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Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into
aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views
and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our
perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding
Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with
new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies,
sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The
volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as
German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes
of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with
extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of
feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various
literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender,
male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the
world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female
readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and
reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies -
male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and
socially encode them. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a
tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven
foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old
French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and
leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist
scholars. Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St.
Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Daniel E. O'Sullivan
is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi.
Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin
L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace
Heller,Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom
Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen,
Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
The story of the Dundee mill girl who, inspired by David
Livingstone, became a missionary herself in Calabar, a part of
Africa known as 'the White Man's Grave'. There she adopted many
children who would otherwise have been left to die; when her
mediating skills were recognised she became the British Empire's
first woman magistrate. Her name lives on in the Mary Slessor
Foundation, a charity working in Africa to improve health, skills
training and facilitate agricultural projects. Mary Slessor was one
of the most remarkable Scotswomen of any generation and the first
to be depicted on a Scottish banknote. First published in 2001;
this edition has had some material updated and a replacement
photograph.
The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their
physical and their metrical forms. Romances were immensely popular
with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in
manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with
the textual transmission of medieval romances in England and
Scotland, combining this with investigations into their metre and
form; this comparison of the romances in both their material form
and their verse form sheds new light on their cultural and social
contexts. Topics addressed include the textualhistory of Sir Orfeo;
the singing of Middle English romances; their rhythms and rhyme
schemes; their printed transmission from Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde;
and the representation of the Otherworld in manuscript
miscellanies. AD PUTTER is Professor of Medieval English at the
University of Bristol; JUDITH A. JEFFERSON is Research Associate at
the University of Bristol. Contributors: Michelle de Groot, Judith
A. Jefferson, RebeccaE. Lyons, Carol M. Meale, Donka Minkova,
Nicholas Mylkebust, Derek Pearsall, Rhiannon Purdie, Ad Putter,
Elizabeth Robertson, Jordi Sanchez-Marti, Thorlac Turville-Petre
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical
and literary context. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early
fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most
important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her
Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely
studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman,
their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many
aspects of both her life and thought remain enigmatic. This
exciting new collection offers a comprehensive, accessible coverage
of the key aspects of debate surrounding Julian. It places the
author within a wide range of contemporary literary, social,
historical and religious contexts, and also provides a wealth of
new insightsinto manuscript traditions, perspectives on her writing
and ways of interpreting it, building on the work of many of the
most active and influential researchers within Julian studies, and
including the fruits of the most recent,ground-breaking findings.
It will therefore be a vital companion for all of Julian's readers
in the twenty-first century. Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy is Senior
Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea
University. Contributors: Denise M. Baker, Alexandra Barratt,
Marleen Cre, Elisabeth Dutton,Vincent Gillespie, Cate Gunn, Ena
Jenkins, E.A. Jones, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Laura Saetveit Miles, Kim
M. Philips, Elizabeth Robertson,Sarah Salih, Annie Sutherland,
Diane Watt, Barry Windeatt.
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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse (Paperback)
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Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors: ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN,
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS
WATSON.
This volume provides a serious examination of substance use
prevention research and practice as components of the continuum
from health promotion through to prevention and health care in
sub-groups and in the general population. Extensive background
chapters provide portals into the evolution of the field and the
cutting edge research being conducted on the etiology,
epidemiology, and genetics of substance use and abuse. The global
nature and health burden of substance use and abuse incorporates
assessments of the serious problems related to the prevention of
legal substance use (i.e., alcohol and tobacco) and how lessons
learned in those arenas may apply to the prevention of illicit
substance use. Research and practice chapters detail a range of
effective evidence-based programs, policies and practices and
emerging prevention interventions from the literatures on the
family and school contexts in addition to innovations involving
mindfulness and the social media. Continued advancements in
substance use prevention research, practice, training, and policy
are projected. Included among topics addressed are: Progression of
substance use to abuse and substance use disorders The tobacco
prevention experience: a model for substance use prevention? Policy
interventions: intended and unintended influences on substance use
Qualitative methods in the study of psychoactive substance use Use
of media and social media in the prevention of substance use
Supporting prevention science and prevention research
internationally The array of research accomplishments and
real-world methods presented in Prevention of Substance Use merits
the attention of a variety of researchers and practitioners,
including public health professionals, health psychologists, and
epidemiologists.
These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the
most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales.
Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of
the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the Clerk's
Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the Second Nun's Tale and the
Prioress's Tale. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in
some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with
faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such
as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they
seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest in
women and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise
their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as
surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays
survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new
approaches. Contributors: C. DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA
GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE,
ELIZABETH D. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.
Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland
s iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a
deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious
aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely
voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot Donaldson s translation of
the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because
of its skillful emulation of the original poem s distinct
alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English
text are also included for comparative analysis. "Sources and
Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious
and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including
selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal
statutes. "Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by
leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane,
Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk.
A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included."
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical
and literary context. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early
fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most
important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her
Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely
studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman,
their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many
aspects of both her life and thought remain enigmatic. This
exciting collection offers a comprehensive, accessible coverage of
the key aspects of debate surrounding Julian. It places the author
within a wide range of contemporary literary, social, historical
and religious contexts, and also provides a wealth of new insights
into manuscript traditions, perspectives on her writing and ways of
interpreting it, building on the work of many of the most active
and influential researchers within Julian studies, and including
the fruits of the most recent, ground-breaking findings. It will
therefore be a vital companion for all of Julian's readers in the
twenty-first century. Dr LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in
Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea University.
CONTRIBUTORS: KIM M. PHILLIPS, CATE GUNN, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, DENISE
M. BAKER, DIANE WATT, E.A. JONES, ANNIE SUTHERLAND, BARRY WINDEATT,
MARLEEN CRE, ELISABETH DUTTON, ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, LAURA SAETVEIT
MILES, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY, ENA JENKINS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, SARAH
SALIH
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CATHERINE
INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN, ELIZABETH
ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS WATSON.
The Katherine Group brings together for the first time newly edited
and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives
of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but
rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, Hali Meidenhad; and a
psychologically astute sermon, Sawles Warde ("The Guardianship of
the Soul"). These works are important witnesses to the development
of Middle English writing after the Conquest and to the rigorous
anchoritic spiritual life pursued by female recluses in medieval
England.
Liebe und Leid im Heiligen Land Autobiographische Erzahlung
Shakespeare ware stolz darauf gewesen, eine Handlung wie diese zu
prasentieren: eine junge sudafrikanische Kunstlerin geht nach
Jerusalem, um fur die Internationale Christliche Botschaft ICEJ zu
arbeiten. Dort trifft sie einen leidenschaftlichen, jungen
orthodoxen Juden, den man gelehrt hat, alles zu verachten, woran
die junge Kunstlerin glaubt. Das Leben ubertrifft die Fantasie
eines Meisters und so wird auch diese autobiografische Erzahlung
die inneren Erwartungen des Lesers ubersteigen!
Dedicated to the memory of Richard G. Forbis, this collection of
papers presented by his students and colleagues represents more
than a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology.
Richard "Dick" Forbis was seminal in putting archaeology in Alberta
on the road it has taken and in establishing the field of cultural
resource management. Throughout his career, he was passionate about
many issues facing modern archaeology and imparted his concern and
enthusiasm to his students and colleagues, seeking to push the
boundaries of our preconceptions and encourage those around him to
find answers to many difficult yet challenging questions. In this
spirit, the papers chosen for this collection focus on new
directions in northern plains archaeological research and are a
unique and topical contribution to modern archaeology.
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