In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.
Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society.
Unlike other books on the subject, "Women at the Beginning" attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the authors of these stories were themselves struggling with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings.
Автор: Goodfellow, Tom (Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, University of Sheffield) Название: Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels ISBN: 0198871570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198871576 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An anthology of writings by English travellers in the Renaissance that helps students understand travel and colonial writing by English writers in the first age of English exploration. This second edition includes new research on race, women in travel texts, and non-English voices.
Описание: With this remarkable study, historian Keira Williams shows how fictional matriarchies - produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media - constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues.
Название: Amazons, savages, and machiavels ISBN: 0198711867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198711865 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9375.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, ranging from the Americas to the Far East, from Ireland to Russia, and selected to represent the world-picture of 16th and 17th century readers in England. The editor provides a substantial introduction and headnotes to give students essential information and alert them to debates and discussions.
Автор: Braham Persephone Название: From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America ISBN: 1611487064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611487060 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America--Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean--are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America's most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all of the world's sacred traditions, but only in Latin America did Amazons, cannibals, zombies, and other monsters become enduring symbols of regional history, character, and identity. From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, and theories and genres of the monstrous. It describes the genesis and evolution of monsters in the construction and representation of Latin America from the Ancient world and early modern Iberia to the present.
Автор: Sharp Patrick B Название: Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction ISBN: 1786832291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786832290 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women`s science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain`s greatest scientist.
Автор: Daniel Trocme-Latter Название: The Strasbourg Cantiones of 1539: Protestant City, Catholic Music ISBN: 1837650667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781837650668 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Schoffer's Cantiones tell a fascinating story of South-North, Catholic-Protestant co-operation.The Cantiones quinque vocum selectissim? (Strasbourg: Peter Schoffer the Younger, 1539) are a collection of 28 Latin five-voice motets by composers including Gombert, Willaert, and Jacquet of Mantua. This was Schoffer's first book of Latin motets as well as his last ever musical publication; he was granted an imperial privilege to print it by King Ferdinand I. The pieces had been sent to Schoffer by Hermann Matthias Werrecore, the choirmaster of the Duomo of Milan. However, this was at a time when no liturgical Latin choral singing took place in Strasbourg, following one of the harshest reformations - musically-speaking - across Europe. This book comprises a critical study of the anthology in terms of the circumstances of its assemblage and printing, its confessional significance, and the music itself. It considers the nature of the connection between Schoffer and Werrecore, and why a Protestant publisher based in Protestant Germany would try to sell Latin music that was endorsed by a Catholic monarch and emphatically had no chance of being performed in church in its place of publication. In addition, the monograph includes considerations of the motets themselves, brief biographical details of the composers - including the lesser-known ones (e.g. Ferrariensis, Sarton, Billon) - and a full list of all concordant sources. It will be of interest to performers and scholars alike, combining elements of historical research, musical criticism and - via the transcriptions hosted online - performance.
Автор: Stephen Turnbull Название: Fighting Ships of the Far East (2) ISBN: 1841764787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764788 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility. This work covers East Asia`s most famous warship - the legendary turtle ship, which is described here in full technical detail.
Автор: Blake, John William Название: Europeans in West Africa, 1540-1560 ISBN: 1409414531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409414537 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 87) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.
Автор: Paul S. Lloyd Название: Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640: Eating to Impress ISBN: 1350002046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350002043 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 7321.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.
Examining the diets of various social groups, ranging from manual labourers to the aristocracy, special foods and their preparation, as well as festive events and gift foods, this all-encompassing study reveals the extent to which individuals and communities identified themselves and others by what and how they ate between the Reformation of the church and the English Civil Wars. This text provides remarkable insights for anyone interested in knowing more about the society and culture of early modern England.
Автор: Helmers Название: The Royalist Republic ISBN: 1107087619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107087613 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The execution of Charles I led to an explosion of pro-Stuart propaganda in the Dutch Republic. In gripping detail, The Royalist Republic examines how a wide variety of spies, spin doctors, and religious enthusiasts influenced public opinion in the first modern republic to support a royalist cause.
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