History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Download History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Neil Wright
language : en
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Release Date : 1995
History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West written by Neil Wright and has been published by Variorum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
For the modern reader who wishes to come to terms with late antique and early medieval authors, it is vital to understand the ways in which their intellectual horizons were shaped by a wide range of sources, many now unfamiliar. Moreover, the manner in which prior texts, Classical and medieval, were taken over or recast sheds useful light on the texts themselves, their transmission, and on how they were perceived by a succession of readers. This collection of essays accordingly offers a new discussion of several early writers in terms both of how their own reading influenced them and of how they in turn influenced those who read them.
History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Neil Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
History And Literature In Late Antiquity And The Early Medieval West written by Neil Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Fifty Early Medieval Things
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Deborah Deliyannis
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Fifty Early Medieval Things written by Deborah Deliyannis and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures, and archaeological features—created between the fourth and eleventh centuries, an ostensibly "Dark Age" whose cultural richness and complexity is often underappreciated. Each thing introduces important themes in the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the postclassical era. Some of the things, like a simple ard (plow) unearthed in Germany, illustrate changing cultural and technological horizons in the immediate aftermath of Rome's collapse; others, like the Arabic coin found in a Viking burial mound, indicate the interconnectedness of cultures in this period. Objects such as the Book of Kells and the palace-city of Anjar in present-day Jordan represent significant artistic and cultural achievements; more quotidian items (a bone comb, an oil lamp, a handful of chestnuts) belong to the material culture of everyday life. In their thing-by-thing descriptions, the authors connect each object to both specific local conditions and to the broader influences that shaped the first millennium AD, and also explore their use in modern scholarly interpretations, with suggestions for further reading. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects in ways that make the distant past understandable and approachable.
Stasis In The Medieval West
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Michael D.J. Bintley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-16
Stasis In The Medieval West written by Michael D.J. Bintley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the flowerings of the Renaissance ushered a return to the wisdom of the Classical era. However, the reality familiar to scholars and students of the Middle Ages – that this was a time of immense transition and transformation – is well known. This book approaches the theme of ‘stasis’ in broad terms, with chapters covering the full temporal range from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Contributors to this collection seek to establish what remained static, continuous or ongoing in the Medieval era, and how the period’s political and cultural upheavals generated stasis in the form of deadlock, nostalgia, and the preservation of ancient traditions.
East And West In The Early Middle Ages
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Stefan Esders
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
East And West In The Early Middle Ages written by Stefan Esders and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.
Humour History And Politics In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Guy Halsall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-18
Humour History And Politics In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages written by Guy Halsall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-18 with History categories.
Although the topic of humor has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humor remains largely neglected. The essays collected here attempt to fill the gap, examining how the writers of early medieval sources deliberately employed humor to make their case. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools.
Western Perspectives On The Mediterranean
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Andreas Fischer
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-06-19
Western Perspectives On The Mediterranean written by Andreas Fischer and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with History categories.
Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other.
Interrogating The Germanic
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Matthias Friedrich
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Interrogating The Germanic written by Matthias Friedrich and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with History categories.
Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.
Urban Interactions Communication And Competition In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Michael J. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Punctum Books
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Urban Interactions Communication And Competition In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages written by Michael J. Kelly and has been published by Punctum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Social Science categories.
"This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city."
The History Of The Book In The West 400ad 1455
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
Author : Pamela Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The History Of The Book In The West 400ad 1455 written by Pamela Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the Gutenberg Bible and the beginning of the print revolution. The collection opens with wide-ranging papers on handwriting and the physical make-up of the book. In the second group of papers the emphasis is on the ’look’ of the book, complemented by a third group dealing with scribes, readers and the availability of books. The editors’ introduction provides an overview of the medieval book.