Contradictions : from Beowulf to Chaucer : selected studies of Larry D. Benson / / edited by Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney |
Autore | Benson Larry Dean <1929-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
Disciplina | 821/.109 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AnderssonTheodore Murdock <1934->
BarneyStephen A |
Soggetto topico |
English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism Arthurian romances - History and criticism Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature Civilization, Medieval, in literature Chivalry in literature |
ISBN |
1-351-94876-8
1-315-25934-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. The literary character of Anglo-Saxon formulaic poetry -- 2. The pagan coloring of Beowulf -- 3. The originality of Beowulf -- 4. Chaucer's spelling reconsidered -- 5. The order of The Canterbury tales -- 6. The authorship of St. Erkenwald -- 7. The date of the Alliterative Morte Arthure -- 8. The occasion of The parliament of fowls -- 9. The "love-tydynges" in Chaucer's House of fame -- 10. The "queynte" punnings of Chaucer's critics -- 11. The beginnings of Chaucer's English style -- 12. The tournament in the romances of Chretien de Troyes and L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal -- 13. Courtly love and chivalry in the Later Middle Ages. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155000903321 |
Benson Larry Dean <1929-, >
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The etymologies of Isidore of Seville / / [translated by] Stephen A. Barney ... [et al.] ; with the collaboration of Muriel Hall |
Autore | Isidore, of Seville, Saint, <d. 636.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 476 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 032 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BarneyStephen A |
Soggetto topico |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Latin language - Etymology Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
ISBN |
1-316-08616-X
1-280-48030-0 9786610480302 0-511-22070-7 0-511-22100-2 0-511-21901-6 0-511-31704-2 0-511-48211-6 0-511-21969-5 |
Classificazione |
01.22
18.47 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Historical background -- Chronology -- Life and works -- The sources of the Etymologies -- The character of the Etymologies -- The influence of the Etymologies -- Editions of the Etymologies and this translation -- Grammar -- Rhetoric and dialectic -- Mathematics, music, astronomy -- Medicine -- Laws and times -- Books and ecclesiastical offices -- God, angels, and saints -- The Church and sects -- Languages, nations, reigns, the military, citizens, family relationships -- Vocabulary -- The human being and portents -- Animals -- The cosmos and its parts -- The Earth and its parts -- Buildings and fields -- Stones and metals -- Rural matters -- War and games -- Ships, buildings, and clothing -- Provisions and various implements -- Correspondence of Isidore and Braulio.
Grammar and its parts -- Rhetoric and dialectic -- Mathematics, whose parts are arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy -- Medicine -- Laws and the instruments of the judiciary, and chronology -- The order of scripture, cycles and canons, liturgical feasts and offices -- Gods and angels, prophetic nomenclature, names of the holy fathers, martyrs, clerics, monks, and other names -- Church and synagogue, religion and faith, heresies, philosophers, poets, sibyls, magicians, pagans, gods of the gentiles -- Languages of the nations, royal, military, and civic terminology, family relationships -- Certain terms in alphabetical order -- Human beings and their parts, the ages of humans, portents and metamorphoses -- Four-footed animals, creeping animals, fish, and flying animals -- Elements, that is, the heavens and the air, waters, the sea, rivers and floods -- Earth, paradise, the regions of the whole globe, islands, mountains, other terms for places, and the lower regions of the earth -- Cities, urban and rural buildings, fields, boundaries and measures of fields, roads -- Earthly materials from land and water, every kind of gem and precious stones, ivory likewise, treated along with marble, glass, all the metals, weights and measures -- Agriculture, crops of every kind, vines and trees of every kind, herbs and all vegetables -- Wars and triumphs and the instruments of war, the forum, spectacles, games of chance and ball games -- Ships, ropes, and nets, iron workers, the construction of walls and all the implements of building, also wool-working, ornaments, and all kinds of clothing -- Tables, foodstuffs, drink, and their vessels, vessels for wine, water, and oil, vessels of cooks, bakers, and lamps, beds, chairs, vehicles, rural and garden implements, equestrian equipment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816740903321 |
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, <d. 636.>
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