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This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F.
Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its
cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common
texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old
English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle
Dutch. Few scholars have contributed as much to the wider view of
medieval England and its cultural contacts with the Low Countries
than Professor David F. Johnson. His wide-ranging scholarship
embraces both the textual traditions of Old English, especially in
manuscript production, and later medieval romances in both English
and Middle Dutch, highlighting their common texts, motifs, and
themes. Taking Johnson's work as its starting point and model, the
essays collected here investigate early English manuscript
production and preservation, illuminating the complexities of
reinterpreting Old English poetry, particularly Beowulf, and then
go on to pursue those nuances through later English and Middle
Dutch Arthurian romances and drama, including Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, and the Roman van Walewein.
They explore a plethora of material, including early medieval
textual traditions and stone sculpture, and draw on a range of
approaches, such as Body and Disability Theories. Overall, the aim
is to bring multiple disciplines into dialogue with each other, in
order to present a richer and more nuanced view of the medieval
literary past and cross-cultural contact between England and the
Low Countries, from the pre-Conquest period to the late-Middle
Ages, thus forming a most appropriate tribute to Professor
Johnson's pioneering work.
Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to
modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central
importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary
cultural world. The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and
a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and
politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient
tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their
own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a
number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and
Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization
of the medieval WelshMabinogion by the wife of an English
ironmaster. Other articles consider the involvement of scholarship
with national and professional self-definition, whether in
Renaissance Holland or Victorian Britain. And who "discovered"
America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson? This is an issue of
vital importance to many 19th-century Americans, but one created
and determined entirely by scholarship. Simple commercial motives
for exploiting the middle ages are also represented, whether
straightforward forgery for sale, or the giant modern industry of
tourism. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English
at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at
University College, Scarborough. Contributors: SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH,
ROLF H. BREMMER JR, BETSY BOWDEN, WERNER WUNDERLICH, JUDITH
JOHNSTON, GERALDINE BARNES, RICHARD UTZ, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, STEVE
WATSON.
Primarily this book is intended for application of the operational
calculus to mathematics, physics and technical problems. It gives
the basic principles, ideas, and theorems clearly and extensively,
but also many worked-out problems from mathematical and physical as
well as from technical fields. The purely mathematical treatment is
more advanced than is usual in books devoted primarily to practical
applications, and the book will therefore be of value to those pure
mathematicians who are interested in a rapid and simple derivation
of complicated and unexpected relations between various
mathematical functions, as well as to the engineer in search (for
example) of a very simple treatment of transient phenomena in
electrical networks.
The very appellation, 'Gregory the Great', already indicates the
quite unusual prestige and authority of this early-medieval pope.
For the Germanic-speaking peoples in the North, Gregory's
prominence depended, above all else, on his seminal role in their
conversion. In 596 he sent Augustine on a mission to England, to
convert the newly-settled Anglo-Saxons to the christian faith - a
task which met with immediate success, and which has soon brought
to complete fruition. This achievement secured a place of great
respect for Gregory in England, where the first Life was written,
around 700. Gregory's written oeuvre, too, was in great demand, and
much of it was translated into Old English. Within three
generations of their conversion, the Anglo-Saxons in their turn
were sending missionaries to the Continent to preach the Gospel to
Franks, Frisians and Saxons. Missionaries such as Willibrord and
Boniface took support and inspiration from Gregory's pastoral
advice to Augustine, which had already been recorded in the
historical accounts of the Venerable Bede. The same reverence for
Gregory accompanied the Anglo-Saxon missionaries to the continent,
and later, to Scandinavia. The present volume presents a survey of
the reception of Gregory's works, as this emerges in the
international Latin culture of Europe, and in the early- and
high-medieval vernaculars of Anglo-Saxon England, South and North
Germany, the Low Countries, Frisia, and Scandinavia and Iceland.
Special attention is paid to Gregory's Moralia in Job, the Homilies
on Ezechiel and on the Gospels, the Pastoral Rule and the
Dialogues. The contributors - from the United States, Canada,
England, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands -
are specialist scholars in the relevant fields, and their
contributions have been commisioned for this volume. These essays,
as a group, comprise an important and up-to-date survey of
Gregory's profound influence on both the literary culture of the
Germanic-speaking peoples and the pastoral practice of their
clergy. Through the many innovating approaches of the contributors,
the book offers a challenging starting point for further research.
Rome and the North is thus of interest to all students and scholars
of medieval literature, theology and history and especially to
medievalists interested in the lasting legacy bequeathed by Gregory
to the medieval Germanic-speaking world.
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