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Annual volume on medieval textual cultures, engaging with
intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing
the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an
annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with
intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its
scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival,
philological, and historicist methodologies associated with
medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European
cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with
widely varied themes: law and literature; manuscript production,
patronage, and aesthetics; real and imagined geographies; gender
and its connections to narrative theory and to psychoanalysis.
Investigations range from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries,
from England to the eastern Mediterranean. New arguments are put
forward about the dating, context, and occasion of Geoffrey
Chaucer's Boece, while the narrative dynamics of Chaucer's
"Franklin's Tale" and "Tale of Melibee" are examined from new
perspectives. The topography of the Holy Lands appears both as a
set of emotional sites, depicted in the Prick of Conscience in its
account of the end of the world, and as co-ordinates in the
cultural imaginary of medieval the wine-trade. Grendel's mother
emerges as the invisible and unavowable centre of male heroic
culture in Beowulf, and the fourteenth-century St Erkenwald is
brought into contact with the community-building project of the
medieval death investigation. Finally, the late medieval Speculum
Christiani is revealed to be a work with deep aesthetic investments
when read through the framework of how its medieval scribes
encountered and shaped that work.
Annual volume showcasing the best new work in this field. New
Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual
cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism
in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across
the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist
methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and
embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined.
Essays in this volume engage with widely varied themes, from
confession in the domestic household to international politics and
statecraft; experimental scientific knowledge, and the supernatural
world of demons; canonical Arthurian romance, and scholastic
theology in the vernacular; monastic historiographical visions, and
geographies of pilgrimage. Investigations range from the twelfth to
the fifteenth centuries, and from England to the Holy Land.
Chretien de Troyes's Le chevalier de la charrette and Geoffrey
Chaucer's Friar's Tale are examined in new ways, and with new
conclusions for their engagements with technologies of embodiment
and the hermeneutics of bodily contact; Lazamon's Brut is shown to
bring the expectations of monastic historiography into the
vernacular, while Reginald Pecock's radical and sophisticated
vernacular theology is explicated in all its dangerous heterodoxy.
Multiple narratives converge and are occluded at the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron; Albert the Great experiments with animals and
reorients humans in the natural world; Alain Chartier strives to
build a united French state. Finally, domestic, familial, and civic
bonds of obligation emerge in the shared textual communities of
anonymous, late-medieval confessional forms. CONTRIBUTORS: ROBYN A.
BARTLETT, KANTIK GHOSH, AYLIN MALCOLM, ALASTAIR MINNIS, LUKE
SUNDERLAND, JAMIE K. TAYLOR, HANNAH WEAVER, LUCAS WOOD.
Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry,
major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in
England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth
centuries. John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the
first work of English literature translated into any European
language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century
Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts ofthe Confessio, the nineteen
essays brought together here represent new and original approaches
to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include
major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts;of the
ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the
glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale
Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst
Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing;
and speculate on possible providers of the Confessio to Philippa,
daughter of John of Gaunt and queenof Portugal. Further chapters
broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at
Gower's use of Virgilian/Dantean models; classical gestures in the
Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals
and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of "the
good" in the Confessio; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian
narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and
Iberia; reading the Confessio through the lens of gift exchange;
literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain
Chartier as international initiators of a new "public poetry"; and
the modern sales history of manuscript and earlyprinted copies of
the Confessio, and what it reveals about literary trends. Ana Saez
Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid,
Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languagesand
chair of the department at the University of West Florida.
Contributors: Maria Bullon-Fernandez, David R. Carlson, Sian
Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Viula de Faria,
Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galvan, Marta Maria Gutierrez Rodriguez,
Mauricio Herrero Jimenez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto
Lazaro, Maria Luisa Lopez-Vidriero Abello, Matthew McCabe, Alastair
J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop
Wetherbee
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Medieval Obscenities (Paperback)
Nicola F. McDonald, Nicola McDonald; Contributions by Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis, Carolyne Larrington, Danuta Shanzer, …
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Obscenity is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and
it is here examined in a number of different media. Obscenity is,
if nothing else, controversial. Its definition, consumption and
regulation fire debate about the very meaning of art and culture,
law, politics and ideology. And it is often, erroneously, assumed
to be synonymous with modernity. Medieval Obscenities examines the
complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive,
indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late
antiquity through to the end of the Middle Ages in western Europe.
Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and
it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate. The essays
examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the
Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church
courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty words,
as well as the modern reception and representation of the medieval
obscene. They demonstrate not only the vitality of medieval
obscenity, but its centrality to our understanding of the Middle
Ages and ourselves. Contributors: MICHAEL CAMILLE, GLENN DAVIS,
EMMA DILLON, SIMON GAUNT, JEREMY GOLDBERG, EAMONN KELLY, CAROLYNE
LARRINGTON, NICOLAMCDONALD, ALASTAIR MINNIS, DANUTA SHANZER
This is the first volume to be published by York Medieval Press,
under the aegis of University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies
in association with Boydell & Brewer, with the aim of promoting
innovative scholarship and fresh criticism on medieval culture. It
has a special commitment to interdisciplinary study, in line with
the Centre's belief that the future of medieval studies lies in
areas in which its major disciplines at once inform and challenge
each other. The attitudes towards the human body held by different
branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of
scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press
includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body,
Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to
ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995
Quodlibet Lecture given by Eamon Duffy on the early iconography and
lives' of St Francis of Assisi..... Thenew scholarly essays
collected here explore ways in which the human body - a major focus
of attention in recent work on literary theory and cultural studies
-was treated by several branches of medieval theology; they are
derived in the mainfrom a conference held at York in 1995, under
the title This Body of Death', together with further invited papers
on the same theme. It includes the first of the Annual Quodlibet
Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly study of the
early iconography and lives' of St Francis of Assisi. PETER BILLER
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York;
A.J. MINNIS is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University
of York. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID
LUSCOMBE, W.G.EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN,
EAMON DUFFY
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study "From the Ordeal to
Confession", delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval
intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius
commentary. This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the
medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the
Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work to the
intellectual culturewhich made it possible.It begins with the
fullest study yet undertakenof the Boethius commentary of Nicholas
Trevet, this being a majorsource of the Boece. There follow
editions and translationsof the major passages in Trevet's
commentary whereNeoplatonic issuesare confronted, then Chaucer's
debt to Trevet is assessed in a detailedreview. The many choices
which faced Chaucer as a translator are indicated and the Boeceis
placed in a long line of interpreters of Boethius in which both
Latin commentators and vernacular translators played their parts.
Finally, a view is offered of the Boece as anexample of
late-medieval `academic translation': if the Boeceis assigned to
this genre, it may be judged a considerable success.
Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting
the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Derek Brewer
(1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the
twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching,
and later as the founder of his own academic publishing firm. His
working life of some sixty years, from the late 1940s to the 2000s,
saw enormous advances in the study of Chaucer and of Arthurian
romance, and of medieval literature more generally. He was in the
forefront of such changes, and his understandings ofChaucer and of
Malory remain at the core of the modern critical mainstream. Essays
in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and
interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key
areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which
remain central: Chaucer's knight and knightly virtues;
class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving
in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love,friendship and
masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of
romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory's
Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book;
Chaucer's poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian
afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile
of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential
of Derek Brewer's work is being reinterpreted and is renewing
itself now and into the future of medieval studies. Charlotte
Brewer is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford
University and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; Barry Windeatt
is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald,
Charlotte Brewer, Mary Carruthers, Christopher Cannon, Helen
Cooper, A.S.G. Edwards, Jill Mann, Alastair Minnis, Derek Pearsall,
Corinne Saunders, James Simpson, A.C. Spearing, Jacqueline
Tasioulas, Robert Yeager, Barry Windeatt.
11 studies of different types of late-medieval religious
literature, in English, French and Latin. This collection of new
essays constitutes the proceedings of the sixth York Manuscripts
Conference, held at the University of York in July 1991. Dr Doyle's
lively introductory address is followed by eleven studies which
range widely over the different types and genres of religious
literature which were produced in late-medieval England, paying
attention to both verse and prose, and representing the three
literary languages of the time, English, French andLatin, though
concentrating on texts in English. Contributors: IAN DOYLE, BELLA
MILLETT, O.S. PICKERING, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE, THOMAS G. DUNCAN,
SUE POWELL, RALPH HANNA III, VINCENT GILLESPIE, ANNE HUDSON, ALAN
J. FLETCHER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, JOHN J. THOMPSON
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature
and the early formation of the canon of English poetry. A wide
range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain
poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of
Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is
read in termsof theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture,
and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial
and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the
book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's
Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is
essential reading for anyone interested in the production and
transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of
the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A.
BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G.
EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL
M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD,
ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study `From the Ordeal to
Confession', delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde
and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central
to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems,
l>Troilus and Criseyde/l> and l>The Knight's Tale/l>,
belong to the literary genre known as the romance of antiquity'
(which first appeard in the mid 12th century), in which the ancient
pagan world is shown on its own terms, without the blatant
Christian bias against paganism characteristic of works like the
l>Chanson de Roland/l>, where the writer is concerned with
present-day rather than classical forms of paganism. Chaucer's
attitudes to antiquity were influenced, but not determined, by
those found in the compilations, commentaries, mythographies and
history books which we know that he knew. These sources illuminate
the manner in which he transformed Boccaccio. Much modern criticism
has concentrated on the medieval veneer of manners and fashions
which are ascribed to the heathen protagonists of
l>Troilus/l> and l>The Knight's Tale/l>; Dr Minnis
examines the other side of the coin, Chaucer's historical interest
in cultures very different from his own. The paganism in these
poems is not mere background and setting, but an essential part of
their overall meaning.
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