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Lectura Dantis Americana
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature
Portrays a range of medieval heroines to ascertain how humor might have been used and enjoyed by medieval women
Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1
The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for the study of kingship, queenship, and the evolution of political institutions. Complete in two volumes, Richard A. Jackson's is the first full edition of these texts, including all the ordines from the early thirteenth century through the end of the fifteenth century, a period during which the texts shift from Latin to the vernacular, and the institutions of kingship become distinctively French.
Agriculture in the Middle Ages
Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.
The English Boccaccio
The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers.
Formulas of Repetition in Dante's Commedia
Howard (Hispanic and Italian studies, U. of Victoria) analyzes recurrent linguistic patterns or formulas found throughout Dante's Commedia. When a formula found in more than one place in the text, Howard analyzes the context surrounding these linguistic signposts thereby drawing conclusions about the poem's meaning. Howard's focus is on making connections between formulas which are not in close proximity to each other and have thus remained largely hidden. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Services. c. Book News Inc.
England's Empty Throne
The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their attempts to legitimise their dynasty's hold in the English throne included the reburying of the murdered Richard II, the invention of chronicles, prophecies and genealogies, new methods of trial and punishment, the use of spies, and the radical redefinition of treason. Strohm uses both literary and historical analysis to explore this quest for legitimacy, and the importance of symbolic activity to Henry IV and V.
Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture
A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Introduction to the SeriesBy Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr.Introduction to Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645)The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne (1594)IntroductionThe Printer to the ReaderDedicatory EpistleThe Promenade of Monsieur de MontaigneThe Equality of Men and Women (1641)IntroductionDedicationThe Equality of Men and WomenThe Ladies' Complaint (1641)IntroductionThe Ladies' ComplaintApology for the Woman Writing (1641)IntroductionApology for the Woman WritingBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Count and Bishop in Medieval Germany
In this examination of the functions of lordship in a medieval society, Benjamin Arnold seeks answers to some of the most fundamental questions for the period of political and institutional history: How did the lords maintain control over the people, land, and resources? How was their rule sustained and justified? Arnold chooses to analyze the Eichstätt region, an area on the borders of three major German provinces: Bavaria, Franconia, and Swabia. The region was the geographical and political dimension within which succeeding bishops, with great tenacity and inventiveness, survived the threat of dominion by their secular neighbors, the counts. The bishops of Eichstätt were able to emerge w...
