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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Medieval Studies"”.
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An examination of women's piety as depicted in medieval and early modern stained glass.
… piety on expressions of women's agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Chapter One introduces Oxfordshire stained glass as the area of inquiry, with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) database serving as the primary source reference. Both the Centre for Medieval Studies at the …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… contributes to the fledgling field of medieval empathy studies by tracing the articulation of fellow-feeling in the literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England across a broad corpus of anonymous homilies, saints’ lives, elegies, and heroic poems including Beowulf. The first three …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… in the Abcedarium, drawn from Anglo-Saxon and medieval Latin histories, participates in the Tudor interest in local history, cartography, and place names. Nowell's maps, among the first modern maps of Britain, show his interest in solidifying English identity against Irish otherness and suggest …
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Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The Burden Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
<p>This dissertation attempts to position Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur as a response to the anxieties of a turbulent social period. To start, I establish the political and social climate of fifteenth-century England, drawing on the work of historians to demonstrate the disequilibrium of …
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The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture
This thesis argues for the Beowulf poet's more accommodating perspective on pre-Christian Germanic culture, when examined in comparison to other, later Germanic authors of works such as Icelandic sagas and Danish pseudo-history. The primary components of Beowulf I address to argue for this point …
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The Devotional Significance of the Cross in Medieval Literature
… media, and symbolism. It exists throughout the medieval period as a symbol of Christ, his crucifixion, and his sacrifice celebrated in the consecration of the Eucharist. The cross, then, is not only a symbol of the crucifixion and redemption, but it invokes Christ through its physical proximity …
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
… approach chosen. Drawing upon cognitive literary studies, the history of the senses, and the philosophy of mind, I focus not so much on decoding the meaning of dreams, but rather the purpose of the sensory and affective responses that dreams elicit from the pilgrim Dante and the readers of Dante’s …
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From Mildrith to Muriel: networks of early English women’s literacy and collaborative literate production in the past and present
This dissertation posits that medieval scriptoria and the modern-day writing center have a shared history and shared practices. No architectural evidence for scriptoria has survived from early medieval England. What we do possess is manuscript evidence and small archaeological finds for scriptoria …
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She is Right to Behave Thus: Implications of Illicit Rendezvous in Medieval Narrative
… the reality is that the historical and literary medieval world is much more complicated. When discussing the issues of sexuality, women, and sexual normativity, these assumptions hinder our ability to accurately analyze the content and reception of medieval literature. This project addresses this …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
… Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature</em> focuses on the representation of women warriors in medieval French literature, but it is also concerned with contemporaneous historical accounts and texts. Additionally, it examines representations of the woman as …
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Constructing community from corpses in Medieval English and Icelandic Literature
… that the bodies of the dead interred within medieval texts are used as focal points for the communities created within those texts. The most famous textual medieval corpses are the relics of saints as described in hagiographies, relics which, outside of these texts, became the centerpieces of …
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