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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811388603321

Titolo

Miscellany / / edited by Paul Maurice Clogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

ISBN

1-282-49664-6

9786612496646

0-7425-6488-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

Medievalia et humanistica, , 0076-6127 ; ; new ser., no. 34

Altri autori (Persone)

CloganPaul Maurice

Disciplina

940.105

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Renaissance

Europe Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Studies in medieval and Renaissance culture."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editorial Note; Articles for Future Volumes; Preface; Boethius and the Consolation of the Quadrivium; Language, Power, and Holiness in Cynewulf's Elene; A Precarious Quest for Salvation: The Theophilus Legend in Text and Image; Shielded Subjects and Dreams of Permeability: Fashioning Scudamour in The Faerie Queen; Erotic Symbolism, Laughter, and Hermeneutics at Work in Late-Medieval mæren: The Case of Das Häslein; The Romance Epic Hero, the Mercenary, and the Ottoman Turk Seen through the Lens of Valentin et Orson (1489); Schoolmasters, Seduction, and Slavery: Polyglot Dictionaries in Pre-Modern England; Review Notices; Books Received

Sommario/riassunto

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science,