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The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, Korea: A Cartographic History provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans alike. Largely chronological in its organization, Korea begins by examining the differing cartographic traditions prevalent in the early Joseon period in Korea—roughly 1400 to 1600—and its temporal equivalent in early modern Europe. As one of the longest continuous dynasties, Joseon rule encompassed an enormous range and depth of cartographic production. Short then surveys the cartographic encounters from 1600 to 1900, distinguishing between the early and late Joseon periods and highlighting the influences of China, Japan, and the rest of the world on Korean cartography. In his final section, Short covers the period from Japanese colonial control of Korea to the present day and demonstrates how some of the tumultuous events of the past hundred years are recorded and contested in maps. He also explores recent cartographic controversies, including the naming of the East Sea/Sea of Japan and claims of ownership of the island of Dokdo. A common theme running throughout Short's study is how the global flow of knowledge and ideas affects mapmaking, and Short reveals how Korean mapmakers throughout history have embodied, reflected, and even contested these foreign depictions of their homeland.

Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469–1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue—the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later centuries. Yet these letters also furnish a detailed portrait of an early modern woman's private experience, for Cereta addressed many letters to a close circle of family and friends, discussing highly personal concerns such as her difficult relationships with her mother and her husband. Taken together, these letters are a testament both to an individual woman and to enduring feminist concerns.

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age. Wife of Piero de' Medici and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Tornabuoni exerted considerable influence on Florence's political and social affairs. She was also, as this volume illustrates, a gifted and prolific poet. This is the first major collection in any language of her extensive body of religious poems. Ranging from gentle lyrics on the Nativity to moving dialogues between a crucified Christ and the weeping sinner who kneels before him, the nine laudi (poems of praise) included here are among the few such poems known to have been written by a woman. Tornabuoni's five storie sacre, narrative poems based on the lives of biblical figures-three of whom, Judith, Susanna, and Esther, are Old Testament heroines-are virtually unique in their range and expressiveness. Together with Jane Tylus's substantial introduction, these poems offer us both a fascinating portrait of a highly educated and creative woman and a lively sense of cultural and social life in Renaissance Florence.

Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469–1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue—the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later centuries. Yet these letters also furnish a detailed portrait of an early modern woman’s private experience, for Cereta addressed many letters to a close circle of family and friends, discussing highly personal concerns such as her difficult relationships with her mother and her husband. Taken together, these letters are a testament both to an individual woman and to enduring feminist concerns.

Marie de France et Chrétien de Troyes sont deux des écrivains français les plus influents du XIIe siècle. Ces deux poètes utilisent différents dispositifs et thèmes de l'amour courtois, un modèle de la façon dont l'amour était dépeint dans la littérature à cette époque, pour mettre en garde contre la folie et les dangers auxquels pourrait conduire l'adhésion aux doctrines de ce modèle. Ils utilisent la voix narrative et les commentaires des personnages pour expliquer directement aux lecteurs pourquoi l'amour courtois n'est pas un exemple idéal à suivre, et ils s'appuient sur les résultats de leurs histoires pour décrire les résultats potentiels pour ceux qui adhèrent ou non à ce code. d'amour courtois. Ils utilisent également leurs histoires pour exprimer l'importance de la modération et de la raison dans tous les aspects de la vie.Dans cette thèse, j'analyse en profondeur six des douze Lais de Marie de France (Guigemar, Yonec, Les Malheureux, Equitan, Le Frêne et Eliduc) pour montrer comment ses œuvres favorisent l'amour inconditionnel et punissent l'amour égoïste. J'explique comment elle utilise la voix narrative pour soutenir ou condamner directement les actions de ses personnages. Je démontre également comment la fin de chaque histoire peut être une récompense pour un amour désintéressé et sacrificiel ou une punition pour un amour intéressé ou pour une intention malveillante envers un personnage innocent.Je poursuis mon analyse avec trois œuvres de Chrétien de Troyes : Erec et Enide ; Yvain, ou le Chevalier au Lion; et Lancelot, le chevalier de la Charrette. J'explique comment les deux premières histoires montrent la démesure d'un chevalier dans l'amour ou la chevalerie et comment il doit subir une série d'épreuves et de batailles pour corriger ce déséquilibre dans sa vie et renforcer son amour pour sa femme. Je montre aussi comment ces histoires promeuvent l'idée d'un amour pur et idéal au sein d'un mariage. La dernière de ces histoires parle d'un amour adultère, qui ne semble pas être toléré ou condamné dans le texte, mais les amants n'obtiennent jamais une réconciliation heureuse à la fin. J'explique aussi en quoi cette histoire exhibe particulièrement le ridicule qui peut accompagner l'amour courtois.J'ai spécifiquement cherché à comparer les œuvres de Marie de France et de Chrétien de Troyes parce qu'elles semblent toutes deux utiliser des doctrines et des dispositifs différents de l'amour courtois spécifiquement pour condamner sa pratique et sa glorification et pour démontrer à la place un amour alternatif que l'on peut rechercher et qui sera durable. et inconditionnel. Je voulais aussi souligner à quel point leurs représentations de la modération (ou de la démesure) dans l'amour et la chevalerie étaient cohérentes dans l'ensemble de leurs œuvres.

Marc'hadour talks about Elizabeth McCutcheon's \"Playing the Waiting Game: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Wolley.\" McCutcheson's title alludes to the heroine's highly visible and influential position as gentlewoman-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, who termed her \"my sweet apple\" and stood godmother to her only child, Francis Wolley.

Les saisons suscitent dans ('imagination littéraire du moyen Ðge en Angleterre bien des façons d'exprimer la dimension morale et spirituelle de la vie humaine. Malgré ¡'absence de saisons dans te livre de la Genese, les divisions de ľannée et les vicissitudes du elimat sont perçues comme le reflet du contraste entre ľ ordre divin et la vulnérabilité de l'homme. Dans Sir Gawain, le Troilus de Chaucer, le Testament de Henryson et le mystėre de la Nativitě (Towneley), le symbolisme traditionnel des saisons est inversé : le printemps, qui promet ľespoir, mene au chagrin ; et ľhiver, qui fait craindre la mort, mene à ľespoir : la naissance du Christ, la survie de Gawain par la connaissance de soi.