Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages
Title | Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages PDF eBook |
Author | William Rothwell |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
As son of the second president of the United States, father to the minister to the Court of St. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In this biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day in 1778 when as a boy he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent opponent of his country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere - in Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's own.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Title | Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107658926 |
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship
Title | The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship PDF eBook |
Author | Jenni Nuttall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2007-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107321131 |
The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which developed alongside new expectations of kingship itself and which shaped political action and debate for centuries to come. This interdisciplinary study analyses the political language and literature of the early Lancastrian period, particularly the reigns of Henry IV (1399–1413) and Henry V (1413–22). Lancastrian authors such as Thomas Hoccleve and the authors of the anonymous works Richard the Redeless, Mum and the Sothsegger and Crowned King made creative use of languages and idioms which were in the process of escaping from the control of their royal masters. In a study that has far-reaching implications for both literary and political history, Jenni Nuttall presents a fresh understanding of how political language functions in the late medieval period.
Translation Effects
Title | Translation Effects PDF eBook |
Author | MARY KATE. HURLEY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-01-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780814257951 |
Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Studies in Medieval Language and Culture
Title | Studies in Medieval Language and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Richter |
Publisher | Royal Irish Academy |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Fifteen previously published essays, by Richter, reflect his longterm interest in the role of Latin in medieval language and literature as well as the wider cultural significance of Europe's vernacular languages. Four essays in German, two in French, the rest in English.
Lives of the Great Languages
Title | Lives of the Great Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Karla Mallette |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-09-17 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 022679606X |
Part I: Group Portrait with Language -- Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 2: My Tongue -- Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King -- Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes -- Chapter 5: Tracks -- Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs -- Part III: Translation and Time -- Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language -- Chapter 8: On First Looking into Mattā's Aristotle -- Chapter 9: "I Became a Fable" -- Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language -- Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 11: Silence -- Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity -- Chapter 13: Life Writing.
Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages
Title | Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages PDF eBook |
Author | William Rothwell |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780719005503 |
As son of the second president of the United States, father to the minister to the Court of St. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In this biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day in 1778 when as a boy he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent opponent of his country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere - in Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's own.