Illuminating the Roman D'Alexandre
Title | Illuminating the Roman D'Alexandre PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Cruse |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1843842807 |
Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art, its borders in particular offering a panorama of medieval society and imagination. A celebration of courtliness, a commemoration of urban chivalry, a mirror for the prince instructing in the arts of rule, and a meditation on crusade, it manifests the extraordinary richness and creativity of late medieval manuscript culture. This study examines the manuscript as a monumental expression of the beliefs and social practices of its day, placing it in its historical and artistic context; it also analyzes its later reception in England, where the addition of a Middle English Alexander poem and of Marco Polo's Voyages reflects changing concepts of language, historiography, and geography. Mark Cruse is Assistant Professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
The Debt of the Spanish Libro de Alexandre to the French Roman D'Alexandre
Title | The Debt of the Spanish Libro de Alexandre to the French Roman D'Alexandre PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond S. Willis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Comparative literature |
ISBN |
Medieval Romance and Material Culture
Title | Medieval Romance and Material Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Perkins |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843843900 |
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire. NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture
Title | A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Stoneman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2022-02-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316733394 |
Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer who sought the secret of immortality and discussed the purpose of life with the naked sages of India, he became a model for military achievement as well as a religious prophet bringing Christianity (in the Crusades) and Islam (in the Qur'an and beyond) to the regions he conquered. This innovative and fascinating volume explores these and many other facets of his reception in various cultures around the world, right up to the present and his role in gay activism.
Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great
Title | Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Venetia Bridges |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843845024 |
An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.
The 'Roman d'Alexandre' in MS Bodley 264 : text, image, performance
Title | The 'Roman d'Alexandre' in MS Bodley 264 : text, image, performance PDF eBook |
Author | Markus I. Cruse |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Roman d'Alexandre |
ISBN |
Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)
Title | Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24) PDF eBook |
Author | Domenic Leo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2013-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004250832 |
The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.