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Acts of Recognition - Essays on Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Acts of Recognition - Essays on Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in
various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in
his preface, "The one persistent recognition that emerged from
writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that whatever the
text . . . and whoever the people . . ., the values at issue remain
central to contemporary life." Two dialectics are at work in this
book: that between the past and the present and that between the
individual and the social, and both have moral significance. The
first two chapters are methodological; the first is on the
historical understanding of medieval literature and the second on
how to manage the inseparability of fact and value in the
classroom. The next three chapters take up three "less-read" late
medieval writers: Sir John Clanvowe, Thomas Hoccleve, and John
Lydgate. Each is used to illuminate a social phenomenon: the nature
of court culture, the experience of the city, and Henry V's act of
self-making. The following chapter explicitly links past and
present by arguing that the bearing of the English aristocrat comes
from a tradition beginning with Beowulf and later reinvoked in
response to nineteenth-century imperialism. The next three chapters
are the most literary, dealing with Chaucer and with literary
conventions in relation to a number of texts. The final chapter is
on the man Patterson considers one of the most important of our
medieval ancestors, Francis of Assisi.
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