Medieval Imagination
Kelly's documentation is a fresh and useful contribution to the interpretation of this too-often neglected period.The flower of medieval French culture, the poetry of courtly love, is examined with an unprecedented thoroughness in this work ...
Author: Douglas Kelly
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299076108
Page: 330
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The Medieval Imagination
The Medieval Imagination
Celebrating the life and works of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton, this volume builds on her work to show how, in European medieval narratives, archetypes and beliefs can impart a deeper vibrancy to human experience, reconfiguring the everyday ...
Author: Phyllis Gaffney
Publisher: Four Courts PressLtd
ISBN: 9781846823282
Page: 214
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Incest and the Medieval Imagination
Out of the East
Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination
Although objects associated with the Passion and suffering of Christ are among the most important and sacred relics venerated by the Catholic Church, this is the first study that considers how they were presented to the faithful.
Author: Cynthia Hahn
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520305264
Page: 176
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Landscape in Middle English Romance
Chaucer the Alchemist
This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Author: Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137523913
Page: 291
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Beasts
Building the Medieval World
Introduction : architecture in medieval life -- Mirror of the medieval world -- The castle -- Church spaces -- Medieval cities, towns, and countryside -- Documenting historical buildings -- Medieval construction methods -- Focus : ...
Author: Christine Sciacca
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060066
Page: 96
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The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination
This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all ...
Author: Robert Rix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317589688
Page: 214
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In Search of Sacred Time
Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book.
Author: Jacques Le Goff
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204543
Page: 232
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The Medieval World
Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination c 1150 1400
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the ...
Author: M. Cassidy-Welch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306403
Page: 192
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Faces of Power Piety
Saracens
Images in the Margins
Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library.
Author: Margot McIlwain Nishimura
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369829
Page: 78
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