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	Medieval literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca.
		Medieval authors were often overawed by the classical writers and the Church Fathers and tended to re-tell and embellish stories they had heard or read rather than invent new stories.
		While it is true that women in the medieval period were never accorded full equality with men (in fact, misogynist tracts abound, although many sects, such as the Cathars, afforded women greater status and rights), some women were able to use their skill with the written word to gain renown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_literature (1447 words)

	Learn more about Medieval literature in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe during the Middle Ages (roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca.
		The literature of this time period varies wildly, from the utterly sacred to the exuberantly profane (touching all points in-between), which is only fitting for a millennium in which European life circled around the muck and mire of the fields, the gore of the battlefield, and the quiet removal of monasteries and cathedrals.
		Travel literature was wildly popular in the Middle Ages, as fantastic accounts of far-off lands (frequently embellished or entirely false) entertained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area they were born in.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/me/medieval_literature.html (778 words)

	Medieval literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Secular literature in this period was not produced in equal quantity as Religious literature, but much has survived and we posses today a rich corpus.
		Religious writing was the easiest avenue--women who would later be canonized as saints frequently published their reflections, revelations, and prayers.
		Women wrote influential texts in the secular realm as well--reflections on courtly love and society by Marie de France and Christine de Pizan continue to be studied for their glimpses of medieval society.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Medieval_literature (1453 words)

	Medieval Theories of Causation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medieval thinkers were attracted to the problem of causality long before most of Aristotle's texts became available in the thirteenth century: already in the twelfth century the created universe was seen as a rational manifestation of God (Wetherbee 1988, p.
		Medieval thinkers believed that the world was created by God, and so a question like "Is proposition P contingent?" were seen as equivalent to the question "Could God have created a world in which P does not hold?".
		There is, indeed, an extensive literature of medieval commentaries on the Posterior Analytics, and much of this literature is very important; we find in it a great deal of material on the authors' attitudes to necessity, the structure of science, the relation between various sciences, the autonomy of philosophy vis-à-vis theology, and the like.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/causation-medieval (4532 words)

	Serbian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Little secular mediæval literature has been preserved, but what there is shows that it was in accord with its time; for example, Serbian Alexandride, a book about Alexander the Great, and a translation of Tristan and Isolde into Serbian.
		Written literature was produced only for religious use in churches and monasteries, and held to Old Church Slavonic.
		By the end of the 18th century, the written literature had become estranged from the spoken language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbian_language (912 words)

	ORB -- Introduction to Medieval Music
		The medieval musical experience is impossible to recapture, for most of the music of daily life is lost to us.
		Hildegard's musical languages falls outside of the traditional modal practice of her day, which some have attributed to her lack of traditional musical training, but her literary efforts were sanctioned by the Pope, and the care with which her manuscripts were created reflects the respect she had within her community.
		Medieval composers who worked for the church took their status principally from their post as choirmember, priest, prelate, or nun; composing was usually incidental to their other duties.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbmusic.htm (4787 words)

	Medieval Latin literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		One of the main characteristics of the emerging literature was the fundamentally Christian tone; the other was the use of a simpler and more flexible Latin, which drew from the common speech of Rome and the provinces.
		The writers, such as Einhard, were medieval rather than classical in spirit, but the effects of the revival were lasting.
		Abelard, outstanding theologian and competent poet, was primarily a schoolman and his school was the precursor of the Univ. of Paris, one of the great medieval universities (see colleges and universities).
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/Medieval.html (852 words)

	English literature, medieval - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about English literature, medieval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In medieval England (12th–15th century), the ascendancy of Norman-French culture in the post-Conquest era, followed by the re-emergence of native English works – by such authors as Chaucer, Langland, and Malory, and numerous anonymous authors, – marked the Middle English period of English literature.
		Although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle continued to be written until 1154, with the arrival of a Norman ruling class at the end of the 11th century, the ascendancy of Norman-French in cultural life began, and it was not until the 13th century that English literature regained its strength.
		Of purely native inspiration was the medieval alliterative poem Piers Plowman (1367–86) by William Langland, and the anonymous Pearl, Patience, and Gawayne and the Grene Knight.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /English+literature,+medieval (409 words)

