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The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's
writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and
manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late
medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether
it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in
fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the
vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of
Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama,
both from the classical world and from the work of his
contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations
was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted
and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids
for literary authority. This volume tracks debates onfama which
were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a
centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature
from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel
Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck,
University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors:
Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis,
Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway,
Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T.
Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.
An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from
contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century. The Hundred Years
War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history,
simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism
and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the conflict remains a
sticking pointin scholarship of medieval multilingualism and its
complex relationship to nationalism, often overlooked in calls for
a "post-national" vocabulary. This book charts the narration of the
war in English literature, from contemporary chroniclers and poets,
such as Chaucer, documenting the conflict that dominated the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to later polemicists and
playwrights looking back on their medieval past, including
Shakespeare. It explores how its propagandists navigated its
cultural minefields, and then how their mythologisations became
ciphers for Tudor expressions of nationalism. Challenging the
periodisation that habitually divides the medieval from the early
modern, it shows how an event of the magnitude and longevity of the
Hundred Years War shaped ways of thinking about English history and
language from Chaucer and Lydgate to Spenser and Shakespeare. It
also brings to light a rich and neglected corpus of Hundred Years
War literature, from anonymous chroniclers and balladeers to
agonising eyewitness accounts. Joanna Bellis is the Fitzjames
Research Fellow in Old and Middle English at Merton College,
Oxford.
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War and Literature (Hardcover)
Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson; Contributions by Andrew Zurcher, Carol Watts, Catherine A. M. Clarke, …
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R1,624
Discovery Miles 16 240
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Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and
against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.
War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its
only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the
uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to
modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms,
celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of
inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of
representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true
even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical,
literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real
pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing
significance, and to provide some clues to the intricateentwinement
of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include
writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred
Years War; Shakespeare's "Casus Belly"; Auden's "Journal of an
Airman"; and War and Peace. Ian Patterson is a poet, critic and
translator. He teaches English at Queens' College, Cambridge. Laura
Ashe is Associate Professor of English and a Tutorial Fellow of
Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine
A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark
Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie L. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F.
Wright, Andrew Zurcher.
An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a
variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth
century. War and violence took many forms in medieval and early
modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial
and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to
self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil
and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned
both the acceptance of these forms of violence, and the protest
that they met with: the elusive concept of chivalry, Christianity
and just wartheory, political ambition and the machinery of
propaganda, literary genres and the expectations they generated and
challenged. The essays here, from the disciplines of history, art
history and literature, explore how violence and conflict were
documented, depicted, narrated and debated during this period. They
consider manuals created for and addressed directly to kings and
aristocratic patrons; romances whose affective treatments of
violence invitedprofoundly empathetic, even troublingly
pleasurable, responses; diaries and "autobiographies" compiled on
the field and redacted for publication and self-promotion. The
ethics and aesthetics of representation, as much as the violence
being represented, emerge as a profound and constant theme for
writers and artists grappling with this most fundamental and
difficult topic of human experience. JOANNA BELLIS is the Fitzjames
Research Fellow in Oldand Middle English at Merton College, Oxford;
LAURA SLATER holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art in London. Contributors: Anne
Baden-Daintree, Anne Curry, David Grummitt, Richard W. Kaeuper,
Andrew Lynch, Christina Normore, Laura Slater, Sara V. Torres,
Matthew Woodcock,
Adult study curriculum for persons in the reformed family of
denominations.
Youth curriculum by and for Cumberland Presbyterians.
Faith Out Loud - Volume 1, Quarter 1. A Cumberland Presbyterian
Youth Resource.
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Live Lent (Paperback)
Joanna Bellis; Contributions by Dwight Liles; Jodi Hearn Rush
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Live Lent is an invitation for all ages to live and learn about the
season of Lent. You are invited to join with others from your
congregation in focusing on one Lenten practice a week, as
described in Live Lent. In a way, you are trying on these practices
to see how they fit. Not all of the practices will be perfect for
everyone - but everyone can try them on for size for seven days.
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