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Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature(2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually presented individually. This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular culture, and showcases an impressive breadth of literature, including songs, drama, and ballads. Familiar texts such as the visions of Margery Kempe and the Paston family letters are featured alongside lesser-known works, often oral. This striking diversity extends to the language: the anthology includes Scottish literature and original translations of Latin and French texts. The illuminating introduction offers essential information that will enhance the reader’s enjoyment of the chosen texts. Each of the chapters is accompanied by a clear summary explaining the particular delights of the literature selected and the rationale behind the choices made. An invaluable resource to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the period, this is essential reading for any student or scholar of medieval English literature, and for anyone interested in folklore or popular material of the time.

English literature --- Popular literature --- Literature and folklore --- Renaissance --- Folk literature, English --- English folk literature --- Folklore and literature --- Literature and folk-lore --- Folklore --- History and criticism. --- Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature --- anthology --- popular medieval literature --- twelfth century --- literary and popular culture --- songs --- drama --- ballads --- Douglas Gray --- Jane Bliss

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Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. The book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women's studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.

European literature --- English literature --- Abnormalities, Human, in art. --- Abnormalities, Human, in literature. --- Ugliness in art. --- Ugliness in literature. --- Ugliness as a theme in literature --- History and criticism. --- [Literature --- Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 --- [LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Ireland --- English drama. --- European visual art. --- Silenus figures. --- compelling art. --- early modern English culture. --- masculine identity. --- models of identity. --- twelfth-century German kingdom. --- ugly woman. --- unattractive human body. --- unattractive mistresses English literature.

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This book presents a study of twelfth-century humanism seen as an all-embracing discourse in which the human and the divine interact on equal terms. The book focuses on a number of twelfth-century intellectuals, especially Thierry of Chartres, Peter Abelard, William of Conches, Bernard Silvestris, and Alan of Lille. Defining characteristic of their texts is the fact that God, nature and humanity enter into a trialogue of sorts involving many disparate subjects and aiming to bring out the archetypal relatedness of all kinds of knowledge with respect to human nature. As the authors studied here engage the divine and the universe in a joint conversation, the book ultimately concentrates on trying both to understand its appeal and to explain its subsequent demise.

Civilization, Medieval --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Theology --- History --- Filosofie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval philosophy --- Middeleeuwse filosofie --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- History of civilization --- Philosophy of science --- Religious studies --- anno 1100-1199 --- 130.2:2 --- 130.2:2 Filosofie van de religieuze cultuur. Christelijk humanisme --- Filosofie van de religieuze cultuur. Christelijk humanisme --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Scholasticism --- Twelfth century --- Humanism --- Humanisme --- Civilisation médiévale --- Théologie --- Philosophie médiévale --- Histoire --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- 12th century --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Civilization, Medieval - 12th century. --- Theology - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500.

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The ambition of this Companion to Twelfth-Century Schools is to provide an update on the research regarding a question that has seen many renewals in the last three decades. The discovery of new texts, the progress made in critical attribution, the growing attention given to the conditions surrounding the oral and written dissemination of works, the use of the notion of "community of learning", the reinterpretation of the relations between the cloister and the urban school, the link between institutional history and social history, in short, the entire contemporary renewal of cultural history within international medieval studies allow to offer a new synthesis on the schools of the 12th century. Contributors are: Alexander Andrée, Irene Caiazzo, Cédric Giraud, Frédéric Goubier, Danielle Jacquart, Thierry Kouamé, Constant J. Mews, Ken Pennington, Dominique Poirel, Irène Rosier-Catach, Sita Steckel, Jacques Verger, and Olga Weijers

Education, Medieval. --- Intellectual life --- Civilization, Medieval --- History --- Europe --- Intellectual life. --- Christian church history --- History of education and educational sciences --- anno 1100-1199 --- Education, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Ideengeschichte. --- Klosterschule. --- Schulbildung. --- Studium. --- To 1500. --- Europe. --- 37 <09> --- 930.86.01 --- 940.18 --- 940.18 Geschiedenis van Europa:--1096-1270 --- Geschiedenis van Europa:--1096-1270 --- 930.86.01 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- 37 <09> Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Twelfth century --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Education --- Medieval education --- Seven liberal arts --- Learning and scholarship --- 378.4 <4> --- Universiteiten--Europa --- Intellectual life - History - To 1500 --- Civilization, Medieval - 12th century --- Europe - Intellectual life

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In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forebears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. Although archaeologists and literary critics have been increasingly willing to borrow concepts and terminology from the other discipline, this book is one examples of a genuinely collaborative endeavor. This is an open access book.

Archaeology --- Anthropology --- Literature: history & criticism --- mortuary archaeology --- dead-body politics --- memory studies --- agency of the dead --- archaeological theory --- literary studies --- medieval relics --- mass graves --- burial monuments --- prehistoric graves --- History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments --- Iron Age in Northern Central Europe --- Historic Sources about the Uses of the Dead --- Literary Tombs in the Twelfth Century --- Archaeological Traces in Beowulf --- National Identity through Merovingian Burials --- Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik --- Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries --- Shakespearean Exhumations --- Archaeology. --- Physical anthropology. --- Literature --- Physical-Biological Anthropology. --- Literary History. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Human biology --- Archeology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Appraisal --- Evaluation