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People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often
suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have
assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early
Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of
perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of
the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and
continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed
exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the
victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until
their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout
Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment
occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and
creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in
rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks,
and others).
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Fifteenth-Century Studies 35 (Hardcover)
Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Barbara I Gusick, Martin Walsh; Contributions by Chelsea Honeyman, Chiara Benati, …
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R2,320
Discovery Miles 23 200
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Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical
impairment to narrative afterlife and time. The fifteenth century
defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree,
however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a
time of transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century
Studiestreats diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and
fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 35
addresses topics including physical impairments as depicted in
surgical handbooks printed in Germany and as reflected through
eyeglasses for the blind (a therapy proposed by French vernacular
poets); literary constructions of women in de Meun's Cite des Dames
and in hagiographic legends of Spain; the evolution of the Order of
theGarter as dramatized in Shakespeare; serious elements in French
farces; the festival context of Villon's Pet-au-Deable; Boethius in
the late Middle Ages; A Revelation of Purgatory and Chaucer's
Prioress; Piers Plowman in one British Library manuscript; and
narrative afterlife and time in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid.
Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Milagros
Alameda-Irizarry, Chiara Benati, EdelgardE. DuBruck, Rosanne Gasse,
Chelsea Honeyman, Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., James N. Ortego II, E. L.
Risden, Julie Singer, Geri L. Smith, Martin W. Walsh. Matthew Z.
Heintzelman is Curator of the Austria/Germany Study Center and Rare
Book Cataloger at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint
John's University, Minnesota; Barbara I. Gusick is Professor
Emerita of English at Troy University Dothan; Martin W. Walsh is
Head of the Drama Program at the University of Michigan's
Residential College.
This book presents-through a series of nine high quality essays by
international scholars-the beginnings of the lexicographic
tradition and the appearance of the first mono- and multilingual
dictionaries in various language areas across the world, paying
particular attention to their dependence on glosses and
glossaries.The contributions analyze, on the basis of significant
case studies, how dictionaries first emerged in a wide spectrum of
cultures, ranging from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, from
Medieval Britain to 15th-century Poland. In this way, the book
highlights both similarities and differences among these
traditions, and allows a global and comparative approach to the
history of lexicography in its earliest phases, a topic which, up
until now, has usually been studied only within single languages
and cultures.
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