1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787610503321

Autore

Charles Victoria

Titolo

French painting / / Victoria Charles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Parkstone Press International, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-78160-849-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Disciplina

759.4

Soggetti

Painters - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Beneath the Banner of Faith; Mythology and Literature; Historic Deeds; Battle; Faces and Characters; Daily Life; Fêtes Galantes and The Life of High Society; Interiors; Pictures of Nature; The Language of Objects; Animals; Exotica; The Nude; Allegory; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The influence of works by French artists extends itself across all artistic styles, and many French works have gained world fame as classics. This book gives an overview of the French milestones in still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, and includes artists like Poussin, Clouet, Moreau, Millet, Courbet, Signac, and Rouault. The convenient format makes the Mega Square edition an ideal gift for any art lover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964568803321

Autore

Eyler Joshua R

Titolo

Disability in the Middle Ages : rehabilitations, reconsiderations, reverberations / / Joshua Eyler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-315-57738-0

1-317-15019-8

1-317-15018-X

1-282-54517-5

9786612545177

1-4094-0295-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EylerJoshua R

Disciplina

809/.933527

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

People with disabilities in literature

People with disabilities - History - To 1500

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

Cover; Contents; 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges; Part 1 Reconsiderations; 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of t; 2 'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant's Tale; 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song

4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi; 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath; 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King; 9 'There is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman; 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God's Curse and God's Blessing; 11 Difference



and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas; Part 2 Reverberations

12 Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her Schort Conclusioun 13 A Medieval King 'Disabled' by an Early Modern Construct: A Contextual Examination of Richard III; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the middle ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness,