Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century, Garver John W.

Автор: Tracey Garvis Graves
Название: On The Island
ISBN: 1405910216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405910217
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T J Callahan at his family`s holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T J has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him.

Автор: Garver, Valerie L.
Название: Women and aristocratic culture in the carolingian world
ISBN: 0801447712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801447716
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society.

Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women.

Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.