Author: Alessandra CerettoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 136509796X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Trichier
Author: Alessandra CerettoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 136509796X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Monograph Series
Author: Modern Language Association of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Medieval Sex Lives
Author: Elizabeth Eva LeachPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love" had such a long and successful history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.
A Middle-English Dictionary
Author: Francis Henry StratmannPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
A new edition, rearranged, revised and enlarged by Henry Bradley.
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Walter William SkeatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Bless the Buccaneer with Barbecued Blood
Author: Marc LoewenthalPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471090744
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Have you ever thought about the history behind many of the words we use today? Meanings change so much through time that words often have completely different meanings today to the meanings they had in the past. This book poses the question: what if the words we use now still meant what they meant in the past? It takes a less than reverent ramble through the byways and backwaters of English etymology to find answers to burning questions like: Why can men never be hysterical? How can saying your prayers give you the gift of the gab? Why can't you truly be another brick in the wall? Which fruit may have led to the conquest of Mexico? Would a bachelor choose a wife with eight legs or eighty decades? Who is the biggest cheat in history? Why should you beware of fire-breathing dragons when digging your garden? Why should north be south and south be north? Why would you give a plough to someone with a high fever? If you really want to find the answers to these questions and many more, then this is the book for you!
A Dictionary of the Old English Language
Author: Francis Henry StratmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
An Introduction to Old French
Author: François Frédéric RogetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Poetical Romances of Tristan in French in Anglo-Norman and in Greek, Composed in the Xii and Xiii Centuries
Author: Francisque MichelA Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Walter W. SkeatPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596050926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
This 1901 volume of A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language completely updates the classic reference work first published in 1882. Skeat provides a staggering number of words, including those most frequently used in everyday speech and those most prominent in literature. They appear along with their definitions, their language of origin, their roots, and their derivatives. Those who are fascinated with the English language will find much to explore here and many overlooked but interesting tidbits and treasures of an ever-evolving language. Walter W. Skeat was a scholar of Old English, mathematics, English place names, and Anglo-Saxon. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873 and was a professor at Cambridge University. Skeat edited many classic works, including Lancelot of the Laik, Piers Plowman, The Bruce, Lives of Saints, and a seven-volume edition of Chaucer.