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71	“The Bedroom and the Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, and Shelter in ‘The Miller’s Tale’” & HAUNCHEBONES Byington, Danielle N 01 May 2015 (has links) “The Bedroom and the Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, and Shelter in ‘The Miller’s Tale’” is an academic endeavor that takes Chaucer’s zoomorphic metaphors and similes and analyzes them in a sense that reveals the chaos of what is human and what is animal tendency. The academic work is expressed in the adjunct creative project, Haunchebones, a 10-minute drama that echoes the tale and its zoomorphic influences, while presenting the content in a stylized play influenced by Theatre of the Absurd and artwork from the medieval and early renaissance period. medieval social status women's studies anthropomorphism adultery marriage European History Fiction Literature in English, British Isles Medieval History Medieval Studies Nonfiction Other Architecture Poetry Screenwriting Women's History Women's Studies
72	"Contra haereticos accingantur": The Union of Crusading and Anti-heresy Propaganda Peterson, Bryan E. 01 January 2018 (has links) This study assesses the intersection of crusading and heresy repression in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The event that encapsulates this intersection was the Albigensian Crusade, a two-decades long conflict that befell the south of France, or Occitania. The papacy, aligned with northern lords and other willing Christians, took up arms to defend the Church from the Cathar heresy’s corrupting influence. This conflict marked a new development in Christian acts of violence. While the Church had crusaded against many different enemies—even branding some as heretics—before 1209, the Church had never called a crusade for the explicit purpose of stamping out a heretical group. This study aims to answer two questions: how did the scope of crusade broaden to incorporate heretical groups and how did methods for countering heresy shift to include crusading? To answer these questions, this study analyzes two strands of ecclesiastical propaganda. Propaganda consisted of written works that functioned as tools to educate, inform, persuade, and inspire in others certain beliefs and actions. These were texts that defined, promoted, and celebrated the practice of crusading; and texts that defined, maligned, and condemned heresies and those adhering to them. These two strands of propaganda began to intertwine in the late twelfth century, resulting in a modified anti-heresy discourse in which crusading against heretics became a theologically justifiable idea. This study argues that the call for crusade against the Occitan heretics was the end result of theological developments that began in the 1170s. What’s more, the institutionalization and codification of these strands of propaganda created the theological precedent for framing the Albigensian Crusade as a holy war, allowing the idea of crusading against heretics to take root in anti-heresy discourse in the years preceding Innocent III’s papacy and his call for crusade in southern France. Thesis University of North Florida UNF Medieval Christianity heresy religion ideas propaganda European History History of Christianity History of Religion Intellectual History Medieval History Medieval Studies Other History
73	Les modalités du merveilleux dans le roman de "Jaufré" (anonyme occitan fin XIIème / début XIIIème siècle) et les "Narty Kaddžytæ" (légendes nartes des Ossètes) : les structures indo-européennes communes et la question de l’influence sarmato-alaine sur le roman arthurien / Non communiqué Alibert, Laurent 10 December 2011 (has links) Mon travail de recherche consiste à comparer les formes du merveilleux dans deux oeuvres, génériquement, culturellement et linguistiquement tout à fait distinctes et qui pourtant ne sont pas sans liens. Le roman de Jaufré est un roman arthurien écrit en occitan probablement au début du XIIIème siècle, tandis que les Narty Kaddžytæ sont le trésor dupeuple ossète, légendes recueillies aux XIXème et XXème siècles auprès des conteurs (kadæggændžytæ) et publiées notamment par des savants tels que Vs. Miller et V.I. Abaev. G. Dumézil a montré combien le cycle des Nartes, bien que rapporté par la tradition orale, s’enracinait très profondément dans le passé au-delà du peuple ossète lui-même. Dansles légendes de ce petit peuple, dernier locuteur d’une langue nord-est iranienne (la branche scythique), on retrouve maintes accointances avec les coutumes et croyances des Scythes, tels que décrits par Hérodote. [etc.] / My research concentrates on the comparison of the shapes taken by ‘merveilleux’ motives in two works truly different as far as literary genres, cultural and linguistic backgrounds are concerned, and yet not totally lacking connections.The roman de Jaufré is an Arthurian romance written in Occitan, probably from the beginning of the XIIIth century, while the Narty Kaddžytæ (Nart legends) are the treasure of Ossetian people, legends collected during the XIXth and XXth centuries from kadæggændžytæ (oral storytellers), and published by Russian, Ossetian or European scholars such as Vs. Miller, V.I. Abaev. Miller and later Dumézil proved how the Nart Legends, though coming from oral tradition, was rooted in a past far beyond the ethnogenesis of the Ossetian people. A lot of striking connections are to be found between the epic of these people - last speakers of a language from the Northeast Iranian group (or Scythian branch) - and the habits or the faith ofthe Scythian people, such as Herodote described them. [etc.] Études indo-européennes Roman occitan médiéval Roman arthurien Légendes nartes Nartologie Études alano-ossètes Trifonctionnalité Littérature comparée Réflexion générique Indo-european studies Occitan medieval studies Arthurian romance Nart tales Nartology Alano-ossetic studies Three fonctions theory Comparative literature
74	Choose to Avoid Tragedy Martin, Zora 01 January 2018 (has links) Shakespeare's ideas about free will and moral choice, as illustrated in his play Macbeth, may have been influenced by Dante's Inferno. Dante was known to Shakespeare's contemporaries, and therefore most likely to the Bard himself. Current literature has not conclusively addressed this topic, and a focused examination is important, because it offers both an additional perspective on free will in Inferno, and adds to the understanding of free will in Macbeth. Read at face value, Macbeth seems to bear no responsibility for his actions because they were preordained by the fates. Dante believed in free will, and Macbeth bears more than one similarity to his Commedia. Read through a Dantean lens, Macbeth has free will - even if choosing not to exercise it. Through the mere contemplation of the four reasons for not killing Duncan, Macbeth recognizes that he has the choice whether to become a traitor, with the consequences of suffering contrapasso damnation. But Macbeth elects to disregard the wisdom passed down in Dante's Commedia, and knowingly commits a heinously immoral act. Shakespeare uses his predecessor Dante as a tool to advocate for human agency and moral choices in a text that would otherwise be fatalistic. Both then and now, Shakespeare sought to influence his audiences' understanding of their own free will. One first has to believe in possessing free will, in order to use it to make the best possible choices. Dante and Shakespeare reaffirm our possession of free will to help us avoid individual and societal tragedies. Dante Shakespeare free will Inferno Macbeth pieta and speranza Catholic Studies Comparative Methodologies and Theories Italian Literature Language Interpretation and Translation Literature in English, British Isles Medieval Studies
75	An Ethnography: Discovering the Hidden Identity of the Banilejos Elazar-Demota, Yehonatan 22 March 2016 (has links) During June of 2015, an anthropological and sociological study was conducted in the Dominican city of Bani. On the surface, the banilejo people appear to be devout Catholics. However, having had access to their personal lives, it was evident that their peculiar family traditions and folklore hinted at their liminal identities. This study involved interviewing 23 female subjects with questions found in the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitorial manuals. In addition, their mitochondrial DNA sequences were analyzed and demonstrated a high percentage of consanguinity and inbreeding within Bani's population. The genetic analysis of their mitochondrial DNA yielded genetic links with Jewish women from worldwide Jewish communities. Victor Turner's communitas theory and Geertz's thick description were used as the methodology. Ultimately, the sociological and anthropological analysis of their way of life evidenced how their ancestors preserved Jewish identity covertly throughout the inquisition time period (1481-1834) and how they continue to perpetuate it in contemporary times through consanguinity, and the power of superstition and taboo. Biblical Studies Caribbean Languages and Societies Catholic Studies Comparative Methodologies and Theories Ethics in Religion History of Christianity Jewish Studies Medieval Studies Near Eastern Languages and Societies Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
76	Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia Lawson, Michael David 01 May 2019 (has links) Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, this study examines medieval Scandinavian social views regarding impairment from the ninth to the thirteenth century. Beginning with the myths and legends of the eddic poetry and prose of Iceland, it investigates impairment in Norse pre-Christian belief; demonstrating how myth and memory informed medieval conceptualizations of the body. This thesis counters scholarly assumptions that the impaired were universally marginalized across medieval Europe. It argues that bodily difference, in the Norse world, was only viewed as a limitation when it prevented an individual from fulfilling roles that contributed to their community. As Christianity’s influence spread and northern European powers became more focused on state-building aims, Scandinavian societies also slowly began to transform. Less importance was placed on the community in favor of the individual and policies regarding bodily difference likewise changed; becoming less inclusive toward the impaired. vikings Old Norse mythology body impairment disability Comparative Literature Cultural History Disability Studies European History European Languages and Societies Folklore History of Religion Medieval History Medieval Studies Scandinavian Studies Social and Cultural Anthropology
77	Kosmas a jeho svět. Obraz politického národa v nejstarší české kronice / The World of Cosmas. The Image of Political Nation in the Oldest Czech Chronicle Kopal, Petr January 2017 (has links) The world of Cosmas. The image of political nation in the oldest Czech chronicle This work focuses on the image of the political nation in the oldest Czech chronicle - Chronica Boemorum (The Chronicle of Czechs) by Cosmas, "the first Czech historian" [Robert Bartlett, University of St Andrews: "Bohemia made a spectacular debut in this respect with Cosmas of Prague, whose vivid prose style, gifts of powerful characterization and ability to convey action, and the occasional personal touches he allows (such as the yearning picture of his long-gone student days) make him not only a vital historical source for the Premyslid lands but also one of the great writers of the Middle Ages. He initiated a tradition which continued, with peaks and plateaux, throughout the Premyslid period, and this was important, for a native historical tradition was one of the marks of a Latin Christian society."] Cosmas' Chronicle (The Chronicle of Czechs) is part of the context of "national history". Cosmas wrote a scholarly, entertaining, but also politically committed work, presenting a "national program" of sorts. This was no Czech specialty - when we think of Europe in the 11th and 12th century, we see a garden of sprouting new nations, the medieval "spring of nations". The first national states, with clear territorial...
