Author: William Rothwell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005503
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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 Literature and Languages
Author: William Rothwell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005503
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005503
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107658926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107658926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Lives of the Great Languages
Author: Karla Mallette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679606X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679606X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
The Medieval Manuscript Book
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107066190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107066190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
A Sea of Languages
Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442663405
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442663405
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.
Medieval Reading
Author: Suzanne Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604529
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604529
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.
Translation Effects
Author: MARY KATE. HURLEY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814257951
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814257951
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Medieval Literature and Social Politics
Author: Stephen Knight
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100034018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism (CS 1099).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100034018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism (CS 1099).
Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521570398
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521570398
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.
New Medieval Literatures
Author: Wendy Scase
Publisher: New Medieval Literatures
ISBN: 9780198187387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Publisher: New Medieval Literatures
ISBN: 9780198187387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.