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New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for
understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but
Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England
married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for
its patronage of literature, art and architecture, and Anne and her
entourage brought with them some of its glamour and allure - their
fashions, extravagance and behaviour provoking comment from English
chroniclers. For Chaucer, a poet and diplomat affiliated to
Richard's court, Anne was more muse than patron, her influence
embedded in a range of his works, including the Parliament of
Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and
Canterbury Tales. This volume shows Bohemia to be a key European
context, alongside France and Italy, for understanding Chaucer's
poetry, providing a wide perspective on the nature of cultural
exchange between England and Bohemia in the later fourteenth
century. The contributors consider such matters as court culture
and politics, the writings of Richard Rolle, artistic style, Troy
stories, historiographic writing and travel narrative; they
highlight the debt Chaucer owed to Bohemian culture, and the
affinities between English and Bohemian literary production,
whether in the use of Petrarch's tale of Griselde, the iconography
of the tapster figure, or satires on the Passion of Christ.
Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined. The
reign of Richard II is well known for its political turmoil as well
as its literary and artistic innovations, all areas explored by
Professor Nigel Saul during his distinguished career. The present
volume interrogates many familiar literary and narrative sources,
including works by Froissart, Gower, Chaucer, Clanvow, and the
Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum, along with those less
well-known, such as coroner's inquests and gaol delivery
proceedings. The reign is also notorious for its larger than life
personalities - not least Richard himself. But how was he shaped by
other personalities? A prosopographical study of Richard's bishops,
a comparison of the literary biographies of his father the Black
Prince, and Bertrand du Guesclin, and a reconsideration of
Plantagenet family politics, all shed light on this question.
Meanwhile, Richard II's tomb reflects his desire to shape a new
vision of kingship. Commemoration more broadly was changing in the
late fourteenth century, and this volume includes several studies
of both individual and communal memorials of various types that
illustrate this trend: again, appropriately for an area Professor
Saul has made his own. Contributors: Mark Arvanigian, Caroline
Barron, Michael Bennett, Jerome Bertram, David Carpenter, Chris
Given-Wilson, Jill Havens, Claire Kennan, Hannes Kleineke, John
Leland, Joel Rosenthal, Christian Steer, George Stow, Jenny
Stratford, Kelcey Wilson-Lee.
This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new
trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The
focus of this volume may be summed up as "The Word". Its essays
examine the contents and provenance of manuscripts which were
written for polemical purposes, treasured by the duchess of York,
and through the new medium of print introduced to a wider public
topics of historical interest and illustrations of the geography of
the known world. The essays here also consider official records of
forest administration, expressed in arcane language; documents
preserved in the papal curia which reveal significant facts about
the lives of Scottish bishops; archives produced by the English
chancery noting the movements of a royal councillor; and letters,
poems and songs exposing the political strategy of a German prince.
Nor is the spoken word neglected, whether employed in speeches
delivered at the start of parliaments, using as their themes
scriptures and classical texts to set a political agenda; or as
sermons to open-air congregations gathered at St. Paul's Cross,
where the oratory of Bishop Alcock stirred his listeners in
different ways. Contributors: Michael Bennett, Julia Boffey, Paul
Cavill, J.M. Grussenmeyer, TomJohnson, J.L. Laynesmith, John
Milner, Ben Pope, Dan E. Seward, Sarah Thomas
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and
experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known
about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J.
Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in
this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union
sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the ""Union
Jacks,"" Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He
finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army
in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the
regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were
not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they
enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from
rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for
pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination
provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates
where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins
shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and
fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to
our understanding of the Civil War.
Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Pediatric Disease, Fifth Edition
has been a well-respected reference in the field for decades. This
revision continues the strong focus on understanding the
pathogenesis of pediatric disease, emphasizing not only the
important role of the clinical laboratory in defining parameters
that change with the disease process, but also the molecular basis
of many pediatric diseases.
This study of Cheshire and Lancashire society in the late
fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries is a unique attempt to
reconstruct the social life of an English region in the later
Middle Ages. Drawing on the voluminous archives of the two
palatinates and the extensive muniment collections of local
families, it offers an unusually rich and wide-ranging analysis of
a dynamic regional society at a dramatic stage in its history.
Empathy has long been regarded as central to the art of medicine
and especially to the practice of psychotherapy. The ability of a
therapist to appreciate the patient's state of mind and frame of
reference is the foundation of a therapeutic alliance and key to
the process of healing. However, these subjective aspects of
practice are rendered suspect by today's emphasis on objectivity:
formal diagnosis, with biological treatments, and standardized
methodologies that appear to be aimed more at disease than at the
person who suffers from it. Pressured by the practice climate and
by the advances of science, practitioners have become treatment
specialists and the empathic healer has become an endangered
species.
In this book, the author establishes a new foundation for the use
and value of clinical empathy that is based on a distinction
between treatment and healing and a model for using psychotherapy
as a component of an organized system of care: focused, attuned to
the patient's presenting motive, and consistent with our
understanding of the relationship between mind and brain.
Practicing mental health professionals and students find the
rationale for assessment and treatment planning in The Empathic
Healer an invaluable aide as they seek to adapt to the marvelous
discoveries about how the brain shapes and recovers from mental
disorder, and how an empathic environment fosters recovery and
healing within and beyond the treatment setting.
Key Features
* Establishes the historical roots of the concept of clinical
empathy and its relationship to healing
* Elaborates the ideological and environmental factors that enhance
or interfere with empathy
* Explores the biological importance of empathy as a feature of the
normal human brain
* Argues for the integration of mind and brain in a new
dualism
* Presents a vision of psychotherapy as an important component of
an organized system of care
* Differentiates between the treating and healing functions, and
suggests how each relies on empathy
* Suggests how an endangered species may be preserved in the
present technological era
This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a
previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the 'belted hero, ' and
argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological
significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and
athlete into a supreme image of political power. The special
'heroic warrior's belts' (zosteres) worn by Agamemnon, Menelaos,
and Nestor served as unimpeachable visual emblems of their exalted
positions of rank. The feminine counterpart, or zone, presents the
woman as superior in the competitive arena of love. Bennett shows
that the belted hero represented an ideology attractive to wealthy
landowners, their oikoi, and inter-family connections. He suggests
that the communal spirit of the hoplite phalanx attempted to
appropriate the belted hero ideal, even while undermining its ethos
of personal honor. Bennett also makes several important
iconographic interpretations that provide fundamentally new
insights into early Greek oral epic compositional techniques,
conceptions of time, and cosmological structure. Belted Heroes and
Bound Women will be of interest to scholars and students of early
Greek art, history, or literature.
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