[PDF] Medieval Tales eBook

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2002-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780439141345

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A collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe, including "Beowulf," "The Sword in the Stone," "The Song of Roland," and "The Island of the Lost Children."

Author : Lorna Czarnota
Publisher : august house
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874835885

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Presents traditional stories about the Middle Ages along with tips for storytellers.

Author : Sparky Booker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : 9781846824968

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Walking through Dublin Castle or along the surviving medieval city walls, you can see only glimpses of what it would have been like to live in the city centuries ago. Tales of Medieval Dublin provides a chance for modern audiences to meet the Irish, Norse, and English men and women who lived in this colorful medieval city, and to hear their fascinating stories. While providing the most up-to-date research, the 14 tales in this book are written to appeal to anyone interested in the city's past. They span almost 1,000 years of Dublin 's history and trace the lives of warriors, churchmen, queens, bards, and barons, as well as those individuals who are so often ignored in the historical record, like housewives, tax collectors, masons, lawyers, notaries, peasants, and slaves. This volume serves both as a history of the medieval city, and as a window into the day-to-day lives of the men and women who lived there.

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486143139

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Wide-ranging stories offer a glimpse into witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, trial by torture, church councils, mercantile life, other elements of Middle Ages.

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486414072

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Wide-ranging stories offer glimpse into witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, trial by torture, church councils, mercantile life, other elements of Middle Ages.

Author : W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618496426

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A young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.

Author : Judah Alharizi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1909821179

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The crowning jewel of medieval Hebrew rhymed prose in vigorous translation vividly illuminates a lost Iberian world. With full scholarly annotation and literary analysis.

Author : Patrick K. Ford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520974662

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The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.

Author : Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824888936

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In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts. Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection.