Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse
Title | Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Abell |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 2023-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 150151427X |
The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise figured prominently in Old French tales of lands beyond the mundane world. This study proposes a fresh look at the complex roles played by the Earthly Paradise in three medieval French poems: Marie de France’s The Purgatory of St. Patrick, Benedeit’s Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot, and Guillaume de Lorris’s The Romance of the Rose. By examining the literary, cultural, and artistic components that informed each poem, this book advances the thesis that the exterior walls of the Earthly Paradise served evolving purposes as contemplative objects that implicitly engaged complex notions of economic solidarity and idealized community. These visions of the Earthly Paradise stand to provide a striking contribution to a historically informed response to the contemporary legacies of colonialism and the international refugee crisis.
Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images
Title | Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images PDF eBook |
Author | Dafna Nissim |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2023-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3111243893 |
This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.
Universal Cyclopd̆ia and Atlas
Title | Universal Cyclopd̆ia and Atlas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 704 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia
Title | Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kendall Adams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 978 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas
Title | Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 702 |
Release | 1908 |
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ISBN |
The Universal Cyclopaedia
Title | The Universal Cyclopaedia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 716 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
The Universal Cyclopædia
Title | The Universal Cyclopædia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 732 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |