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Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England.
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of
England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic,
cultural, and political elements unique to the pluri-lingual
situation of medieval England - is of immenseimportance to the
field. The essays in this volume extend, honour and complement her
path-breaking work. They consider exchanges between England and
other parts of Britain, analysing how communication was effected
where languagesdiffered, and probe cross-Channel relations from a
new perspective. They also examine the play of features within
single manuscripts, and with manuscripts in conversation with each
other. And they discuss the continuing reach ofthe French of
England beyond the Middle Ages: in particular, how it became newly
relevant to discussions of language and nationalism in later
centuries. Whether looking at primary sources such as letters and
official documents, orat creative literature, both religious and
secular, the contributions here offer fruitful and exciting
approaches to understanding what the French of England can tell us
about medieval Britain and the European world beyond. Thelma
Fenster is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies,
Fordham University; Carolyn Collette is Professor of English
Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Contributors:
Christopher Baswell,Emma Campbell, Paul Cohen, Carolyn Collette,
Thelma Fenster, Robert Hanning, Richard Ingham, Maryanne Kowaleski,
Serge Lusignan, Thomas O'Donnell, W. Mark Ormrod, Monika Otter,
Felicity Riddy, Delbert Russell, Fiona Somerset, +Robert M. Stein,
Andrew Taylor, Nicholas Watson, R.F. Yeager
Latest volume in this series containing the best new work on
Arthurian topics. The latest volume of Arthurian Literature
includes an edition and study of the widely disseminated Latin
translation of Des Grantz Geanz(`De origine gigantum') by James
Carley and Julia Crick, with a feminist readingof the poem by
Lesley Johnson. Claude Luttrell writes on Chretien's Cliges;
Corinne Saunders explores the issue of rape in Chaucer's Wife of
Bath's Tale, Neil Wright offers a reconstruction of the Arthurian
epitaphin Royal 20 B.XV, Frank Brandsma discusses the treatment of
simultaneity in Yvain, Chanson de Roland and a section of the
Lancelot en prose, Julia Crick updates the progress on the
manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and A.H.W. Smith contributes a
supplement to the bibliography of twentieth-century Arthurian
literature begun in earlier volumes.
Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural
life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the
later middle ages. Glastonbury Abbey was one of the great cultural
centres of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, yet this is the first
volume of scholarly essays to be devoted to the subject. Written in
honour of C. A. Ralegh Radford, the first itemsare concerned with
the physical remains of the abbey, ranging from the place of
Glastonbury in the development of Christianity in Somerset to
specific examinations of surviving monastic buildings. The main
body of the essays explores documents relating to the abbey for
evidence of its history and traditions, including the earliest
Anglo-Saxon period, pre-conquest abbots, and links with the Celtic
world. The final section deals with the cultural life of the abbey:
Glastonbury's role in education is discussed and the concluding
essay deals with the most magical of all Glastonbury legends - its
link with Joseph of Arimathea and the Grail. Contributors: PHILIP
RAHTZ, MICHAEL D. COSTEN, C.J. BOND, J.B. WELLER, ROBERT W.
DUNNING, LESLEY ABRAMS, JAMES P. CARLEY, ANN DOOLEY, SARAH FOOT,
DAVID THORNTON, RICHARD SHARPE, JULIA CRICK, OLIVER J.PADEL,
MATTHEW BLOWS, CHARLES T. WOOD, NICHOLAS ORME,
CERIDWENLLOYD-MORGAN, FELICITY RIDDY.
Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the
sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England.
Moving on from the legacy of Aries, these essays address evidence
for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth,
but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The
contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of
Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the
understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe
for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith,
children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the
meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the
hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later
medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and
where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of
the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females
to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs
in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN
COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH
JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.
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Arthurian Literature XV (Hardcover)
James P. Carley, Felicity Riddy; Contributions by David Allan, Jeanne Krochalis, Karen Cherewatuk, …
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`[The series is an indispensable component of any historical or
Arthurian library.' NOTES AND QUERIES This latest issue of
Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal in
combining theoretical studies with editions of primary Arthurian
texts. There is a special focus on Chretien de Troyes, with
articles considering his identity, providing a new reading of Le
Chevalier de la Charrete, and giving an account of a discovery of
an important new fragment of the First Continuation. Other essays
deal with Glastonbury, at the heart of the English Arthurian
legend;the Scottish treatment of the Arthur story in the
Reformation period; and the Morte Darthur in the context of
fifteenth-century chivalric encyclopaedias. Contributors: SARAH
KAY, NICK CORBYN, LISA JEFFERSON, AELRED WATKIN, JEANNE KROCHALIS,
DAVID ALLAN, KAREN CHEREWATUK
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A Companion to Malory (Paperback, New Ed)
Elizabeth Archibald, A.S.G. Edwards; Contributions by A.S.G. Edwards, Barbara Nolan, C. David Benson, …
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Malory's Morte Darthur - text, history and reception - expertly
appraised by international scholars. This collection of original
essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists
provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of Sir
Thomas Malory, which will be indispensable for both students and
scholars. It is divided into three main sections, on Malory in
context, the art of the Morte Darthur, and its reception in later
years. As well as essays on the eight tales which make up the Morte
Darthur, there are studies ofthe relationship between the
Winchestermanuscript and Caxton's and later editions; the political
and social context in which Malory wrote; his style and sources;
and his treatment of two key concepts in Arthurian literature,
chivalry and the representation of women. The volume also includes
a brief biography of Malory with a list of the historical records
relating to him and his family. It ends with a discussion of the
reception of the Morte Darthurfrom the sixteenth to the twentieth
centuries, and a select bibliography. Contributors: P.J.C. FIELD,
FELICITY RIDDY, RICHARD BARBER, ELIZABETH EDWARDS, TERENCE
MCCARTHY, CAROL MEALE, JEREMY SMITH, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD,BARBARA
NOLAN, HELEN COOPER, JILL MANN, DAVID BENSON, A.S.G. EDWARDS
Latest work on Arthur by respected scholars. This is the first
volume of Arthurian Literature to be edited by Professor Carley and
Professor Riddy. It has a strong English flavour with papers on
Malory, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Awntyrs off Arthure,
Hardyng, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and court culture under Edward IV.
The new editors introduce Notes, shorter explorations of topics
currently under scrutiny by Arthurian scholars, and there will be
updates of articles contained in previous volumes.
Contributorsinclude: RICHARD BARBER, FELICITY RIDDY, BONNIE
WHEELER, HELEN PHILLIPS, MARTIN SCHICHTMAN, LAURIE FINKE and N.M.
DAVIS.
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