Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures : New Essays / edited by L. Besserman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besserman, Lawrence L., 1945-

Series:

The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Classical literature.

Literature, Ancient.

Medieval Literature.

History of Medieval Europe.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Literary Theory.

Classical and Antique Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Medieval Literature.

History of Medieval Europe.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Literary Theory.

Classical and Antique Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Issues and Approaches

Part I Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama

1 The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours)

2 "Quid Hinieldus Cum Christo?": The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics

3 Reading Radical Metonymy in Pearl

4 Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage

5 Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice

Part II Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State

6 The Communal Body, the Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform

7 Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations

8 Secular and Sacred: The History of Rhetoric and Religious Community in the Middle Ages

9 Sacred Authority and Secular Power: The Historical Argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis

10 The Space of the Altar

Notes

Index

A

B

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D

E

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G

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I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

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Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363642

9781281363640

1281363642

9781403977274

1403977275

OCLC:

560279863