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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval
England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating
hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A
combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this
practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's
chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to
others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the
paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional
practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and
reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of
literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it
transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of
femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking
about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval
England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating
hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A
combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this
practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's
chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to
others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the
paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional
practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and
reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of
literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it
transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of
femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking
about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .
Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries
between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline
between the periods commonly termed "medieval" and "Renaissance",
or "medieval" and "early modern", is one of the most hotly,
energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary
history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build
upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper, a scholar
who has long been committed to exploring the complex connections
and interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The
contributors re-examine a range of ideas, authors and genres
addressed in her work, including pastoral, chivalric romance, early
English drama, and the writings of Chaucer, Langland, Spenser and
Shakespeare. As a whole, thevolume aims to stimulate active debates
on the ways in which Renaissance writers used, adapted, and
remembered aspects of the medieval. Andrew King is Lecturer in
Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College, Cork;
Matthew Woodcock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance
Literature at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Joyce
Boro, Aisling Byrne, Nandini Das, Mary C. Flannery, Alexandra
Gillespie, AndrewKing, Megan G. Leitch, R.W. Maslen, Jason Powell,
Helen Vincent, James Wade, Matthew Woodcock
An examination of the subject of "fame" in Lydgate, showing it as
central to his work. John Lydgate is arguably the most significant
poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's
literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to
overshadow his contributions to English literature.Here, "fame" is
identified as the key to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning in
Chaucer's wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame
within the literary, cultural and political landscape of
late-medieval England, indicating how Lydgate diverges from
Chaucer's treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident
model of authorship, according to which poets are the natural
makers and recipients of fame. She then discusses the ways in which
Lydgate draws on fourteenth-century poetry, the advisory tradition,
and the laureate ideology borne out of trecento Italy; she shows
that he deploys them to play upon reader anxieties in his short
poems on dangerous speech, while depicting poets as the ultimate
arbiters of fame in his longer poems and dramatic works.
Throughout, the book challenges standard critical positions on
questions relating to how poets fit into late-medieval society, how
they canbe powerful enough to admonish princes, and how English
letters fare next to the literature of the continent and of
antiquity. Mary C. Flannery is Lecturer in English at the
University of Lausanne.
We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading
and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and
developments in the publication and consumption of literature
continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts
in which reading can take place. In comparison with the
accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval
reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive,
available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet
attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be
traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds
of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions
with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich
variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that
the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could
take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and
why reading happened.
Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles
played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval
and early modern England has typically been the subject of
historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on
heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader
role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions
like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in the
fields of exemplarity, rhetoric and poetry. Beyond its specific
legal and pastoral applications, inquisitio was a dialogic mode of
inquiry, a means of discerning, producing or rewriting truth, and
an often adversarial form of invention and literary authority. The
essays in this volume cover such topics as the theory and practice
ofcanon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia,
political writing and romance. As a result, the collection
redefines the nature of inquisition's role within both medieval law
and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the
late-medieval consciousness, shaping public fame and private
selves, sexuality and gender, rhetoric, and literature. Mary C.
Flannery is a lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne;
Katie L. Walter is a lecturer in English at the University of
Sussex. Contributors: Mary C. Flannery, Katie L. Walter, Henry
Ansgar Kelly, Edwin Craun, Ian Forrest, Diane Vincent, Jenny Lee,
James Wade, Genelle Gertz, Ruth Ahnert, Emily Steiner
We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading
and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and
developments in the publication and consumption of literature
continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts
in which reading can take place. In comparison with the
accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval
reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive,
available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet
attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be
traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds
of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions
with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich
variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that
the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could
take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and
why reading happened.
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