Search for dissertations about: "Medieval English language"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Medieval English language.

  2. 1. The Female Reader at the Round Table : Religion and Women in Three Contemporary Arthurian Texts

    Author : Kristina Hildebrand; Elizabeth Sklar; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; religion; women; gender; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mary Stewart; Stephen R. Lawhead; reader response; feminism; Arthurian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : Stretching back at least a thousand years, Arthurian literature constitutes a vigorous and varied genre that attracts scholarly attention. In a close reading of three modern Arthurian texts, Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), The Last Enchantment (1979), Marion Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon (1982), and Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Taliesin (1987), Merlin (1988), Arthur (1989), Pendragon (1994), and Grail (1997), this study focuses on the intersection between two of the genre’s motifs: religion and gender. READ MORE

  4. 2. Pearl and Contemplative Writing

    Author : Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. READ MORE

  5. 3. Responsiones Vadstenenses : Perspectives on the Birgittine Rule in Two Texts from Vadstena and Syon Abbey. A Critical Edition with Translation and Introduction

    Author : Elin Andersson; Claes Gejrot; Hans Aili; Christina Thomsen Törnqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin; Medieval Latin; Vadstena Abbey; Syon Abbey; St Albans; Saint Birgitta; the Birgittine order; Responsiones; Collacio; Regula Salvatoris; Addiciones Prioris Petri; medieval sermons; monasticism; monastic regulations; John Whethamstede; Thomas Fishbourne; Johannes Hildebrandi; Latin language; Latin; Latin; latin;

    Abstract : Syon Abbey, established as the first Birgittine monastery in England in 1415, quite soon became a powerful institution within the order. Although often asserting their own conceptions of the Rule, the English Birgittines still sought the advice of Vadstena, their mother house, when it came to certain important matters concerning monastic life. READ MORE

  6. 4. Deconstructing Tradition in Japanese Music : A Study of Shakuhachi, Historical Authenticity and Transmission of Tradition

    Author : Gunnar Jinmei Linder; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Mitsuru Saito; Thomas Hare; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japanese music; tradition; transmission; historical authenticity; shakuhachi; honkyoku; Kinko-ryū; Zen; Fuke; komusō; komosō; boro; Edo period; form; kata; Yamaguchi Gorō; Nattiez; poietic; esthesic; context; museme; idiomeme; 尺八　暮露　薦僧　虚無僧　普化　伝統　伝承　琴古流; Japanology; japanologi;

    Abstract : In the present study I examine the vertical bamboo flute shakuhachi, as an example of how a tradition can be constructed. There are two main issues: the historical authenticity of the believed origins and development of the shakuhachi tradition, and how the transmission of this tradition is conducted. READ MORE