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Medieval Stories and Storytelling. Multimedia and Multi-Temporal perspectives
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 319 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590509.
Summary The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals and cultural groups. Some stories, indeed, seem to possess a life of their own: claiming a peculiar agency and taking on distinct voices which speak across time and space. How, for example, do objects, manuscripts, and other artefacts communicate alternative or complementary narratives that transcend textual and linguistic boundaries? How are stories created, reshaped, and re-experienced, and how do these shifting contexts and media change meaning? This volume of essays explores these questions about meaning and identity in a range of ways. As a collection, it demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary and context-focused enquiry when approaching key issues of activity and identity in the medieval period. Ultimately, the process of making meaning through shaping narrative is shown to be as vital and varied in the medieval world as it is today. With a wide range of different disciplinary approaches from leading scholars in their respective fields, chapters include considerations of art, architecture, metalwork, linguistics, and literature. Alongside examinations of medieval cultural productions are explorations of the representation and adaptation of medieval storytelling in graphic novels, classroom teaching, and computer gaming. This volume thus offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how stories from across the medieval world were shaped, transformed, and transmitted. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Stories and their Tellers S. C. Thomson Beowulf Goes to School: Adaptations and transformations for the Secondary Classroom Janes Coles, Theo Bryer, and Daniel Ferreira 'Retelling Old Stories for New Audiences': Shaping and Visualizing Beowulf through Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novels [The Collected Beowulf (2003) & Beowulf (2007)] Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso Being Numerous: Communal Storytelling in Li smannaflokkr Erin Michelle Goeres Performance and Emotions in Four Epic Works about Roland Evelyn Birge Vitz Towards a Poetics of Storytelling, or, why could Early Medieval English Writers not stop telling the Story of Judith? S. C. Thomson Mosaics, Marbles, and Medievalisms: Displaying the Foundation Narrative of the English Church in Westminster Cathedral Meg Boulton A Storied Cathedral: Space and Audacious Women in Early Medieval Durham Euan McCartney Robson Dynamic Material Aspects of Writing in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Titurel Christoph Witt Iceland's Alexander: Gunnarr and Pale Corn in Nj ls Saga Richard North Sensing Stories: Iconography, Pattern, and Abstraction in Metalwork from Early Medieval England Melissa Herman A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856-2018 James Plumtree Index
Les nuits du Caire
Editions Flammarion 2013 192 pages 12 5x1 5x17cm. 2013. Broché. 192 pages.
Bon état
Un monde flamboyant
Actes Sud 2014 448 pages 14 5x24x3cm. 2014. Broché. 448 pages.
Très bon état
Montherlant et l'Espagne: les sources hispaniques de "La Reine morte"
KLINCKSIECK 1978 in8. 1978. Broché.
Bon état couverture un peu défraîchie intérieur propre
Imagining the Book,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Hardback, XVIII+254 p., 20 b/w ill., 1 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503516936.
Collectively, the contributors to Imagining the Book offer a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This volume responds to the recent development and institutionalization of 'History of the Book' within the wider English Studies discipline. Scholars working in the pre-printing era with the material vestiges of a predominantly manuscript culture are currently establishing their own models of production and reception. Research in this area is now an accepted part of twenty-first century Medieval Studies. Within such a context, it is frequently observed that scribal culture found imaginative ways to deal with the technological watersheds represented by the transition from memory to written record, roll to codex, or script to print. In such an 'eventful' environment, texts and books not infrequently slip through the semi-permeable boundaries laboured over by previous generations of medievalists, boundaries that demarcate orality and literacy; 'literary' and 'historical'; 'religious' and 'secular'; pre- and post-Conquest compositions, or 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' attitudes and writings. Once texts are regarded as offering indices of community- or self-definition, or models of piety and good behaviour (and the codices holding them statements of prestige and influence), the book historian is left to contemplate the real or imagined importance and status of books and writting within the larger socio-political, often local, milieux in which they were once produced and read. All fourteen essays in this volume question the status of the book in a predominantly manuscript culture. Some focus on the practical politics of book production and local circumstances; others focus on the visual experience of early readers. In this volume, the idea of the pre-modern vernacular book is pursued in terms of its miscellaneity and its association with localised writing projects undertaken by (and occasionally also for) a polyglot and sometimes also socially-aware English readership. Such investigation is valuable since it enables us to recognise the textual networks, the sources and the readership that mark the pre-modern codex as an important medium of social and literary exchange quite distinct from printed books. Languages : English.
Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, XVIII+234 pages., 21 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503540542.
New studies of the changing meaning of the myth of Robin Hood, from the Middle Ages to the present. The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than five hundred years old and still thriving. From medieval ballads of yeoman resistance and gentrified Renaissance stories of Lord Robin versus bad King John, the tradition survived lustily into modern film, through which Robin Hood, played by major stars like Fairbanks, Flynn, and Costner, has become a truly international hero of natural law. This richly varied tradition enables scholars to study how different periods have understood the concept of Robin?s noble resistance to wrongful authority. These new essays uncover innovative topics like Robin?s relation with the cult of archery in the late Middle Ages, the purpose of the recently discovered 1670s? Forresters manuscript of outlaw ballads, and what Thomas Love Peacock thought when in 1815 he met in Windsor Forest a man called Little John. Other essays explore the social meanings and contexts of the texts, from the stark early ballads and their contacts with both Catholicism and Protestantism, through to modern excitements like the Kevin Costner film of 1991 and the links between Robin and Batman. Just as the five-hundred-year tradition of the Robin Hood story is alive today, so this collection shows how vital and varied is modern analysis of the myth of the best known and most loved of all the outlaws. Languages : English.
Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls',
Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, X+218 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503519029.
This volume analyses the role of allegory in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, dating probably to the 1290s, is the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. This volume analyses its use of interconnected allegories that describe the soul's approach toward God in terms of human social relationships. These include romantic love between lovers in same-sex and mixed-sex pairs, relations among people of differing social rank such as servants and nobles, and rich and poor engaged in economic transactions such as taxation and gift-giving. Gender, rank, and exchange serve as remarkably versatile allegories for spiritual states. Porete uses comparison as an organizing principle that underlies her supple and creative use of allegory, personification, parables, metaphors, similes, proverbs, and glosses. The theologian invites her audience to cross boundaries among literal and figurative registers of meaning, in ways that are emblematic of the soul's ultimate leap toward the divine. Porete's social allegories, the author contends, can provide us with valuable evidence of a medieval thinker's conceptions of God, gender, language, and human capacity for change. Languages : English, Middle French.
Tiro libre (Contemporánea)
DEBOLSILLO 2003 214 pages 12 4x1 4x18 8cm. 2003. mass_market. 214 pages.
Très bon état - légères marques de lecture et/ou de stockage mais du reste en très bon état- expédié soigneusement depuis la France
Pas de Pitie Pour Martin: Thriller
Hachette 2011 144 pages 11x1 6x17 6cm. 2011. pocket_book. 144 pages.
Bon état
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: 2 Volumes (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith)
Oxford University Press 1976 1096 pages in8. 1976. Cartonné jaquette. 2 volume(s). 1096 pages.
Très bon état intérieurs propres bonne tenue avec leur jaquette
Late Middle English 'Lucydarye'
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Hardcover. XL 141 p., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Middle French, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503540825.
This book offers the reader a textual comparison of the 14th-century French Second Lucidaire and the late Middle English translation Lucydarye. The Lucydarye is a late Middle English manual of popular instruction, largely religious in its orientation, though including lengthy discussions of witchcraft, demonology, and meteorological phenomena. There is a strong interest in pastoral instruction. Set in the form of a dialogue between a magister and his discipulus, it is an over-literal translation of a fourteenth-century French text known as the Second Lucidaire, itself a free adaptation of the Latin Elucidarium, traditionally attributed to Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun). The translation is the work of one Andrew Chertsey. The Middle English text, edited here for the first time (from a Wynkyn de Worde print), bears striking similarities to other, popular works of an encyclopaedic nature, notably Sydrak and Bokkus and the Pricke of Conscience. Equally, there are many points in common with the sermon literature of the time. The Lucydarye is printed alongside the French source so as to allow the reader both to appreciate points of obscurity in the text and to observe Chertsey's translation technique. A discussion of the relationship between the Lucydarye and the various versions of the Second Lucidaire throws some light on the complicated textual tradition of the French prints
Dialogues et resistances, Une anthologie de textes anglais de la fin du Moyen Age
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2010 Hardcover. 412 p., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503534770.
