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Rose, Patricia Elizabeth. "The Role of medieval and matristic romance literature in spiritual feminism /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16284.pdf.

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Marzano, Stefania, and Marcus Tullius Cicero. "Edition critique du Livre de vieillesse de Laurent de Premierfait (1405)." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79795.

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The Livre de vieillesse pertains to the field of study concerning late medieval Humanism, where the first royal patronage of translations from ancient Latin texts proved to be of enormous consequence for the French language, and especially for the formation of its vocabulary.<br>Our critical edition of the Livre de vieillesse presents the text of the first French translation of Cicero's De senectute , completed in 1405 by Laurent de Premierfait and dedicated to the Duke Louis de Bourbon. This text is unpublished.<br>We possess the bilingual copy of the translation, which constitutes a privileg

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Aresu, Francesco Marco. "The Author as Scribe. Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467386.

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In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between the material aspects of an editorial artifact and their literary implications for the texts it contains. I show how the interpretation of a text needs to be accompanied by an inquiry into the material conditions of its production, circulation and reception. This study is intended as both an investigation of the material foundations of institutions of literary study and a reflection on some often neglected sides of contemporary theorizations concerning textuality, writing, and media. My purpose is to show a paradigmatic example of the basic

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Arduini, Beatrice. "Il Convivio da progetto incompiuto a icona editoriale /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3315918.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French and Italian, 2008.<br>Title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: A, page: 2707. Adviser: Harry W. Storey.

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Richmond, Andrew Murray. "Reading Landscapes in Medieval British Romance." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1428671857.

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Ramirez-Nieves, Emmanuel. "Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467380.

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Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma, investigates the significance of conversion narratives and penitential elements in the Spanish picaresque novels Vida de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) by Mateo Alemán and El guitón Onofre (circa 1606) by Gregorio González as well as Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor (1330 and 1343) and El lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the Arabic maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (circa 1100), and Ibn al-Ashtarkūwī al-Saraqusṭī (1126-1138), and the Hebrew maqāmāt of Yehudah al-Ḥarizi (circa 1220) and Isaac Ibn Sahula (1281

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Atlee, Carl W. "Poetry and politics: A literary biography of GomezManrique (c.1415-1490)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280139.

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Relatively little is known of Gomez Manrique (c. 1415-1490), warrior, statesman and author of a significant corpus of cancionero poetry. His poetic and dramatic works were first published by Antonio Paz y Melia, Cancionero de Gomez Manrique (1885-6) in an edition that is at variance with current established norms and includes only a brief, thirty-two-page biography. In the 116 years since Paz y Melia's study, a significant amount of new historical material has been published on fifteenth-century Spain, much of which bears directly on the life and times of Gomez Manrique. Despite Manfque's clo

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Breuer, Heidi Jo. "Crafting the witch: Gendering magic in medieval and early modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280400.

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This project documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic becomes a primarily feminine activity, one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. The prophet becomes the wicked witch. This dissertation explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation. Chapter Two surveys representations of magic in the texts of four author

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Cole, Chera A. "'Fairy' in Middle English romance." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6388.

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This thesis, ‘Fairy in Middle English romance', aims to contribute to the recent resurgence of interest in the literary medieval supernatural by studying the concept of ‘fairy' as it is presented in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English romances. This thesis is particularly interested in how the use of ‘fairy' in Middle English romances serves as an arena in which to play out ‘thought-experiments' that test anxieties about faith, gender, power, and death. The first chapter considers the concept of fairy in its medieval Christian context by using the romance Melusine as a case study

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Ward, Scott. "Historiography, prophecy, and literature "Divina retribucion" and its underlying ideological agenda /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378391.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3848. Advisers: Consuelo Lopez-Morillas; Juan Carlos Conde.

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Reeve, Daniel James. "Romance and the literature of religious instruction, c.1170-c.1330." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00ff0d43-6ace-49e2-a80f-cf5b6c9553fc.

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This thesis investigates the relations between romance and texts of religious instruction in England between c.1170–c.1330, taking as its principal textual corpus the exceptionally rich literary traditions of insular French romance and religious writing that subsist during this period. It argues that romance is a mode which engages closely with religious and ethical questions from a very early stage, and demonstrates the discourses of opposition in which both kinds of text participate throughout the period. The thesis offers substantial readings of a number of neglected insular French religiou

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Chuffe, Eliud. "Teatro breve - carcajada grande: Un estudio del "Entremes de Melisendra"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280596.

