Miscellany : Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 34 : Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / edited by Paul Maurice Clogan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clogan, Paul Maurice.

Series:

Medievalia et humanistica ; new ser., no. 34.

Medievalia et humanistica, 0076-6127 ; new ser., no. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Renaissance.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science,

Contents:

Contents; Editorial Note; Articles for Future Volumes; Preface; Boethius and the Consolation of the Quadrivium; Language, Power, and Holiness in Cynewulf's Elene; A Precarious Quest for Salvation: The Theophilus Legend in Text and Image; Shielded Subjects and Dreams of Permeability: Fashioning Scudamour in The Faerie Queen; Erotic Symbolism, Laughter, and Hermeneutics at Work in Late-Medieval mæren: The Case of Das Häslein; The Romance Epic Hero, the Mercenary, and the Ottoman Turk Seen through the Lens of Valentin et Orson (1489); Schoolmasters, Seduction, and Slavery: Polyglot Dictionaries in Pre-Modern England; Review Notices; Books Received

Notes:

"Studies in medieval and Renaissance culture."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-49664-6

9786612496646

0-7425-6488-6

OCLC:

781274547