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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting
obsession with vision through his varied constructions of
masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon
distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical
discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference
in late fourteenth-century England. By exploring ocularity's equal
dependence on "invisibility," Chaucer offers men and women access
to a vision of "manhed," one that fragments a traditional gender
binary by blurring its division between agency and passivity.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old
French fabliaux to disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with
which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address
theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication,
social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions
and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that
result from this literary body's unsettling capacity. Resisting the
impulse to see the fabliaux as either liberatory or restrictive,
comic or satiric, didactic or immoral, contributors assess the ways
in which Old French fabliaux expose bodily relations that elude
binary classifications. As a gathering of scholars in French,
English, and History, this volume suggests that the Old French
fabliaux form a corpus that is provocative across medieval
studies.
Peckham Experiment was first published in 1943.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on
reconstruction. The third volume of this pioneering series explores
the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical,
fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and
cross-genre scholarship representing such fields associal history,
economics, art history, archaeology and literature, as well as the
reconstruction of textile-making techniques. They range over
England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain from the seventh to
the sixteenth centuries, and address such topics as soft
furnishings, ecclesiastical vestments, the economics of the wool
trade, the making and use of narrow wares, symbolic reference to
courtly dress in a religious text, and aristocratic
children'sclothing. Also included are reviews of recent books on
dress and textile topics. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor
and a researcher/lecturer on Western European dress, specializing
in the depiction and interpretation of clothing by artists and
historians. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Culture at The University of Manchester and author of Dress in
Anglo-Saxon England; she is the Director of an ARHC-fundedproject
on cloth and clothing terminology in medieval Britain.
CONTRIBUTORS: ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, SARAH LARRATT KEEFER, SUSAN
LEIBACHER WARD, JOHN H. MUNRO, JOHN OLDLAN, LESLEY K. TWOMEY,
ELIZABETH BENNS, LOIS SWALES, HEATHER BLATT, MELANIE SCHUESSLER
The real estate industry has been severely affected by recent
developments in international capital markets. There has been a
decline in real estate investment trust (REIT) share prices, and a
decline in capital available for real estate ventures. These
setbacks have coincided with serious financial problems of very
large hedge funds and other institutional investors in the market
for commercial mortgage-backed securities. This volume collects the
revised papers first presented at a conference hosted by New York
University's Salomon Center on the impact of globalization on real
estate business cycles. To this end, the conference offered new
insights into the implications of U.S. and global real estate
cycles on real estate securities including REITs and
mortgage-backed securities as well as direct real estate
investment. The most important insight is that the amplitude and
frequency of the cycles differ from place to place and time to
time. To the extent that this implies that real estate markets
around the world are not yet fully integrated, there are
opportunities for global investors. There are also risks; the
markets are becoming more correlated, most particularly in periods
of crisis. Indeed, the relative immaturity of the Thai real estate
market contributed significantly to the extent and severity of the
Asian financial crisis of 1997. To exploit these opportunities and
to manage the resulting risk, portfolio managers need to develop
new data sources and empirical procedures designed to maximize the
information content of the data that is available. The lack of high
quality data emerges as the central and most pressing issue, not
only from a portfolio management context, but alsofrom the
standpoint of public policy.
New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from
the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of
the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and
analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This
volume demonstrates the value of more recent interpretive
approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the
textile's materiality, visuality, reception and historiography, and
its constructions of gender, territory and cultural memory. The
essays it contains frame discussions vital to the future of
Tapestry scholarship and are complemented by a bibliography
covering three centuries of critical writings. Martin K. Foys is
Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison;
KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts
University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan
University. Contributors: Valerie Allen, Richard Brilliant, Shirley
Ann Brown, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Madeline H. Cavines, Martin K.
Foys, Michael John Lewis, Karen Eileen Overbey, Gale R.
Owen-Crocker, Dan Terkla, Stephen D. White.
The first in-depth history of philanthropy in Indiana. Philanthropy
has been central to the development of public life in Indiana over
the past two centuries. Hoosier Philanthropy explores the role of
philanthropy in the Hoosier state, showing how voluntary action
within Indiana has created and supported multiple visions of
societal good. Featuring 15 articles, Hoosier Philanthropy charts
the influence of different types of nonprofit Hoosier organizations
and people, including foundations, service providers, volunteers,
and individual donors.
The first in-depth history of philanthropy in Indiana. Philanthropy
has been central to the development of public life in Indiana over
the past two centuries. Hoosier Philanthropy explores the role of
philanthropy in the Hoosier state, showing how voluntary action
within Indiana has created and supported multiple visions of
societal good. Featuring 15 articles, Hoosier Philanthropy charts
the influence of different types of nonprofit Hoosier organizations
and people, including foundations, service providers, volunteers,
and individual donors.
Early in his life, Marx had perceived the prevailing social system
as being so deeply flawed as to be irreparable. He was as impatient
with utopian fantasies as he was with mere tinkering, and so he was
driven to develop not only the intellectual forecast of bourgeois
capitalism's necessary demise but also the plan of human action
that would at once hasten that demise and school the revolutionary
actors for the post-revolutionary task of constructing a good
society. The essays in this 1981 book examine the problems that
have arisen from attempts to implement Marx's critical theory. The
centrality of the good society is hardly to be doubted in the
context of that theory. As long as socialist regimes continue to
invoke Marx's name, they necessarily render themselves subject to
the norms contained within or implied by Marx's understanding and
endorsement of freedom, equality, justice and human
self-realization in a community.
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal
and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including
fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive
circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to
trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary
body's unsettling capacity.
In March 1999, New York University Salomon Center in assocIatIOn
with the Department of Finance at NYU Stern held a one-day
conference on the impact of real estate cycles on the real estate
industry both from a domestic as well as an international
perspective. The conference featured the leading research on this
topic in the United States, Europe and Asia. Currendy, the real
estate industry is at a critical point. New development projects
around the world are being put on hold given recent developments in
the international capital markets. The industry is hard hit by the
decline in real estate investment trust (REIT) share prices and a
shrink ing pool of capital for real estate ventures. This has
unfortunately coincided with serious financial problems of very
large hedge funds and other institutional investors in the market
for commercial mortgage backed securities. There is need for new
insights into the implications of U. S. and global real estate
cycles on real estate secu rities including REITs and
mortgage-backed securities as well as direct real estate
investment. This global orientation is important given the high
mobility of capital into the real estate, the increasing
integration of real estate markets, and the proposed expan sion of
real estate investment trusts (REIT) into international real
estate. The process of globalization has resulted in increased
competition between cities for the attrac tion of investment."
New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from
the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of
the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and
analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This
volume demonstrates the value of more recent interpretive
approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the
textile's materiality, visuality, reception and historiography, and
its constructions of gender, territory and cultural memory. The
essays it contains frame discussions vital to the future of
Tapestry scholarship and are complemented by a bibliography
covering three centuries of critical writings. Contributors:
Valerie Allen, Richard Brilliant, Shirley Ann Brown, Elizabeth
Carson Pastan, Madeline H. Cavines, Martin K. Foys, Michael John
Lewis, Karen Eileen Overbey, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Dan Terkla,
Stephen D. White.
This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting
obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs
the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional
gender binary.
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