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Annual volume 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, from
confession in the domestic household to international politics and
statecraft; experimental scientific knowledge, and the supernatural
world of demons; canonical Arthurian romance, and scholastic
theology in the vernacular; monastic historiographical visions, and
geographies of pilgrimage. Investigations range from the twelfth to
the fifteenth centuries, and from England to the Holy Land.
Chretien de Troyes's Le chevalier de la charrette and Geoffrey
Chaucer's Friar's Tale are examined in new ways, and with new
conclusions for their engagements with technologies of embodiment
and the hermeneutics of bodily contact; Lazamon's Brut is shown to
bring the expectations of monastic historiography into the
vernacular, while Reginald Pecock's radical and sophisticated
vernacular theology is explicated in all its dangerous heterodoxy.
Multiple narratives converge and are occluded at the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron; Albert the Great experiments with animals and
reorients humans in the natural world; Alain Chartier strives to
build a united French state. Finally, domestic, familial, and civic
bonds of obligation emerge in the shared textual communities of
anonymous, late-medieval confessional forms. CONTRIBUTORS: ROBYN A.
BARTLETT, KANTIK GHOSH, AYLIN MALCOLM, ALASTAIR MINNIS, LUKE
SUNDERLAND, JAMIE K. TAYLOR, HANNAH WEAVER, LUCAS WOOD.
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