78	Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī and His Political, Religious, and Intellectual Networks Dreyer, Carina 26 May 2023 (has links) (PDF) This thesis follows Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī (d. 1311), a brilliant and influential polymath, through the eighty years of his long life and focuses on him navigating changing environments in the Persianate Mongol world (i.e., the second half of the thirteenth century to the early decades of the fourteenth century). In order to retrace his life, this study draws extensively on contemporary chronicles, biographical dictionaries, autobiographies, hagiographies, and some of his own manuscripts to illuminate parts of his life unknown before. Through that, this thesis illustrates Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī’s intellectual, political, and religious networks, with special attention to his patrons. Moreover, even though his fame in the modern world is primarily due to his astronomical treatises as part of the Maragha school, my thesis demonstrates his investment in medicine, Sufism, and religious sciences, including jurisprudence, Qurʼān interpretations, and ḥadīth studies. Hence, Quṭb al-Dīn is an example of an intellectual in the Ilkhanid realm who developed informal networks transcending political, linguistic, and genre boundaries, that spanned an area from the western fringes of Anatolia to Khorasan, through bustling late medieval metropolises such as Shiraz, Sivas, Konya, Baghdad, Cairo, Tabriz, and Maragha. Islamic Intellectual History Mongol Studies History of Medicine Persianate World Sufism Rum Seljuks History of Religion Intellectual History Islamic World and Near East History Medieval Studies Near Eastern Languages and Societies Social History
79	<I>Unhælu:</i> Anglo-Saxon Conceptions of Impairment and Disability Bruce, Karen Anne January 2014 (has links) No description available. History Literature Middle Ages Medieval History Medieval Literature anglo-saxon old english medieval studies middle ages disability disability studies impairment medieval disability studies anglo-saxon disability anglo-saxon impairment
80	Ring Out Your Dead : Distribution, form, and function of iron amulets in the late Iron Age grave fields of Lovö Mattsson McGinnis, Meghan January 2016 (has links) The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution, forms, and function(s) of iron amulets deposited in the late Iron Age gravefields of Lovö, with the goal of ascertaining how (and so far as possible why) these objects were utilized in rituals carried out during and after burials. Particular emphasis is given to re-interpreting the largest group of iron amulets, the iron amulet rings, in a more relational and practice-focused way than has heretofore been attempted. By framing burial analyses, questions of typology, and evidence of ritualized actions in comparison with what is known of other cult sites in Mälardalen specifically– and theorized about the cognitive landscape(s) of late Iron Age Scandinavia generally– a picture of iron amulets as inscribed objects made to act as catalytic, protective, and mediating agents is brought to light. archaeology Iron Age Late Iron Age Viking Age Viking Studies Vendel period practice theory cognitive archaeology grave goods New Materialism neo-materialism Thor's hammer rings burial analysis post-structuralism Early Medieval medieval studies Scandinavian archaeology Scandinavia Sweden Swedish archaeology Mälardalen cultural history ritual theory ritual rituals studies burial rituals ritualization deviant burial history of religions Old Norse religion Viking Age religion cult places material culture rites of passage amulets magic ancient magic medieval magic pratice praxis

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