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From:Folklore (Vol. 115, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article explores whether the bi-polar model of "elite" and "folk" or "popular religion" can be maintained for the medieval period. In fact, there were many strands to medieval religious culture, and...
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From: Italica[(essay date December 1966) In the following essay, Gathercole details the artistry of the illustrations and miniatures found in fourteen manuscript copies dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, preserved...
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From: Henty Society BulletinIn this paper we shall be concerned with examining a recent charge by a critic of Henty, Guy Arnold, whose bio-critical study of Henty entitled Held Fast for England contained this assertion: The weakness in Henty's...
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From: in The Romance Cycle of Charlemagne and His Peers[(essay date 1905) In the following essay Weston describes how the Arthur and Charlemagne cycles differ in their characteristics and asserts that the Charlemagne stories, while superior in content, are stylistically...
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From: Gettysburg ReviewI Thanks to court intrigue and the vacillation of Mary Tudor, half-sister to the late Edward VI, the English crown adorned the head of seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey for nine days in 1563. Eventually she was led to...
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From: Medieval Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Rogers contends that Warton's History of English Poetry played a significant role in the codifying of historical eras in literature.] In any age, Basil Cottle would have been...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 74. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Peter AbelardSic et Non (treatise) c. 1117-28Heloise and Peter AbelardThe Letters of Abelard and Heloise (letters) c. 1135-36AlcuinDe dialectica [On Dialectics] (treatise) 782 or afterDisputatio...
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From: Symposium[(essay date summer 1992) In the following essay, Benkov considers the role of the Debate in Labé's literary agenda and how it creates a sense of continuity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.] Le plaisir que...
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From: Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Zago examines medieval medical practices concerning the treatment of melancholia within the social and scientific contexts represented in the Decameron, focusing on the role of...
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From: The DialThe fundamental unity of [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] is not in its method or in its title, but in its real subject—the Middle Ages as a whole. Its implicit idea is that the different manifestations of the Middle...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 50. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:La Chanson de Roland [The Song of Roland] c. 1170 Principal English TranslationsThe Song of Roland (translated by Dorothy L. Sayers) 1957The Song of Roland (translated by Robert Harrison) 1970The...
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From: The History of Troy in Middle English Literature[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Benson characterizes the Historia Destructionis Troiae as neither legend nor romance, but rather a form of medieval history writing that rationalizes and objectifies its mythic...
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From: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society[In the following essay, Neugebauer examines the influence of Babylonian mathematical methods on the development of Greek mathematics. Neugebauer states that while a large part of the information in Euclid's Elements had...
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From: The Classics in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, James stresses the basis of Pseudo-Dionysian mysticism in the Platonic theory of Forms.] In the Middle Ages, which some have called "the Age of Faith,"1 but which...
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From: Marsilus of Inghen: Divine Knowledge in Late Medieval Thought[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hoenen analyzes Marsilius's views on divine knowledge, focusing on the context of the late Middle Ages.] A Pivotal Problem in Western Thinking Marsilius of Inghen († 1396)...
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From: A History of Philosophy[Windelband was an eminent German Neo-Kantian philosopher whose writings include the influential Geschichte der Philosophie (1892; A History of Philosophy, 1893). In the following excerpt from that work, he provides a...
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From: Comparative Studies in Merlin from the Vedas to C. G. Jung[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Dean argues that a successful literary representation of the character Merlin requires that modern readers be able and willing to suspend their skepticism and accept Merlin as...
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From: Nottingham Medieval Studies[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Eley describes a nascent sense of national consciousness and national identity in two Old French romans d'antiquité--Benoît's Roman de Troie and the anonymous Roman d'Enéas.]...
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From: Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme[(essay date winter 1997) In the following essay, Garay praises Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls as an unconventional work that effectively adapts the language of courtly romance to a theological critique of...
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Pigg considers the images of apocalypse in Piers Plowman.] Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center...