Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : DS Brewer
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

The chantry movement in late medieval England is situated in this context, and leads to a demonstration of the movement's associations with the highly-wrought poem Pearl and its companion poems;

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 17 January 2017

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 November 2020

The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia,

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 08 December 2016

This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory,

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

"From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 13 February 2023

This book presents new approaches to the study of typology in Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture and highlights the importance of type and archetype in constructing architecture and

• Publisher : A&C Black
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• Release Date : 12 September 2013

Lynn R. Huber argues that the visionary aspect of Revelation, with its use of metaphorical thinking and language, is the crux of the text's persuasive power. Emerging from a context

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 19 April 2021

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious,

• Publisher : Modern Language Association
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• Release Date : 01 January 2018

The moving, richly allegorical poem Pearl was likely written by the anonymous poet who also penned Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In it, a man in a garden, grieving

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 29 September 2008

Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.