	EAWC Essay: Literature and the Middle Time
		In this connection, it is interesting to note that the literature of this period, specifically the literature of the twelfth century, is profoundly concerned with time, its own, of course, as well as the time of the ancients, a history which, in many ways, it sought to reclaim.
		Literature, time, and power (both secular and religious) converged in these figures, and we might conclude by emphasizing that they lent authority to narratives that self-consciously fictionalized history for personal and political ends.
		In this sense, medieval and modern times are not so different, and the Grail itself provides us with an illuminating instance of how text, genealogy and history can be manipulated in the service of religious and political agendas: in this case, the Christianization of the medieval warrior class with all that that entailed.
	eawc.evansville.edu /essays/seaman.htm (1993 words)

	ORB -- Medieval Women and Music
		Women's involvement with medieval music took a variety of forms; they served at times as audience, as participant, as sponsor, and as creator.
		Of the 3354 manuscripts surviving from women's monastic libraries in medieval Germany and Switzerland, for instance, 834--nearly one-quarter--are liturgical sources intended for the choir or the soloists.
		Her repertory of sequences and antiphons (sacred songs) stand somewhat outside of the musical tradition, for she writes in a loosely formulaic melodic language that works more by motivic allusion than by strict adherence to modal range and standard melodic gestures.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbwomen.htm (2605 words)

	T.L. Long/"Julian and Medieval Gender"
		Moreover, Lauren Silberman allows that while medieval interpretations of the tale held it to be an allegory of vice, Bersuire's moralized Ovid (early fourteenth century) makes Hermaphrodite an allegory of the incarnation: "The Hermaphrodite is Christ, since he represents the union of the masculine nature of God and the feminine nature of humanity" (647).
		She discusses the cultural construction of the female body and argues that medieval spiritualism and dualism were less rigorous than they are commonly represented to be.
		Bynum concludes that medieval theory acknowledged the "permeability or interchangeability of the sexes," although "the male body is paradigmatic," and even Julian of Norwich, for whom Christ was Mother, still consistently referred to him with the male pronoun (Fragmentation 220-22).
	users.visi.net /~longt/julian.htm (3571 words)

	Medieval Literature
		Early medieval books were painstakingly hand-copied and illustrated by monks.
		Paper was a rarity, with vellum, made from calf's skin, and parchment, made from lamb's skin, were the media of choice for writing.
		Literature exploded from the universities as scholars began to question convention and write social commentary, as well as poetic fiction.
	www.medieval-life.net /literature_main.htm (205 words)

	Japanese literature -> Medieval Literature on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the subsequent medieval period (c.1200-1600), themes and concerns central to the newly ascendant warrior class took expression in such works as the Heike monogatari [tale of the Heike], an epic account of the struggle between two great clans that ended the Heian period.
		The medieval period witnessed the development of noh, a serious dramatic form combining dance, music, chanting, and mime, and kyogen, short comedies performed in interludes between noh plays.
		The greatest writers of noh plays were Kanami Kiyotsugu (1333-84) and his son Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), who developed the noh from its primitive origins to the highly purified and rigorous art form that later influenced such Western poets as W. Yeats and Ezra Pound.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Japan-lit_MedievalLiterature.asp (614 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Reading the Middle Ages: An Introduction to Medieval Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medieval English Literature (The Oxford Anthology of English Literature) by J.
		Medieval literature is separated from us by so many centuries that it may seem completely foreign, both in its concerns and its techniques.
		This introduction to medieval literature provides some of the cultural context that readers need to know in order to understand the literature, such as the religious orientation of the people, often deep and sincere but sometimes treated casually or subjected to intense scrutiny.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786416483?v=glance (607 words)

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		They are gathered in three cancioneiros, or songbooks, and a fourth book of a different character, containing legends in praise of the Virgin Mary by King Alfonso X of León and Castile.
		His son, Dinis, had a deep interest in literature and was considered to be the best poet of his age in the Iberian Peninsula.
		Few of these ballads can be dated earlier than the 15th century; they belonged to an anonymous poetry kept alive by oral transmission, with a late artificial flowering from known poets in the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.geocities.com /correia72/medieval.htm (675 words)

