Jason Glenn

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture

Reflections on Medieval Sources
Herausgeber: Glenn, Jason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection present a textured picture of the medieval world and offer models for how to reflect fruitfully on medieval sources.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781442604902
• ISBN-10: 1442604905
• Artikelnr.: 33768931

Autorenporträt

Jason Glenn is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims (2004) and has published several articles on medieval political, religious, and intellectual culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
A Note on References
Introduction
Jason Glenn
1. Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity: An Aural Approach to Augustine's
Confessions
William North
2. Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism: The Lives of Saints
Antony and Martin
John M. McCulloh
3. The Barbarian Ethos: The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint
Boniface
Judith Beall
4. The Written World of Gregory of Tours
Sam Collins
5. Two Lives of Saint Radegund
Jason Glenn
6. The Avenging Abbot: Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict
Carole Straw
7. Crime and Punishment: Anglo-Saxon Law Codes
Kathleen Casey
8. Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede's
Ecclesiastical History
Jay Rubenstein
9. Between Two Empires: Einhard and His Charles the Great
Jason Glenn
10. Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World: Bernard of Angers and The Book of
Sainte Foy's Miracles
Kathleen Stewart Fung
11. William of Poitiers Talks about War
Jay Rubenstein
12. Epic Values: The Song of Roland
Susan P. Millinger
13. Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as Poet
Lawrence R. Jannuzzi
14. Odo of Deuil's The Journey of Louis VII to the East: Between The Song
of Roland and Joinville's Life of Saint Louis
Rudi Paul Lindner
15. Encountering the Cid
Helen Nader
16. Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by
Example
Adnan Husain
17. Between History and Literature: Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot and Marie
de France's Lais
Amy G. Remensnyder
18. Walter Daniel's Life of Aelred of Rievaulx: The Heroism of Intelligence
and the Miracle of Love
Katherine Christensen
19. Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval
Nancy Partner
20. Mission to Crusade: Friar William of Rubruck's Journey to the Mongols
Adnan Husain
21. Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam: The Franciscan Experience of
Family
Victoria M. Morse
22. Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West: Joinville's Louis IX and
Paris
John Tuthill
23. The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria
Amy G. Remensnyder
24. Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman
Crowd
Jennifer A. Heindl
25. Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and Possibility
Dallas G. Denery II
26. Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should Care
Clementine Oliver
Contributors
Index