Les textes presentes dans ce recueil, traduits pour la premiere fois en francais, ont ete composes entre le milieu du XIVe et du XVe siecle, alors que l?Angleterre connait de fortes transformations dans tous les domaines ? politiques, sociaux, culturels, economiques ? non sans resistances. Poemes, sermons ou encore tracts polemiques, produits dans un contexte de developpement de la 'literacy' (aptitude a lire et a ecrire) et d?une culture ecrite en anglais, s?interrogent, et parfois contestent, ces evolutions. Ces textes suggerent tous qu?en realite, ces transformations fonctionnent ensemble et ils constituent tous des lieux de communication, de dialogue ou de resistance (voire les deux) dans une societe anglaise alors en pleine ebullition.
Au Bonheur DES Monstres
Cle International 2008 541 pages 21x4 2x14cm. 2008. Broché. 541 pages.
Très bon état - légères marques de lecture et/ou de stockage mais du reste en très bon état- expédié soigneusement depuis la France
Ethnologie française, n°4, octobre-décembre 1999 - Les mots des institutions.
Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999 1 volume 20,9 x 26,8cm Broché sous couverture au 1er plat orné d'une vignette. 2 feuillets, puis paginé de [501] à 680, 4 feuillets; quelques illustrations in texte. Bon état (1er plat très légèrement corné).
Au sommaire, dossier "Les mots des institutions": "Pour une exploration des sémantiques institutionnelles" par Marc ABELES, "Global expert: la religion des mots" par Bernard KALAORA, "L'invention de la "culture de Lomé" - La sémantique du dialogue dans les institutions européennes" par Irène BELLIER, "Calculs et croyance - La mission civilisatrice d'une multinationale en Europe de l'Est" par Birgit MÜLLER, "Du "capitaine" au "chef coutumier" chez les Kali'na" par Gérard COLLOMB, "L'anthropologue, le citoyen et l'habitant - Le rapport au politique dans une ville du Nord" par Catherine NEVEU, "La définition des disciplines et leurs enjeux" par Pierre BOUVIER, "Le mot et son institution" par Régis DEBRAY, "Les mots pour l'élire - Professions de foi électorale à Bayonne" par Jean-Daniel CHAUSSIER, "Puissance des concepts et pouvoir des discours - Quelques débats révolutionnaires sur la souveraineté" par Sophie WAHNICH, "La "vanne" et la "pression" - Ethnographie d'un chantier dans la région de Marseille" par Christian GHASARIAN, "Les égouts de Montpellier: mots crus et mots propres" par Agnès JEANJEAN, "Hors la loi: les Tsiganes d'Europe face aux institutions" par Caterina PASQUALINO; suivi de "La "fabrication" de la mariée" par Cécile BOUCHET, "L'analyse morphologique de la culture: l'exemple des rituels matrimoniaux" (enquête québécoise) par Gérard BOUCHARD, "Le mauvais oeil en Grèce: le champ de l'émotion et de la parenté" par Micheline KOTTIS; et divers.
Femmes (Collection Folio)
GALLIMARD 1991 672 pages 10 8x2 8x17cm. 1991. pocket_book. 672 pages.
Bon état
Femmes (Collection Folio)
GALLIMARD 1991 672 pages 10 8x2 8x17cm. 1991. pocket_book. 672 pages.
Bon état
Le Petit Chaperon Vert
Ecole des Loisirs 1997 48 pages 18 6x0 6x12 4cm. 1997. mass_market. 48 pages.
Bon état
Althochdeutsche Sprache und Literatur: Eine Einfuhrung in das älteste Deutsch
Walter de gruyter & co 1974 272 pages 12x1 4x17 8cm. 1974. Broché. 272 pages.
Bon état cependant tranche tachée intérieur propre
