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An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the
Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the
mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic
community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many
of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including
Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious
scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of
Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in
the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the
Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical
endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The
essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of
the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in
several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship.
Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks
organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their
sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative
parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and
previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see.
Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum,
attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major
model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus
Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections
with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating
abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself,
and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the
Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through
the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts
shaped their own institutional memory.
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New Medieval Literatures 19 (Hardcover)
Philip Knox, Kelly Robertson, Wendy Scase, Laura Ashe; Contributions by Christiania Whitehead, …
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R2,185
Discovery Miles 21 850
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on
medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and
cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is
inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological,
and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary
studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe. Essays in
this volume trace institutional histories, examining the textual
and memorial practices of religious institutions across the British
Isles; explore language games that play with meaning in
Anglo-French poetry; examine the interplay of form and matter in
Italian song; position Old Norse sagas in an ecocritical and a
postcolonial framework; consider the impact of papal politics on
Middle English poetry; and read allegorical poetry as a privileged
site for asking fundamental questions about the nature of the mind.
Texts discussed include lives of St Aebbe of Coldingham, with a
focus on the twelfth-century Latin Vita and its afterlives; a range
of Latin and vernacular works associated with institutional houses,
including the Vie de Edmund le rei by Denis Piramus and the
Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis; both the didactic and
lyrical writings of Walter de Bibbesworth; the trecento Italian
caccia, especially examples by Vincenzo da Rimini and Lorenzo
Masini;Bardar saga, Egils saga, and other Old Norse works that
reveal the traces of encounters with a racial other; John Gower's
Confessio Amantis, in striking juxtaposition with late-medieval
accounts of ecclesiastical crisis; and Alain Chartier's Livre de
l'Esperance. PHILIP KNOX Is University Lecturer in English and
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor
of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Maryland;
WENDY SCASE is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English
Literature at the University of Birmingham; LAURA ASHE is Professor
of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at
Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Daisy Delogu, Thomas
Hinton, Thomas O'Donnell, Daniel Remein, Jamie L. Reuland, Zachary
Stone, Christiania Whitehead.
This is a practical manual for diagnostic testing, focusing on the
historical and contemporary research on functional disorders in
general, and functional visual disorders in particular. Functional
Ophthalmic Disorders: Ocular Malingering and Visual Hysteria is a
how-to manual that is written for the practicing ophthalmologist
and optometrist, complete with color photos that allow the reader
to see pictures of select diseases. In addition to the photos,
videos are provided online to illustrate the various tests and
possible results conducted on a mock patient to assist in the
differential diagnosis. Written and edited by leaders in the field,
some of the topics covered include history of functional disorders,
ophthalmologic examination in malingering and techniques and tests
for functional and simulated defects.
Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the
widespread practice of sending children to another family to be
cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected
topic. Where it has been discussed, fosterage is usually
conceptualised and treated as a purely legal institution. This work
seeks to outline the emotional impact of growing up within another
family. What emerges is a complex picture of deeply felt emotional
ties binding the foster family together. These emotions are unique
to the social practice of fosterage, and we see the language and
feelings originating within the foster family being used to
describe other relationships such as those in the monastery or
between humans and animals. This book argues that the more we
understand how people felt in fosterage, the more we understand
medieval Ireland.
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short,
accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal
for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays
takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has
brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular
entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and
in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our
countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has
refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read
and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths. Whose
Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our
historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about
the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially
beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading
emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the
on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from
actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these
myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of
the Middle Ages on their own terms. Each essay uses its author’s
academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how
the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools,
bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write
with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that
might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly
inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the
far right’s errors of fact and interpretation but also to its
assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the
acquisition of knowledge.
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short,
accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal
for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays
takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has
brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular
entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and
in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our
countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has
refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read
and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths. Whose
Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our
historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about
the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially
beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading
emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the
on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from
actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these
myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of
the Middle Ages on their own terms. Each essay uses its author's
academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how
the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools,
bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write
with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that
might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly
inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the
far right's errors of fact and interpretation but also to its
assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the
acquisition of knowledge.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Written by the holder of several Guinness World Records for cardstacking, this is the first complete, fully illustrated guide to the art of building mind-boggling, multilevel structures with ordinary playing cards. In Stacking the Deck, Bryan Berg reveals the secret to successful cardstacking with his simple four-card-cell structure and expanded grid techniques. Using illustrations and step-by-step instructions, he guides readers on to more elaborate -- and incredibly strong -- creations. He covers a wide range of architectural styles, from classic to whimsical, and various types of structures, including pyramids, shrines, stadiums, churches, an oil derrick, and even the Empire State Building. Since first setting the height record in 1992, Bryan's built awe-inspiring card models of a Japanese shrine, the Iowa State Capitol building, Ebbets Field, and his latest tower, which is more than twenty-five feet tall! This book includes photographs of some of these amazing pieces, illustrating just how appealing and enduring a "house of cards" can be. Stacking the Deck will inspire everyone from youngsters experimenting with their first deck of cards to adults, who can create their own private skyscrapers. Once you've read Stacking the Deck, you'll never look at a deck of cards the same way again.
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