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Landscape with Two Saints
Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors. Together, they built their faith over many years, brick by brick, into their churches and shrines, cemeteries, houses, and even their markets and farms.
Irish Literature
Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.
Double Agents
First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. "Double Agents" was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record. That is to say, unlike the two earlier books on women in this period (by Fell, 1984, and by Chance, 1986), this is not a book about only those women in the written record (whether we think of it as historical...
Irish Musical Studies: The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995
"This book addresses the relationship between music and cultural history in Ireland. It variously identifies and examines the development of music as an outgrowth of extra-musical concepts and socio-cultural entities, including celticism (in pre-christian and early christian Ireland), the ideology of ethnic culture, education, nationalism, religion, the composer in modern Ireland and the impact of music on the Irish literary imagination. Throughout the book, an abiding concern with music as the expression of political, social and religious norms of cultural development in Ireland affords thematic coherence to the essays as a whole." "As with the preceding volumes in the series, Music and Irish Cultural History breaks new ground in the cultivation of musicology in Ireland. In particular, it serves as a stimulus to the better understanding of music as a vital preoccupation of the Irish Mind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Deutsche Frauenlieder Des Fünfzehnten Und Sechzehnten Jahrhunderts
Diese Edition präsentiert zum ersten Mal sogenannte Frauenlieder des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, die, soweit es sich heute noch sagen läßt, wahrscheinlich in der Tat von Frauen verfaßt wurden. Diese Frauenlieder, weitgehend in Liederbüchern enthalten, haben bis heute praktisch noch nicht die Aufmerksamkeit der Forschung auf sich gelenkt, was ihrer Entdeckung ein besonderes Gewicht verleiht. Obwohl uns bisher noch der letzte Beweis für die Behauptung fehlt, daß Frauen als die Verfasserinnen bezeichnet werden können, weil die Lieder alle anonym aufgezeichnet wurden, weisen doch sowohl die Liedinhalte als auch die Selbstbezeichnungen der Sängerinnen darauf hin, daß dies...
