Books written by Albrecht Classen
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Religiöse Frauenlieder des 15.-16. Jahrhunderts
De joden unde ore frouwen de makeden einen falschen rat , se wolden de warheit schouwen , wer got wer flisk unde blot . grot wunder möge gi merken : Judas ' broder ward boden gesant , dem küster van der kerken ; wu scher ward he ...
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The Forest in Medieval German Literature: Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
See also Hansjörg Küster, Geschichte des Waldes von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart (1998). 2. For a good English translation with very useful commentaries, see Jean d'Arras, Melusine, or, The Noble History of Lusignan, edited, translated, ...
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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse
Latini divides friendships into three categories, all contingent on either material good, profit, or pleasure. However, those who love each other because they aim for profit or pleasure only, cannot be called true friends because ”they ...
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Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World: Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections
Moreover, Philosophy also points out the disconnect between Boethius's long life filled with happiness and the present miserable There are many solid entries in various theological lexica; see, for instance, A. Grillmeier, ...
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Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses
The topics covered in this volume, addressing fundamental concerns of the premodern world, deal with allegedly criminal, or simply wrong behavior which demanded punishment.
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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World: Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature
Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature Albrecht Classen. 1997); Cecilia A. Hatt, God and the Gawain-Poet: ... (13) For the Hereford Map, see now Kupfer, Art and Optics in the Hereford Map (2016).
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Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions
Visual representations on a two-dimensional map (e.g., Hereford mappamundi) and narrative imaginations, such as in Herzog Ernst and in ... See also Marcia Kupfer, Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c.
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Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity...
... purposes intelligible to a stranger, seeming like a mask of maniacs, or, oftentimes, like a pageant of phantoms. ... In fact, his opium addiction was, in all probability, the consequence of his childhood and adult experiences.1810 A ...
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Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
See also Sylvia Federico, New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages. Medieval Cultures, 36 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Bettany Hughes, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore (New York: A. Knopf, ...
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Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends
The housewares and furnishings that we know most about belonged to the merchant and noble classes and date to between the 13th and 15th centuries, when population growth, economic stability, expanded trade, and urbanization led to the ...
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Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic
Moreover, the amalgamation of picture and text (NeoLatin, German, French and/or Dutch) found in many prints provides ... 167-200; David Landau and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print 1470-1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
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Eros und Logos: Literarische Formen des sinnlichen Begehrens in der (deutschsprachigen) Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Anja Elisabeth Schoene, „Ach, wäre fern was ich liebe!“. Studien zur Inzestthematik in der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende (von Ibsen bis Musil), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997. Bibliographie ...
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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Communication and Miscommunication in the Premodern World
Eric Hobsbawm's and Terence Ranger's critical study The Invention of Tradition explores this phenomenon well.65 One chapter by Hugh Trevor-Roper, which illustrates how the Scottish Celtic tradition was constructed by Walter Scott and ...
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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures: New Approaches to German and European Women Writers...
In those cases we easily detect unmitigated misogyny, unmistakable reification of woman as a sexual object, and even woman's demonization because of her alleged nymphomanic weakness.89 The other tendency pertains to the world of ...
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Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
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Early History of the Southwest Through the Eyes of German-speaking Jesuit Missionaries: A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century
Ignaz, Pfefferkorn, Beschreibung der Landschaft Sonora, 1794/1795. Reprint, ed. and with an introduction by Ingo ... Richard Stephen Felger, Matthew Brian Johnson, and Michael Francis Wilson, The Trees of Sonora, Mexico, 2001, 177.
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The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1" that was published in Humanities
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Handbook of Medieval Culture
A sizeable corpus of work has been undertaken on the styles of dress that were popular during the Middle Ages. ... Most focused is Stella Mary Newton's Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340–1365 (Newton 1980) ...
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Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme
New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme Albrecht Classen ... epistemological strategy by way of integrating references to human sexuality and the possibility of a total gender reversal.
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Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-historical Investigation of the Dark Side in...
... Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture. Gender in the Middle Ages, 16 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2020). See also the contributions to Verräter: Geschichte eines Deutungsmusters, ...