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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lydgate"”.
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… medieval texts. The religious writings of John Lydgate, whose literary texts focused mainly on the lives of saints and historical figures, illustrate one example of the way that Christian canonicity was perpetuated and disseminated.In this thesis I establish how the canon is created and in turn …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… those of John Walton, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. I conclude the dissertation by tracing the influence of Hoccleve and Lydgate on the later fifteenth-century poets George Ashby, Osbern Bokenham, and John Metham, and by identifying the eclipse of fifteenth-century meter with the Tudor poets …
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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Tertius Lydgate, andRosamond Vincy. I claim that Eliot wrote these scenes of marital optative regret in sucha manner as to provoke her reader into experiencing optative regret for the characters,and to create in the reader a stronger sense of agency in his …
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Sustainability and biofuels: Reconciling social and environmental criteria with WTO law
This thesis examines European Union (’EU’) biofuels sustainability criteria in the context of the law of the World Trade Organization (’WTO’). The criteria were introduced as part of the 2009 EU Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives. There has been no dispute; however, uncertainty about the …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… less explicit reception of Virgil and Servius in Lydgate and Maydiston. Royal entry poems and the Fall of Princes define rulership authorised by references to the past. They re-imagine cities and rulers by projecting an imagined Roman model onto the mediaeval world. Servius can be seen as an …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… The final chapter turns to the works of John Lydgate to show how he incorporated the schoolroom’s emphasis on the diversity of ordinary human experience into his influential Fall of Princes, thereby spreading grammar school lessons to new audiences. Appreciating the teachings of the literary …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… for a devout reader's meditative practice. John Lydgate's Passion poetry further illustrates the value of contemplating the visual aspects of a written text and its material form. While a reader could be moved to devout thoughts by regarding an image of the crucified Christ, Lydgate explores the …