Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries (Hardcover)

This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla Maria Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Explorations in Medieval Culture, 11
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Volume editors:	Jay Paul Gates • Brian T. O'Camb
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-39515-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	90-04-39515-6
Barcode:	9789004395152

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