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Yolles, Julian Jay Theodore. "Latin Literature and Frankish Culture in the Crusader States (1098–1187)." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467480.
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The so-called Crusader States established by European settlers in the Levant at the end of the eleventh century gave rise to a variety of Latin literary works, including historiography, sermons, pilgrim guides, monastic literature, and poetry. The first part of this study (Chapter 1) critically reevaluates the Latin literary texts and combines the evidence, including unpublished materials, to chart the development of genres over the course of the twelfth century. The second half of the study (Chapters 2–4) subjects this evidence to a cultural-rhetorical analysis, and asks how Latin literary works, as products by and for a cultural elite, appropriated preexisting materials and developed strategies of their own to construct a Frankish cultural identity of the Levant. Proceeding on three thematically different, but closely interrelated, lines of inquiry, it is argued that authors in the Latin East made cultural claims by drawing on the classical tradition, on the Bible, and on ideas of a Carolingian golden age. Chapter 2 demonstrates that Latin historians drew upon classical traditions to fit the Latin East within established frameworks of history and geography, in which the figures Vespasian and Titus are particularly prevalent. Chapter 3 traces the development of the conception of the Franks in the East as a “People of God” and the use of biblical texts to support this claim, especially the Books of the Maccabees. Chapter 4 explores the extent to which authors drew on the legend of Charlemagne as a bridge between East and West. Although the appearance of similar motifs signals a degree of cultural unity among the authors writing in the Latin East, there is an abundant variety in the way they are utilized, inasmuch as they are dynamic rhetorical strategies open to adaptation to differing exigencies. New monastic and ecclesiastical institutions produced Latin writings that demonstrate an urge to establish political and religious authority. While these struggles for power resemble to some extent those between secular and ecclesiastical authorities and institutions in Western Europe, the literary topoi the authors draw upon are specific to their new locale, and represent the creation of a new cultural-literary tradition.Classics
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Schmidt, Pedro Baroni. "A sobrevivência da poética clássica latina na épica medieval: Waltharius, tradução e estudo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-15042013-114636/.
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Ao lado da tradução integral e inaugural em língua portuguesa dos 1456 versos do Waltharius, escrito em língua latina provavelmente entre os séculos IX e X em algum mosteiro do Império Carolíngio, é apresentado um estudo de aproximação à obra, onde são descritos e analisados os aspectos formais e estilísticos (metro, rima, aliteração, assonância, figuras, tempo, espaço, personagens e narrador), o diálogo com a tradição poética, e o problema do gênero literário. A partir do reconhecimento da presença do processo de imitação e dos paralelos estruturais entre o Waltharius e seus antecessores poéticos, entre os quais se destaca a Eneida de Virgílio, é levantada a discussão sobre a tipologia do poema, se épica ou não. Ao opor a definição poética no texto do Waltharius com os teorizadores de gêneros poéticos antigos e medievais, queda a conclusão de que o poema não é composto a partir dos parâmetros de gênero e sim de modelo, sendo, acima de tudo, um poema virgiliano.Together with the full and inaugural translation into Portuguese of the Waltharius 1456 verses, written in Latin probably between the ninth and tenth centuries in a monastery of the Carolingian Empire, it is presented a study approaching to the work, in which the formal and stylistic aspects (meter, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, figures, time, space, characters and narrator), the dialogue with the poetic tradition, and the problem of literary genre are described and analyzed. From the recognition of the imitation process presence and of the structural parallels between the Waltharius and its poetic predecessors, among which stands out Virgils Aeneid, the discussion is raised on the poems typology, whether epic or not. Opposing the poetic definition found in the Waltharius text to the ancient and medieval theorists of poetic genres, we are lead to the conclusion that the poem is not composed from the parameters of genre, but of model, and it is, above all, a Virgilian poem.
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Packard, Barbara. "Remembering the First Crusade : Latin narrative histories 1099-c.1300." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/30bc10ac-ba25-0f0e-cef0-76af48433206/9/.
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The success of the First Crusade by the Christian armies caught the interest and arrested the imagination of contemporaries, stimulating the production of a large number of historical narratives. Four eyewitness accounts, as well as letters written by the crusaders to the West, were taken up by later authors, re-worked and re-fashioned into new narratives; a process which continued throughout the twelfth century and beyond. This thesis sets out to explore why contemporaries continued to write about the First Crusade in light of medieval attitudes towards the past, how authors constructed their narratives and how the crusade and the crusaders were remembered throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It will analyse the development in the way the First Crusade was recorded and investigate the social, religious, intellectual and political influences dictating change: How, why and under what circumstances was the story re- told? What changed in the re-telling? What ideas and concepts were the authors trying to communicate and what was their meaning for contemporaries? The thesis will also aim to place these texts not only in their historical but also in their literary contexts, analyse the literary traditions from which authors were writing, and consider the impact the crusade had on medieval literature. The focus will be on Latin histories of the First Crusade, especially those written in England and France, which produced the greatest number of narratives. Those written in the Levant, the subject of these histories, will also be discussed, as well as texts written in the Empire and in Italy.
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Campbell, Jeffrey. ""The Ars Moriendi": An examination, translation, and collation of the manuscripts of the shorter Latin version." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10313.
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The Ars Moriendi is a Mediaeval Christian death manual that appeared around the middle of the fifteenth century. Though no-one is certain who the author was, there is no doubt that Jean Gerson was the major inspiration through his Opusculum Tripartitum. The general consensus is that the text was written by a member of the mendicant orders, probably a Dominican, and it was through them that the text spread so rapidly across Europe. The text was originally written in Latin with translations into the various vernaculars coming later. The Ars Moriendi appears in almost every major European language. I choose to limit my study to those in Latin. Since there are two Latin traditions, the longer or CP, and the shorter or QS, I further narrowed the field of study and concentrated exclusively on the latter. The text seems to have been produced as a response to the devastation of the Black Death. With so many priests either dead or missing. The popularity of a manual that instructed how to die in a way that ensured one made it to heaven is easy to understand. Of the three hundred known manuscripts, only six are of the shorter version. Five of these I have studied. The sixth unhappily was destroyed in 1944 in Metz. This paucity is not surprising since the true appeal of this work is the woodcut. Of the five manuscripts, at least two were copied from printed editions. The text itself is not very impressive as it is comprised mostly of various quotations from the Church Fathers and the Vulgate. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Upton, Christopher A. "Studies in Scottish Latin." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2734.
