Description

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Auteur
LAWRENCE BESSERMAN is currently a Professor of English, specializing in Old and Middle English literature, especially Chaucer, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Texte du rabat

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Contenu
Introduction: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early-Modern Cultures: Issues and Approaches; L.Besserman PART I: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: LYRIC, NARRATIVE, AND DRAMA The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitan Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours); C.Aslanov 'Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?': The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics; C.Aslanov Reading Radical Metonymy in the Middle English Pearl; A.Fletcher Purchasing Pardon: Spiritual and Material Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage; A.Fletcher Story and History: Sacralizing the Genre of Romance; J.Whitman The Sacred and the Secular in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; M.Roston PART II: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY: CHURCH AND STATE The Communal Body, The Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform; L.Barshack Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations; E.Cohen Religious Community and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages; R.Copeland Sacred Authority and Secular Power in the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis; R.M.Stein From Innocent III to Martin Luther: Sacramental Space and it Discontents; M.Rubin

Informations sur le produit

Titre:	Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
Sous-titre:	New Essays
Éditeur:	L. Besserman
Code EAN:	9781403977274
ISBN:	978-1-4039-7727-4
Protection contre la copie numérique:	filigrane numérique
Format:	eBook (pdf)
Editeur:	Palgrave Macmillan
Genre:	Linguistique et sciences de la littérature
nombre de pages:	256
Parution:	04.02.2006
Année:	2006
Sous-titre:	Englisch
Taille de fichier:	1.5 MB