"The 'new' new historicist shift from a Foucauldian modelling of the infinitely malleable instrumentation of power, in which writers like Hoccleve are inevitably complicit, to a more flexible model in which authority is typically anxious and unstable, open to compromise and negotiation, and where writers can mak significant interventions, is welcome. Perkins's book is a triumph of this new approach. MEDIUM AEVUM (Derek Pearsall) ..."
""An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture". Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound ..."
Harbor of the heartlands(1st Edition) A history of the inland seaport of Stockton, California, from the Gold Rush to 1985 by NicholasPerkins Hardeman, Walter A. Payne Hardcover, 275 Pages, Published 1982 by University Of The Pacific ISBN-13: 978-0-931156-15-1, ISBN: 0-931156-15-7
Wilderness Calling(1st Edition) The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750-1900 by NicholasPerkins Hardeman Hardcover, 357 Pages, Published 1977 by Univ Of Tennessee Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87049-194-8, ISBN: 0-87049-194-6
"From chivalrous knights to damsels in distress, fire-breathing dragons, and high-walled towers, the characteristics and expectations we ascribe to stories of love and romance have their origins in some of the most beautiful and intriguing books of the Middle Ages. Encompassing Arthurian legends, Alexander the Great’s global conquests, sudden reversals of fortune, revenge, or enchantment, images and tales of medieval romance still ..."
"Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how ro ..."
Gifts & Books From Early Myth to the Present by Perkins, Nicholas Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2023 by Bodleian Library, University Of Oxford ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-610-6, ISBN: 1-85124-610-X