Author: John Capgrave (OSA)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Ye Solace of Pilgrimes
Author: John Capgrave (OSA)Ye Solace of Pilgrimes
Author: John CapgravePublisher:
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Category : Christian shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Ye Solace of Pilgrimes
Author: British Archaeological Society of Rome, afterwards British and American Archaeological Society (Rome, the City)Publisher:
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Category : Christian shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Fallible Authors
Author: Alastair MinnisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume official roles to which he has no legal claim and for which he is quite unsuited. We are faced with the shocking consequences of the belief, standard for the time, that immorality is not necessarily a bar to effective ministry. Even more subversively, the Wife of Bath, who represents one of the most despised stereotypes in medieval literature, the sexually rapacious widow, dispenses wisdom of the highest order. This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning. Alastair Minnis magisterially examines the impact of Aristotelian thought on preaching theory, the controversial practice of granting indulgences, religious and medical categorizations of deviant bodies, theological attempts to rationalize sex within marriage, Wycliffite doctrine that made authority dependent on individual grace and raised the specter of Donatism, and heretical speculation concerning the possibility of female teachers. Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath are revealed as interconnected aspects of a single radical experiment wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before.
Worth the Detour
Author: Nicholas T ParsonsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The guidebook has a long and distinguished history, going back to Biblical times and encompassing major cultural and social changes that have witnessed the transformation of travel. This book presents a journey through centuries of travel writing.
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
Author: Leigh Ann CraigPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004174265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book explores womena (TM)s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about womena (TM)s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.
Greater Than Emperor
Author: Amanda CollinsPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Studies the adoption of a new civic identity in fourteenth-century Rome from the perspective of a young revolutionary, Cola di Rienzo
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Author: David WallacePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
Bulletin
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Library Bulletin
Author: University of AberdeenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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