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This thesis examines certain aspects of Scottish Latin, particularly in the period 1580-1637. The first chapter chronicles the endeavours of John Scot of Scotstarvet to compile an anthology of Scottish Latin poetry, based on the unpublished letters to Scot in the NLS. Both the letters and contemporary verse indicate that the project was under way twenty years before the Delitiae was printed and that John Leech was an important influence. Leech's letters to Scot highlight Scot's editorial reticence, confirmed by the alterations in Scotstarvet's own verse. The final product was more a reflection of the taste and ethos of the early 1620s, after which Scot apparently ceased to collect material. The second chapter documents the attempts to impose a national grammar upon the schools, akin to the Lily-Colet grammar in England. Attempts to provide a radical alternative to Despauter, firstly by a committee and later by Alexander Hume, were inhibited by the inherent conservatism of teaching establishments. The most successful of the new grammars, those by Wedderburn and the Dunbar Rudiments, remained as general introductions to Despauter. Evidence for the composition of Latin verse in schools and universities, both statutory and manuscript, is assessed in the third chapter. Active involvement in the practice by local authorities influenced the range and extent of verse being written after 1600. The poetry of David Wedderburn of Aberdeen, promoted by the town council, reflects that influence. The importance of teaching methods upon a poet's future development is most clearly seen in the verse of David Hume, discussed in the fourth chapter. Hume continually re-works and re-evaluates the themes of his adolescent verse, measuring them against the achievements of James VI, whose birth he had earlier celebrated. The thesis concludes with a check-list of Scots whose Latin verse was printed before 1640.
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Sykes, Catherine Philippa. "Latin Christians in the literary landscape of Early Rus, c. 988-1330." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273750.
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In the wake of the recent wave of interest in the ties between Early Rus and the Latin world, this dissertation investigates conceptions and depictions of Latin Christians in Early Rusian texts. Unlike previous smaller-scale studies, the present study takes into consideration all indigenous Early Rusian narrative sources which make reference to Latins or the Latin world. Its contribution is twofold. Firstly, it overturns the still prevalent assumption that Early Rusian writers tended to portray Latins as religious Others. There was certainly a place in Early Rusian writing for religious polemic against the Latin faith, but as I show, this place was very restricted. Secondly, having established the considerable diversity and complexity of rhetorical approaches to Latins, this study analyses and explains rhetorical patterns in Early Rusian portrayals of Latins and Latin Christendom. Scholars have tended to interpret these patterns as primarily influenced by extra-textual factors (most often, a text’s time of composition). This study, however, establishes that textual factors—specifically genre and theme—are the best predictors of a text’s portrayal of Latins, and explains the appearance and evolution of particular generic and thematic representations. It also demonstrates that a text’s place of composition tends to have a greater influence on its depictions of Latins than its time of composition. Through close engagement with the subtleties and ambiguities of Early Rusian depictions of Latins, this study furthers contemporary debate on questions of narrative, identity and difference in Rus and the medieval world.
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Bilow, Catherine A. "O Praesul Illustris: Images of the Bishop Patron in Poems of Late Medieval Latin Offices." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1334801887.
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Tyutina, Svetlana V. "Hispanic Orientalism: The Literary Development of a Cultural Paradigm, from Medieval Spain to Modern Latin America." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1592.
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This dissertation offers a novel approach to Hispanic Orientalism, developing a dynamic paradigm from its origins in medieval and Renaissance Iberia during the process of the Christian Reconquest, to its transatlantic migration and establishment in the early years of the Colony, from where it changed in late colonial and post-Independence Latin America, and onto modernity.
The study argues that Hispanic Orientalism does not necessarily imply a negative depiction of the Other, a quality associated with the traditional critique of Saidian Orientalism. Neither, does it entirely comply with the positivist approach suggested in the theoretical research of Said’s opponents, like Julia Kushigian. This dissertation also argues that sociopolitical changes and the shift in the discourse of powers, from imperial to non-imperial, had a significant impact of the development of Hispanic Orientalism, shaping the relationship with the Other.
The methodology involves close reading of representative texts depicting the interactions of the dominant and dominated societies from each of the four historic periods that coincided with significant sociopolitical transformations in Hispanic society. Through an intercultural approach to literary studies, social history, and religious studies, this project develops an original paradigm of Hispanic Orientalism, derived from the image of the reinvented Semitic Other portrayed in the literary works depicting the relationship between the hegemonic and the subaltern cultures during the Reconquest period in Spain. Then, it traces the turn of the original paradigm towards reinterpretation during its transatlantic migration to Latin America through the analysis of the chronicles and travelogs of the first colonizers and explorers. During the transitional late colonial and early Independence periods Latin America sees a significant change in the discourse of powers, and Hispanic Orientalism reflects this oscillation between the past and the present therough the works of the Latin American authors from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Finally, once the non-imperial discourse of power established itself in the former Colony, a new modern stage in the development of Hispanic Orientalist paradigm takes place. It is marked by the desire to differentiate itself from the O(o)thers, as manifested in the works of the representatives of Modernism and the Boom.
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Scrivner, Olga B. "A Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses| from Latin to Old French." Thesis, Indiana University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714098.
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This thesis investigates word order change in infinitival clauses from Object-Verb (OV) to Verb-Object (VO) in the history of Latin and Old French. By applying a variationist approach, I examine a synchronic word order variation in each stage of language change, from which I infer the character, periodization and constraints of diachronic variation. I also show that in discourse-configurational languages, such as Latin and Early Old French, it is possible to identify pragmatically neutral contexts by using information structure annotation. I further argue that by mapping pragmatic categories into a syntactic structure, we can detect how word order change unfolds. For this investigation, the data are extracted from annotated corpora spanning several centuries of Latin and Old French and from additional resources created by using computational linguistic methods. The data are then further codified for various pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and sociolinguistic factors. This study also evaluates previous factors proposed to account for word order alternation and change. I show how information structure and syntactic constraints change over time and propose a method that allows researchers to differentiate a stable word order alternation from alternation indicating a change. Finally, I present a three-stage probabilistic model of word order change, which also conforms to traditional language change patterns.
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Garrison, Mary Delafield. "Alcuin's world through his letters and verse." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251592.
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Deligiannis, Ioannis. "Fifteenth-century Latin translations of Lucian's essay on slander /." Pisa [u.a.] : Gruppo Ed. Internazionale, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0706/2007370174.html.
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Ihre, Johan Ihre Johan Ihre Johan Östlund Krister. "Johan Ihre on the origins and history of the runes three Latin dissertations from the mid 18th century /." Uppsala : Uppsala University Library, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43605704.html.
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Stone, Charles Russell. "A dubious hero for the time Roman histories of Alexander the Great in Plantagenet England /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872217431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rajsic, Jaclyn. "Britain and Albion in the mythical histories of medieval England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc55a2b2-6156-4401-958b-0a6f454f9c6d.
