Boccaccios Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes
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Author |
: Brigitte Buettner |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038165166 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes by : Brigitte Buettner
The first surviving illuminated manuscript of the French translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, known as the Cleres femmes (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), is the subject of this book. The manuscript was commissioned by a Parisian merchant, Jacques Raponde, as a New Year's gift for the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold. This innovative aspect of the commission, where a merchant rather than a prince acted as the patron of the manuscript, provides the subject for the first part of Buettner's study. In addition to sketching the Valois rulers' practice of collecting illuminated manuscripts and to tracing the reasons for the successful reception of Boccaccio's work in this courtly milieu, the author delineates the role of merchants in Parisian artistic production around 1400.
Author |
: Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674011309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674011304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Famous Women by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Author |
: Marilynn Desmond |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 047203183X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472031832 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture by : Marilynn Desmond
A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge
Author |
: Robin Netherton |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843833666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843833662 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Clothing and Textiles by : Robin Netherton
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.
Author |
: Jane Chance |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 698 |
Release |
: 2019-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781532688997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1532688997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Mythography, Volume Three by : Jane Chance
With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.
Author |
: Olivia Holmes |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2018-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487501785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487501781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconsidering Boccaccio by : Olivia Holmes
Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voices and traditions that surrounded him, and the way that his legacy illuminates the interconnectivity of numerous cultural networks.
Author |
: Cynthia J. Brown |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2011-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812204902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812204905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queen's Library by : Cynthia J. Brown
What do the physical characteristics of the books acquired by elite women in the late medieval and early modern periods tell us about their owners, and what in particular can their illustrations—especially their illustrations of women—reveal? Centered on Anne, duchess of Brittany and twice queen of France, with reference to her contemporaries and successors, The Queen's Library examines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production. The book aims to uncover the harmonies and conflicts that surfaced in male-authored, male-illustrated works for and about women. In her interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and political legacy of Anne of Brittany and her female contemporaries, Cynthia J. Brown argues that the verbal and visual imagery used to represent these women of influence was necessarily complex because of its inherently conflicting portrayal of power and subordination. She contends that it can be understood fully only by drawing on the intersection of pertinent literary, historical, codicological, and art historical sources. In The Queen's Library, Brown examines depictions of women of power in five spheres that tellingly expose this tension: rituals of urban and royal reception; the politics of female personification allegories; the "famous-women" topos; women in mourning; and women mourned.
Author |
: Helen J. Swift |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2008-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191552519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191552518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender, Writing, and Performance by : Helen J. Swift
This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critical attention. Whereas male-authored defences composed between 1440 and 1538 have previously been dismissed as 'insincere' or 'mere intellectual games', Swift formulates reading strategies to overcome such critical stumbling blocks and engage with the particular rhetorical and historical contexts of these works. Edited and as yet unedited texts by Martin Le Franc, Jacques Milet, Pierre Michault, and Jean Bouchet-catalogues of women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems-are brought together and analysed in detail for the first time in order to explore, for example, how such works address the misogynistic spectre of Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose. The book seeks to understand the contemporary popularity of the case for women (la querelle des femmes) as literary subject matter. It investigates the publication history across this period, from manuscript to print, of Le Franc's Le Champion des dames. Swift further aims to show how these texts hold interest for modern audiences. A nexus of theoretical concerns centred on performance - Judith Butler's gender performativity, Derrida's re-working of Austin's linguistic performativity through spectrality, and dramatic performance - is enlisted to articulate the interpretative engagement expected by querelle writers of their audience. The reading strategies proposed foster a nuanced and enriched perspective on the question of a male author's 'sincerity' when writing in defence of women.
Author |
: Timothy J. Reiss |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 652 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080474565X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804745659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mirages of the Selfe by : Timothy J. Reiss
Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers quite new interpretations of what it was to be a personto experience who-nessin other times and places, involving new understandings of knowing, willing, and acting, as well as of political and material life, the play of public and private, passions and emotions. The trajectory the author reveals reaches from the ancient sense of personhood as set in a totality of surroundings inseparable from the person, to an increasing sense of impermeability to the world, in which anger has replaced love in affirming a sense of self. The author develops his analysis through an impressive range of authors, languages, and texts: from Cicero, Seneca, and Galen; through Avicenna, Hildegard of Bingen, and Heloise and Abelard; to Petrarch, Montaigne, and Descartes.
Author |
: Susan Powell |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0859915905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780859915908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Perspectives on Middle English Texts by : Susan Powell
This collection of essays, by experts in the field, on major late Middle English texts, concentrates on the alliterative tradition, particularly Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In addition, there are papers on Chaucer and Henryson.