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Movie Review: Dangerous Beauty

Medievalists.net — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:38:20 +0000

Late 16th century Venice, where a woman can be a nun, a wife or a courtesan. For Veronica Franco, the free spirited girl scorned by because of her lack of wealth, the choice is an obvious one...

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Poems by a Viking

Medievalists.net — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:25:03 +0000

What was a poem by a Viking like? In his new book, Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw, Ian Crockatt has translated dozens of poems of one of the most famous poets from the Norse world.

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Roses are Red, Violets are Beowulf

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:12:39 +0000

Let’s take five minutes to look at medieval alliterative poetry, using some of the most famous poems of the period.

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The Anglo-Saxon War-Culture and The Lord of the Rings: Legacy and Reappraisal

Medievalists.net — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:56:08 +0000

The literature of war in English claims its origin from the Homeric epics, and the medieval accounts of chivalry and the crusades.

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Intersex in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:25:46 +0000

A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.

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The Morality of Misogyny: The Case of Rustico Filippi, Vituperator of Women

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:32:42 +0000

At the outset of his influential study on Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin makes an interesting observation. The scholar dedicates several pages to detail how the French author’s critical reception changed over time. Bakhtin illustrates how the attempt to comprehend an author can frequently be stymied by the cultural changes that occur across the centuries.

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‘Falseness Reigns in Every Flock’: Literacy and Eschatological Discourse in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:27:15 +0000

The literature of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, a miscellany of fourteenth-century poetry and prose penned before, during, and after the insurrection, often stresses the importance of literacy to the nonaristocratic population of England.

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Hearing, smelling, savoring, and touching in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:13 +0000

Chaucer's scholar's have long recognized the poet's keen sense of observation and have commented upon the poet’s ability to transfer his visual images to his writing.

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Late Medieval Knight Reflecting on his Public Life: Hugo de Urriés (c. 1405-c. 1493), Diplomacy and Translating the Classics

Medievalists.net — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:05:37 +0000

This article focuses on Aragonese courtier Hugo de Urriés's public profile by means of analyzing the critical points derived from examining his personal, political, cultural and historical stands making use of an invaluable primary source, his letter to Fernando the Catholic in the early 1490s.

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The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant

Medievalists.net — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:43:36 +0000

This article examines the influence of the conflicting dis- courses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, vernacular theologian and Beguine leader

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