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This dissertation examines the ideological role and adaptation of the mythical British past (derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae) in chronicles of England written in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and English from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, in terms of the shaping of English history during this time. I argue that the past is an important lens through which we can read the imagined geographies (Albion, Britain and England) and ‘imagined communities’ (the British and English), to use Benedict Anderson’s term, constructed by historical texts. I consider how British history was carefully re-shaped and combined with chronologically conflicting accounts of early English history (derived from Bede) to create a continuous view of the English past, one in which the British kings are made English or ‘of England’. Specifically, I examine the connections between geography and genealogy, which I argue become inextricably linked in relation to mythical British history from the thirteenth century onwards. From that point on, British kings are increasingly shown to be the founders and builders of England, rather than Britain, and are integrated into genealogies of England’s contemporary kings. I argue that short chronicles written in Latin and Anglo-Norman during the thirteenth century evidence a confidence that the ancient Britons were perceived as English, and equally a strong sense of Englishness. These texts, I contend, anticipate the combination of British and English histories that scholars find in the lengthier and better-known Brut histories written in the early fourteenth century. For the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, my study takes account of the Albina myth, the story of the mothers of Albion’s giants (their arrival in Albion before Brutus’s legendary conquest of the land). There has been a surge of scholarship about the Albina myth in recent years. My analysis of hitherto unknown accounts of the tale, which appear in some fifteenth-century genealogical rolls, leads me to challenge current interpretations of the story as a myth of foundation and as apparently problematic for British and English history. My discussion culminates with an analysis of some copies of the prose Brut chronicle (c. 1300) – the most popular secular, vernacular text in later medieval England, but it is seldom studied – and of some fifteenth-century genealogies of England’s kings. In both cases, I am concerned with presentations of the passage of dominion from British to English rulership in the texts and manuscripts in question. My preliminary investigation of the genealogies aims to draw attention to this very under-explored genre. In all, my study shows that the mythical British past was a site of adaptation and change in historical and genealogical texts written in England throughout the high and later Middle Ages. It also reveals short chronicles, prose Brut texts and manuscripts, and royal genealogies to have great potential future research.
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Zeiser, Sarah Elizabeth. "Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10481.
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This dissertation explores the complex interactions among written text, language choice, and political context in Wales in the late-eleventh and early-twelfth centuries. I argue that writers in medieval Wales created in both their literary compositions and their manuscripts intricate layers of protest and subversion in direct opposition to the authority of the Anglo-Norman political hegemony and the aggrandizing spread of the Canterbury-led church. These medieval literati exploited language and script as tools of definition. They privileged Welsh or Latin when their audience shifted, and they employed the change from early Insular script to the Caroline script of the Normans as not just a natural evolution in script development, but as a selective representation of mimicked authority. The family of Bishop Sulien at Llanbadarn Fawr has been the focal point of this study, as they were active during a time of Anglo-Norman intervention in their community that is reflected in the shifting script of their manuscripts and the apprehensive though proud tone of their compositions, which include the vitae of saints David and Padarn and the poetry of Ieuan and Rhygyfarch ap Sulien. My work provides a much-needed cohesive portrait of the multilingual medieval Welsh literary culture at the turn of the twelfth century. Questions of audience and authority come into play, particularly when considering the growing hybridity of learned communities during the Anglo-Norman infiltration of Wales. Manuscripts themselves are viewed as vehicles of identity, for the evolution of script and design offers clues as to the methods of compromise practiced by Welsh intellectuals. This compromise in the written word can be viewed as an embodiment of the Welsh desire and need to mediate fraught political boundaries, as they did using both the ‘nation’-defining Welsh language and the vehicular prestige language of Latin, resulting in an intertextual exploration of identity through the act of writing itself. Writing is a critical demonstration of Welsh authorship and agency in medieval Britain, and one that can be used to reflect upon notions of Welsh identity.Celtic Languages and Literatures
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Smith-Laing, Tim. "Variorum vitae : Theseus and the arts of mythography in Medieval and early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f4305c6-3c62-4f89-a3b2-d8204893fdfb.
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This thesis offers an approach to the history of mythographical discourse through the figure of Theseus and his appearances in texts from England, Italy and France. Analysing a range of poetic, historical, and allegorical works that feature Theseus alongside their classical and contemporary intertexts, it is a study of the conceptions of Greco-Roman mythology prevalent in European literature from 1300-1600. Focusing on mythology’s pervasive presence as a background to medieval and early modern literary and intellectual culture, it draws attention to the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology in relation to its use for different purposes in a wide range of texts. The first impact of this study is to draw attention to the distinction between mythology and mythography, as a means of focusing on the full range of interpretative processes associated with the ancient myths in their textual forms. Returning attention to the processes by which writers and readers came to know the Greco-Roman myths, it widens the commonly accepted critical definition of ‘mythography’ to include any writing of or on mythology, while restricting ‘mythology’ to its abstract sense, meaning a traditional collection of tales that exceeds any one text. This distinction allows the analyses of the study’s primary texts to display the full range of interpretative processes and possibilities involved in rewriting mythology, and to outline a spectrum of linked but distinctive mythographical genres that define those possibilities. Breaking down into two parts of three chapters each, the thesis examines Theseus’ appearances across these mythographical genres, first in the period from 1300 to the birth of print, and then from the birth of print up to 1600. Taking as its primary texts works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and William Shakespeare along with their classical intertexts, it situates each of them in regard to their multiple defining contexts. Paying close attention to the European traditions of commentary, translation and response to classical sources, it shows mythographical discourse as a vibrant aspect of medieval and early modern literary culture, equally embedded in classical traditions and contemporary traditions that transcended national and linguistic boundaries.
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Bean, Joann Ruth MacLachlan. "From Thraso to Herod : Hrotsvitha meets the bragging soldier /." *McMaster only, 1999.
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Pettinger, Michael Francis. "Sodom : the judgment of the pentapolis in the Christian west to the year 1000 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6672.
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Brefeld, Josephie. "A guidebook for the Jerusalem pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages a case for computer-aided textual criticism /." Hilversum : Verloren, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30968186.html.
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Tucker, G. H. "A Frenchman's Rome, in Rome : Joachim Du Bellay's Antiquitez de Rome in the light of his poetic development to Classical, Medieval Latin and Renaissance literature and scholarship." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234114.
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Latowsky, Anne Austin. "Imaginative possession : Charlemagne and the East from Einhard to the Voyage of Charlemagne /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8309.
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Marx, C. William. "The Devil's rights and the Redemption in the literature of Medieval England /." Cambridge (GB) : D. S. Brewer, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369936120.
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Keršienė, Dovilė. "Epistolografija Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje XIV–XVI amžiuje: nuo ars dictaminis iki literatūrinio laiško." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100915_162516-23932.
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Disertacijos tyrimo objektas – europinė epistolografijos tradicija ir jos perėmimo formos LDK XIV–XVI a., išryškinant žanrinius ir tipologinius aspektus, raidos tendencijas.
Šiame darbe analizuojama, kaip susikuria ir kaip kinta europinė laiškų rašymo tradicija, teorinio vadovėlio struktūra, turinys, laiško samprata ir modelis; kokie egzistavo panašumai ir skirtumai tarp Viduramžių ir Renesanso laiškų rašymo vadovėlių; kokias vertybes jie formavo; kokią reikšmę turėjo bendroje švietimo sistemoje, kultūros formavimęsi. Tiriama, kada ir kokiu būdu europinė lotyniškosios epistolografijos tradicija perimama LDK, kaip ji funkcionavo lotyniškoje LDK epistolikoje, mokymo programose, kultūriniame gyvenime. Disertacijoje analizuojama, kaip keičiasi LDK epistolikos įvairovė XIV–XVI a., kaip laiškas, Viduramžiais atlikęs gana formalizuotas dalykinio ir asmeninio bendravimo funkcijas, Renesanso epochoje virsta saviraiškos forma, literatūriniu kūriniu.
