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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. Robert de Monte. History of King Henry the First. Acts of Stephen, King of England and Duke of Normandy; Giraldus Cambrenis. Concerning the instruction of princes. Richard of Devizes. Chronicel of the reign of King Richard: Gervase of Canterbury. History of the archbishops of Canterbury; Robert of Gloucester. Chronicles; Chronicon regum Manniae. Chronicle of the Isle of Man
Author: Catalogue of the Central Lending Library
Author: Newcastle Central LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles
Author: Ella S. ArmitagePublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Norman
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Empire of Magic
Author: Geraldine HengPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231125260
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts--in particular the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle The History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come. After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivralic literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible--usable--for the future. Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance--historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others--to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.
1066 and All That
Author: W C SellarPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014250230
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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Cambridge And Its Story
Author: Charles William StubbsPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354543043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Cambridge And Its Story, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Geoffrey de Mandeville
Author: John Horace RoundPublisher: London, Longmans
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
History from Marble
Author: Thomas DingleyThe Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Author: Herbert ThurstonPublisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783348113892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Feudal England
Author: John Horace RoundPublisher:
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Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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