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Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature
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ISBN: 9780888442369
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Otherworld women feature in a number of medieval Irish tales. They are not always powerful figures, and their struggles often mirror those of mortal women; authors apparently found them useful for exploring social tensions and issues of contemporary concern. This volume analyzes female figures as literary characters, rather than as mythological beings, focusing on their expression of emotions and the repercussions for the societies depicted in the narratives. Drawing on gender analysis, speech act theory, narratology, disability theory, and trauma theory, and incorporating recent work on emotions in medieval literature, this study probes the representation of both mortal and Otherworld women as active and desiring subjects and the responses that their words and actions might have generated in their medieval audiences.
The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ
Volume 2: 1588-1597
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ISBN: 9780888442352
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This book is the second volume of a projected 3-volume edition which aims to contribute to our understanding of Robert Persons's significance as a controversial figure in early modern European history. It includes documents and letters by Persons, as well as letters to Persons, notably from the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Claudio Acquaviva. Letters in Latin, Italian and Spanish are presented both in the original language and spelling and with English translation, and letters in English in original spelling. All letters have been collated with the extant manuscript witnesses. The correspondence in this volume covers Persons's sojourn in Spain, the repercussions of the death of William Cardinal Allen, and Persons's return to Rome.
New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies
Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues
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ISBN: 9780888442338
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This book sheds new light on the Latin background of various Old English homilies, and of certain homilies from related vernacular traditions. Two broad themes are treated, the Nativity of Christ and Christian eschatology; the volume contains five Latin texts dealing with each theme. Critical editions, full English translations, and detailed introductions and commentaries are included, as well as case studies that demonstrate the relevance of each text to one or more homilies written in Old English, and, in a few cases, early Middle English and Old Norse. While the volume is intended for scholars of early English preaching, many of the texts hold considerable intrinsic interest and should have general appeal for medievalists, students of preaching, and those working on the transmission of biblical apocrypha in the Latin West.
Henry Constable: The Complete Poems
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ISBN: 9780888442321
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Elizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, was long dismissed as a minor poet, a Catholic traitor, or both, but his writings reveal unresolved tensions between the public and the private, hope and disillusion, the secular and the religious. This book offers a new comprehensive critical edition of Constable's sonnets. Along with an updated biography and a study of the sonnet collections, the introduction provides an authoritative revision of the canon of Constable's poetry and an overview of its critical reception.
Hebraism in Sixteenth-Century England
Robert and Thomas Wakefield
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ISBN: 9780888442314
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Robert Wakefield and his brother Thomas were pioneers in the study and teaching of Hebrew in early modern England. Robert was trained at Cambridge, acquired expertise in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic, and obtained professorial status in Louvain, Cambridge, and Oxford. Thomas took possession of his brother's books and manuscripts upon his death; he enjoyed long tenure as praelector in Hebrew at Cambridge and was a compulsive annotator of his books. This volume draws together the political, linguistic, and bibliographical materials that shaped the careers of these two scholars, revising previous claims and producing a compelling analysis of Hebrew learning in sixteenth-century England.
Learning Hebrew in Medieval England
Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar
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ISBN: 9780888442307
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Scholars in England in the Middle Ages understood the value of studying languages and their grammar, and the Hebrew language was theologically relevant and ideologically potent. Because it was difficult to procure Hebrew bibles, dictionaries and grammar manuals, some Christian scholars created their own manuals and textbooks with the help of Jewish teachers. This volume presents an edition, facsimile, and analysis of one such learning tool, a succinct Hebrew grammar written in Hebrew, Latin, and Anglo-Norman French in England in the thirteenth century.
Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature
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ISBN: 9780888442291
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This volume is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. It analyzes the affective, exemplary, and cognitive modes of consolation that mark the poet's works; but it also underlines the critical dialogue with the ancient and medieval traditions Boccaccio inherits. The limits of Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation are laid bare as Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages.