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This dissertation presents a critical edition of the Entremes de Melisendra. This entremes has been attributed to two talented writers of the Golden Age theater: Lope de Vega Carpio and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The first part of this work is an introduction to the important role that the entremes , as a sub-genre, played during the period. The work then provides a structural analysis of the Entremes in detail, including versification and vocabulary. Bakhtin's fundamental work on carnaval, complemented by that of other critics, provides the framework for the analysis of the bawdy, at time

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Ewoldt, Amanda M. "Conversion and Crusade| The Image of the Saracen in Middle English Romance." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10813454.

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<p>Abstract This dissertation is a project that examines the way Middle English romances explore and build a sense of national English/Christian identity, both in opposition to and in incorporation of the Saracen Other. The major primary texts used in this project are Richard Coer de Lion, Firumbras, Bevis of Hampton, The King of Tars, and Thomas Malory?s Morte Darthur. I examine the way crusade romances grapple with the threat of the Middle East and the contention over the Holy Land and treat these romances, in part, as medieval meditations on how the Holy Land (lost during a string of failed

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Leverett, Emily Lavin. "Holy bloodshed violence and Christian piety in the romances of the London Thornton manuscript /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164741527.

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Brown, Christopher E. "Writing Time: Dante, Petrarch, and Temporality." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845461.

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Trecento Italy, the century of Dante and Petrarch as well as the mechanical clock, represented a pivotal moment of innovation to formal measures of time. These creative expressions reflected transforming notions of ingenuity, and of man’s ability to shape the world and time in which he lived. While the mythic awakening of the self-conscious individual in Renaissance Italy has been largely demystified, criticism has tended to overlook the concurrent shifts to the Trecento temporal imagination, born of parallel practices that sought to recover cosmogonic secrets, and thus power over time. An int

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Leanos, Jaime. "El Papa y la Princesa: Eneas Silvio Piccolomini e Isabel La Catolica en la evolucion de la literatura sentimental espanola durante el siglo XV." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280193.

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La intencion de esta disertacion titulada, "El Papa y la Princesa: Eneas Silvio Piccolomini e Isabel La Catolica en la evolucion de la literatura sentimental espanola durante el siglo XV," es ofrecer una nueva interpretacion en cuanto al genesis del genero sentimental. Varios eruditos han tratado de redefinir el genero pero han fallado en poner enfasis en la importancia que tuvo la obra de Piccolomini, Historia de duobus amantibus (1444), para el desarrollo del novel genero en Espana que comienza con la obra de Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Siervo libre de amor, composicion que segun mis investig

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Pollack, Tamara. "Light and mirror in Dante's "Paradiso" faith and contemplation in the lunar Heaven and the primo mobile /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319889.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French and Italian Studies, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 13, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3145. Adviser: H. Wayne Storey.

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Goyette, Stefanie Anne. "Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10646.

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This dissertation examines representations of the body in the Old French fabliaux in order to elucidate these stories’ philosophy (or philosophies) of language and their relationship to religious, medical, and dietetic cultures. An exploration of contemporary discourses referenced in the fabliaux – moral discourses around sex and food, medical and dietetic theories concerning food and animals, and rituals and rites surrounding the living and dying body – demonstrates how these elements shape narrative structure, characters, key objects, and décor. The fabliaux exhibit bodies founded by and coe

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Knauss, Jessica Kay. "Alfonsine legislation and the "Cantigas de Santa Maria"." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318342.

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Amaral, Flávia Aparecida. "Romance de Melusina: linhagem, penitência e poder." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-21112007-142629/.

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No ano de 1392, João d\'Arras começa a escrever um romance a pedido de um poderoso príncipe francês e conhecido mecenas da época: o duque João de Berry. Essa obra descreve a fundação de uma fortaleza e conta as aventuras da linhagem que lá se originou: os Lusignan. No entanto, aquela não era uma história de pessoas comuns. Os Lusignan eram descendentes da fada Melusina que todos os sábados se transformava em serpente da cintura para baixo. Mas Romance de Melusina ou a História dos Lusignan não deve ser interpretado tendo em vista apenas o aspecto surpreendente da história narrada. O interesse

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Shaw, Angela Mary. "The form and function of the Merveilleux in the old French prose Lancelot." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369977.

