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An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies 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 both the British Isles and Europe. Essays in
this volume engage with the relations between humans and nonhumans;
the power of inanimate objects to animate humans and texts;
literary deployments of medical, aesthetic, and economic
discourses; the language of friendship; and the surprising value of
early readers' casual annotations. Texts discussed include Beowulf,
works by Rolle, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Lydgate; lyrics of
the Occitan troubadour Marcabru and the French poet Richard de
Fournival; and the Anglo-Saxon versions of Boethius's De
Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine's Soliloquia. Wendy Scase
is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at
the University of Birmingham; David Lawton is Professor of English
at Washington University, StLouis; Laura Ashe is Associate
Professor of English at Worcester College, Oxford.
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy
in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role
that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a
period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the
discipline of political economy. Through readings of a range of
late Middle English texts, this book demonstrates the ways in which
gender ideology provided a vocabulary for articulating fears and
fantasies about money and value in the late Middle Ages. These
ideas inform beliefs about money and value in the West,
particularly in realms that are often seen as outside the sphere of
economy, such as friendship, love and poetry. Exploring the gender
of money helps us to better understand late medieval notions of
economy, and to recognize the ways in which gender ideology
continues to haunt our understanding of money and value, albeit
often in occluded ways.
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy
in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role
that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a
period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the
discipline of political economy. Through readings of a range of
late Middle English texts, this book demonstrates the ways in which
gender ideology provided a vocabulary for articulating fears and
fantasies about money and value in the late Middle Ages. These
ideas inform beliefs about money and value in the West,
particularly in realms that are often seen as outside the sphere of
economy, such as friendship, love and poetry. Exploring the gender
of money helps us to better understand late medieval notions of
economy, and to recognize the ways in which gender ideology
continues to haunt our understanding of money and value, albeit
often in occluded ways.
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