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Medieval Interventions eBook Series

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  • Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in Medieval French Drama

    by Andreea Marculescu ...
    Series Book 4 - Medieval Interventions
    Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the medieval possessed is placed in the category of the pathological. The symptoms of possession are part of a multilayered ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

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  • Abnormal

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Graham Burchell ...
    Series Book 4 - Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France
    In this seminal work, Foucault examines the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it."From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous Collège de France. Attended by thousands, these were pivotal events in the world of French letters. Abnormal, the first of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    by R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

    The Function of Avowal in Justice

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer ...
    Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Mystic Fable, Volume Two

    The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

    by Michel de Certeau ...
    Translated by Michael B. Smith ...
    Series series Religion and Postmodernism
    More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and theology, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern mysticism.Though the second ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Knowing Poetry

    Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"

    by Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay ...
    In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • On The Government of the Living

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980

    by M. Foucault ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves? ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

    Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist

    by Emmanuel Falque ...
    Translated by George Hughes ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    A philosophical and theological study of the eucharist in the Catholic Church.Emmanuel Falque's The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology's "backlash" against philosophy.By attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist, Falque develops a new ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

    Edited by Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Ethnography of Rhythm

    Orality and Its Technologies

    by Haun Saussy ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesWho speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

    Edited by Ullrich Langer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Possibility of a World

    Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Pierre-Philippe Jandin ...
    Translated by Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain ...
    In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life’s work. But like Schlegel’s historian—“a prophet facing backwards”—Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought.This journey through Nancy’s thought is interspersed with accounts of places and events and deeply personal ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD