Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures : New Essays / / edited by L. Besserman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970113303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786611363642; 9781281363640; 1281363642; 9781403977274; 1403977275
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2006.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)
• Collana: The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944
• Altri autori (Persone): BessermanLawrence L. <1945->
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetti: Literature, Medieval; Europe - History - 476-1492; European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600; Literature - Philosophy; Classical literature; Literature, Ancient; European literature; Medieval Literature; History of Medieval Europe; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature; Literary Theory; Classical and Antique Literature; European Literature
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Issues and Approaches -- Part I Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama -- 1 The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours) ; -- 2 "Quid Hinieldus Cum Christo?": The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics -- 3 Reading Radical Metonymy in Pearl -- 4 Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage -- 5 Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice -- Part II Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State -- 6 The Communal Body, the Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform -- 7 Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations -- 8 Secular and Sacred: The History of Rhetoric and Religious Community in the Middle Ages -- 9 Sacred Authority and Secular Power: The Historical Argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis -- 10 The Space of the Altar -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.