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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"medieval culture"”.
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
Beginning with a survey of the writings of the medieval mulieres religiosae this comparative thesis attempts to explore the medieval mystical tradition as a space of self-construction and self-expression in both the medieval and modem periods. The thesis is preoccupied with tracing an 'untimely' …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. The first aspect of medieval culture that has bearing on the musical nature of troubadour song is the knowledge organizational scheme known as the seven liberal arts. The definitions of music and poetry found in treatises on the …
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Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina and "Liturgical Reading" in Some Medieval Texts
<p>Prayer texts found in a variety of medieval genres merit more careful scrutiny from literary critical perspectives. Such attention to the verbal artifacts, prayers, that memorialize an activity of central importance in medieval culture, praying, deepens our understanding not only of the prayers …
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Temptation in Shakespeare's Plays
… in the light of religious beliefs inherited from medieval culture. Shakespeare's contemporaries held that each of the temptations of Adam and Eve recurred in the devil's testing of Christ in the wilderness, and thought that in both instances the lures used represented types of the temptations …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… rather than simply a reflection of an aspect of medieval culture.
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… namely: what was the function of the margin in medieval culture and what has prevented scholarly print editions and previous digital scholarly editions from faithfully representing the reality of medieval texts such as CCCC41? These questions are answered in Chapter Two’s interrogation of …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… event, society has regressed into a pseudo-medieval culture. The critical commentary will discuss the literary and philosophical influences on the creative work, and the process of composition. The most influential thinkers from a thematic, philosophical and rhetorical perspective are Søren …
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Soul and Body: Reading the Anglo -Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book
… subjectivity through 'soul-and-body,' a popular medieval literary motif which describes the soul's physical departure from the body at death and its subsequent addresses to the body in the after-life. Vercelli's soul-and-body texts, together with its exemplary narratives of apostles and saints, …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
… some of the ways that representations of the medieval past function within present-day reimaginings in the media. More specifically, television's obvious visual textuality, widespread popularity, and virtually untapped scholarly potential offer an excellent medium through which to analyze pop …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… natural landscapes and exotic, supposedly medieval culture. A key aspect of the latter is Svanetian music, which attracts foreign singers due to its archaism, connections to pagan ritual, and harmonies interpreted as strikingly dissonant. Intercultural encounters bear both risks and …
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… which discusses and reviews the implications, in medieval culture, of the notion of animality in relation to and in the representation of human passions. Chapter 2 considers Petrarch’s potential engagement with the repertoire of animal imagery in the tradition of Occitan poetry. It examines the …
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Based on a true history?: The impact of popular "Medieval Film" on the public understanding of the Middle Ages
… the period, their academic, experiential and pop-culture sources of knowledge, their definitions of the similar terms ‘medieval’ and ‘Middle Ages’ and also their ideas about medieval culture, religion, warfare and crusade. After the films, participants discussed what they had seen usually in the …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… theory and compositional practices in both medieval and 21st century multimodal texts. Rather than further widening the schism between textual and visual rhetorics and compositional practices, I argue that these modes cannot be theorized independently. Following claims by several new media …
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Dyes and Dyeing Methods in Late Iron Age Finland
… dyed in vats in the Late Iron Age manner. The medieval culture provided a faster textile making process and offered horizontal looms and spinning wheels, the boiling method, alum and new dyestuffs.
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… explore the dynamics of homosociality in late medieval culture, investigating both Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I …
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
… structures and in shaping the political culture of the principalities of early Rus’. The process begins by introducing key concepts and historiographic considerations for the study of ceremony and ritual and their application to the medieval world. The textological survey that follows …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
This thesis argues that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the …
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Everyman and the Angels: representations of celestial beings in the arts available to the laity in the Middle Ages
Faith in medieval Europe is generally perceived as being almost exclusively Christian, with most medieval people knowing little about other religions outside of small enclaves of Jewish people and with very few Muslims being encountered in the West. The bible has many angels mentioned amongst its …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… I reassess the reception of Rome in the early medieval west from the historiographical background of women's history. Women's conception of Rome as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 CE proved crucial in a coming-of-age period for the papacy, whose …
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O mercador de palavras ou as encruzilhadas da escrita medieval : (1100-1270)
… mas profundamente, os contornos da civilização medieval. Ora, uma das mutações mais decisivas (senão a mais decisiva e marcante) reside justamente na passagem, que perscrutamos atentamente a partir dos múltiplos discursos que in-formam o texto poético, de uma economia oblativa, intimamente …