"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the ...
How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? While few would question that the human senses encountered a profoundly different environment in the medieval world, two distinct and opposite interpretations of that encounter have emerged - one of high sensual intensity and one of extreme sensual starvation. Presenting original, ...
This text explores modern conceptions of cultural patterns in the Middle Ages. It aims to bring medievalists into confrontation with the notion of medievalism itself, in order to chart the directions the field has taken in the past and may take in the future.
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the "Roman de la Rose" of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically ...
Three hundred years after Edwards' birth, experts on Edwards examine the vision, theology, and legacy of this theological giant. Scholars contributing essays include Harry S. Stout, George M. Marsden, Gerald McDermott, and Douglas Sweeney. The first part of the book focuses on the vision of Jonathan Edwards, discussing how Edwards understood ...
Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in ...
A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895-1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels (among them, 1968's Belle du Seigneur) and lyrical essays are widely read by a devout public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia. A self-consciously Jewish writer ...
A new translation of the classic medieval French epic poem by Guillaume de Lorris. Patterned after Ovid's Ars Amatoria, it is an elaborate allegory describing the birth and growth of courtly love. It was one of the most influential works written during the Middle Ages, and gave birth to an entirely new conception of love and romance throughout ...
Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the 20th century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with "Frederick II" (1927), a work whose language, in Gabrielle Spiegel's ...
"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the ...
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