scholarly journals Tristan en reverdie: l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Grigoriu Brîndușa
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Marie De France ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
One Step

In most of its European versions of the central Middle Ages, Tristan nurtures an arborescent dynamics in which human agents reveal a spectacular potential for vegetalization, from the living couple to its tombal avatars, from the French poems to the Norse and German adaptations of a greening narrative matter (Pastré 1999, Victorin 2009). While exploring the affinities between the romance’s modeling of human ethos and its stylization of sylvan, vegetal figures under the sign of the philter, the present article focuses on the metamorphosis of the love tree in Béroul’s, Marie de France’s, Eilhart von Oberg’s and Robert’s realms of Tristania. In Béroul’s version, the couple fuses into an Edenic matrix where sleeping becomes an ensavaging, liberating process excluding the possibility of corporeal fecundity. (Marchello-Nizia 1981). Marie de France takes the idea of a refuted genealogy one step further, via the symbiosis of the honeysuckle and the hazel tree; this vegetal self-sufficiency excludes God’s commandments by suppressing the mere possibility of achieving a living descendance. In Eilhart’s romance, death is the catalyzer of a revegetation of the consubstantial souls of the lovers, as they are transcendentally reunited by the philter. Robert’s Saga crowns the textual regeneration of the Tristanian matter by resignifying its distinctive sign of mythical arborescence.

Of Travellers, Messengers and Foundlings – Fictionality, Authorship, and Textual Property in Thomas More’s Paratexts

Moreana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (Number 205- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Gabriela Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
One Step

Paratexts have attracted increasing attention in recent scholarship as an especially privileged tool for managing the reception of a text in early print culture, and Thomas More was certainly an exceptionally versatile user of this strategic publishing device. Not only does he make ample use of conventional paratextual techniques such as prefaces, marginal glosses and commendatory poems, he also takes the medium one step further by making his paratexts part of the narrative setting of his works, especially in the literary dialogues. In creating a plethora of (semi-)fictional voices and contexts, he effectively blurs the line between text and context, fact and fiction, and author and editor/printer. While this textual game of hide-and-seek has been extensively studied in Utopia and has often been seen as a typically ‘humanist’ feature of the text, the present article explores similar techniques throughout More’s work, thus overcoming the alleged rift between his pre- and post-reformation writings.

Urban Change in Early Medieval Italy: The Example of Pavia

1966 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 82-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Bullough
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Warm Hospitality ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Prefatory Note.—My interest in Pavia goes back at least to 1951 when I was elected Rome Scholar in Medieval Studies. I began seriously to collect material for the history of the city in the early Middle Ages in the winter and spring of 1953 when I enjoyed the warm hospitality of the Collegio Ghislieri, thanks to the efforts made on my behalf by the late Hugh Last, to whose memory this article is dedicated. The published proceedings of the Reichenau and Spoleto congresses on ‘The early medieval town’ in the 1950s clearly underlined the need for detailed studies of particular towns; but the lack of adequate archaeological evidence discouraged me from attempting such a study of early medieval Pavia. In 1964, however, Dr. A. Peroni, Director of the Museo Civico invited me to read a supplementary paper on this topic to the Convegno di Studio sul Centro Storico di Pavia held in the Università degli Studi at Pavia on July 4th and 5th of that year. The present article is an amplified and corrected version of that paper: I have made no substantial alterations to my account of the ‘urbanistica’ of early medieval Pavia—written for an audience of architects and art-historians as well as of historians—but have dealt more fully with the social history of the city in this period. Professor Richard Krautheimer read a draft of the revised version and made some pointed and helpful comments. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Peroni, not merely for the invitation to present the original paper but also for supplying illustrations and answering queries at a time when he and his staff were engaged in helping to repair the ravages of the Florence floods.

The Practice of Charity at the University of Paris during the Middle Ages: Ave Maria College

Traditio ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 335-339
Author(s):  
A. L. Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
National Archives ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University ◽  
The Middle Ages

Life within the Colleges of the University of Paris was a charming one, full of interesting details concerning teaching and education in medieval Paris. A manuscript buried amongst the documents of the National Archives is revealing for those who believe that the lectures on Boethius and the explanation of Donatus constituted the entire programme of the student. The present article is only a sketch intended to call attention to some of the practical methods used to implement the Christian teachings on charity.