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Brown, Goodwin. "The Search for Self: Individuation and the Alchemical Process in the Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997379263.

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Worth, Brenda Itzel Liliana. "'Exile-and-return' in medieval vernacular texts of England and Spain 1170-1250." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a736407a-4f69-46f2-98bb-992b1fb669eb.

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The motif of 'exile-and-return' is found in works from a wide range of periods and linguistic traditions. The standard narrative pattern depicts the return of wrongfully exiled heroes or peoples to their former abode or their establishment of a superior home, which signals a restoration of order. The appeal of the pattern lies in its association with undue loss, rightful recovery and the universal vindication of the protagonist. Though by no means confined to any one period or region, the particular narrative pattern of the exile-and-return motif is prevalent in vernacular texts of England and

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Mattord, Carola Louise. "Lay Writers and the Politics of Theology in Medieval England From the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/44.

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This dissertation is a critical analysis of identity in literature within the historical context of the theopolitical climate in England between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. The narratives under consideration are the Lais of Marie de France, The Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. A focus on the business of theology and the Church’s political influence on identity will highlight these lay writers’ artistic shaping of theopolitical ideas into literature. Conducting a literary analysis on the application of theopolitical ideas by these lay writers encourages movement beyond

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Nettles, Isolde Betty. "Mamluk cavalry practices: Evolution and influence." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289748.

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Mamluk equestrian expertise in Egypt and Syria from mid-thirteenth to early sixteenth century reflects skills derived from a variety of sources incorporated artfully into their military institution, and which exerted influence beyond the period and the region with which it is directly concerned. With a thorough examination of its various vocations including Furusiyah and equestrian-related activities, a reconstruction of the Mamluk military society leads to the inescapable conclusion that the mounted military sector was absolutely essential to the operation and defense of the State. Maintaini

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Dolmans, Emily. "Regional identities and cultural contact in the literatures of post-conquest England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a791675-9c4e-422b-ba8e-34d3d2eda0e9.

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This thesis explores the geographic complexity of English identity in the High Middle Ages by examining texts that reflect moments and spaces of cultural contact. While interaction with a cultural Other is often thought to reinforce national identity, I challenge this notion, positing instead that, in the texts analysed here, cultural meetings prompt the formation or consolidation of regional identities. These identities are often simultaneously local and cross-cultural, inclusive but based in community ties and a shared sense of place. Each of the four chapters examines a different kind of re

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Blake, Thomas Hughes Jr. "Royal materials: the object of queens in Late Medieval English romance." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5717.

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As historicist as it is materialist, my dissertation both reads the fictional queens portrayed in romance against the fraught positioning of historical queens such as Isabella of France, Anne of Bohemia and Margaret of Anjou, and traces the ambivalent function in late medieval English society of objects including the sacring-bell, the Lollard bible and the royal sword. Merging the traditionally historicist field queenship studies with typically postmodern fields like thing theory and sound theory, I investigate how queens in late medieval romances coopt, queer and reconfigure material objects

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Parker, Eleanor Catherine. "Anglo-Scandinavian literature and the post-conquest period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:18aa9912-85f6-4cba-b4d6-4f8f7453402f.

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This thesis concerns narratives about Anglo-Scandinavian contact and literary traditions of Scandinavian origin which circulated in England in the post-conquest period. The argument of the thesis is that in the eleventh century, particularly during the reign of Cnut and his sons, literature was produced for a mixed Anglo-Danish audience which drew on shared cultural traditions, and that some elements of this largely oral literature can be traced in later English sources. It is further argued that in certain parts of England, especially the East Midlands, an interest in Anglo-Scandinavian hist

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Ardrey, Caroline Anne. "Stéphane Mallarmé : mode de creation/creation de mode : fashion, process and La Dernière Mode." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ec202910-62e3-4a9e-91f8-d9c0de74c7b5.

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This thesis examines the eight issues of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1874 fashion magazine, La Dernière Mode, focussing on ideas of process. On the one hand, it views La Dernière Mode as a vital phase in the evolution of Mallarmé's aesthetic and, on the other, it sees the discourse of fashion itself as being in a continual state of trial and re-definition. The thesis begins with a citation from Mallarmé's 1886 article, 'Mimique'; this passage showcases the complex relationship between the interpenetrating themes of Time, Drama and Fiction, which form the three main chapter headings. Taking a the

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Robertson, Abigail G. "The Mechanics of Courtly and the Mechanization of Woman in Medieval Anglo-Norman Romance." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1415804460.

