1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819174503321

Titolo

The cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne / / edited by Theodore Evergates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4426-9750-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Collana

Medieval Academy Books ; ; Number 112

Disciplina

944/.3023

Soggetti

Nobility - France - Champagne-Ardenne - History - To 1500

Countesses - France - Champagne-Ardenne

Sources.

History

Charters and articles of incorporation

Archives.

Electronic books.

Champagne-Ardenne (France) Charters, grants, privileges

Champagne-Ardenne (France) Politics and government Sources

Champagne-Ardenne (France) History To 1500 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for the Medieval Academy of America."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Countess Blanche ; The cartulary of Countess Blanche ; History of the cartulary ; Notes to the introduction ; Editorial principles ; Abbreviations -- Cartulary (1-443) -- Additions to the cartulary (444-8) -- Related letters not in the cartulary -- Chronological table of the letters.

Sommario/riassunto

The 443 letters contained in the cartulary deal with practical matters of governance such as homages, fiefs, and the rights of lordship, and are here used by Evergates as a dossier for observing the practices of a major French principality and its aristocracy in the first two decades of the thirteenth century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483020003321

Autore

Holland Rachel

Titolo

Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan : The Third Culture Novel / / by Rachel Holland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030163754

303016375X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

809.93356

809.3936

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Fiction

Contemporary Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Two cultures in competition: Martin Amis's The Information and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd -- Chapter 3: The postneuronovel: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers and Thinks...by David Lodge -- Chapter 4: Michel Houellebecq and the possibilities of fiction -- Chapter 5: Scientific transcendentalism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood -- Chapter 6: Ian McEwan and the aeroplane view -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes to assume an ever greater cultural significance, contemporary authors are engaging in new ways with ideas that it disseminates. A new literary phenomenon is emerging, in which the focus on language-based theories of the self



and the world that has been predominant in the latter half of the previous century is making way for a renewed commitment to the material facts, both of human existence and the universe beyond subjectivity. The book analyses the work of Martin Amis, William Boyd, David Lodge, Richard Powers, Michel Houellebecq, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, and Ian McEwan, revealing the ways in which these 'third culture novels' negotiate the relationship between literature and science.