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Published in 1981, Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895
is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies.
Published in 1981, Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895
is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies.
An introduction to the castles of Wales, this is also a detailed
guide to 70 of them for the historical tourist. The main guide is
made up of entries on medieval castles that include notes on
access, OS-grid references, history and building details.
A survey of critical attention devoted to Arthurian matters. This
book offers the first comprehensive and analytical account of the
development of Arthurian scholarship from the eighteenth century,
or earlier, to the present day. The chapters, each written by an
expert in the area under discussion, present scholarly trends and
evaluate major contributions to the study of the numerous different
strands which make up the Arthurian material: origins, Grail
studies, editing and translation of Arthurian texts, medieval and
modern literatures (in English and European languages), art and
film. The result is an indispensable resource for students and a
valuable guide for anyone with a serious interest in the Arthurian
legend. Contributors:NORRIS LACY, TONY HUNT, KEITH BUSBY, JANE
TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, RICHARD BARBER, SIAN ECHARD, GERALD
MORGAN, ALBRECHT CLASSEN, ROGER DALRYMPLE, BART BESAMUSCA, MARIANNE
E. KALINKE, BARBARA MILLER, CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ, MURIEL WHITAKER,
JEANNE FOX-FRIEDMAN, DANIEL NASTALI, KEVIN J. HARTY NORRIS J. LACY
is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at
Pennsylvania State University.
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This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English
Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the
great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and
Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the
rich foundation of Anglo-Saxon England but did not destroy it; thus
the present volume begins with the commemoration of English heroism
in The Battle of Maldon. In the late twelfth century we encounter
in Chretien de Troyes's seminal romance Le Chevalier de la Charrete
a new kind of hero in Lancelot, abject and obedient before his
mistress, although Chretien himself is not an uncritical admirer of
the sanctity of adulterous love. Hence the importance of Dante's
exposition of love in Purgatorio, XVIII, which forms a background
to the essays here on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the
Parliament of Fowls. The volume concludes with essays on Chaucer's
Knight's, Monk's and Nun's Priest's Tales, which form part of a
long-term project to interpret the Canterbury Tales as a unified
whole and not merely a series of fragments awaiting revision on
Chaucer's death.
This third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English
Poetry includes, as in the previous volumes, essays on Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser; it also
includes essays on Beowulf and Dante. It was never the author's
intention to exclude Old English poetry from the historical
continuum of English poetry, and practical rather than ideological
considerations explain the absence of Beowulf from the two previous
volumes. The language of Beowulf is in all essentials the language
of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, in one and
the same native alliterative tradition, and also the language of
Chaucer, in the European tradition inherited from the great French
and Italian poets. The transition from Beowulf to Dante may seem
abrupt, but the poetry of Chaucer, whose assimilation of Italian
influences is both formidable and remarkable, requires us to make
it. Indeed, the exploration in this volume of Dante's exposition of
love in the Purgatorio takes us to the heart of the poetry that we
associate with the period of Chaucer's greatness in the 1380s and
1390s. Here we see not an anachronistic system of courtly love,
imposed on medieval poems by modern critics, but distinctions of
natural, sensitive and rational love that make sense (among other
things) of the ending of Troilus and Criseyde as the poem's logical
and persuasive conclusion.
This second volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English
Poetry continues the project set out in the Preface to the first
volume, discussing the three golden poets of the Golden Age of
English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century. The
first two essays address the great alliterative poems Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman and the remaining six essays
are on Chaucer, five of them on The Canterbury Tales. There is no
doubt about the sustained excellence (and often the sublimity) of
these works, and it remains a hard task for readers and scholars to
measure up to them. The essays on Chaucer are predominantly
concerned with the influence of Italian poetry and Aristotelian
moral philosophy. These influences have long been recognised, but
their depth and weight have not so readily been acknowledged. In
particular, the influence of Aristotle - not merely on Chaucer's
poetry but on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English and
European culture as a whole - presents an intellectual challenge
that scholars of medieval English literature have often been
reluctant to confront. These essays seek to demonstrate that in
engaging with Chaucer's response to Aristotelian moral philosophy
our perspective will not only be enriched but dramatically altered.
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