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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 natu

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Binkley, Maddison R. "Beyond the Beheading Game: Gender Fluidity and its Functions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1544716765807434.

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Hayes, Lydia Helen. "Looking beyond Guinevere : depictions of women in Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances, the cult of saints, and religious texts of the twelfth century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12100.

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This thesis provides a reading of Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances that reflects the cultural and intellectual context of twelfth-century Christianity. The impact of this context on Chrétien's romances is examined by identifying the influence that contemporaneous biblical expository texts, hagiography, and the material culture of the cult of saints had upon his work. Although scholars have devoted much attention to the study of Chrétien's romances, and some have examined the potential influences of various medieval Christian beliefs, practices, and symbols on his work, none have yet to p

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Patel, Rena. ""The Double Sorwe of Troilus": Experimentation of the Chivalric and Tragic Genres in Chaucer and Shakespeare." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1281.

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The tumulus tale of Troilus and his lover Cressida has left readers intrigued in renditions written by both Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare due to their subversive nature of the authors’ chosen generic forms. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde challenges the expectations and limitations of the narrative of the chivalric romance. Shakespeare took the story and turned Troilus and Cressida into one of his famous “problem plays” by challenging his audience’s expectations of the tragic genre. I endeavor to draw attention to the ways in which both Chaucer and Shakespeare use the conventions of

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Passamani, Elise Gabrielle. "Empathy and narcissism in the work of Molière." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00424b4d-ee60-439d-b136-4eb856c3a5fe.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the comic art of Molière through the lens of empathy and narcissism, and reciprocally, to show that Molière nourishes Western thought about these phenomena, which can be viewed as opposite ends of a continuum. Every personality has some of each, but the unbalanced egoist has excessive self-love and cannot put himself in another's place. The narcissist is omnipresent in Molière's theatre, but has been heretofore unidentified as such in criticism. This work attempts to fill this gap, and accordingly, my corpus encompasses his 33 extant plays. Furthermore,

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Souleau, Pauline. "Writing (hi)story : Gascony in Jean Froissart's chroniques." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:42e4a888-0d08-486b-bf0d-1d67713f89e5.

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Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, composed of four Books, relate the first stages of the Anglo-French conflict later known as the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453). This thesis explores Froissart’s textual journey(s) to Gascon lands (south-west of modern-day France) and history/stories. Relying on Gérard Genette’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s narrative theories, it uses literary and narratological tools to analyse three passages from Book I and III concerned with Gascony: the Earl of Derby’s Gascon campaigns (Chapter 1); the Black Prince’s Gascon campaigns and the principality of Aquitaine (Chapter 2); Frois

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Goodman, Jessica Mary. "La gloire et le malentendu : Goldoni and the Comédie-Italienne, 1760-93." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ec5ab3e3-812e-49f7-92e6-b1eea488cad5.

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Eighteenth-century Paris was the cultural capital of Europe and home to a vibrant network of theatres, not all of which are equally present in modern scholarship. The Comédie-Italienne in particular has frequently been downplayed in historical accounts, and there is no existing work outlining its relationship with its authors. This thesis aims to address this gap through a case study of the Italian author Carlo Goldoni, who began work for the Comédie-Italienne in 1762. His thirty years in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career: the preface to his autobiography draws attention to France as

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Weavil, Victoria. "Community, women and selfhood in the writings of Michel Leiris and Carlo Emilio Gadda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd528880-e440-47c7-bc14-ec07c77948a0.

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This study sets out to uncover the thus far unexplored affinities between the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda and Michel Leiris, two key figures of twentieth-century literature whose place within the broader European literary panorama has been largely overlooked. Through an inquiry into three interconnected areas – the question of 'community'; the relationship between male self and female other; and writing as a space in which a fractured experience of subjectivity is both played out and exposed – I argue that their works are underpinned by a parallel tension, between a nostalgia for a lost experi

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Applauso, Nicolino. "Curses and laughter: The ethics of political invective in the comic poetry of high and late medieval Italy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10874.