Gold in the Sanctuary
Reassessing Notker of St Gall's Liber Ymnorum
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ISBN: 9780888442284
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The ninth-century monk and poet Notker of St Gall played a seminal role in the history of the sequence, a distinctly medieval poetic genre of liturgical chant, through his Liber Ymnorum. Notker harkens back beyond the classical Latin and Greek tradition, drawing on Hebrew models; his texts combine theological complexity with poetic invention of extraordinary reach. Despite the opposition his innovations provoked in traditionalist circles, Notker's sequences were widely adopted. Promotion by the monastery of St Gall and posthumous idealization of the poet ensured the Liber Ymnorum would become a prototypical model for a wide array of imitations in the genre until the late sixteenth century.
Oltre la mer salee
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals pour l'etude des epopees romanes, Toronto, 13-17 August 2018
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ISBN: 9780888442277
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Oltre la mer salee collects revised versions of twenty-eight papers originally presented during the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals pour l'etude des epopees romanes. It includes studies by an international group of specialists in medieval vernacular epic, divided among four major themes: family relations, manuscripts, French epic in England, and travel and exchanges. Their work covers a variety of Old French and Old Occitan epics, as well as adaptations and related texts in Italian, Castilian, Brasilian Portuguese, English, and Greek. It also includes reflections on the interactions between Romance epic, the Latin language, and even the fine arts. This volume convincingly demonstrates one of the key elements of the enduring appeal of medieval Romance epic: its astonishingly international quality, both in the Middle Ages and today.
Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse
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ISBN: 9780888442260
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This volume offers a novel paradigm for explaining late-medieval Anglo-Latin poetry, showing how the verse of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), the pre-eminent Latin poet of the Age of Chaucer, developed over the decades from 1370 to 1400. In addition to writing poetry in and translating amongst English, French, and Latin, Gower invented a plain style for Latin "public poetry" that was emulated by other Anglo-Latin poets. However, at the end of his career he rejected his own Latin-verse invention to take up the late scholastic style at the moment of its decadence.
Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
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ISBN: 9780888444295
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism.
The Early Glossed Ecclesiastes
A Critical Edition with Introduction
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ISBN: 9780888442246
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Glossa ordinaria was the main exegetical instrument by which the Bible was taught and studied during the Middle Ages, a resource whose influence began in the early twelfth century and remained...
The Birth of the Author
Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century
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ISBN: 9780888442253
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Birth of the Author argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, that at times...
Beyond Words
New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections
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ISBN: 9780888442215
Pub Date: April 2021
In the fall of 2016 an international scholarly conference accompanied the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. The speakers were chosen because of their...
In This Land
Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence
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ISBN: 9780888442239
Pub Date: January 2021
In This Land reveals the changes that Jewish communities across the county of Provence underwent during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and the social and cultural tensions that...
Heretics, Schismatics, or Catholics?
Latin Attitudes to the Greeks in the Long Twelfth Century
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ISBN: 9780888442161
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The political division of the Roman world into Western and Eastern Roman Empires at the end of the fourth century spurred the divergence of the Latinised Western and the Hellenised Eastern halves....
Bound and Free
Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature
CA$90.00
ISBN: 9780888442369
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ
Volume 2: 1588-1597
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780888442352
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies
Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues
CA$115.00
ISBN: 9780888442338
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Henry Constable: The Complete Poems
CA$115.00
ISBN: 9780888442321
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Hebraism in Sixteenth-Century England
Robert and Thomas Wakefield
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442314
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Learning Hebrew in Medieval England
Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442307
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature
CA$90.00
ISBN: 9780888442291
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Gold in the Sanctuary
Reassessing Notker of St Gall's Liber Ymnorum
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442284
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Oltre la mer salee
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals pour l'etude des epopees romanes, Toronto, 13-17 August 2018
CA$100.00
ISBN: 9780888442277
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442260
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
CA$37.50
ISBN: 9780888444295
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Early Glossed Ecclesiastes
A Critical Edition with Introduction
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442246
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Birth of the Author
Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century
CA$100.00
ISBN: 9780888442253
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Beyond Words
New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780888442215
Pub Date: April 2021
In This Land
Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence
CA$90.00
ISBN: 9780888442239
Pub Date: January 2021
Heretics, Schismatics, or Catholics?
Latin Attitudes to the Greeks in the Long Twelfth Century
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780888442161
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies