Garland Medieval Casebooks
Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Anneke Mulder-Bakker
May 13, 2016
Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her ...
William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
January 20, 2016
This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology....
Christine de Pizan: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara K. Altmann, Deborah L. McGrady
August 12, 2015
Christine de Pizan wrote voluminously, commenting on various aspects of the late-medieval society in which she lived. Considered by many to be the first French woman of letters, Christine and her writing have been difficult to place ever since she began putting her thoughts on the page. Although ...
Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Maud Burnett McInerney
December 22, 2014
This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-written specifically for this volume-approach Hildegard from a variety of perspectives including ...
Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra J. McEntire
July 17, 2014
These essays-written specifically for this book-provide a rich evaluation of this late 14th and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations and considers the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary and intellectual context. This casebook features ...
Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature: A Casebook
1st Edition
By Albrecht Classen
June 09, 2014
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant ...
Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Murray
May 30, 2014
Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross ...
Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott D. Troyan
May 30, 2014
This volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. Ten original essays examine the ways in which contemporary readers and scholars might employ rhetorical theory to illuminate underlying meanings in medieval texts. The contributors also explore how ...
The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Albrecht Classen
May 30, 2014
The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The ...
Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan S. Emerson
March 19, 2014
Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and sewer systems. Heaven was at once the goal of the individual Christian life and the end of the cosmic plan. It was, simply ...
The Italian Novella
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria Allaire
February 13, 2014
The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from ...
The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington
June 28, 2013
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the ...