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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.
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