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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
In early Medieval English poetry and late Medieval romance, there are multiple roles violent women perform. They can be protagonist, antagonist, and supporting character. They prove to be active characters with strength, skill, intelligence, and power. In early Medieval English poetry, Grendel's …
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Orality in Medieval Drama
Da die historische Sprachwissenschaft ausschließlich über geschriebene Texte als Datenbasis verfügt, wurden insbesondere im Forschungsgebiet der historischen Pragmatik bestimmte Genres identifiziert, die Aufschluss über die Sprechsprachlichkeit vergangener Sprachstufen bieten können. Dem …
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Animal exploitation in medieval Ireland
… seeks to investigate animal exploitation in medieval Ireland by integrating the two proxies best suited to deal with it, the zooarchaeological record and the historical record. Three problems present themselves in such an endeavour. The first is a more general problem within the realm of …
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Chaucer and the Medieval Statius
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… fairies, demons and revenants - in select medieval texts, no study has yet attempted to articulate or model the literary operations of such figures in terms of a unifying narratological scheme. This thesis proposes the typological category of Supernatural Visitation as a means to examine …
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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
From the viewpoint of the twenty-first century, Middle English romance can be a problematic genre. Its fantastic events, stock characters, repetitive structures and contrived endings seem to belong with the fairytale of the nursery rather than with the serious literature of the adult world. …
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Chaucer and the medieval sciences
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1972.
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The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature
… the construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity …
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… Society began making an increasing variety of medieval texts accessible to Victorian readers, the "everyday life" of the past became an important subject of historiography. For many of William Morris's contemporaries, this project of social history and textual recovery provided welcome evidence …
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Mapping Women's Movement in Medieval England
… investigates women’s geographical movement in medieval England from the perspective of mobility and freedom. It uses pilgrimage accounts from medieval miracle story collections and to gather information about individual travel patterns. The study uses GIS to analyze gendered mobility patterns, …
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Disease and Illness in Medieval Ireland
… the medical system, and illness/disease for the medieval period (5th-12th centuries) in Ireland. On examining three archival source-types (hagiographical material, annals, medico-legal law texts), it became clear that there were different perspectives on health and healing for this period. Two …
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Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
An intensive study and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth century. Of course Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are …
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Textual criticism and medieval Irish studies
… which have informed much of the way in which medieval Irish documents and texts are rendered into modern editions, and (b) to begin to place the editorial theory and methodology of medieval Irish studies within the broader context of Biblical, medieval and modern textual criticism. Hence, the …
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
"""The Magician in Medieval German Literature"" is an exploration of a number of issues related to magic and learning in vernacular German fiction from the Middle Ages. A close reading of medieval German narratives reveals that since magic was labeled demonic and unchristian by early Church …
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
Many medieval chivalric romances contain an episode in which the hero goes insane, lives wild in the woods, gets better, and resumes his adventures. Most studies of such episodes have focused on ways that literature reflects medical and theological topics, but this study explores ways that literary …
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
Smell mattered in medieval China. Through the sense of smell, people navigated the natural and social world, structured human-divine relationships. Medieval Chinese texts are replete with references to smells of people, things, and places. Mediated through the minds of their recorders, olfactory …
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