"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains new and impeccable scholarship in beautifully written and structured essays." Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range...
"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains new and impeccable ...
"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains new and impeccable scholarship in beautifully written and structured essays." Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range...
"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains new and impeccable ...
By enabling the spiritual or ineffable to register as visible and palpable, ceremonies perform the essential cultural work of ensuring continuity of belief and practice across generations. In the process, each ceremony becomes a visual drama with highly scripted acts, movements, and rhythms. Unlike anthropologists in the field, scholars of the medieval and early modern world cannot witness ceremonies--the processions, dramas, rituals, and liturgies--and their choreography, or how they engaged with time and space. Denied the possibility of personal observation, how are historians to understand...
By enabling the spiritual or ineffable to register as visible and palpable, ceremonies perform the essential cultural work of ensuring continuity of b...
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings ofBeowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldson's presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript. "Criticism" collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations ofBeowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe. A Glossary of...
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings ofBeowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on t...
How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives.
Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and...
How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? ...
With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philology to literary criticism, the essays represent a variety of perspectives in Old and Middle English scholarship. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a worthy tribute to one of the outstanding figures in Old English scholarship in...
With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of ...
Among the most dangerous mountains in the world, Mount Washington has challenged adventurers for centuries with its severe weather. From the days when gentlefolk ascended the heights in hoop skirts and wool suits to today's high-tech assaults on wintry summits, this book offers extensive and intimate profiles of people who found trouble on New Hampshire's Presidential Range, from the nineteenth century through present day. Veteran journalist Nicholas Howe draws on his investigative skills and familiarity with the mountains of his childhood to create this gripping collection. The result is a...
Among the most dangerous mountains in the world, Mount Washington has challenged adventurers for centuries with its severe weather. From the days when...
