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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Exempla"”.
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Repertorio degli "exempla" di Iacopo Mazza. Fonti, temi, motivi.
… è stato quello di stilare un regesto degli "exempla" che il francescano Iacopo Mazza, nato a Reggio Calabria e vissuto nel meridione d Italia tra la Sicilia e Napoli - fra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, utilizza all interno dei suoi trattati ("Scala de virtuti et via de paradiso", 1499; …
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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
Literature and theatre have traditionally used exempla based on historical or classical models as a fundamentally conservative rhetorical technique which aimed to reinforce pre-existing values. However, in the early modern period the reproduction of exemplary figures on stage also created the …
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
<p>In this project, I consider four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <em>Handlyng Synne</em>: “The Tale of the Bloody Child,” “The Tale of the Sacrilegious Carolers of Colbek,” “The Tale of the Midwife Who Christened the Child Wrongly,” and “St. Gregory’s Tale of the Nun Who Spoke Naughty …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
… of Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Babylon, in Exempla 25 and 50 of El Conde Lucanor presents an interesting paradox, particularly when considering that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses this paradox by determining …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
… that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common rhetorical strategies, I stress the medieval play’s confluence with preaching’s form, rejecting the critical assumption that drama …
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
The Liber Exemplorum (LE) is a collection of exempla written by an English Franciscan friar, who worked and lived in Ireland in the second half of the thirteenth century. The LE has been previously known only from an incomplete fourteenth-century copy of the text found in Durham Cathedral Library …
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History and fortune in Heinrich Steinhoewel's ''Appolonius''
In the literature of the Middle Ages, exempla often drew upon historical material. One popular narrative set in Hellenistic times and taken up repeatedly by medieval writers was the Latin tale of Apollonius of Tyre. Adaptations and translations of this material emphasized its didactic aspects. At …
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
… in public). It explores the process by which exempla, the material of Valerius' work, communicate their moral messages to their readers, and the role that gender, as a rhetorical tool, plays in this process. The exemplum is a formal rhetorical device employed in speeches and treatises and as …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of male virtue and the ways of subjecting these exempla to scrutiny. The incongruities inherent to the practice of exemplarity, I …
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Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11
… of an entire work composed in the genre of Latin exemplary literature. By providing the first detailed historical and historiographical commentary on Book 9 of this prose text - a section of the work dealing principally with vice and immorality - this thesis examines how an author employs material …
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Od kánonu k autorovi: raně novověké kázání jako pramen historicko antropologického bádání
… pak analyzuje specifické krátké příběhy (exempla) z hlediska autorské intencionality kazatele a jeho snahy jakožto vypravěče vytvářet zdání své literární autority.
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Reading for the Republic: The Minor Declamations and the Culture of the Past
… past—its culture, literature, politics, and exempla. A growing body of scholarship has begun to address the relationship between this text and its Roman cultural context either by examining law or literature, but little has been said on its literary nature and its engagement with the Roman …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
… meditation, the debate on women, and the use of exempla, a prominent rhetorical feature of pastoral medieval sermons. My initial chapters explain my theoretical approach and examine conduct literature written by women for women. Christine de Pizan's Book of the Three Virtues reveals that medieval …
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Learning to Love
… into sacramental practice. The author is both an exemplar to the reader and apprenticed to Christ. In chapter two, I explore the role of the narrative exempla in <italic>Jacob's Well</italic>. The exempla often resist the paradigm set forth in the allegory of the well. My chapter shows that …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… is coloured primarily by his use of mythical exempla that are applied to his poetic scenarios to persuade the reader and ensure both the narrator’s (the amator’s) erotic success and the poetic success of the author. Ovid subverts generic expectations and tropes to show both his literary …
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Ephorus, ideal communities, and Greece : philosophical themes in a universal history
… his material for the purpose of creating moral exempla. This characterization, however, is unfair to Ephorus and his History. Analysis of the fragments does not reveal an explicitly moral purpose to his work, thus he must be freed from the negative implications that such a purpose entails. …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… Drawing primarily upon romances, histories, exempla, mirabilia, hagiographies, magical grimoires and comic fabliaux composed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, this thesis argues that medieval Visitation episodes are intimately concerned with notions of human agency. Medieval …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… acquired a “literacy” of the bestiary’s animal exempla by the fourteenth century. In this dissertation, I examine the use of the bestiary by lay audiences in the Middle Ages, and how and why the English bestiary shifted from a Latin genre to a vernacular one. I argue that preaching was the …
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Leading by Example: The Pastoral Pedagogy of John Mirk's 'Festial'
… in its parish context. I argue that while exempla have a long and intricate history in rhetoric, preaching manuals included, the prevalence of the device in late-medieval preaching directly corresponds to the pedagogic drive of the Church that was catalysed by the Fourth Lateran Council of …
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