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Winner And Waster And Its Contexts
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Author : W M Ormrod
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-05-07
Winner And Waster And Its Contexts written by W M Ormrod and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with History categories.
First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign. This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much earlier scholarship has insisted) around the state of public order and the costs of warfare in the 1350s. Instead, it proposes that the poem echoes debates about Edward III's ability to maintain concord between the members of his household, to manage the extravagance in clothing that prompted the sumptuary laws of 1363, and to run his peace-time finances of the 1360s in such a way as to guarantee the solvency of the crown. Drawing extensively on the records of parliament and on contemporary chronicles, this volume sets Winner and Waster within the wider context of other complaint literature of the fourteenth century, and characterizes it as one of the most politically - and socially - engaged works of the period.
Winner And Waster And Its Contexts
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Author : W. M. Ormrod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Winner And Waster And Its Contexts written by W. M. Ormrod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with HISTORY categories.
Winner And Waster And Its Contexts
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Author : W. Mark Ormrod
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Winner And Waster And Its Contexts written by W. Mark Ormrod and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Debate poetry, English (Middle) categories.
First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.
Later Plantagenet And The Wars Of The Roses Consorts
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Author : Aidan Norrie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-03
Later Plantagenet And The Wars Of The Roses Consorts written by Aidan Norrie and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-03 with History categories.
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
People Power And Identity In The Late Middle Ages
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Author : Gwilym Dodd
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-12
People Power And Identity In The Late Middle Ages written by Gwilym Dodd and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with History categories.
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.
Machines Of The Mind
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Author : Katharine Breen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Machines Of The Mind written by Katharine Breen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them against existing moral and political paradigms. Specifically, different types of medieval personification should be seen as corresponding to positions in the rich and nuanced medieval debate over universals. Breen identifies three different types of personification—Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian—that gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters. Through a series of new readings of major authors and works, from Plato to Piers Plowman, Breen illuminates how medieval personifications embody the full range of positions between philosophical realism and nominalism, varying according to the convictions of individual authors and the purposes of individual works. Recalling Gregory the Great’s reference to machinae mentis (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, employing methods of personification as tools that serve different functions. Machines of the Mind offers insight for medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as for scholars interested in literary character-building and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages.
Waste And The Wasters
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Author : Eleanor Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023
Waste And The Wasters written by Eleanor Johnson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Climatic changes in literature categories.
"Eleanor Johnson corrects some commonly held (mis)assumptions concerning what the average medieval English person might've thought about what we now call the natural environment or the ecosystem. Reading both well-studied fourteenth- and fifteenth-century works (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and the Canterbury Tales), and lesser-known ones (Winner and Waster and Mum and the Sothsegger), as well as legal and municipal documents, sermons, moral and penitential tracts, practical and medical guides, plague narratives, and historical chronicles from the period, Johnson describes how poets used the resources of poetic language-meter, rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, plot, dramatic staging, repetition, and other literary devices-to think and feel their way into the problems of ecological peril, even though they lacked the science and scientific vocabulary we have today. Johnson explores how these writers combined multiple discourses from their particular, if narrow, vantage point to comment on ecological disasters, inventing their own "ecosystemic" language and commentary. As Johnson reminds us, the English Middle Ages had their share of environmental problems-air pollution, soil depletion, deforestation, Little Ice Ages, famines, and plagues-similar to the ones we face in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the word "waste" in its original usage across various texts, ranging from the literary to the legal, from the theological to the psychological, Johnson puts twenty-first-century concerned citizens in touch with kindred spirits in medieval England, fully aware of-and interested in-how human (mis)behavior might be connected to the natural world; how resource allocation, use, and pollution by one person might affect another; how environmental damage was linked to urbanization; and how one person's choices might affect the next generation. The book will be read primarily by those interested in medieval English literature, medieval historians, and literary scholars working in later periods, but Johnson also invites conversation with anyone working more broadly in the environmental humanities today"--
Standards Of Living In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : Christopher Dyer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989-03-09
Standards Of Living In The Later Middle Ages written by Christopher Dyer 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 1989-03-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.
Medieval Law In Context
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Author : Anthony Musson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-06
Medieval Law In Context written by Anthony Musson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-06 with History categories.
Offering an important new perspective on medieval political, legal, and social history in England, Anthony Musson examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice, politics, and their role in society. He provides a history of judicial developments in the 13th and 14th centuries, while interweaving within each chapter a special focus on different facets of legal culture and experience. This illuminating approach reveals a comprehensive picture of two centuries worth of tremendous social change.
Desiring Truth
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Author : Jeremy Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Desiring Truth written by Jeremy Lowe and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art and literature categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.