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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
… doctrine vis-à-vis the Church specifically. As medieval England accepted the Lateran Council's doctrine and the Christian community began to place more emphasis on concepts such as mandatory Church-based confession and Purgatory, the religious perspective on the afterlife became more nuanced. In …
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Three Ango-Saxon prose passages: A translation and commentary.
Our thesis set out to translate, with relevant commentary, the three prose passages found in the MS. Cotton Vitellius A. xv. The contribution we are convinced this translation makes to Old English studies, along with the importance attached to the manuscript containing Beowulf, is the justification …
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Reading Romances: The Production and Reception of French Gothic Ivories in the Context of Late Medieval Literary Practices
… have carved on their external sides scenes from medieval imaginative literature (romances of Arthur etc.), and are one of the few media displaying such pictures to survive from the period. Thus they are crucial to an understanding of medieval secular art. Research on these ivories has focused on …
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"The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Readers: The Reception of Hartmann Schedel's ""Liber Cronicarum"""
While the Liber cronicarum had many potential uses, marginalia and other signs of use show that certain aspects of the Liber cronicarum inspired the most substantial reactions: its accounts of history and geography, its presentation of religious material, and its depiction of the Holy Roman …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
Why are demonic characters so common in Old English poetry? Perhaps evil characters were, as they are today, a source of interest and intrigue; maybe they represented the fears of the Anglo-Saxons; or, it could be that these characters allowed the poets to express what would otherwise be …
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Le Bel Inconnu: A Semiotic Topography (France)
… of romance and the cultural (con)text of medieval French aristocracy. The semiotic reading focuses on the compositional non-closure of the text in the epilogue that results from the analogy of narrator and hero. The rejection of the closure of the narrative simultaneously confronts the …
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El Juego Poetico Del Siglo XV: Los Tres Ejemplos Mas Significativos. (Spanish Text);
El objeto del presente estudio es presentar y comentar tres juegos poeticos cancioneriles del siglo XV espanol: el Juego de naipes por coplas de Fernando de la Torre, compuesto hacia 1440-45 en la corte de Navarra; un abecedario anonimo del Cancionero de Herberay, compuesto en los primeros anos de …
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
… types. These found their way into visionary literature, affecting the torments of the damned, particularly those torments which involved swallowing. In its last stages the image of the jaws of hell was used as a dramatic convention on the stage, where it lost most of its original meaning and …
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Sexual Metaphors in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Century French Farce
… and, for comparison and contrast, from other literature (Aristophanes, Chaucer, the fabliaux, Poggio, Boccaccio, etc.). Due to the volume of material collected, the dissertation alas was limited to those sexual metaphors which form the basis of the plot of one or more plays (sex as medicine, …
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Attribution and Athetization in Literature With Special Reference to Walther Von Der Vogelweide and Albrecht Von Johansdorf
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The Anglo-Saxon Use of The Psalms: Liturgical Background and Poetic Use
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The Middle English Love Letter and Its Rhetorical Background
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Alcuin's 'Adversus Elipantum Libri Iv,' Books I-Ii Edited With an Introduction
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Classical and Medieval Archetypes of the Figure Genius in the 'Du Mundi Universitate' of Bernardus Silvestris and the 'De Planctu Naturae' of Alanus De Insulis
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Thomas Magistros' Recension of the Sophoclean Plays 'Oedipus Coloneus,' 'Trachinae,' 'Philoctetes'
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Contributions to the Study of the Thoman Recension of Aeschylus
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Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Stephanites Kai Ichnelates
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Late Medieval Roof Bosses in the Churches of Devon
Susan Andrew LATE MEDIEVAL ROOF BOSSES IN THE CHURCHES OF DEVON Abstract The extensive survival of late medieval bosses in the roofs of many parish churches in Devon has long been recognised. These carvings escaped the widespread destruction of images during the Reformation through their relative …
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