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This treasury of more than 350 poems, prayers, hymns, blessings,
and dramatic readings provides beautiful, powerful pieces that you
can use to mark holidays, milestones, and the passing of the
seasons. Discover prayers to Janus from Horace and Ovid, a
traditional Scottish blessing for Imbolc, an invocation to Pan by
poet Helen Bantock, a salutation to the sun by Aleister Crowley, a
pharoah's hymn to Isis, a song for Lammas by Gwydion Pendderwen,
and many, many more. In addition to readings and blessings for
Pagan holidays and other special days throughout the year, you will
also discover prayers for weddings and funerals and to coincide
with phases of the moon. Author Barbara Nolan includes brief
historical or biographical details to contextualize each piece as
well as descriptions of various holidays and festivals to help you
integrate these readings into your practice. A Year of Pagan Prayer
demonstrates that the literary worship of Pagan deities was never
fully lost in the West. This bounteous collection draws from the
creative and spiritual legacy of Italian Renaissance poets, ancient
Sumerian priestesses, twentieth-century Pagans, French Romantics,
Greek playwrights, nineteenth-century British occultists, and
Egyptian hymnists, making it a must-have sourcebook for anyone who
yearns to embody the eloquent expressions of our Pagan past.
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Chaucer and the City (Hardcover)
Ardis Butterfield; Contributions by Ardis Butterfield, Barbara Nolan, C. David Benson, Christopher Cannon, …
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Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban
context for his writings. Literature of the city and the city in
literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume
enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London
poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history,
steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians
on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays
address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of
Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors
explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and
geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships
between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak
for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and
public order. A final section considers the longer history and
memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great
Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader
in English at University College London. Contributors: ARDIS
BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER
CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON,
ELLIOTKENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS
Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of
history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the
twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the
shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In
these essays, she explores some of the most important moments in
this Gothic visionary perspective. The author first follows the
history of Apocalypse commentaries from Bede to Alexander of
Bremen, focusing particularly on twelfth-century interpretation of
Revelation as a spiritual guidebook for the contemporary Christian.
She shows that innovative interpretations in these texts have
parallels in the cathedral art of St.-Denis and Chartres, the
illuminations for later medieval illustrated Apocalypses, and the
invention of new "anagogical" literary modes. Professor Nolan's
close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work
Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to
shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation.
Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that
French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new
importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and
Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest
even as Piers marks a final moment in its history. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and
modern reworkings. The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in
medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is
explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of
the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural
experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function
of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature;
and the political significance of late medieval representations of
`bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's
poems. Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval
themes: John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, seen in relation to the
traditional acta martyrum, and the medieval revival in Tory Britain
exemplified in Douglas Oliver's The Infant and the Pearl.
Contributors: PAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN,
JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND,
ROBERT F. YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN
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A Companion to Malory (Paperback, New Ed)
Elizabeth Archibald, A.S.G. Edwards; Contributions by A.S.G. Edwards, Barbara Nolan, C. David Benson, …
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Malory's Morte Darthur - text, history and reception - expertly
appraised by international scholars. This collection of original
essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists
provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of Sir
Thomas Malory, which will be indispensable for both students and
scholars. It is divided into three main sections, on Malory in
context, the art of the Morte Darthur, and its reception in later
years. As well as essays on the eight tales which make up the Morte
Darthur, there are studies ofthe relationship between the
Winchestermanuscript and Caxton's and later editions; the political
and social context in which Malory wrote; his style and sources;
and his treatment of two key concepts in Arthurian literature,
chivalry and the representation of women. The volume also includes
a brief biography of Malory with a list of the historical records
relating to him and his family. It ends with a discussion of the
reception of the Morte Darthurfrom the sixteenth to the twentieth
centuries, and a select bibliography. Contributors: P.J.C. FIELD,
FELICITY RIDDY, RICHARD BARBER, ELIZABETH EDWARDS, TERENCE
MCCARTHY, CAROL MEALE, JEREMY SMITH, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD,BARBARA
NOLAN, HELEN COOPER, JILL MANN, DAVID BENSON, A.S.G. EDWARDS
Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of
history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the
twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the
shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In
these essays, she explores some of the most important moments in
this Gothic visionary perspective. The author first follows the
history of Apocalypse commentaries from Bede to Alexander of
Bremen, focusing particularly on twelfth-century interpretation of
Revelation as a spiritual guidebook for the contemporary Christian.
She shows that innovative interpretations in these texts have
parallels in the cathedral art of St.-Denis and Chartres, the
illuminations for later medieval illustrated Apocalypses, and the
invention of new "anagogical" literary modes. Professor Nolan's
close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work
Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to
shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation.
Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that
French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new
importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and
Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest
even as Piers marks a final moment in its history. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
This is a detailed investigation of Chaucer's poetics in Troilus
and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale in relation to an important
continental narrative tradition. It is the first such wide-ranging
study since Charles Muscatine's seminal Chaucer and the French
Tradition and the first book to argue in detail that Chaucer's
poems, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida and the twelfth-century
French romans antiques participate in a distinct formal tradition
within the protean field of medieval romance. By close examination
of the formal and ethical designs of each poem, Barbara Nolan
explores both the compositional practices shared by all of the
poets she discusses, and their calculated differences from each
other. Her analysis culminates in a full examination of Chaucer's
richly original response to the continental verse narratives from
which he borrowed. No other study offers so full and careful a
delineation of the compositional features that distinguish the
roman antique from other forms of romance in the Middle Ages.
Including selections in verse from the talks and writings of
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, this daily contemplation book directs the
reader toward a deeper appreciation of spiritual life.
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