Author: Conor McCarthy File Type: pdf Seamus Heaneys engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of Beowulf. This book, the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both Heaneys direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems. Each of the four chapters focuses substantially on a single major text Sweeney Astray (1983), Station Island (1984), Beowulf (1999) and The Testament of Cresseid (2004). The discussion examines Heaneys translation practice in relation to source texts from a variety of languages (Irish, Italian, Old English, and Middle Scots) from across the medieval period, and also in relation to Heaneys own broader body of work. It suggests that Heaneys translations and adaptations give a contemporary voice to medieval texts, bringing the past to bear upon contemporary concerns both personal and political. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Seamus Heaneys engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of Beowulf. This book, the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both Heaneys direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems. Each of the four chapters focuses substantially on a single major text Sweeney Astray (1983), Station Island (1984), Beowulf (1999) and The Testament of Cresseid (2004). The discussion examines Heaneys translation practice in relation to source texts from a variety of languages (Irish, Italian, Old English, and Middle Scots) from across the medieval period, and also in relation to Heaneys own broader body of work. It suggests that Heaneys translations and adaptations give a contemporary voice to medieval texts, bringing the past to bear upon contemporary concerns both personal and political.ReviewConor McCarthys brilliantly erudite and refreshingly unpretentious book (...) teaches us to read Heaneys Beowulf not as distinct from the rest of his work, but thoroughly integrated within it. --Times Higher Education Supplement(Provides) an excellent resource for students not just of Heaneys poetry, but also of medievalism more generally. A remarkable survey of Heaneys work and its debt to medieval poetry. (...)McCarthy has presented a compelling analysis of Heaneys use of medieval poetry that should be of great interest to the growing body of scholars interested in medievalism. --The Medieval Review About the AuthorConor McCarthy lives in Sydney, where he works in External Relations for the University of Technology, Sydney. He received his PhD from Trinity College, Dublin his previous books are Marriage in Medieval England Law, Literature and Practice and Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages A Sourcebook.

Author: Hunter H. Gardner File Type: pdf Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genres brief flowering during the Augustan Principate, it aims to situate the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid in their social and political milieu. The volume argues that the imperatives of the new regime, which encouraged a younger generation of loyalists to participate in the machinery of government, placed temporal pressures on the elite male that shaped the amators (poet-lovers) resistance to enter a course of civil service and prompted his withdrawal into the arms of a courtesan, and therefore unmarriageable, beloved. In the second part of the volume Gardner focuses on the divergent temporal experiences of the amator and his beloved courtesan-puella (girl) through the lens of womens time (le temps des femmes) and the chora, as theorized by psycholinguist Julia Kristeva. Kristevas model of feminine subjectivity, defined by repetition, cyclicality, and eternity, allows us to understand how the beloveds marginalization from the realm of historical time proves advantageous to her amator, wishing to defer his entrance into civic life. The antithesis between the properties of womens time and the linear momentum that defines masculine subjectivity, moreover, demonstrates how womens time ultimately thwarts the amators often promised generic evolution. **

Author: Mihaela D. Leonida File Type: pdf This book describes in detail the materials and techniques used by medieval iconographers. It offers information about the natural sources, the raw materials, the tools and the technologies involved in preparing them. The book allows entry into the secretive world of very knowledgeable and skilled artisans, about which very little is known. Topics covered include raw materials, pigments, binders, solvents, adhesives, inks and varnishes. Special chapters will be dedicated to the fresco technique as practiced by the early iconographers, grinding, painting on glass and the trainingapprenticeship of these craftsmen.

Author: James R. Akerman File Type: pdf Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward. Mapping their own land is fraught with a fresh set of issues how to define and administer their territories, develop their national identity, establish their role in the community of nations, and more. The contributors to Decolonizing the Map explore this complicated relationship between mapping and decolonization while engaging with recent theoretical debates about the nature of decolonization itself. These essays, originally delivered as the 2010 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, encompass more than two centuries and three continentsLatin America, Africa, and Asia. Ranging from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth, contributors study topics from mapping and national identity in late colonial Mexico to the enduring complications created by the partition of British India and the racialized organization of space in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. A vital contribution to studies of both colonization and cartography, Decolonizing the Map is the first book to systematically and comprehensively examine the engagement of mapping in the longand clearly unfinishedparallel processes of decolonization and nation building in the modern world. **Review Excellent scholarship permeates every chapter of Decolonizing the Map. The essays collected here by Akerman are subtle, tightly argued, and carefully crafted the standard of analysis and exposition is uniformly high. This fascinating volume will be widely read and enthusiastically received by a readership spanning political history, historical geography, and, of course, the history of cartography. (Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham) Decolonizing the Map examines how maps were used before and after independence movements to establish new nations that emerged in the lengthy decolonization process. In different contexts, the contributors reveal not only how maps served as a basis for the construction of those nations but also how they were reflections of those recently emerged entities, condensing all the characteristics and contradictions of each process. This book is a pioneering intellectual enterprisea highly recommended and welcome contribution to the field. (Junia Ferreira Furtado, Federal University of Minas Gerais) About the Author James R. Akerman is Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library and director of the librarys Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. He is editor of Cartographies of Travel and Navigation and The Imperial Map, and coeditor of Maps Finding Our Place in the World, all published by the University of Chicago Press.