The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Title | The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wallace |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2020-09-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108853390 |
This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.
Death and the City in Premodern Europe
Title | Death and the City in Premodern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Christ |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2024-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1040153267 |
Through a range of case studies, this book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa. It argues that by focusing on death and the city, we can open up new avenues of research into religious, political and cultural change. Dying in a city was significantly different from dying in a village or the countryside. Cities and towns were centres of commerce and learning, shaping discourses on death. The importance of urban centres meant that events had a large audience there, for example when people were executed. Urban diversity led to a wide variety of deathways, which also had to be regulated by urban magistrates. The placement of dead bodies and the urban arrangement of cemeteries were related to the high population density in towns, urban hygiene and religious changes, such as the Reformation. The fact that many cities were seats of power had a direct impact on the design of necropolises and the performance of funerary rituals. It was also in urban centres that religious, ethnic and cultural diversity tended to be more pronounced, leading to compromise and conflict when it came to burials and commemoration. Considering death and the city can therefore help us understand much broader processes of dying, urbanity and change over time. This book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the premodern period. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mortality.
The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450–1066
Title | The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450–1066 PDF eBook |
Author | Carolinne White |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 2024-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316953157 |
This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450–1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from famous documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, and from accounts and legal documents, all revealing the lives of individuals at home and on their travels across Britain and beyond. It offers an insight into Latin writings on many subjects, showing the important role of Latin in the multilingual society of medieval Britain, in which Latin was the primary language of written communication and record and also developed, particularly after the Norman Conquest, through mutual influence with English and French. The thorough introductions to each volume provide a broad overview of the linguistic and cultural background, while the individual texts are placed in their social, historical and linguistic context.
Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Title | Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Engel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2022-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108843395 |
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Title | Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Highley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199533407 |
After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance."--BOOK JACKET.
Baroque Antiquity
Title | Baroque Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Plahte Tschudi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 110714986X |
As if in a Bright Mirror -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index
Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Title | Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones PDF eBook |
Author | Shiloh Carroll |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843844842 |
One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, thedirectors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how true are these claims? Is it possible to faithfully represent a time so far removed from our own in time and culture? And what does an authentic medieval fantasy world look like? This book explores Martin's and HBO's approaches to and beliefs about the Middle Ages and how those beliefs fall into traditional medievalist and fantastic literary patterns. Examining both books and programme from a range of critical approaches - medievalism theory, gender theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, andrace theory - Dr Carroll analyzes how the drive for historical realism affects the books' and show's treatment of men, women, people of colour, sexuality, and imperialism, as well as how the author and showrunners discuss these effects outside the texts themselves. SHILOH CARROLL teaches in the writing center at Tennessee State University.