Liam o. purdon (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Clean, crisp, bright; no owners' marks; lacks dust jacket and shows a slght inward turn at the bottom right front corner and some shelf rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects: To 1500; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Order (Philosophy) in literature; Feudalism in literature; Literature and society History To 1500. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: as new. Gainesville : University Press of Florida,1994. Orig. cloth binding. xxii,338p. Index. Condition : fine. - The metaphor of the hauberk, a tunic of chain mail that rusts over time, shapes and unifies this investigation of medieval culture. These essays question the very rubric of the feudal ideal, demonstrating that in historical and legal practice, and in imaginative and didactic writing, a breach often exists between ideal and practice. The authors challenge the notion of a fixed historical construct, emphasizing instead that all constructs must be elastic to allow historical perspectives to enlarge. Contents : Part I: Resisting Dissolution: Validating Feudal Ideals of Order. Feudal Relations and Reason in Cleanness, by Cindy L. Vitto; Imagining Feudalism in Piers Plowman: Attempts to Restore an Order, by Daniel F. Pigg; Part II: Containing Change: Modifying Feudal Ideals of Order; Potency and Power: Chaucer's Aristocrats and Their Linguistic Superiority, by Jean E. Jost; Chivalry and Feudal Obligation in Barbour's Bruce, by Liam O. Purdon and Julian N. Wasserman; Part III: Disenfranchising Women: Limiting Feudal Ideals of Order; As Good as Her Word: Women's Language in The Knight of the Tour d'Landry, by Cynthia Ho; Men's Theory and Women's Reality: Rape Prosecutions in the English Royal Courts of Justice, 1194-1222, by Patricia Orr; Part IV: Experiencing Feudal Realities: Enduring Feudal Ideals of Order; Par amur et par feid: Keeping Faith and the Varieties of Feudalism in La Chanson de Roland, by William T. Cotton; When Feudal Ideals Failed: Conflicts between Lords and Vassals in the Low Countries, 1127-1296, by Karen Nicholas; Part V: Rejecting Chivalry: Reinscribing Feudal Ideals of Order; Feudal Chivalry in Popular Medieval Battle Poems, by John W. Schwetman; The Roman de Jaufre and the Illusions of Romance, by Ross G. Arthur; Part VI: Surveying Ruins: Considering the Absence of Feudal Ideals of Order; Chaucer Subjectivizes the Oath: Depicting the Fall from Feudalism into Individualism in the Canterbury Tales, by Lois Roney; John Rastell and the Norman Conquest: Tudor Theories about the Feudal Age, by Amos Lee Laine Afterword Chivalry and the Other, by Jane Chance Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780813012810. Keywords : HISTORY, history of law.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 338 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.02x6.10x0.79 inches. In Stock.