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This collection of eleven essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other. These notable scholars take on a broad range of topics, including the falsified Hitler diaries, the creation of national identity in Bohemia, and Jean-Etienne Liotard's fraudulent "Turkish" identity. Each essay asks how forgery-at once the work of a criminal and a "master"-has shaped modern culture and challenged our understandings of authorship and value.
The first book in English on medieval Czech literature.
Anne's Bohemia is the first book in English to introduce the
little-known riches of medieval Bohemian culture. Alfred Thomas
considers the development of Czech literature and society from the
coronation of Count John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1310
to the year 1420, when the papacy declared a Catholic crusade
against the Hussite reformers. This period is of particular
relevance to the study of medieval England because of Richard II's
marriage to Anne of Bohemia, the figure around whom this book is
conceived.
Anne's Bohemia offers a social context for the most important
works of literature written in the Czech language, from the
earliest spiritual songs and prayers to the principal Hussite and
anti-Hussite tracts of the fifteenth century. The picture that
emerges from Thomas's close readings of these texts is one of a
society undergoing momentous political and religious upheavals in
which kings, queens, clergy, and heretics all played crucial roles.
Expert but accessibly written, the book offers an engaging overview
of medieval Bohemian culture for specialist and nonspecialist
alike.
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare
used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the
present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a
revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the
Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the
Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare's Richard II, The
Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter's
Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval
past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing
these and other plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries with their
medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an
ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly
intolerant and partisan age.
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare
used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the
present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a
revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the
Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the
Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare's Richard II, The
Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter's
Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval
past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing
these and other plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries with their
medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an
ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly
intolerant and partisan age.
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English
Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and
specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales ,
Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed
Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly
affect his writing.
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read
Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book
uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and
film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet,
King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read
Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book
uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and
film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet,
King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition
and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised
an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has
been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers
and artists generally confined to the role played by the French
courtof King Charles V and the Italian city states of Milan and
Florence. This book aims to fill that gap. It argues that Richard's
marriage to Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV, one of the greatest rulersand patrons of the age,
exposed England to the full extent of this international court
culture. Ricardian writers, including Chaucer, Gower and the
Gawain-poet, wrote in their native language not because they felt
"English" in the modern national sense but because they aspired to
be part of a burgeoning vernacular European culture stretching from
Paris to Prague and from Brabant to Brandenburg; thus, one of the
major periods of English literature can only be properly understood
in relation to this larger European context.
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to
COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague
writing" from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It
argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously
between the medieval past and the present (urbanization,
technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the
human "software" (emotional and psychological reactions to the
shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time.
Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume
de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the
fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern
"plague" fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates
psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In
showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and
fantasies and displace them onto the threatening "other," Thomas
highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups
such as Asian Americans and Jews in today's America. This
wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to
medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the
general reader.
This trusted, reader-friendly text provides you with a thorough
guide to all major areas of collision repair and refinishing as
outlined by ASE Education Foundation. COLLISION REPAIR AND
REFINISHING: A FOUNDATION COURSE FOR TECHNICIANS, Third Edition,
covers structural and non-structural analysis and damage repair,
welding, painting and refinishing, paint chemistry, sacrificial
coatings for corrosion resistance, mechanical and electrical
systems, and more. A chapter on the expanded use of aluminum for
domestic vehicle manufacture explores this important trend, as well
as basic repair principles related to it. An engaging writing
style, logical presentation of topics, and illustrations featuring
current equipment and realistic applications make this
comprehensive text a perfect choice for students with little or no
prior exposure to collision repair.
In 1991 Spitalfields Market in London's East End was relocated,
paving the way for one of the largest and most complex excavations
ever launched in London, taking place on a site measuring almost
thirteen acres. This superb book tells the story of the excavation
and the 2000-year history of the area from the Roman period to the
present day. Details on the finds recovered, and the methods and
recording systems used, are interspersed with a narrative history
of the site. The book begins with the Roman burial ground and the
remains of a wealthy Roman woman and her sarcophagus which became
the focus of a memorable episode of Meet the Ancestors . The book
then moves on to the medieval period and the 12th-century hospital
which was founded at Spitalfields along with its church,
infirmaries and other buildings, and burials. Finds from this
period are supplemented with broader discussion of life in medieval
London, such as disease and medicine, and the changing landscape
around the site. During the Reformation, the hospital and priory
were closed but the story of the site continued. The land was taken
by the Crown, parts of the site were leased, most notably as
artillery ground, with new housing and cottage industries to
follow. Finds dating to the English Civil War, evidence relating to
the transformation of the site from an aristocractic enclave to a
suburb of immigrants, the redevelopment of the area in the 17th and
18th centuries, through to the opening of Spitalfields Market in
1682, brings us full circle.
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