	Sexuality In Medieval Literature
		In medieval text, fiction or non-fiction, the reader can expect the foundations of the characteristics of the main character to be the same.
		Sexuality in medieval literature restricts the male character, but allows the female character the freedom that is not recognized in real medieval society.
		In medieval society, the man is the dominant figure, but medieval literature portrays women as having different and versatile roles, which allows them to be the center of the conflict or plot, while the men have limited roles set in stone making them merely puppets in a woman’s world.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=95385 (291 words)

	Medieval Literature Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The editors aim to present medieval times as they were rather than as they were recreated by later authors.
		A brilliant survey of Anglo-Norman literature and the French influence on English literature in the middle ages.
		A narrative description of Spanish literature by literary genre, including sections on "Epic and Narrative Poetry," "The Drama," "Prose Fiction," and "Nonfiction Prose." Each section is further divided into time periods and/or pertinent issues of the topic.
	pages.slu.edu /faculty/schmidj/guides/medlit.html (3613 words)

	Welcome to Medieval Forum
		Medieval Forum, an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval Engish Literature, invites submissions for its fifth volume, scheduled for completion in January 2006.
		Although the focus of Medieval Forum is on literature, submissions from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome.
		Medieval Forum is a participating publisher in the LOCKSS electronic archival program initiated and supported by Stanford University Libraries.
	www.sfsu.edu /~medieval (278 words)

	Literary Resources -- Medieval (Lynch)
		An attractive anthology of medieval and early modern texts.
		Nominalism and Medieval Literature: A Bibliography (Richard J. Utz, Univ. of Northern Iowa)
		A refereed journal of theory in Medieval and Renaissance studies.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html (1542 words)

	Medieval Romance Literature \| Literature in Medieval England \| Questia.com Online Library
		...of later medieval literature, in the word romance, and the...turned to romance.
		Nevertheless...view of medieval European literature as a whole...the later medieval...
		Medieval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances
	questia.com /library/literature/.../medieval-romance-literature.jsp (385 words)

	Medieval Sites on the Web
		MF is an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature, dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, public forum environment.
		Although the focus of MF is on literature, articles from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome.
		Medieval Women Writers A project to post writings in several languages from the Five Colleges of Ohio.
	www.efn.org /~acd/medievalpage.html (2113 words)

	Medieval Literature Assignments, Worksheets, Activities
		In seeking methods that embraced larger audiences, that recognized different "voices" in literature, and that skeptically approached language's limitations, they often have reduced their audiences, excluded competing voices, and reduced language to the improbable proposition that it inevitably must fail.
		The reader reads the text and comes away from it with an understanding of its form and content in a way that reflects the intention of the author, the author's milieu, and the implications of his work that were not realized in his time but recognized by each generation of readers.
		These arrows may be said to be the universal value of the work as a whole, the extent to which the work of literature transcends the limitations of the particular author, context, or methodology and embraces the general human experience.
	gemini.utb.edu /achurch/medass.html (3455 words)

	The Power of Music in Medieval Literature -- Brenda Johnstone Flynn
		The chapter discusses the critical role the olifant plays in The Song of Roland, both as a communication device within the framework of the poem, and as an object capable of changing the outcome of the story, as well as the olifant's role as a relic.
		Continuing the topic of the medieval trumpet is the scene of the Joy of the Court in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide.
		My thesis argues that when music is portrayed in medieval literature, it is often a more powerful phenomenon than the modern reader might assume.
	www.tiltedworld.com /brenda/music/index.html (362 words)

	Grover Furr's Medieval History and Literature Page
		These almost without exception give the perspective of (a) a medieval person's view of the Middle Ages; a nd (b) an elitist interpretation of whatever is illustrated.
		Literature in Medieval French In French (for the most part).
		The illustration for March -- a peasant plowing the field dominated by o ne of his lord's fortified castles -- is an astounding and accurate image of the economic, political and cultural relations of the Middle Ages.
	chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/medieval.html (1939 words)

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