The Roll In England And France In The Late Middle Ages

Author : Stefan G. Holz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645203
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages written by Stefan G. Holz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.

Author : Abigail S. Armstrong, Matthias J. Kuhn, Jörg Peltzer, Chun Fung Tong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111324222
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Record written by Abigail S. Armstrong, Matthias J. Kuhn, Jörg Peltzer, Chun Fung Tong and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514008
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Birth Girdles written by Mary Morse and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

Author : Sylvia Brockstieger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111242692
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Manuscript and Print written by Sylvia Brockstieger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor. While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?

Author : Antonella Brita
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111343553
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences written by Antonella Brita and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions. The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume's three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience. The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors' respective fields.

Author : James McKinnon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349211575
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquity and the Middle Ages written by James McKinnon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the series examining the development of music in specific places during particular times, this book looks at ancient and medieval music, from Classical and Christian antiquity to the emergence of the Gregorian chant and the medieval town and Court.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004547126
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle 15 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval chronicles is firmly established as a focus of research in the whole range of disciplines comprising Medieval Studies: literature, history, art history, linguistics, book history, digital humanities, and so forth. Each article in this volume dedicated to Erik Kooper presents a case study, balancing the particulars of the chosen materials with more generalized conclusions about their significance. The resulting collection is an anthology of different approaches in Medieval Chronicle Studies, presenting a rich overview of the geographical, linguistic, chronological and methodological diversity of chronicle research as it has developed in no small part thanks to Erik’s rallying. Contributors are Marie Bláhová, Cristian Bratu, Beth Bryan, Godfried Croenen, Peter Damian-Grint, Kelly DeVries, Isabel Barros Dias, Graeme Dunphy, Márta Font, Chris Given-Wilson, Ryszard Grzesik, Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, Letty Ten Harkel, Michael Hicks, David Hook, Sjoerd Levelt, Julia Marvin, Charles Melville, Firuza Abdullaeva, Martine Meuwese, Sarah Peverley, Jaclyn Rajsic, Lisa Ruch, Françoise Le Saux, Carol Sweetenham, Grischa Vercamer, Alison Williams Lewin, and Jürgen Wolf.

Author : John Hosler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047419340
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry II written by John Hosler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no book-length studies in any language on the military career of King Henry II of England (1154-1189). Historians have generally regarded his warfare as cautious and limited, and the king himself, while noted for his considerable political and legal accomplishments, is not considered one of the great commanders of the Middle Ages. This book reexamines the medieval evidence and situates Henry II within the context of practiced warfare of the twelfth century. It sketches a narrative of his military activities from boyhood to death and examines his use of fortifications, manpower, strategy, tactics, and weaponry in the prosecution of war. The result is a revision of the king's military legacy: far from a passive or disinterested general, Henry II sought to vanquish his foes and expand his empire by way of direct military confrontation and was, in reality, a proficient commander of men.

Author : Julia Boffey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198878516
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Poetry in English written by Julia Boffey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.

Author : Julia Boffey
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages written by Julia Boffey and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of topics covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries, beginning with a discussionof the representation of London in the famous description by William FitzStephen and including a comparative survey of the documentary sources available for the study of medieval London and Paris. The volume is of relevance to historians, literary scholars and all those with an interest in medieval urban culture.