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Study of the Norman World's borders, frontiers, and boundaries in
Europe, shedding fresh light on their nature and extent. The
Normans exerted great influence across Christendom and beyond in
the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Figures like William the
Conqueror and Robert Guiscard subdued vast territories, their feats
recorded for posterity by chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and
Geoffrey Malaterra. Through travel and conquest, the Normans
encountered, created, and conceptualised many borders, with the
areas of Europe that they ruled and most affected often being
grouped together as the "Norman World". This volume examines the
nature, forms, and function of borders in and around this "Norman
World", looking at Normandy, the British-Irish Isles, and Southern
Italy. Three sections frame the collection. The first concerns
physical features, from broad frontier expanses, to rivers and
walls that were both literally and metaphorically lines of
division. The second shows how borders were established, contested,
and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior
churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual
frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among
the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across
Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of
Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of
Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall,
the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders
played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what
these borders did and whom they benefited.
How has the form of the novel responded to the conditions now
grouped under the term "neoliberalism"? These conditions have
generated an explosion of narrative forms that make the past two
decades one of the two or three most significant periods in the
history of the novel. The contributors ask whether these formal
innovations can be understood as an unprecedented break from the
past or the latest chapter in a process that has been playing out
over the past three centuries. In response to this question, they
use a range of contemporary novels to consider whether conditions
of multinational capitalism limit the novel's ability to imagine a
future beyond the limits of that world. Do novels that reject the
option of an alternative world nevertheless reimagine the limits of
multinational capitalism as the precondition for such a future?
With these concerns in mind, contributors demonstrate how major
contemporary novelists challenge national traditions of the novel
both in the Anglophone West and across the Global South. This
collective inquiry begins with a new essay by and interview with
British novelist Tom McCarthy. Contributors Nancy Armstrong, Jane
Elliott, Matthew Hart, Nathan Hensley, Nicholas Huber, Jeanne-Marie
Jackson, John Marx, Tom McCarthy, Vaughn Rasberry, Deisdra Reber,
Lily Saint, Emilio Sauri, Rachel Greenwald Smith, Paul Stasi
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Lion in the Night - Stories (Hardcover)
Jack Armstrong; Foreword by John R. Perfect; Illustrated by Lena Rodriquez Gillett
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Lion in the Night (Paperback)
Jack Armstrong; Foreword by John R. Perfect; Illustrated by Lena Rodriquez Gillett
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Walter Armstrong, John D 1913 Whyte, Scottish Home Industries Group
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ L'ideale Politico Di Dante: Edward Armstrong. La "Vita Nova"
Di Dante; Volume 11 Of Bibliotheca Storiocritica Della Letteratura
Dantesca Edward Armstrong, John Earle Ditta Nicola Zanichelli, 1899
Literary Criticism; European; Italian; Literary Criticism /
European / Italian; Poetry / Continental European
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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