Women And Marriage In German Medieval Romance
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Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance
Author | : D. H. Green |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521513357 |
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D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.
Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance
Author | : Dennis Howard Green |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
ISBN | : 0511517491 |
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"D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period".--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783110436976 |
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Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.
Brides and Doom
Author | : Jerold C. Frakes |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UVA:X002557834 |
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Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional scholarship, and discusses property and power, intimate conversations and political strategies, Teuton as Amazon, sovereignty and class, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Women s Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
Author | : Emma O. Bérat |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009434751 |
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Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.
Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature
Author | : Ann Marie Rasmussen |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0815603894 |
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Rasmussen (German, Duke U.) selects several works of fiction to show how dialogues between mothers and daughters reveal much about the contradictions of social and sexual conflicts in medieval German society. Noting the historical context in each case, she examines how the male or anonymous authors produce stereotypical representations of mothers and daughters for specific purposes. Excerpts are in both German and English. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature
Author | : Karina Marie Ash |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317162131 |
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Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials, monastic exempla, and sermons, Karina Marie Ash clarifies how secular wifehood was recast as a quasi-religious role and, in German epics and romances from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, how female characters are adapted to promote the salvific nature of worldly love in ways that echo the pastoral reevaluation of women at that time. Then she argues that mid and late thirteenth-century German literature not only reflects this impulse to idealize women's roles in lay society but also to promote an alternative model of femininity that deploys ways of privileging secular roles for women over religious ones. These continuously evolving readaptations of female protagonists across cultures and across centuries reflect fictive solutions for real historical concerns about women that not only complement contemporary pastoral and legal reforms but are also unique to medieval German literature.
Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy
Author | : Virginie Greene |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781316195109 |
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes. This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature. Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction.