Virgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among the most venerated. The legends of virgin ...martyrs, retold in various ways through the centuries, illuminate trends in popular piety, values, and literary tastes. Chaste Passions contains sixteen English virgin martyr legends, each of a different saint and each translated into colloquial, modern English prose. Faithful in tone and meaning to the originals, Karen Winstead's lively translations allow contemporary readers to appreciate why virgin martyr legends thrived for hundreds of years. Winstead presents the tales in chronological order, tracing the effects of the composition and tastes of the audience on the development of the genre. The virgin martyr, Winstead tells us, escapes the confining female stereotypes—demure maiden or disruptive shrew—prevalent in writings of the period. Because nearly all of the texts were written by men but addressed to women, they exhibit a fascinating interplay between male views of so-called women's literature and the demands of their intended audience. Familiarity with this widely read genre is essential to a full understanding of medieval culture, and Chaste Passions is an excellent introduction to these often racy, sometimes comic, tales.
Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in ...its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.
Die Legenden II Wurzburg, Konrad von; Gereke, Paul
01/1926, Letnik:
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Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart ...Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den Händen von Christian Kiening.
Die mittlerweile etwa 120 Bände verknüpfen exemplarisch Handschriftennähe und Lesbarkeit, wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Text und Blick auf die akademische Lehre. Sie umfassen anerkannte, zum Teil kommentierte Ausgaben ,klassischer' Autoren der Zeit um 1200, aber auch veritable Werkausgaben (Notker der Deutsche) und anspruchsvolle Neueditionen (Eckenlied, Heinrich von dem Türlin).
Die Legenden III Wurzburg, Konrad von; Gereke, Paul
01/1927, Letnik:
21
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Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart ...Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den Händen von Christian Kiening.
Die mittlerweile etwa 120 Bände verknüpfen exemplarisch Handschriftennähe und Lesbarkeit, wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Text und Blick auf die akademische Lehre. Sie umfassen anerkannte, zum Teil kommentierte Ausgaben ,klassischer' Autoren der Zeit um 1200, aber auch veritable Werkausgaben (Notker der Deutsche) und anspruchsvolle Neueditionen (Eckenlied, Heinrich von dem Türlin).
Die Legenden I Wurzburg, Konrad von; Gereke, Paul
01/1925, Letnik:
19
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Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart ...Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den Händen von Christian Kiening.
Die mittlerweile etwa 120 Bände verknüpfen exemplarisch Handschriftennähe und Lesbarkeit, wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Text und Blick auf die akademische Lehre. Sie umfassen anerkannte, zum Teil kommentierte Ausgaben ,klassischer' Autoren der Zeit um 1200, aber auch veritable Werkausgaben (Notker der Deutsche) und anspruchsvolle Neueditionen (Eckenlied, Heinrich von dem Türlin).
This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.
Hasidic tales are often read as charming expressions of Jewish spirituality. This title offers a radical reappraisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into question received notions of ...authenticity. It focuses on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early 20th century - primarily the work of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim Michelson.
Xuanzang (600/602-664) was one of the most accomplished and
consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism.
Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his
transmission ...and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his
training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan,
Xuanzang's life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the
centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and
extraordinary accomplishments circulated in texts, images, songs,
and plays. These mythic accounts recast the erudite pilgrim,
translator, and court cleric as a magical monk who traveled not
between China and India but between heaven and earth. Beset by
bloodthirsty demons, this deified version of Xuanzang navigates the
perilous paths of the netherworld to reach a pure land in the west.
His purpose is to acquire a cache of sacred scriptures with the
power to safeguard the living and deliver the dead. Along the way,
he is guided and protected by a mischievous monkey, a lazy pig, a
demonic monk, and a dragon horse. This imaginative and compelling
tale received its fullest and most influential treatment in the
famous sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. In this
engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and
ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang's
many afterlives. Beginning in the eleventh century and continuing
to the present day, devotees have summoned Xuanzang and his band of
misfit pilgrims to perform exorcisms, guide the spirits of the
dead, and possess the bodies of insurgents. Embodying Xuanzang
traces the postmortem travels of China's greatest pilgrim and
reveals the narrative and performative roots of China's best-known
novel.
In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had ...reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition.
