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History as a science --- anno 1200-1499 --- Christian women saints --- Literature, Medieval --- Christian hagiography --- Biography --- History and criticism --- -Christian saints --- -Christian women saints --- -Literature, Medieval --- -European literature --- Medieval literature --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- History --- -Biography --- -History and criticism --- Christian hagiography. --- History and criticism. --- -History --- Biography&delete& --- Christian women saints - Biography - History and criticism --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Saintes femmes --- Catharina v. m. Alexandriae
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"With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: -- Further reading/weblinks -- 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations -- Images and interviews -- Guide to library archives and manuscript collections -- Guide to heritage collections."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Literature, Medieval --- Medievalism in literature. --- Medievalism in motion pictures. --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Art --- History of civilization --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages in motion pictures. --- History in popular culture. --- Influence.
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In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.
Christian women saints --- Literature, Medieval --- Christian hagiography --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- History and criticism. --- History
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Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and
English poetry --- Romance-language poetry --- Romances, English --- Romance poetry --- Romance-language literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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