[PDF] Dismantling The Medieval eBook

Author : STEVEN. VANDERPUTTEN
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2021-10-20
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ISBN : 9782503593470

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Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxieres abbey with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent's narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually rich and varied body of evidence, we are able to reconstruct in unprecedented detail this elite convent's memory culture over a period of more than two centuries. We see how it was expressed and how it evolved, and what were the factors that drove forward its development. The resulting image of a highly flexible memorial culture helps us to explain how and why it lived on throughout many crises and transformations, including even the abbey's dissolution in 1791.

Author : William F. Gentrup
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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The fourteen essays presented in this volume contribute substantially to the study of the reinvention of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and most address the relatively new field of Medievalism. All of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to promote its own opinions, beliefs, doctrines or views. In particular, the volume demonstrates that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by a nationalistic desire to create cultural 'roots', to discover origins that justify a regime or group's self-identity, to appropriate a cultural icon or neglected author for a particular political agenda, or to reflect on contemporary social issues via a remote time and place. Reworkings or adaptations of earlier culture often tell us more about the age in which they were produced than the one revived or revisited. This volume features five essays that treat medieval subjects; four focus on Tudor and Stuart figures, religion or politics; and five concentrate on nineteenth-century uses of medieval or early modern events, literary conventions, settings and themes.

Author : David HERLIHY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674038606

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How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members. It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life.

Author : Stephen J. Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 041577053X

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Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.

Author : Joshua Davies
Publisher : Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9781526125934

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This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.

Author : William Manchester
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780333586020

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Explores the sordidness and the splendor of the Middle Ages as well as the collapse of the medieval mind and its metamorphosis into The Renaissance.

Author : Karl C. Alvestad
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media
ISBN : 9781350167476

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"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Bringing together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media - ranging from television and film to architecture - and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study addresses three connected themes. Firstly, how does historical accuracy relate to authenticity, and whose version of authenticity is accepted? Secondly, how are the middle ages presented in modern media and why do inaccuracies emerge and persist in these works? Thirdly, how do creators of modern content attempt to produce authentic medieval environments, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of accurate portrayals? The result is nuanced study of medieval culture which sheds new light on the use (and misuse) of medieval history in modern media"--

Author : Andrew B.R. Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1350217727

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Introduction, Graham Williams (University of Sheffield, UK) and Charlotte Steenbrugge (University of Sheffield, UK) -- 1. Crying out with the Compunction of the Prodigal Son: Byzantine Hymns, Liturgical Emotions and Icons of Repentance, Andrew Mellas (St Andrew's Theological College, Australia) -- 2. Repenting in their Own Words: Old English Vocabulary for Compunction, Contrition, and Penitence, Daria Izdebska (Liverpool Hope University, UK) -- 3. A Concept with Relevance? Compunction in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Roland Scheel (University of Gottingen, Germany) -- 4. William of Auvergne and Compunction: Describing the World through Metaphors, Béatrice Delaurenti -- 5. Sea-Water in Flame: Compunction in the Lambeth and Trinity Homilies, Ayoush Lazikani (University of Oxford, UK) -- 6. The Expressions of Remorse in Old and Middle French Literature, Corinne Denoyelle (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France) and translated by Emily Reed -- 7. Peter's Three Tears, Véronique Plesch (Colby College, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index.