Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context - Essays in Honour of David F. Johnson (Hardcover)

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch. Few scholars have contributed as much to the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contacts with the Low Countries than Professor David F. Johnson. His wide-ranging scholarship embraces both the textual traditions of Old English, especially in manuscript production, and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch, highlighting their common texts, motifs, and themes. Taking Johnson's work as its starting point and model, the essays collected here investigate early English manuscript production and preservation, illuminating the complexities of reinterpreting Old English poetry, particularly Beowulf, and then go on to pursue those nuances through later English and Middle Dutch Arthurian romances and drama, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, and the Roman van Walewein. They explore a plethora of material, including early medieval textual traditions and stone sculpture, and draw on a range of approaches, such as Body and Disability Theories. Overall, the aim is to bring multiple disciplines into dialogue with each other, in order to present a richer and more nuanced view of the medieval literary past and cross-cultural contact between England and the Low Countries, from the pre-Conquest period to the late-Middle Ages, thus forming a most appropriate tribute to Professor Johnson's pioneering work.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Larissa Tracy (Royalty Account) • Geert H.M. Claassens
Contributors:	R.M. Liuzza (Author) • Rolf H. Bremmer • Thomas A. Bredehoft (Contributor) • Rachel C. S. Duke • Martin Foys (Customer) • Stephen Harris (Customer) • Danielle Allor • Stacy S. Klein
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-634-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	1-84384-634-9
Barcode:	9781843846345

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