In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to ...one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe. Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on the mechanics of Islamization along the Ottoman frontier, and presents an instructive case study of the 'indigenization' of Islam – the process through which Islam, in its diverse doctrinal and socio-cultural manifestations, became part of a distinct regional landscape. Simultaneously, Antov uses a wide array of administrative, narrative-literary, and legal sources, exploring the perspectives of both the imperial center and regional actors in urban, rural, and nomadic settings, to trace the transformation of the Ottoman polity from a frontier principality into a centralized empire. Contributing to the further understanding of Balkan Islam, state formation and empire building, this unique text will appeal to those studying Ottoman, Balkan, and Islamic world history.
Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections ...between language and meaning.
Originally published in 1987.
ThePrinceton Legacy Libraryuses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to ...trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.
Tropologies McDermott, Ryan
2016, 2016-04-15
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Tropologies studies the medieval and early modern theory of morality in scripture, arguing that tropology is both a way to interpret the Bible and a theory of literary invention.
Der Band gibt Vorträge einer Kölner Tagung zum geistlichen und weltlichen Drama im Europa des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit wieder, insbesondere zu Spielen lateinischer, mittelhochdeutscher, ...frühneuhochdeutscher, mittelniederdeutscher und mittelniederländischer Sprache. Die Beiträge widmen sich Formen der Ritualisierung im vormodernen Drama, untersuchen Nähe und Distanz zur Liturgie und zur ebenso kulturell wie liturgisch begründeten (Jahres-)Zeitenfolge, beobachten die Inszenierung der Spiele in ihren ambivalenten Versuchen, an die Verantwortung des Einzelnen vor einer letzten Instanz zu appellieren, Emotionen zu wecken und zu instrumentalisieren. Sie diskutieren somit die Ausdifferenzierung von Formen früher Theatralität und nehmen damit eine überfällige, von Rainer Warning angestoßene literaturtheoretische Diskussion auf: Genese, Funktion und Struktur des mittelalterlichen Spiels.
Against a background which included revolutionary changes in religious belief, enlargement of dramatic styles and the technological innovation of printing, this collection of essays about biblical ...drama offers innovative approaches to text and performance, while reviewing some well-established critical issues.
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the ...unstable dialectic of realityand imagination,as well as of historyand literature. Albert Ascoli identifies and interprets the ways in which literary texts are shaped by and serve the purposes of multiple, intertwined historical discourses and circumstances, and he equally probes the function of such texts in constructing, interpreting, critiquing, and effacing the histories in which they are embedded. Throughout, he poses the theoretical and methodological question of how formal analysis and literary forms can at once resist and further the historicist enterprise. Along the way Ascoli interrogates the mechanisms of historical periodization that have governed for so long our study of what is sometimes called the Renaissance, sometimes the early modern period. He also addresses the period's own unstable version of the literature/history opposition, the place of gendered discourse in the construction of historical narratives (and vice versa), the elaborate formal strategies by which poets and intellectuals negotiate their relations to power, and, finally, the way in which proper names (of authors, works, and exemplary characters) serve as points of negotiation between individual identity and social order in the Renaissance. The book brings to culmination two decades of a major scholar's thinking about some of the most important figures and questions that shaped the Renaissance, with emphasis on the question of history, both the historical context of literature and the writing of literary history.
The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics ...spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature.
Dargestellt wird die Geschichte der novellistischen Kurzerzählung in den europäischen Literaturen des Mittelalters von den Anfängen im 12. Jahrhundert bis zur endgültigen Ablösung der Verserzählung ...durch das von Boccaccio etablierte Modell der zyklischen Versnovelle im Laufe des 16. Jahrhunderts. Diese Geschichte ist gekennzeichnet vom immer erneuten Rückgriff auf einen gemeinsamen Traditionsfundus, von vielfachen Verschränkungen, aber auch von mannigfachen Phasenverschiebungen und Ungleichzeitigkeiten, die ein sehr unterschiedliches Profil der einzelnen volkssprachigen Literaturen hervortreten lassen. Sie lässt sich nur in ihrer europäischen Verflechtung verstehen und eignet sich so als Modell für eine komparatistisch angelegte Gattungsgeschichte.
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