Pagrindiniai atlikto tyrimo šaltiniai – Viduramžių laiškų rašymo vadovėliai (artes dictandi) ir renesansiniai epistolografijos teoriniai veikalai (modi epistolandi). Dvi skirtingas epistolografijos tradicijas šiame darbe iliustruoja Ldk Vytauto (1350–1430) laiškai, kaip Viduramžių kanceliarinės korespondencijos pavyzdys, ir Saliamono Risinskio (? –1625) laiškų rinkinys, kaip humanistinė Renesanso laiškų išraiška.
Konstatuojama, kad LDK XIV–XVI a. nebuvo sukurta originalių teorinių laiškų rašymo veikalų, bet buvo remiamasi europiniu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Subject of the dissertation research is European epistolographic tradition and forms of its acceptance in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, within the 14th – 16th centuries, by emphasizing the aspects of genre and typology, as well as trends of its development. The present paper analyzes the birth and development of the European epistle writing tradition, structure and contents of the epistolographic theory textbook, concept and model of an epistle; similarities and differences of epistle writing textbooks in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the values influenced by such textbooks and their significance for common education system and culture formation. The dissertation makes a research on the time periods and ways, how the epistolographic tradition reached the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, how it was adopted and functioned in epistle writing of the country, school curricula and cultural life in general. Based on specific examples, the dissertation discloses the changes in variety of epistle writing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, within the 14th – 16th centuries, stressing out how an epistle, as a former and fairly formal form of business and personal communication in the Middle Ages, is turned into means of self-expression and piece of literature during the period of Renaissance. Key sources of the research performed are the epistle writing textbooks (artes dictandi) published in the 11th – 14th centuries and epistolographic theory works (modi epistolandi), extant from the 15th... [to full text]
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Keršienė, Dovilė. "Epistolography in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 14-16 century: from ars dictaminis to literary letter." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100915_162526-93951.
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Subject of the dissertation research is European epistolographic tradition and forms of its acceptance in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, within the 14th – 16th centuries, by emphasizing the aspects of genre and typology, as well as trends of its development.
The present paper analyzes the birth and development of the European epistle writing tradition, structure and contents of the epistolographic theory textbook, concept and model of an epistle; similarities and differences of epistle writing textbooks in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the values influenced by such textbooks and their significance for common education system and culture formation. The dissertation makes a research on the time periods and ways, how the epistolographic tradition reached the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, how it was adopted and functioned in epistle writing of the country, school curricula and cultural life in general. Based on specific examples, the dissertation discloses the changes in variety of epistle writing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, within the 14th – 16th centuries, stressing out how an epistle, as a former and fairly formal form of business and personal communication in the Middle Ages, is turned into means of self-expression and piece of literature during the period of Renaissance.
Key sources of the research performed are the epistle writing textbooks (artes dictandi) published in the 11th – 14th centuries and epistolographic theory works (modi epistolandi), extant from the 15th... [to full text]Disertacijos tyrimo objektas – europinė epistolografijos tradicija ir jos perėmimo formos LDK XIV–XVI a., išryškinant žanrinius ir tipologinius aspektus, raidos tendencijas. Šiame darbe analizuojama, kaip susikuria ir kaip kinta europinė laiškų rašymo tradicija, teorinio vadovėlio struktūra, turinys, laiško samprata ir modelis; kokie egzistavo panašumai ir skirtumai tarp Viduramžių ir Renesanso laiškų rašymo vadovėlių; kokias vertybes jie formavo; kokią reikšmę turėjo bendroje švietimo sistemoje, kultūros formavimęsi. Tiriama, kada ir kokiu būdu europinė lotyniškosios epistolografijos tradicija perimama LDK, kaip ji funkcionavo lotyniškoje LDK epistolikoje, mokymo programose, kultūriniame gyvenime. Disertacijoje analizuojama, kaip keičiasi LDK epistolikos įvairovė XIV–XVI a., kaip laiškas, Viduramžiais atlikęs gana formalizuotas dalykinio ir asmeninio bendravimo funkcijas, Renesanso epochoje virsta saviraiškos forma, literatūriniu kūriniu. Pagrindiniai atlikto tyrimo šaltiniai – Viduramžių laiškų rašymo vadovėliai (artes dictandi) ir renesansiniai epistolografijos teoriniai veikalai (modi epistolandi). Dvi skirtingas epistolografijos tradicijas šiame darbe iliustruoja Ldk Vytauto (1350–1430) laiškai, kaip Viduramžių kanceliarinės korespondencijos pavyzdys, ir Saliamono Risinskio (? –1625) laiškų rinkinys, kaip humanistinė Renesanso laiškų išraiška. Konstatuojama, kad LDK XIV–XVI a. nebuvo sukurta originalių teorinių laiškų rašymo veikalų, bet buvo remiamasi europiniu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Fredriksson, Adman Anna. "Heymericus de Campo: Dyalogus super Reuelacionibus beate Birgitte : A Critical Edition with an Introduction." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för klassiska språk, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3581.
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This dissertation contains an edition of Dyalogus super Reuelacionibus beate Birgitte, which is a discussion and defence of the Revelations (Reuelaciones) of St. Birgitta of Sweden (ca. 1303-1373). In legal proceedings at the Council of Basle (1431-1449), the Reuelaciones were accused of heresy, examined and defended. Among the defenders was Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460), who at that time was professor of theology at the University of Cologne. In addition to the formal examination reports, Heymericus wrote a dialogue on the subject. The Dyalogus, which was probably composed as a contribution to a debate, is tentatively dated to have been written between October 1434 and February 17, 1435. The main part of Dyalogus consists of 123 text passages extracted from the Reuelaciones and accused of heresy, and Heymericus’ defence of these text passages. The aim of the defence is to prove that the Reuelaciones are truly orthodox and thus inspired by God. In addition, Heymericus intends to display the reasons and arguments the impugners had for questioning the Reuelaciones. Dyalogus and the other defences were read and copied foremost within the Birgittine order. The judgement passed at the proceedings called for a commentary before the Reuelaciones could be disseminated to the whole of their extent. To the Birgittines the defences of Basle filled this purpose, at least for some time. The extensive introduction of the thesis deals with the historical context of the text, its use and importance, its place within the author’s literary production, the contents and language of the text, and finally the textual transmission. Vadstena Abbey’s copy of the text is chosen as base manuscript for the edition.
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Bevevino, Lisa Shugert. "Demis Defors: the Narrative Structure and Cultural Implications of the Contemplation of Death in Medieval French Courtly Literature." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343794962.
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Puello, Alfonso Sarah L. "Poetics of the urban, poetics of the self : a comparative study of selected works by Jorge Luis Borges and Jacques Réda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4316585d-51c1-4b79-ae46-f5cdaf4c55d5.
