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Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to
orient their wanderings through a world punctuated with miraculous
wonders and long-lost landmarks. Medievalist Anthony Bale gives us
a vivid and alluring on-the-ground and ship’s view, recounting
the advice that circulated among those venturing to the road for
pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy, and war. He takes us on the streets
of Rome, more ruin than tourist spot, and by ass to those of
Jerusalem under Mamluk control. We learn of believed-in—but
fantastical—places, like one where lambs grow on trees.
Throughout, we experience ships stuck in doldrums, lurking bandits,
and wondrous monuments. Using previously untranslated
contemporaneous documents from places disparate as Turkey, Iceland,
North Africa, and Russia, Bale serves as our guide into how
medieval Europeans understood—and often misunderstood—the
larger world.
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen
through the eyes of those who travelled across it From the bustling
bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep
were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A
Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel
across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and
long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and
saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the
ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing
everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and
flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with
princesses. Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts
from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and
Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that
blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering
the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval
people understood their world.
The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here
re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances
and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became
enemies and victims. The mass suicide and murder of the men, women
and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is
one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism,
and an aspect of England's medieval past which is widely remembered
around the world. However, the York massacre was in fact only one
of a series of attacks on communities of Jews across England in
1189-90; they were violent expressions of wider new constructs of
the nature of Christian and Jewish communities, and the targeted
outcries of local townspeople, whose emerging urban politics were
enmeshed within the swiftly developing structures of royal
government. This new collection considers the massacreas central to
the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200. Its
chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually
considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built
up, both at the timeand in following years. They also focus on two
main strands: the role of narrative in shaping events and their
subsequent perception; and the degree of convivencia between Jews
and Christians and consideration of the circumstances and processes
through which neighbours became enemies and victims. Sarah Rees
Jones is Senior Lecturer in History, Sethina Watson Lecturer, at
the University of York. Contributors: Sethina Watson, Sarah Rees
Jones, Joe Hillaby, Nicholas Vincent, Alan Cooper, Robert C.
Stacey, Paul Hyams, Robin R. Mundill, Thomas Roche, Eva de
Visscher, Pinchas Roth, Ethan Zadoff, Anna Sapir Abulafia, Heather
Blurton, Matthew Mesley, Carlee A.Bradbury, Hannah Johnson, Jeffrey
J. Cohen, Anthony Bale
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Chaucer and Religion (Hardcover)
Helen Phillips; Contributions by Alcuin Blamires, Anthony Bale, Carl Phelpstead, D. Thomas Hanks Jr, …
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New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious
controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious
scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view
Chaucer's relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and
studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment?
The essays here, on [the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde,
lyrics and dream poems, aim to provide an orientation on the study
of the the religions, the religious traditions and the religious
controversies of his era - and to offer new perspectives upon them.
Using a variety of theoretical, critical and historical approaches,
they deal with topics that include Chaucer in relation to lollardy,
devotion to the saint and the Virgin Mary, Judaism andIslam, and
the Bible; attitudes towards sex, marriage and love; ethics, both
Christian and secular; ideas on death and the Judgement; Chaucer's
handling of religious genres such as hagiography and miracles, as
well as other literary traditions - romance, ballade, dream poetry,
fablliaux and the middle ages' classical inheritance - which pose
challenges to religious world views. These are complemented by
discussion of a range of issues related to teachingChaucer in
Britain and America today, drawn from practical experience.
Contributors: Anthony Bale, Alcuin Blamires, Laurel Broughton,
Helen Cooper, Graham D. Caie, Roger Dalrymple, Dee Dyas, D. Thomas
Hanks Jr., Stephen Knight, Carl Phelpstead, Helen Phillips, David
Raybin, Sherry Reames, Jill Rudd.
'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!' The Book of
Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a
medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest
autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book
describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed
businesswoman and lustful young wife to devout and chaste pilgrim.
