1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784397203321

Titolo

Medieval conduct [[electronic resource] /] / Kathleen Ashley, Robert L.A. Clark, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-9156-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 29

Altri autori (Persone)

AshleyKathleen M. <1944->

ClarkRobert L. A

Disciplina

809/.02

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Conduct of life in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medieval Conduct: Texts, Theories, Practices; 1. Eating Lessons: Lydgate's "Dietary" and Consumer Conduct; 2. "For Manners Make Man": Bourdieu, de Certeau, and the Common Appropriation of Noble Manners in the Book of Courtesy; 3. "Nouvelles choses": Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in the Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry, the Ménagier du Paris, and Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus; 4. The Miroir des bonnes femmes: Not for Women Only?

5. Fathers to Think Back Through: The Middle High German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Advice Poems Known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke6. Gendered Theories of Education in Fifteenth-Century Conduct Books; 7. Constructing the Female Subject in Late Medieval Devotion; 8. Conducting Gender: Theories and Practices in Italian Confraternity Literature; 9. Grace under Pressure: Conduct and Representation in the Norwich Heresy Trials; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy-conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records-the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973145203321

Autore

Keskitalo E. C. H (Eva Carina Helena), <1974->

Titolo

Negotiating the Arctic : the construction of an international region / / E.C.H. Keskitalo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-280-07591-0

0-203-50811-4

1-135-93844-X

0-415-94712-X

Descrizione fisica

xv, 282 p

Collana

Studies in international relations

Disciplina

998

Soggetti

Geography - Arctic regions

Arctic regions History

Arctic regions International status

Arctic regions Research International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows that international region discourse has largely been forwarded through the extensive role of North American, particularly Canadian, networks and deriving form their frontier-based conceptualization of the north.