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This thesis explores the poetic representation of Buenos Aires and Paris in selected works by Jorge Luis Borges and Jacques Réda respectively. Its primary aim is to analyse the relational phenomenon between the construction of these poets' personal maps of the city and the concomitant formation of the poetic self. The principal point of departure is Jacques Réda's Ferveur de Borges (1987), a collection of essays and poems published individually between 1957 and 1986, where the author expresses his admiration for Borges, shows his broad and critical knowledge of Borges's works and establishes the similarities between their poetics of the urban and poetics of the self. Another important aim of this thesis is therefore to ascertain the extent of Borges's influential role in Réda's poetics, but also how reading Borges through Réda enhances our understanding of Borges's urban poetry. This comparison reveals that Borges and Réda gravitate towards places within the city, but mostly its periphery, characterised by their unpretentious, soulful and heterotopic qualities — places where the poets feel a sense of belonging. Their objective is to restore, through the prism of their minds and their physical investment in space, the provincial spirit of Buenos Aires and Paris, hidden behind the dynamism of the modern metropolises they have become. As a consequence of this communion between self and place they explore the possibility of being on the brink of a revelatory experience that speaks to the enigma of life. The wider scope of the thesis addresses the historical and cultural relationship between Buenos Aires and Paris, Borges's and Réda's redefinition of the centre/periphery dichotomy, the evening as a temporal locale and the distinction between poetic destiny and aesthetic experience.
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Pink, Stephen Arthur. "Holy scripture and the meanings of the Eucharist in late medieval England, C. 1370-1430." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:60a9655b-779b-4853-9102-7a9b058f0d5e.
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This thesis examines how, in late-medieval England, uses of Scripture and associated written discourses expanded to encompass the sacramental functions hitherto privileged to the bread and wine of the Mass. This process, reflecting the longstanding if implicit importance of scriptural symbolism to the medieval Eucharist, also bears witness to a major cultural shift in this period: the assignment to words of the same powers that had underpinned the function of visual, non-verbal symbols in medieval religion and society. As Chapter Two demonstrates, this process was starkly exposed in John Wyclif’s vision of an English religion centred upon the sacrament of the preached word of Scripture, rather than on the Mass. As Chapter Three shows, this was the vision that Wyclif’s followers sought to realize, even if they may have achieved their aims only within a limited band of followers. However, Wyclif’s vision was powerful precisely because its relevance was not confined to Wycliffites. Chapter Four charts how the same substitution was taking place through the dissemination in English of ‘Scripture’, which, in its broadest sense, encompassed meditations upon depictions of Christ crucified as well as preaching. The greatest danger of Wycliffite thought to the late-medieval Church rested in its potential to increase lay awareness of this process. This threat was reflected in the restrictions placed by the English Church upon lay use of religious writings in the early fifteenth century. Nonetheless, as Chapter Five shows through a reading of one of Wyclif’s sternest critics, Thomas Netter, the eucharistic function of ‘Scripture’ had not disappeared but had to be occluded. This occlusion represents the most significant shift in the eucharistic function of ‘Scripture’ in the fifteenth century, allowing its use to develop further without threatening the Mass. This thesis concludes that the unacknowledged yet increasingly central role of ‘Scripture’ helps to explain why, at the Reformation, a scripturally-based religion seemed so quickly to supplant one to which images had been fundamental.
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Sneddon, Duncan Stewart. "Adomnán of Iona's 'Vita Sancti Columbae' : a literary analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31169.
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Written in c. 700 at the island monastery of Iona, Adomnán’s Vita Sancti Columbae (VSC) is an important source for the study of early medieval Scotland and Ireland. This thesis analyses the text as a literary work, seeking to understand more about its internal logic and the ways in which it relates to other kinds of literary texts. These include Biblical texts, other early insular, continental and late antique hagiographies, vernacular secular sagas, legal texts, scholarly literature and wisdom literature. Adomnán did not necessarily know all of these texts, and some of them post-date him, but they provide a wider interpretative context for VSC. Adomnán’s other known work, De Locis Sanctis, and texts connected to him, such as Cáin Adomnáin, will also be considered. I look for points of similarity and divergence between Vita Sancti Columbae and these other texts, which I term “adjacent literature”, looking to see how the text relates to its wider literary and intellectual context. By taking this approach, we are able to understand the text better on its own terms, making it more useful as a source for historical study. The text is studied, and set within its wider context, with respect to the following main areas: The Manuscripts of Vita Sancti Columbae: the visual construction of the text: Considering the five surviving manuscripts of the first recension of VSC, but focussing especially on the earliest (Schaffhausen Stadtbibliothek Generalia 1, of near authorial date and Ionan provenance), this chapter considers how the visual presentation of VSC relates to its production and reproduction as a literary text. Page layout, illumination, the use of the Greek alphabet and different colours of ink and manuscript context are all discussed. Structure and Narrative Sequencing in Vita Sancti Columbae: VSC is not a chronologically-structured account of Columba’s life, but rather a hagiography made up of many short narratives that demonstrate his sanctity and power in different ways. These narratives are arranged thematically, with a basic tripartite structure, with one book concerned with prophecies, one with miracles and one with visions. The narratives within the three books are often arranged into small, tightly constructed clusters of related stories. This chapter is an investigation of both the overall structure of the work and the “micro-structure” of the sequencing of narratives. Language and Vita Sancti Columbae: This chapter explores Adomnán’s style as a Hiberno-Latin writer, including discussions of such techniques as hyperbaton, alliteration and variatio. Adomnán’s use of and attitudes to Greek and Hebrew are also explored, as is his use of and attitudes to Old Irish. Sex, Women and Violence in Vita Sancti Columbae: This chapter investigates Adomnán’s presentations of sexual behaviour, the role of women as givers of advice, and the violence inflicted on the innocent. Several of the narratives about violence clearly have a strong gendered dimension, and relate in interesting ways to Cáin Adomnáin, and they are discussed in this light. Dangerous Beasts in Vita Sancti Columbae: VSC contains several encounters with dangerous beasts of various kinds, some of which are not unambiguously identifiable. These episodes are studied in turn, including discussions about identifying the beasts, and investigating the functions that they have within the text. Vita Sancti Columbae and Cult Practice: The thesis concludes with an exploration of the roles VSC might have played in the life of the Columban familia. The use of blessed objects and relics within the text is studied, with suggestions as to their relation to cult practice. The final section concerns the possibility that certain parts of VSC were intended to be used in processions, or to be read with the active participation of an audience.
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Hofmann, Petra. "Infernal imagery in Anglo-Saxon charters." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/498.
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Connolly, Margaret. "An edition of 'Contemplations of the dread and love of God'." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2786.
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This thesis presents an edition of Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God, a late Middle English devotional prose text for which no critical edition is currently available. I have transcribed and collated the text from all sixteen extant manuscripts and the 1506 printed edition. An investigation of the errors and variants according to the classical method of textual criticism has yielded little in the way of conclusive results, and it has therefore not proved possible to construct a stemma of manuscripts from the corpus of evidence as it now exists. My edition therefore uses one manuscript (Maidstone MS Museum 6) as a base; I emend the text of Maidstone where necessary, and cite variants from all the other witnesses to show all differences of substance. A full critical apparatus is provided, comprising: the text with variants, textual notes and glossary. The introduction includes a full description of all the manuscripts and the two early printed editions, an outline of the methods of textual criticism applied and their results, and an explanation of the choice of base manuscript; information about the language of the Maidstone manuscript and the date of the text are also provided, as is an outline of my editorial principles. The thesis also contains two appendices. The first of these deals briefly with the twenty-two instances where individual chapters of Contemplations appear in other manuscript compilations; the second discusses the English and Latin prayers which follow the full text in some manuscripts.