Das Kirchweihoffizium in den mittelalterlichen Graner liturgischen Handschriften

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Czagány
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Central European ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Coherent Sequence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Almost All

The office for the feast of the Dedicatio Ecclesiæ was used and transmitted mainly in the same form in the great majority of medieval liturgical codices. Within this general uniformity, however, the arrangement of the antiphons for the first Vespers varies from tradition to tradition. The present article examines the repertory of the Dedicatio in medieval Hungarian manuscripts, comparing it to the offices found both in other Middle European and in West Frankish sources. This comparative analysis made clear, that although the vesper antiphons in question were already included in the Codex Albensis (the earliest extant office manuscript from 12th-century Hungary) and can be found in almost all manuscripts from the medieval Hungarian archdiocese of Esztergom (Strigonium), they were rarely used in other Central European areas. These items may originate from the Rhineland, from within the region of Liège (Lüttich), what is confirmed by their occurrence in a 14th-century antiphoner from Aachen and in the Breviarium Præmonstratense. Furthermore, the five antiphons were probably not composed as a coherent sequence of chants. Although occasionally we come accross the individual pieces in sources of different time and place, their organization into cycles may be the result of later and secondary local initiations. The cycle might have been transferred to Hungary during the 11th century where it remained unchanged until the end of the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals As representações como propiciadoras de identidade: a circularidade entre o discurso da cultura erudita e as práticas populares na Idade Média Central

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Pablo Gatt Albuquerque De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Social Praxis

O presente artigo tem como objetivo compreender como distintos grupos sociais, durante a Idade Média Central, garantiram as suas identidades por intermédio de um sistema de representações. Uma vez analisadas tais representações, discutiremos como se deram as relações entre a “cultura erudita” e a “cultura popular”, visto que, intrínsecas, compreendemos a circularidade das ideias e percebemos as práxis sociais estabelecidas entre ambas as culturas, assim como as suas divergências e apropriações.Palavras-chave: Cultura, Idade Média, Popular, Erudito. AbstractThe present article has the objective of understanding how distinct social groups, during the Central Middle Ages, guaranteed their identities through the system of representations. Once analyzed such representations we will discuss how worked the relations between “erudite culture” and “popular culture”, since, intrinsic, we understand the circularity of ideas and perceive the social praxis among both cultures, as well as their divergences and appropriations.Keywords: Culture, Middle Ages, Popular, Erudite.

scholarly journals El uso de subtítulos pasivos y activos en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras: una revisión de las posibilidades didácticas de ambos recursos

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-250
Author(s):  
Gloria Torralba-Miralles
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
One Step ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

After years of rejection and criticism blaming on their entertaining nature as a source of distraction within the classroom, in recent decades audiovisual translation has been accepted as a tool for language learning. Real-life needs have shown that watching subtitled audiovisual materials enhances language acquisition and foster varied skills, so that it has gained a place in the classroom. Recently, one step forward has been taken in the use of this resource, moving from passive subtitles to active subtitling, in order to turn the target receiver —the foreign-language student— into a subtitler. The present article reviews the didactic possibilities of both activities, analyses the benefits of active subtitling, and presents some subtitling programmes whose features make them feasible for use as a teaching tool.

scholarly journals "Semeja esti prado egual de paraíso" : Gonzalo de Berceo : Milagros de nuestra señora

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
László Vasas
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Landscape Elements ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Gonzalo De Berceo ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rational Order ◽  
Milagros De Nuestra Senora

The present article analyses some of the features that characterise Mariology. First of all, it focuses on the history of this peculiar area of theology, as a literary and epistemological code. The text itself, designated to illustrate the formation of a new literary and philosophical discourse, is the well known compilation Miracles of Our Lady by Gonzalo de Berceo, with special regard to the allegoric Introduction to the same work. Allegory was the most widespread narrative figure of social cultural texture in the Middle Ages. The Marian cult was an extraordinary literary revelation in the Europe of the 11-13th centuries. The chain of metaphors defining the Introduction to the Miracles implies a universal theological allegory concerning the role of the Virgin in the salvation of humanity. The interpretation of some landscape elements means not only the polysemic allegory for the creation of a cultural home but also signifies the conception of a new symbolical rational order and the combination of cultural registers. What is meant is the embedding of Christian narrative and a serious attempt to create a specific national and culturalpattern.

Troubling the Troublemakers Three Challenges to Post-Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110526
Author(s):  
Jesper Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Current State ◽  
One Step

In recent years, a number of prominent scholars have criticized the current state of qualitative research and advocated a paradigm of post-qualitative inquiry (PQI). Incorporating insights from new materialism, PQI seeks to trouble what it calls conventional humanist qualitative methodology (CHQM). Although sympathetic to this overall project, the present article identifies and discusses three challenges in current PQI, namely the roles it ascribes to theory, to data, and to writing. It is argued that PQI risks succumbing to 1) theory-centrism, 2) researcher deletion, and 3) meta-reflexivity. By pinpointing these three challenges, the article hopes to nudge PQI one step further in its continuous theoretical “becoming.”

Miron Costin și epoca în care a trăit

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Carmen Oprișor
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the present article we pointed out the historical context in which our culture came into being. We also showed what social and cultural conditions of the Middle Ages influenced the evolution of our civilization. Miron Costin`s work, a Romanian historian from the 17th century, was imbued with literary features. He was educated in Poland and he became an important scholar. Costin was very concerned with writing a chronicle with a complex structure and with elaborate sentences. He created memorable human portraits in vivid colours, and his remarks upon history and human nature are still relevant to us today. He was also the first writer whose chronicle proved to be the work of a gifted memorialist.

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