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Medieval Literature and Social Politics - Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts (Paperback)
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Medieval Literature and Social Politics - Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen
articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily
focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature,
in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early
heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and
conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the
Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to
contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine
Chaucer's readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of
the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in
ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine
the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur', and the ways in which
Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern
studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book
will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as
well as those interested in social and political history, medieval
literature and modern medievalism.
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