Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 29 May 2003

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 December 2023

Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 2024

Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 29,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 March 2009

Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. He addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 June 2015

Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England offers an account of the fluidity and artificiality of legal personhood before the individualistic turn in law vis-à-vis juristictional pluralism.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 January 2016

Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage,

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 12 May 2022

This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have traditionally been taught to term ‘islands.’ It stages a conversation on the very idea of ‘island-ness’, thus contributing to a new field

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize!

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 30,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 February 2010

The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 October 2014

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction.