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Author:   Dr Stephanie L. Hathaway ,  Dr David W. Kim ,  Amelia R. Brown ,  Alan Cadwallader
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.536kg
ISBN:  

9781441139085

ISBN 10:   1441139087
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Faith and Spirituality Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text, and Transmission from Greek to Coptic David W. Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK) St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism Alan Cadwallader (Australian Catholic University) Chivalry Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism Milad Milani (University of Western Sydney, Australia) From Knight to Chevalier: Chivalry in the chanson de geste Material from Aquitaine to Germany Stephanie L. Hathaway (University of Oxford, UK) Love and Literature Humour and Sexuality: Twelfth-Century Troubadours and Medieval Arabic Poetry Jerónimo Méndez (University of Valencia, Spain) Ladies, Lovers and Lais: A Comparison of Some Byzantine Romances with the Anglo-Norman Guigemar Andrew Stephenson (University of Melbourne, Australia) Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean Amelia R. Brown (University of Queensland, Australia) Material Culture The Urban Language of Early Constantinople: The Changing Roles of the Arts and Architecture in the Formation of the New Capital and the New Consciousness Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti (University of Kent, UK) There and Back Again: Cross-cultural Transmission of Clothing and Clothing Terminology Timothy Dawson (independent scholar) Index

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Stephanie L. Hathaway has published and presented papers on medieval queens and chivalry, medieval German epic, and the Saracens. Her monograph volume Saracens and Conversion: Chivalric Ideals in Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm is forthcoming in 2012. She is currently lecturing at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, UK. David W. Kim (PhD, Sydney) is a visiting research fellow at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research includes Nag Hammadi Literature, Coptic Gnostic Studies, NT, Dead Sea Scrolls, early Christianity, Contemporary Christianity, and Asian Religions. He has written The Community Rules of Thomas in the 'Fifth Gospel', Revival Awaken Generations, The Wind-Blowing Desert: Thomasine Scholarship, Women in the Qumran Community, How Korean Christians in Diaspora Read the Hebrew Canon?, and Mary and Her Public Actions in Thomas.

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