by religion. In an age in which social mobility and upheaval, particularly in the wake of the Black Death, had profound effects on religious attitudes and practices, Brown demonstrates that our understanding of late medieval religion should be firmly placed within this context of social change.

Author : Donald R. Howard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520361075
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers and Pilgrims written by Donald R. Howard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Author : Philip Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521847629
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage and Literary Tradition written by Philip Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and wide-ranging study of the pilgrimage theme in literature.

Author : Suzanne M. Yeager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052187792X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative written by Suzanne M. Yeager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192662058
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval English Travel written by Anthony Bale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'.

Author : Sian Echard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118396987
Total Pages : 2102 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set written by Sian Echard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 2102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. A uniquely multilingual and intercultural approach reflecting the latest scholarship, covering the entire medieval period and the full tapestry of literary languages comprises over 600 authoritative yet accessible entries on key figures, texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and isitroical contexts, and related terminology Represents all the literatures of the British Isles including Old and Middle English, Early Scots, Anglo-Norman, the Norse, Latin and French of Britain, and the Celtic Literatures of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall Boasts an impressive chronological scope, covering the period from the Saxon invasions to the fifth century to the transition to the Early Modern Period in the sixteenth Covers the material remains of Medieval British literature, including manuscripts and early prints, literary sites and contexts of production, performance and reception as well as highlighting narrative transformations and intertextual links during the period

Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745654762
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle English Literature written by Christopher Cannon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.