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Whelan, Fiona Elizabeth. "Morals and manners in twelfth-century England : 'Urbanus Magnus' and courtesy literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4ccb50b9-7e0e-49c8-b9c5-104dfefa3fea.
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This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Latin poem entitled Urbanus magnus or 'The Book of the Civilised Man', attributed to Daniel of Beccles. This is a poem dedicated to the cultivation of a civilised life, aimed primarily at clerics although its use extends to nobility, and specifically the noble householder. This thesis focuses on the text as a primary source for an understanding of social life in medieval England, and uses the content of the text to explore issues such as the medieval household, social hierarchy, the body, and food and diet. Urbanus magnus is commonly referred to as a 'courtesy text'. This thesis seeks to understand Urbanus magnus outside of that attribution, and to situate the text in the context of twelfth and thirteenth-century England. Thus far, scholarship of courtesy literature has focused on later texts such as thirteenth-century vernacular 'courtesy texts' or humanist works as exemplified by Erasmus's De civilitate morum puerilium. This scholarship looks back to the twelfth century and sees texts such as Urbanus magnus as 'early Latin courtesy texts'. This teleological view relegates such earlier texts to positions at the genesis of the genre and blindly assumes that they belong to the corpus of 'courtesy literature'. This neglects both their individual importance and their respective origins. This thesis examines Urbanus magnus as a didactic text which contains elements of 'courtesy literature', but also displays moral and ethical concerns. At the heart of the thesis is the question: should Urbanus magnus be considered as part of the genre of courtesy literature? This question does not have a simple answer, but this thesis shows that some elements and sections of Urbanus magnus do conform to the characteristics of courtesy literature. However, there are further sections that reflect other literary traditions. In addition to morals and ethics, Urbanus magus reflects other genres such as satire, and also reveals social issues in twelfth-century England such as the rise of anti-curiale sentiment and resentment of upward social mobility. This thesis provides an examination of Urbanus magnus through the most prevalent themes in the text. Firstly, it explores the dynamics of the medieval household, along with issues such as social mobility and hierarchy. Secondly, it focuses on the depiction of the body and bodily restraint, covering topics such as speech, bodily emissions, and sexual activity. Thirdly, it discusses food and diet, including table manners, food consumption, and dietary effects of foodstuffs. The penultimate chapter looks at the manuscript dissemination of the text to investigate the different uses which Urbanus magnus found in subsequent centuries. The delineation of Urbanus magnus as part of the genre of courtesy literature ignores the social, cultural, and literary impact on the creation of the text. In response, this thesis has two aims. The first is to minimise the notion of genre, and treat Urbanus magnus as a text in its own right, and as a product of the twelfth century. The second shows that Urbanus magnus reflects both continuity and change in society in England following the Norman Conquest.
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Samyn, Henrique Marques. "A pastora e a alegoria: a pastora alegórica, da lírica occitânica aos Carmina Burana e ao trovadorismo galego-português." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2198.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorEste trabalho tenciona investigar o conceito de pastorela alegórica, desde sua emergência na obra do trovador occitânico Marcabru mais precisamente, em sua obra Lautrier jost una sebissa até seus desenvolvimentos nos corpora líricos occitânico, médio-latino e galego-português. Nosso trabalho compreende, assim, um estudo comparativista sobre a poesia medieval composta nos séculos XII e XIII, por intermédio do qual tencionamos abordar a relação entre discurso literário e alegoria no âmbito medieval
This thesis aims to investigate the concept of allegorical pastourelle, from its emergence in the poetry of the Occitan troubadour Marcabru more precisely, in his lyric Lautrier jost una sebissa until its developments in the Occitan, Medieval Latin and Galician-Portuguese lyric corpora. Through a Comparative Study of the medieval lyric of the XII and XIII centuries, this work aims to examine the relation between literary discourse and allegory in the medieval period
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Fuller, Gary Stephen. "The Virgin's Kiss: Gender, Leprosy, and Romance in the Life of St. Frideswide." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3234.
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The longer thirteenth-century Middle English verse life of Saint Frideswide found in the collection of saints' lives known as the South English Legendary (SEL) narrates an event unique to medieval hagiography. In the poem, a leper asks the virgin saint to kiss him with her "sweet mouth," which she does in spite of her feelings of considerable shame, and the leper is healed. The erotic nature of the leper's request, Frideswide's reluctance to grant it, and her shame throughout the incident represent a significant departure from the twelfth-century Latin texts on which the SEL version of the saint's life is based. In this paper, I provide a deeper critical analysis of the text than has previously been attempted, exploring the SEL version of the leper's healing from medieval perspectives on leprosy, gender, religious authority, and genre. By the thirteenth century, leprosy in hagiographic texts had come to symbolize the abject condition of Christ himself, and saints' lives invariably portrayed their protagonists as eager to embrace and kiss lepers as a means of serving Christ. Frideswide's shame and reluctance to kiss the leper greatly contrast with generic convention and cause her gender to emerge as a defining holy attribute inexplicably demanded by the leper's exigency. The SEL-poet's portrayal of Frideswide's gender as a vital component of her healing power is consistent with medieval conceptions of personhood, from which gender could not be separated. The poet crafts the scene of the leper's healing using conventions not only of hagiography but of romance as well; this hybridization of genres creates tension between sanctity and eroticism in the scene. The poet's depiction of the saint as simultaneously exceptional and human may have been a reaction against the contemporary ecclesiastical landscape, in which female authority and influence were limited. Moreover, the romantic language used by the poet to create tension also makes Frideswide's story more accessible to lay readers by transforming the relationship between supplicant and saint into an interaction between a courtly lover and his lady.
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Murray, Kylie Marie. "Dream and vision in Scotland, c.1375-1500." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669934.
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Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.
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This thesis places Chaucer within the tradition of philosophical poetry that begins in Plato and extends through classical and medieval Latin culture. In this Platonic tradition, poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general. As such, poetry as metapoetics takes itself as its own object of inquiry in order to reinforce and generate its own definitions without regard to extrinsic considerations. It attempts to create a poetic-knowledge proper instead of one that is dependant on other modes for meaning. The particular manner in which this is expressed is according to the idea of the loss of the Golden Age. In the Augustinian context of Chaucer’s poetry, language, in its literal and historical signifying functions is an effect of the noetic fall and a deformation of an earlier symbolism. The Chaucerian poems this thesis considers concern themselves with the solution to a historical literary lament for language’s fall, a solution that suggests that the instability in language can be overcome with reference to what has been lost in language. The chapters are organized to reflect the medieval Neoplatonic ascensus. The first chapter concerns the Pardoner’s Old Man and his relationship to the literary history of Tithonus in which the renewing of youth is ironically promoted in order to perpetually delay eternity and make the current world co-eternal to the coming world. In the Miller’s Tale, more aggressive narrative strategies deploy the machinery of atheism in order to make a god-less universe the sufficient grounds for the transformation of a fallen and contingent world into the only world whatsoever. The Manciple’s Tale’s opposite strategy leaves the world intact in its current state and instead makes divine beings human. Phoebus expatriates to earth and attempts to co-mingle it with heaven in order to unify art and history into a single monistic experience. Finally, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale acts as ars poetica for the entire Chaucerian Performance and undercuts the naturalistic strategies of the first three poems by a long experiment in the philosophical conflict between art and history. By imagining art and history as epistemologically antagonistic it attempts to subdue in a definitive manner poetic strategies that would imagine human history as the necessary knowledge-condition for poetic language.