She vividly describes her prayers and visions, as well as the
temptations in daily life to which she succumbed before dedicating
herself to her spiritual calling. She travelled to the most holy
sites of the medieval world, including Rome and Jerusalem. In her
life and her boisterous devotion, Kempe antagonized many of those
around her; yet she also garnered friends and supporters who helped
to record her experiences. Her Book opens a window on to the
medieval world, and provides a fascinating portrait of one woman's
life, aspirations, and prayers. This new translation preserves the
forceful narrative voice of Kempe's Book and includes a
wide-ranging introduction and useful notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities
offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the
significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century
English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by
leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive
overview of the significant authors and important aspects of
fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury,
John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis,
alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave, Osbern
Bokenham, Peter Idley, George Ashby and John Audelay. In addition,
several essays examine genres and topics, including romance,
popular, historical and scientific poetry, and translations from
the classics. Other chapters investigate the crucial contexts for
approaching poetry of this period: manuscript circulation,
patronageand the influence of Chaucer. Julia Boffey is Professor of
Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; A.S.G.
Edwards is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of
Kent. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards,
Susanna Fein, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Sarah James, Andrew
King, Sheila Lindenbaum, Joanna Martin, Carol Meale, Robert
Meyer-Lee, Ad Putter, John Scattergood, Anke Timmermann,
DanielWakelin, David Watt.
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes
articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between
eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This
volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain,
primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old
French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it
differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as
the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of
clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and
transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and
the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St
Michel. Amanda Hopkins teaches in the Department of English and
Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the
University of Warwick. Cory James Rushton is in the Department of
English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Contributors: Anthony Bale, Jane Bliss, Michael Cichon, Thomas H.
Crofts III, Alex Davis, Kristina Hildebrand, Amanda Hopkins,Simon
Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Margaret Robson, Robert Rouse,
Cory James Rushton, Corinne Saunders.
The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval
England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund,
king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869,
was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was
favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich
array of visual,literary, musical and political artefacts.
Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St
Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and
Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from
a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history
- and of sources - chronicles, poems, theological material -
providing an overview of the multi-faceted nature of St Edmund's
cult, from the ninthcentury to the early modern period. They
demonstrate the openness and dynamism of a medieval saint's cult,
showing how the saint's image could be used in many and changing
contexts: Edmund's image was bent to various political
andpropagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and
ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief. CONTRIBUTORS:
ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD,
LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE
This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and
pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all
over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious
visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often
called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony
Bale charts her life, and tells her story through the places,
relationships, objects and experiences that influenced her.
Extensive quotation from Kempe's Book, and generous illustration,
gives fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman.
Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her
time, and her religious visions and later years put in context.
Lastly there is the story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the
unique manuscript of her autobiography.
The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here
re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances
and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became
enemies and victims. The mass suicide and murder of the men, women
and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is
one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism,
and an aspect of England's medieval past which is widely remembered
around the world. However, the York massacre was in fact only one
of a series of attacks on communities of Jews across England in
1189-90; they were violent expressions of wider new constructs of
the nature of Christian and Jewish communities, and the targeted
outcries of local townspeople, whose emerging urban politics were
enmeshed within the swiftly developing structures of royal
government. This new collection considers the massacreas central to
the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200. Its
chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually
considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built
up, both at the timeand in following years. They also focus on two
main strands: the role of narrative in shaping events and their
subsequent perception; and the degree of convivencia between Jews
and Christians and consideration of the circumstances and processes
through which neighbours became enemies and victims. SARAH REES
JONES is Professor, and SETHINA WATSON Senior Lecturer, in History
at the University of York. Contributors: Sethina Watson, Sarah Rees
Jones, Joe Hillaby, Nicholas Vincent, Alan Cooper, Robert C.
