With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.
V. 3. With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature.
These essays analyze their texts and reconstruct a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history. Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University.
Carmina , no . 45. In Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini , ed . Ernest Duemmler . Poetarum Latinorum Medii Aevi , vol . 1. MGH . Berlin : Weidmann , 1881 . “ The Books I Used to Read . ” See Godman , Peter , trans . “ Theodulus .
"Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last centuries."--Maureen Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Peter Godman . See Godman , Peter . Theoduli Ecloga . See Ecloga Theoduli . Thierry , of Chartres . The Commentaries on Boethius by Thierry of Chartres and His School . Ed . Nikolaus M. Häring . Studies and Texts , no . 20.
From this story comes: ''On the threshold sit the avenging Furies.''41 145. The Story of Europa and Jove. Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of the Greeks. While she was gathering flowers in the meadows according to the custom of ...
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been ...
V.1. The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the...
This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews.
Sukeyuki Miura has pointed out , the story of Tajima - mori is similar to that of Kuramochi - no - miko , a character in the tale of Kaguya - hime . 34 A prince , wishing to face her challenge , had to fetch her a branch of the tree ...