The Devil s Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 1995

A study of the theory of the devil's rights in relation to medieval theology of the redemption, as this is treated in the popular literature of medieval England.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 02 April 2009

What happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from paradise? Where the biblical narrative fell silent apocryphal writings took up this intriguing question, notably including the Early Christian Latin

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.

• Publisher : DS Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann's writing, teaching,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• 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 : BRILL
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• Release Date : 09 August 2016

Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to examining the cyclic form they share. It is based upon

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 02 October 2009

Organised in 2008 by four medievalists from the University of Sheffield, Locating the Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages provided a theatre for dialogue between postgraduates and early career

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2001

The ubiquitous conflict between saint and demon constitutes an ontological study of the boundaries between the holy and the unholy, rather than a psychological study of temptation and sin."--BOOK

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2004

Hrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination to provide her readers with a rich variety of exemplary female heroes and acts of personal courage, offer twenty-first-century readers a

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 December 2023

Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.