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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Medieval Studies
The Concentration Of Carnivalesque Themes In The Shared Fabliaux Of The Decameron And The Canterbury Tales, Timothy R. Jordan
The Concentration Of Carnivalesque Themes In The Shared Fabliaux Of The Decameron And The Canterbury Tales, Timothy R. Jordan
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Geoffrey Chaucer's interest in social interactions in The Canterbury Tales is easy to see through his pilgrims' estate-based conflicts with each other. In addition to the frame narrative, the interest in social interaction is also apparent in the characters of the individual tales and as a reflection of the conflict between the individual pilgrims. Most of these social interactions embody what is called the camivalesque: free, open, contact between people due to the suspension of social hierarchies. Mikhail Bakhtin has described the camivalesque as characteristic of medieval thought. In medieval literature, the genre of the fabliau, short bawdy stories that …
Far From The Heart: The Social, Political, And Ecclesiastical Milieu Of The Early Abbotsof La Chaise-Dieu, 1052-1184, Maureen M. O’Brien
Far From The Heart: The Social, Political, And Ecclesiastical Milieu Of The Early Abbotsof La Chaise-Dieu, 1052-1184, Maureen M. O’Brien
Dissertations
This study examines the institutional development of the abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, whose evolution depended upon its community of monks, its patrons, and its response to the demands placed upon it by the society at large and the Church in general. It examines these factors as they were managed by its first eightabbots by tracing the development of their personal, social, political, and ecclesiastical networks in an effort to identify how those interactions took place and why they took the forms they did. This analysis rests on the examination of charters that were drawn up by the abbey and by …
"Opene Þefore Þe I3e Of Þin Intellecte": Holy Tears In The Book Of Margerykempe And The Orcherd Of Syon, James Ryan Gregory
"Opene Þefore Þe I3e Of Þin Intellecte": Holy Tears In The Book Of Margerykempe And The Orcherd Of Syon, James Ryan Gregory
Masters Theses
St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) discusses in her greatest work, Il Dialogo, the various stages by which the human soul can ascend the spiritual path to God and salvation. She specifically treats the matter of "holy tears" and outlines a complete taxonomy of holy weeping, a six-tiered scale through which the soul can ascend in pursuit of union with the divine. The activities of Catherine's insular near-contemporary, Margery Kempe, a woman famed for her persistent wailing in remembrance of ail things holy, are recorded in a text whose construction of its eponymous heroine parallels in many ways the hierarchy …
Vengeance And The Crusades, Susanna A. Throop
Vengeance And The Crusades, Susanna A. Throop
History Faculty Publications
This article demonstrates that the popularity of the idea of crusading as vengeance was not limited to the laity, and, instead of fading away after 1099, the ideology grew more widespread as the twelfth century progressed. The primary aim here is to present the evidence alongside preliminary analysis, reserving further, more detailed interpretation for future publications.
The Cistercian Studies Conference, 2006, The Institute Of Cistercian Studies
The Cistercian Studies Conference, 2006, The Institute Of Cistercian Studies
Conference on Cistercian Studies Programs
Program for the 2006 Cistercian Studies Conference at Western Michigan University in conjunction with the 41st Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. This conference happened between May 4-7 2006.
41st International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
41st International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive
The printed program of the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 4-7, 2006), including the Corrigenda.
Flarr Pages #52: The Language Of Medieval Mystics: Teaching With Hildegard Of Bingen And Catherine Of Siena, Jennifer Deane
Flarr Pages #52: The Language Of Medieval Mystics: Teaching With Hildegard Of Bingen And Catherine Of Siena, Jennifer Deane
FLARR Pages
Between roughly the years 1050 and 1500, a flowering of new spiritual expressions, forms and ideas took root in western Europe. One of these was mysticism,. the belief that one can achieve direct consciousness of (and connection with) the divine through contemplation, intuition and meditation. The compelling stories and writings of medieval female mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) offer unique ideas, images and topics for German, Italian and Latin language instruction.
The History Of Reynard The Fox: How Medieval Literature Reflects Culture, Anne Lair
The History Of Reynard The Fox: How Medieval Literature Reflects Culture, Anne Lair
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Teaching about the Middle Ages in French culture or literature courses is always an enlightening experience to me because of the richness of symbols, events, and starting points occurring during this time period. Very often, when thinking about the Middle Ages, Christianity, chivalry, and nobility come to mind, all values still of high importance in contemporary Western societies. However, medieval culture presents itself with an array of other behaviors and values, some of which may today be considered as offensive and even sometimes “alienating”: primitive, barbaric, or even animalistic forms of behavior.
Sovereign Right, Democracy And The Rule Of Law, Artur Golczewski
Sovereign Right, Democracy And The Rule Of Law, Artur Golczewski
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
In the often hotly contested contemporary critical discourse, the related notions of individual and social identity, values and viable conduct continue to be the bone of contention, as their competing rationales sanction radically distinctive existential frameworks. The present essay employs some of the methodological strategies of the genealogical analysis as progressively refined by Ernst Kantorowicz and Michel Foucault, and it aims to chart a trajectory of historical applications and effects of the theory of sovereignty as the organizing principle coordinating our legal and socio-governmental rationales of value and of individual and social conduct. The principle governing Kantorowicz’s selection and consideration …
Editorial: On Falling Into Medievalism, Richard Utz
Editorial: On Falling Into Medievalism, Richard Utz
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
"The Play's The Thing": Considering The Morality Play In Morality Play, Heather Kennedy Mcdonald
"The Play's The Thing": Considering The Morality Play In Morality Play, Heather Kennedy Mcdonald
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
The paucity of details about secular theater in the fourteenth century allows Barry Unsworth to imagine what a troupe of players would look like if we could examine them right at the time when "a totally new form of drama was being born" (Unsworth, "Barry Unsworth on Fourteenth Century Life and Theatre"). In his novel Morality Play, he imagines poor, itinerant players competing with the large guilds that put on an entire cycle of plays with the backing of unlimited funds. He conjectures that these players would be an amalgamation of different types of troupes that endeavored …
Dutch Ants And Dutch Uncles: Sorting Out Englishness Among The Exile Community In The Low Countries, Andrew Fleck
Dutch Ants And Dutch Uncles: Sorting Out Englishness Among The Exile Community In The Low Countries, Andrew Fleck
Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Contemporary Reading Of Augustine’S Confessions, Sharon Cantor
A Contemporary Reading Of Augustine’S Confessions, Sharon Cantor
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.