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Europe - Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Paperback)
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Europe - Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Paperback)
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first
yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by
trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease,
and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep
context for understanding current developments in Europe,
particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World
War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes:
the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary
cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground
zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to
live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now,
and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are
explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for
a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between
Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the
West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic
literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus;
Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of
Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well
as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18
western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also
exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the
East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from
nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth
century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of
European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and
regenerative power.
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