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This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading
and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic
relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of
medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about
masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in
which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing
both those who recorded the events and those who participated.
Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better
contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced,
comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around
five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities;
emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and
kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their
analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors
demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding
of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience.
Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and
Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula
and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling
cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval
manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing
gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between
different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour
were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.
This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading
and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic
relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of
medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about
masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in
which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing
both those who recorded the events and those who participated.
Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better
contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced,
comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around
five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities;
emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and
kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their
analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors
demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding
of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience.
Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and
Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula
and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling
cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval
manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing
gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between
different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour
were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.
If you could sit down to dinner with some of the world's most
ambitious startup entrepreneurs, what would you ask them? Since
2011, 9others has hosted over 5,000 entrepreneurs at 500 events in
over 45 cities around the world and asked one simple question:
what's keeping you up at night? We’ve heard the challenges that
entrepreneurs all around the world have faced; their thinking and
the behavioural traits that helped them overcome those challenges.
In this book, 9others founders Katie Lewis and Matthew Stafford
will help you discover the questions you should be asking yourself
as you start and scale your own start up, and why you should go on
your own journey to find your 9others.
During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation
to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman
antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city's
art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of
diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York's
most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces.
Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought
and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American
Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century's
Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical
past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to
cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and
monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces.
Specialists from a range of disciplines-archaeology, architectural
history, art history, classics, and history- focus on how classical
art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York
City's most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall
evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the
Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New
York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station
derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and
Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new
light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and
depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of
ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today,
this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and
philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space-be it
civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic-and how we make
use of that space and the objects in it.
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The Radvocate #15 (Paperback)
Matt E Lewis; Illustrated by Matthew Revert; Edited by Keith McCleary
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R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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When "The Monk" first appeared in 1796, critics were shocked and
outraged. That a Member of Parliament should publish a novel filled
with blasphemy, rape, murder, incest, rotting corpses, and devil
worship was unthinkable and unprecedented. But efforts to suppress
the book failed, readers loved it, and it became a worldwide
bestseller. Today it is regarded as one of the finest Gothic horror
novels ever written.
M.G. Lewis's novel - written when he was only nineteen - centers
on Ambrosio, a monk renowned for his piety, who finds himself faced
with temptation when his passions are aroused by Matilda, a
beautiful girl who has entered the monastery disguised as a boy.
But after he succumbs to her charms, Ambrosio's lust for sensual
gratification quickly becomes insatiable, and he begins a
precipitous descent into depravity, indulging in sorcery, demonic
rituals, rape, and murder as he seeks to sate his unquenchable
desires. . . .
This definitive edition of "The Monk" reprints the unabridged text
of the three-volume 1796 first edition from the copy in the British
Library and features an introduction by one of the most popular and
acclaimed horror writers of our time, Stephen King. Also included
are six lurid full-page illustrations from the 1797 and 1807 Paris
editions of the novel, along with a portrait of the author and a
reproduction of the original title page.
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