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Na, Yunhao. "Les voies de l'écrit à la fin du Moyen Âge ˸ la Vie de saint Fiacre dans ses différentes versions françaises et latines, manuscrites et imprimées." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030015.
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Vénéré depuis le haut Moyen Âge, saint Fiacre fut l’un des saints les mieux connus en France durant la période médiévale et même au-delà. De multiples textes médiévaux sur sa vie nous sont parvenus, du IXe siècle jusqu’à la fin du Moyen Âge, en latin comme en français. De nombreux manuscrits et imprimés des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles témoignent de la circulation considérable des Vies du saint à cette époque. Ces Vies prennent des formes littéraires variées : la légende romanesque en vers et en prose et le drame. La plupart des Vies françaises et certains récits en latin sont inédits. Notre thèse a pour but principal de contribuer à l’avancement des travaux éditoriaux sur ces œuvres en proposant six éditions des Vies du saint de différentes longueurs composées principalement en moyen français et une édition de la Vita rhythmica de 118 vers. Cet ensemble de textes homogène permettra à la critique littéraire et historique de réexaminer la réception et la transformation des actes d’un saint du VIIe siècle dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge tardif. Notre introduction générale porte sur cette question mais s’inscrit dans une histoire plus large du culte du saint tout au long des siècles pour tracer la continuation et les bifurcations possibles d’une tradition hagiographique. Dans les études linguistico-littéraires qui accompagnent la Vita rhythmica et la pièce de théâtre La Vie de monsieur sainct Fiacre filz du roy d’Escosse par personnaiges, nous nous sommes proposé d’observer respectivement les modalités de la versification rythmique du latin médiéval — domaine moins exploré par la recherche — et la relation entre complexité syntaxique, contrainte formelle et simplicité discursive d’un langage artistique sur la scène du théâtre médiéval. La diversité générique, formelle et généalogique des textes que nous avons choisis d’éditer garantit un riche exercice de philologieVenerated since the Early Middle Ages, Saint Fiacre was one of the most well-known saints in France during the Middle Ages and even afterwards. Many medieval texts about his life, from the 9th century to the end of Middle Ages, in Latin as well as in French, have survived to this day. The numerous manuscripts and printed works prove the widespread circulation of this saint’s Lives during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, in such different forms as narrative prose, poem and drama. Most of the Lives in French and some texts in Latin are still unedited. This dissertation aims to participate in the editing work of these texts. It offers six editions of French Lives which have different lengths and one edition of the Vita rhythmica (188 verses). This homogenous set of texts could make it possible for literature scholars and historians to reconsider the reception and the transformation of a sacred figure of the 7th century in the late medieval French literature. The general introduction of this thesis deals with this concrete question but is also put in a much larger history of the Saint Fiacre cult throughout the centuries, in order to describe the possible continuity and bifurcations of a hagiographic tradition. In the linguistic and literary studies of the Vita rhythmica and of the theatre play La Vie de monsieur sainct Fiacre filz du roy d’Escosse par personnaiges, this work focuses on the medieval Latin rhythmic versification — a less-explored area — and the relationship between the complicated syntax, the formal restriction and the discursive simplicity of a medieval theatre language. The different texts with various generic, formal and genealogical characteristics edited in this dissertation present a plurality of different philological exercises
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Nemerkényi, Előd. "Latin classics in medieval Hungary : eleventh century /." Debrecen : Central European university, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40069906f.
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McFadyen, Johnny. "Arthur in medieval Latin : chronicle, epic and romance." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633118.
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This dissertation investigates the character and use of Arthurian narratives in medieval Latin literature, with particular emphasis on the socio-political, ideological and literary functions they were designed to serve. It focuses on a little-known assortment of writings from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, contextualising Latin Arthurian material with analyses of contemporary history and literary culture. It begins with a re-evaluation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's role in'the development of Arthurian literature, especially his influence on Latin historiography and medieval romance, evaluating what I perceive to be a noticeable shift in register between his earlier work, Historia Regum Britanniae, and his later poem, Vita Merlini. I argue that the later work anticipates the rise of romance writing, and also consider it in relation to the emergence of the individual in twelfth-century literature. The dissertation then examines a number of understudied Latin Arthurian works, through individual case studies, in order to demonstrate the varied and interesting uses that post-Galfridian writers found for the Arthurian legend. The study of this heterogeneous collection of texts is intended to produce a deeper understanding and appreciation of Latin Arthuriana and to reassess its position in relation to the wider literary canon. A short conclusion also establishes some connections between these Latin texts and vernacular literature, and calls for further investigation into the relationship between these two linguistic traditions.
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Piantanida, Cecilia. "Classical lyricism in Italian and North American 20th-century poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4422c01a-ba88-4fe0-a21f-4804e4c610ce.
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This thesis defines ‘classical lyricism’ as any mode of appropriation of Greek and Latin monodic lyric whereby a poet may develop a wider discourse on poetry. Assuming classical lyricism as an internal category of enquiry, my thesis investigates the presence of Sappho and Catullus as lyric archetypes in Italian and North American poetry of the 20th century. The analysis concentrates on translations and appropriations of Sappho and Catullus in four case studies: Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) and Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) in Italy; Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Anne Carson (b. 1950) in North America. I first trace the poetic reception of Sappho and Catullus in the oeuvres of the four authors separately. I define and evaluate the role of the respective appropriations within each author’s work and poetics. I then contextualise the four case studies within the Italian and North American literary histories. Finally, through the new outlook afforded by the comparative angle of this thesis, I uncover some of the hidden threads connecting the different types of classical lyricism transnationally. The thesis shows that the course of classical lyricism takes two opposite aesthetic directions in Italy and in North America. Moreover, despite the two aesthetic trajectories diverging, I demonstrate that the four poets’ appropriations of Sappho and Catullus share certain topical characteristics. Three out of four types of classical lyricism are defined by a preference for Sappho’s and Catullus’ lyrics which deal with marriage rituals and defloration, patterns of death and rebirth, and solar myths. They stand out as the epiphenomena of the poets’ interest in the anthropological foundations of the lyric, which is grounded in a philosophical function associated with poetry as a quest for knowledge. I therefore ultimately propose that ‘classical lyricism’ may be considered as an independent historical and interpretative category of the classical legacy.
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Marshall, Christopher John. "Warfare in the Latin East, 1193-1291." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/ce4a52a6-821d-4526-bb64-5c5705144678/1/.
