The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry-has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based.
Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages.
The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252-84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain.
Distinguishing figural or typological allegory-a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament-from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature.
Das Erzählen in frühen Hochkulturen führt in seinem zweiten Band "Eine Archäologie der narrativen Sinnbildung" die bereits im Vorgängerband "Der Fall Ägypten" gestellten Fragen zu den Bedingungen des Erzählens in einer frühen Hochkultur nun im interdisziplinären Kontext fort.
This study examines all the characterizations of the female personality in the Divine Comedy, including representations of things traditionally categorized as feminine.
Charles Moorman reexamines several major works of the western heroic tradition: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, the Norse sagas, and the Arthurian cycle.
Beginning with a consideration of Malory's ingenious chronology, this study shows that Malory achieved thematic and structural unity by selecting from the great mass of Arthurian legend three narrative strands-the intrigues of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Grail quest, and the feud between the houses of Lot and Pellinore-using these to illustrate a single theme-the rise, flowering, and downfall of an ideal civilization.
Als Fortsetzer des Kirchenvaters Hieronymus befasst sich Prosper Tiro als einer von wenigen zeitgenossischen Autoren mit der Geschichte des Westromischen Reichs in der ersten Halfte des 5.
While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
Seven the Thread of God: How God Sevened Himself, Made Covenant, and the Role Sevens Play in Restoring Us to God from Genesis to Revelation is a story of promise, transgression, and redemption, as well as a beacon of hope in a world that has become chaotic and divisive.
Therise of an influential new family of poetry in the Middle AgesThisbook is the first collective examination of late medieval intimate first-personnarratives that blur the lines between author, narrator, and protagonist andusually feature personification allegory and courtly love tropes, creating anexperimental new family of poetry.
Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems.