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xiv, 479 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>My dissertation examines the ethical engagement of political invective poetry in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Modern criticism tends to treat medieval invective as a playfully subversive but marginal poetic game with minimal ethical weight. Instead, I aim to restore these poetic productions to their original context: the history, law, and custom of Tuscan cities. This contexts allows me to explore how humor and fury, in

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Boharski, Morgan Elizabeth. "Woven words : clothwork and the representation of feminine expression and identity in old French romance." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31450.

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This thesis focuses on the ways in which cloth and clothwork are represented in Old French romance in order to highlight how they relate to feminine voice, expression, and identity. By focusing mainly on medieval romance from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the field of research is narrowed to a period in which vernacular literature was redefining literacy. On the basis that literacy is not confined to the ability to read and write in Latin, clothwork is presented as a medium of literate expression, that being a form of readable knowledge or communication not codified in written word or

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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 sai

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Lalor, Doireann P. "Italian postwar experimentalism in the wake of English-language modernism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:238508c2-eb42-460a-b8c1-a01d58f15630.

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After World War II in Italy the cultural scene was in need of resuscitation. Artists searched for tools with which to revifify their works. Central to this, for many key figures in the fifties and sixties, was an engagement with English-language Modernism. This phenomenon has been widely recognised, but this thesis is its first sustained analysis. I draw together the receptions of three English-language Modernist authors – T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce – who, as a triad, were instrumental in the radicalisation of the arts in Italy in the fifties and sixties. I show that their works w

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Pellissa, Prades Gemma. "La ficció sentimental catalana de la segona meitat del s. XV." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/132580.

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A la segona meitat del s. XV s'escriuen una sèrie d'obres que comparteixen els mateixos motius i recursos retòrics en el tractament de l'amor (teorització sobre la passió, descripció de les causes i els efectes de l'amor, narració en primera persona, ús de l'al•legoria i l'epístola, combinació del vers i la prosa, imatgeria sentimental). No es tracta del naixement d'un gènere nou, sinó del moment de consolidació d'una moda literària que la crítica castellana ha anomenat «ficció sentimental». Aquest és el primer panorama que s'escriu sobre el fenomen en la literatura catalana. Per fer-ho, s'ha

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Hendrickson, D. Scott. "Golden Age Jesuit : Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the rhetoric of discernment in seventeenth-century Spain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:484fe9c8-8ece-4c9d-b5e7-79523560656c.

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This thesis examines the Jesuit and Ignatian influence on the works of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), who was a prolific and widely published author and a member of the Society of Jesus in Spain. He wrote several works across different literary genres both in Spanish and Latin, but was best known for his popular works in Spanish: two miscellanies of natural philosophy, Curiosa filosofía (1630) and Oculta filosofía (1633); a catechism, the Práctica del catecismo romano (1640); his ascetical treatises, especially De la diferencia entre lo temporal y eterno (1640); and his ‘advice-books’ to

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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

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Barnard, Laura. "Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27890.

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By investigating three texts, namely Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, Geoffrey Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale", and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the body as a category on which to base nobility. Although my texts emerge from different social and historical circumstances, the clothing they depict represents similar social transactions of class, gender and honour in the courtly space: ladies are made suitable for marriage through dresses,

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Bardzell, Shaowen. "Hospitality and gift exchange reciprocity and its roles in two medieval romance narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162224.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2004.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0170. Chair: Rosemarie McGerr. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).

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Eddy, Nicole. "Marginal annotation in medieval romance manuscripts| Understanding the contemporary reception of the genre." University of Notre Dame, 2013.

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Brook, Madeleine E. "Popular history and fiction : the myth of August the Strong in German literature, art, and media." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cb7df46e-ab52-4f27-a084-41d7fab5b54e.

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This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The image August created

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Camps, Jean-Baptiste. "La Chanson d’Otinel. Édition complète du corpus manuscrit et prolégomènes à l’édition critique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040173.

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Se rattachant à la geste du roi, la Chanson d'Otinel n'avait pas été rééditée depuis le travail pionnier de F. Guessard et H. Michelant en 1858. Partant des objets tangibles que sont les manuscrits pour aller vers l'étude de la tradition et de l'œuvre, ce travail se propose de réexaminer l'ensemble des données disponibles, en vue de permettre la restauration d'une œuvre qui a connu une diffusion importante dans l'Europe médiévale, mais que nous ne conservons qu'en l'état de vestiges épars. La thèse prend un parti résolument méthodologique, en cherchant à faire bénéficier l'édition des progrès

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