Stacey, Paul Hyams, Robin R. Mundill, Thomas Roche, Eva de
Visscher, Pinchas Roth, Ethan Zadoff, Anna Sapir Abulafia, Heather
Blurton, Matthew Mesley, Carlee A. Bradbury, Hannah Johnson,
Jeffrey J. Cohen, Anthony Bale
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes
articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between
eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This
volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain,
primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old
French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it
differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as
the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of
clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and
transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and
the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St
Michel. Contributors: ALEX DAVIS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JANE BLISS,
SUE NIEBRZYDOWSKI, KRISTINA HILDEBRAND, ANTHONY BALE, CORY JAMES
RUSHTON, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, ROBERT ROUSE, MARGARET
ROBSON, THOMAS H. CROFTS III, MICHAEL CICHON. AMANDA HOPKINS
teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick;
CORY RUSHTON is in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier
University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive
volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays
written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less
well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of
supporting bibliographies organized by type of voyage. This
anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern
edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on
'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps and the Organization of Space',
'Encounters', 'Codes and Languages', 'Trade and Exchange', and
'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organizing principle for the
anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local
English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route
destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the
anthology contains twenty-six texts or extracts, including new
editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The
Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucers 'Squire's Tale', in
addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula
Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes, 1480, and Richard Torkington's
Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in
turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts
by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas:
'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps,
rutters, and charts', 'practical needs, languages, and currencies',
and 'religious voyages'.
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a
journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many
wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written
in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact
and fantasy, an extraordinary travel narrative that offers some
revealing and unexpected attitudes towards other races and
religions. It was immensely popular, and numbered among its readers
Chaucer, Columbus, and Thomas More. Here Mandeville tells us about
the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical
Christian prince Prester John. There are giants and pygmies,
cannibals and Amazons, headless humans and people with a single
foot so huge it can shield them from the sun. Forceful and
opinionated, the narrator is by turns learned, playful, and
moralizing, with an endless curiosity about different cultures.
Anthony Bale provides a lively new translation along with an
introduction that considers questions of authorship and origins,
the early travel narrative, Crusading and religious difference,
fantasy and the European Age of Discovery, and Mandeville's
pervasive popularity and influence. The book includes helpful notes
on historical context that provide insights into medieval culture
and attitudes. There are also three maps, an index of places and a
general index, and a note on medieval measurements.
About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
How were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and
romanticised by the various communities that experienced or
remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the
diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading
over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to
understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary
medievalism, in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and
jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders'
imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from
Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the crusaders' hold on
Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, the desire for Jerusalem has
had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media.
Blood is something that all humans share: a vital force that
courses through our veins - the giver of life. This book gathers
together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars which
reflect on the religious, historical, and medical dimensions of
blood. Written for a broad audience and illustrated with full
colour plates, the essays encompass history, literature, art
history, religious studies and medical humanities and explore some
of the most challenging issues surrounding blood and ritual. The
themes covered include: blood in Christian and Jewish culture,
medieval antisemitism, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Jewish
ritual, blood and 'race', Jews and genes.
This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in
late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main
categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale
demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted
within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models,
depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways
in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the
Jewish image in the period following the Jews' expulsion from
England in 1290. The texts are analysed in their manuscript and
print contexts in order to show local responses and changing
meanings. This important work opens up fresh texts, sources and
approaches for understanding medieval anti-semitism and shows how
anti-semitic stereotypes came to be such potent images which would
endure far beyond the Middle Ages.
This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in
late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main
categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale
demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted
within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models,
depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways
in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the
Jewish image in the period following the Jews' expulsion from
England in 1290. The texts are analysed in their manuscript and
print contexts in order to show local responses and changing
meanings. This important work opens up fresh texts, sources and
approaches for understanding medieval anti-semitism and shows how
anti-semitic stereotypes came to be such potent images which would
endure far beyond the Middle Ages.
John Lydgate wrote the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' at the
request of his abbot, William Curteys, to commemorate the stay of
the young King Henry VI at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds
from Christmas Eve 1433 to shortly after Easter 1434 when Henry was
received into confraternity. The work survives in thirteen
manuscripts or fragments, and BL MS Harley 2278, on which the
present edition of the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' is based,
was the copy of the poem presented to Henry VI, probably before
1444. The 'Lives' consists of a prologue, the Life of St Edmund as
books one and two, the Life of St Fremund as book three, a
conc1uding prayer to St Edmund, an envoy, and an address to Henry
VI. The volume also presents the three texts that make up the
'Extra Miracles of St Edmund' which are found in four of the later
manuscripts of the 'Lives' and independently in one manuscript.
This edition of the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' is the first
to establish the text on the basis of the readings of all the
manuscripts, and is also the first to include the 'Extra Miracles'.
The edited texts are followed by a commentary, textual notes, a
glossary of proper names, and a selective glossary.
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