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After an introductory chapter, in which the studies of previous scholars are examined, warfare in the Latin East in the period is placed in its historical context. It involved not only crusades: there were long periods of truce when warfare was restricted to raiding expeditions, while many conflicts took place between Christians themselves. The Latin armies are then considered. There were many elements in them - the feudal levy, the Military Orders, mercenaries and other paid troops, confraternities and crusaders - but the armies proved consistently inadequate to deal with the Muslim threat to the Latin East, The Christians, therefore, were dependent on castles and fortified towns for their survival, and it was essential that these should be adequately built, maintained and garrisoned. The Military Orders took increasing responsibility for them during the thirteenth century. Strongpoints had a number of functions, both defensive and aggressive, but lack of manpower meant that their role was often restricted. In the thesis there follows a consideration of the forms armed conflict took. Battles were not a prime factor in the decline of the Latin East, because the Franks were rarely able to raise an army to fight in the open with the Muslims. Battles therefore tended to take place during crusade expeditions, when adequate numbers were available. On some occasions - the First Crusade of Louis IX, and Theobald of Champagne's Crusade, for example - a lost battle seriously impaired a campaign. Battles should be distinguished from raids. The Muslims used raiding expeditions as an integrated part of their efforts to remove the Franks from the east. But the raid was used as an end in itself by the Franks and towards the end of this period it had become their principal means of carrying war to their enemies. Finally, there is a study of sieges. The capture of strongpoints by the Muslims, particularly in the second-half of the thirteenth century, progressively loosened the Franks' grip on the area. Sieges undertaken by the Franks often became matters of attrition, whereas when they were defending themselves, a Muslim assault often proved decisive in a short space of time. The Franks' lack of manpower was again significant.
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Maxson, Brian. "The Many Shades of Praise: Politics and Panegyrics in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Diplomacy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6187.
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Fifteenth-century diplomatic protocol required the city of Florence to send diplomats to congratulate both new and militarily victorious rulers. Diplomats on such missions poured praise on their triumphant allies and new rulers at friendly locations. However, political realities also meant that these diplomats would sometimes have to praise rulers whose accession or victory opposed Florentine interests. Moreover, different allies and enemies required different levels of praise. Jealous rulers compared the gifts, status, and oratory that they received from Florence to the Florentine entourages sent to their neighbors. Sending diplomats with too little or too much social status and eloquence could spell diplomatic disaster. Diplomats met these challenges by varying the style, structure, and content of their speeches. Far from formulaic pronouncements of goodwill, diplomatic orations varied from one speech to the next in order to meet the demands of the complex diplomatic world into which they fit. Contextualizing these orations reveals the subtle reservations of diplomats praising a hostile ruler, the insertion of specific citations to flatter specific audiences, and the changing intellectual and stylistic interests of humanists throughout the fifteenth century. This essay will examine the different shades of flattery practiced by Florentine diplomats and the contexts that explain these variations.
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Harrington, Jesse Patrick. "Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints' Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277930.
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This dissertation concerns the narrative and theological role of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Eadmer of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury), the English Cistercians (Aelred and Walter Daniel of Rievaulx, John of Forde), the cross-cultural hagiographer Jocelin of Furness, and the Irish (examining key textual clusters connected with St. Máedóc of Ferns and St. Ruadán of Lorrha, whose authors are anonymous). This material is predominantly in Latin, with the exception of the Irish material, for which some vernacular (Middle Irish) hagiographical and historical/saga material is also considered. The first four chapters (I-IV) focus discretely on these respective source-based case studies. Each is framed by a discussion of those textual clusters in terms of their given authors, provenances, audiences, patrons, agendas and outlooks, to show how the representation of cursing and vengeance operated according to the logic of the texts and their authors. The methods in each case include discerning and explaining the editorial processes at work as a basis for drawing out broader patterns in these clusters with respect to the overall theme. The fifth chapter (V) frames a more thematic and comparative discussion of the foregoing material, dealing with the more general questions of language, sources, and theological convergences compared across the four source bases. This chapter reveals in particular the common influence and creative reuse of key biblical texts, the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, and the Life of Martin of Tours. Similar discussion is made of a range of common ‘paradigms’ according to which hagiographical vengeance episodes were represented. In a normative theology in which punitive miracles, divine vengeance and ritual sanction are chiefly understood as redemptive, episodes in which vengeance episodes are fatal can be considered in terms of specific sociological imperatives placing such theology under pressure. The dissertation additionally considers the question of ‘coercive fasting’ as a subset of cursing which has been hitherto studied chiefly in terms of the Irish material, but which can also be found among the Anglo-Latin writers also. Here it is argued that both bodies of material partake in an essentially shared Christian literary and theological culture, albeit one that comes under pressure from particular local, political and sociological circumstances. Looking at material on both sides of the Irish Sea in an age of reform, the dissertation ultimately considers the commonalities and differences across diverse cultural and regional outlooks with regard to their respective understandings of vengeance and cursing.
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Malo, Roberta. "Saints' relics in medieval English literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186329116.
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Byrne, Aisling Nora. "The otherworlds of medieval insular literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610076.
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Citrome, Jeremy J. "The surgeon in medieval English literature /." New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41014151z.
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Castro, Lingl Vera. "Assertive women in medieval Spanish literature." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704745.
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Beckett, Ruth. "Medieval perspectives on Waverley." Thesis, University of York, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292507.
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Haan, Estelle. "John Milton's latin poetry : some neo-Latin and vernacular contexts." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317073.
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Thomas, Rebecca Lynne. "Perceptions of peoples in early medieval Wales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290254.
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This PhD dissertation investigates the construction of identities in the early Middle Ages, focusing on three key texts conventionally dated to the ninth and tenth centuries: Historia Brittonum, Asser's Life of King Alfred, and Armes Prydein Vawr. I examine the way these writers constructed ideas of Welsh identity in the wider context of their perception of peoples more broadly. Particular attention is paid to the texts that may have influenced the three sources, investigating, for example, Historia Brittonum's use of the works of writers such as Orosius, Jerome, and Prosper. This thesis also examines the possibility of wider trends through placing the Welsh material alongside evidence from across Europe. I compare, for example, the construction of a Trojan origin legend for the Britons in Historia Brittonum with similar accounts of the Trojan origins of the Franks. In Chapter 1 I investigate the names used for Wales and the Welsh, and suggest that, whilst these texts continued to view the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of all Britain, there is nevertheless an indication of the construction of a specifically Welsh identity, focused on the geographical unit roughly equivalent to modern-day Wales. Chapter 2 discusses the relationship between language and identity, considering the use of Welsh place- and river-names in the Life of King Alfred, and the use of English loan-words in both Historia Brittonum and Armes Prydein Vawr. Contrary to the tendency in scholarship to downplay the role of language, I argue that it is a crucial component in the construction of identity. Chapter 3 focuses on the presentation of origin legends in Historia Brittonum and Armes Prydein Vawr. I compare the origins of the Saxons as presented in the two sources to illustrate the recycling and adaptation of material to suit varying agendas, and place Historia Brittonum's origin legend of the Britons in a wider context, examining both the sources used in its construction and its relationship with the origin legends of the Franks. Chapter 4 investigates the writing of history more broadly in Historia Brittonum and Asser's Life of King Alfred, examining the adaptation of material to create a past which suited the construction of a specific group identity. Particular attention is paid to Asser's depiction of the vikings as pagans, in contrast to the Christian Anglo-Saxons. These chapters combine into a coherent whole, offering significant new insights into the construction of identities in early medieval Wales.