Search Results - "Self"

The suffering self pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / by Perkins, Judith, 1944-

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The performance of self ritual, clothing, and identity during the Hundred Years War / by Crane, Susan

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Religion and the self in antiquity

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Citizen and self in ancient Greece individuals performing justice and the law / by Farenga, Vincent, 1947-

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Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / by Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965-

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The masculine self in late medieval England by Neal, Derek G.

Table of Contents: “…False thieves and true men -- Husbands and priests -- Sex and gender : the meanings of the male body -- Toward the private self : desire, masculinity, and middle English romance.…”
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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /

Table of Contents: “…Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours /…”
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Symbolic Caxton literary culture and print capitalism / by Kuskin, William

Table of Contents: “…Affixing value : the bibliography of material culture -- Reading Caxton : capital and the alchemical logic of the press -- Chaucerian inheritances : the transformation of Lancastrian literary culture into the English canon -- Uninhabitable Chaucer : patronage and the commerce in the self -- Caxton's Worthies series : fifteenth-century imagined communities -- Vernacular humanism : fifteenth-century self-fashioning and the state-crowned laureates.…”
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Becoming Achilles child-sacrifice, war, and misrule in the Iliad and beyond / by Holway, Richard, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The quarrel -- Heroic psychology -- Mythobiographies -- Catharsis and denial -- Fathers and sons -- Mothers and sons -- Departures from maternal agendas -- Self in crisis.…”
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Making transcendents ascetics and social memory in early medieval China / by Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Bringing transcendents down to earth -- The transcendent's cultural repertoire -- Deeper repertoire analysis: "avoiding grains" -- Secret arts, manifest wonders -- Verbal self-presentation and audience response -- Adepts and their communities -- Adepts, their families, and the imperium -- Hagiographic persuasions.…”
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Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe : Are you still my brother?' / by Goldin, Simha

Table of Contents: “…Early beginnings -- Forced conversion during the First Crusade -- Theological confrontation with Christianity's success -- Self-definition and halakah -- Attitudes towards women -- Alternative perspectives: the literature of pietists (Ashkenazic hasidim) -- Converts to Judaism -- Conclusions: the change in mentality.…”
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Historical fictions and Hellenistic Jewish identity Third Maccabees in its cultural context / by Johnson, Sara Raup, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Historical fictions and Jewish self-fashioning. Introduction -- Jews at court -- Josephus -- Artapanus -- Joseph and Aseneth -- Conclusion -- Third Maccabees, a case study. …”
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Acts of recognition essays on medieval culture / by Patterson, Lee

Table of Contents: “…: Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self -- Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series -- Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate -- The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians -- Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde -- "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton -- Brother Fire and St. …”
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The Fuggers of Augsburg pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany / by Häberlein, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The Fugger Firms, 1560-1650 -- Servants and Masters : The Personnel of the Fugger Companies -- Patronage and Self-Display -- The Fuggers in Sixteenth-Century Urban Society -- Citizens and Noblemen : Investment Strategies, Career Patterns, and Lifestyles.…”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. …”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies / by Richardson, Kristina L.

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History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person /

Table of Contents: “…Mooney -- "A particular light of understanding" : Margaret of Cortona, the Franciscans, and a Cortonese cleric / Mary Harvey Doyno -- Fragments of devotion : charters and canons in Aquitaine, 876-1050 / Anna Trumbore Jones -- Naming names : the nomenclature of heresy in the early eleventh century / Thomas Head -- Economic development and demotic religiosity / Richard Landes -- Back-biting and self-promotion : the work of merchants of the Cairo Geniza / Jessica Goldberg -- John of Salisbury and the civic utility of religion / Mark Silk -- Understanding contagion : the contaminating effect of another's sin / Susan R. …”
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Medieval Women and Their Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Buildings, Books, and Women's (Self-)Fashioning -- A Gift from the Queen : The Architecture of the College de Navarre in Paris / Michael T. …”
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From Song to Book : The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry / by Huot, Sylvia

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