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Annual volume on medieval textual cultures, engaging with
intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, 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: law and literature; manuscript production,
patronage, and aesthetics; real and imagined geographies; gender
and its connections to narrative theory and to psychoanalysis.
Investigations range from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries,
from England to the eastern Mediterranean. New arguments are put
forward about the dating, context, and occasion of Geoffrey
Chaucer's Boece, while the narrative dynamics of Chaucer's
"Franklin's Tale" and "Tale of Melibee" are examined from new
perspectives. The topography of the Holy Lands appears both as a
set of emotional sites, depicted in the Prick of Conscience in its
account of the end of the world, and as co-ordinates in the
cultural imaginary of medieval the wine-trade. Grendel's mother
emerges as the invisible and unavowable centre of male heroic
culture in Beowulf, and the fourteenth-century St Erkenwald is
brought into contact with the community-building project of the
medieval death investigation. Finally, the late medieval Speculum
Christiani is revealed to be a work with deep aesthetic investments
when read through the framework of how its medieval scribes
encountered and shaped that work.
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New Medieval Literatures 16 (Hardcover)
Laura Ashe, David Lawton, Wendy Scase; Contributions by Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, …
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R1,729
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Discovery Miles 12 990
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An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies New Medieval Literatures - now published by Boydell
and Brewer - 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 both the
British Isles and Europe. Topics in this volume include the
political ecology of Havelok the Dane: Thomas Hoccleve and the
making of "Chaucer"; and Britain and the Welsh Marches in Fouke le
Fitz Waryn. Contributors: Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans,
Marcel Elias, PhilipKnox, Sebastian Langdell, Jonathan Morton,
Marco Nievergelt, George Younge.
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.
An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies 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 both the British Isles and Europe. Essays in
this volume engage with real and metaphorical relations between
humans and nonhumans, with particular focus on spiders, hawks, and
demons; discuss some of the earliest Middle English musical and, it
is argued, liturgical compositions; describe the generic
flexibility and literariness of medical discourse;consider
strategies of affective and practical devotion, and their roles in
building a community; and offer an example of the creativity of
fifteenth-century vernacular religious literature. Texts discussed
include the Old English riddles and Alfredian translations of the
psalms; the lives of saints Dunstan, Godric, and Juliana, in Latin
and English; Piers Plowman, in fascinating juxtaposition with Hugh
of Fouilloy's Aviarium; medical remedybooks and uroscopies, many
from unedited manuscripts; and the fifteenth-century English Life
of Job. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of
Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford; PHILIP
KNOX is University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge; WENDY SCASE is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of
Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham; DAVID
LAWTON is Professor of English at Washington University in St
Louis. Contributors: Jenny C. Bledsoe, Heather Blurton, Hannah
Bower, Megan Cavell, Cathy Hume, Hilary Powell, Isabella Wheater
Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature,
emphasising the vibrancy of the 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 a
wide range of subject matter, from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD
12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968). They demonstrate that medieval
textual cultures is a radically negotiable category and that
medieval understandings of the past were equally diverse and
unstable.They reflect on relationships between history, texts, and
truth from a range of perspectives, from Foucault to "truthiness",
a twenty-first-century media coinage. Materiality and the technical
crafts with which humans engage withthe natural world are recurrent
themes, opening up new insights on mysticism, knighthood, and
manuscript production and reception. Analysis of manuscript
illuminations offers new understandings of identity and diversity,
while a survey of every thirteenth-century manuscript that contains
English currently in Oxford libraries yields a challenging new
history of script. Particular texts discussed include Chretien de
Troyes's Conte du Graal, Richard Rolle's Incendium amoris and Melos
amoris, and the Middle English verse romances Lybeaus Desconus, The
Erle of Tolous, Amis and Amiloun, and Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.
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New Medieval Literatures 19 (Hardcover)
Philip Knox, Kelly Robertson, Wendy Scase, Laura Ashe; Contributions by Christiania Whitehead, …
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R2,235
Discovery Miles 22 350
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies 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 both the British Isles and Europe. Essays in
this volume trace institutional histories, examining the textual
and memorial practices of religious institutions across the British
Isles; explore language games that play with meaning in
Anglo-French poetry; examine the interplay of form and matter in
Italian song; position Old Norse sagas in an ecocritical and a
postcolonial framework; consider the impact of papal politics on
Middle English poetry; and read allegorical poetry as a privileged
site for asking fundamental questions about the nature of the mind.
Texts discussed include lives of St Aebbe of Coldingham, with a
focus on the twelfth-century Latin Vita and its afterlives; a range
of Latin and vernacular works associated with institutional houses,
including the Vie de Edmund le rei by Denis Piramus and the
Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis; both the didactic and
lyrical writings of Walter de Bibbesworth; the trecento Italian
caccia, especially examples by Vincenzo da Rimini and Lorenzo
Masini;Bardar saga, Egils saga, and other Old Norse works that
reveal the traces of encounters with a racial other; John Gower's
Confessio Amantis, in striking juxtaposition with late-medieval
accounts of ecclesiastical crisis; and Alain Chartier's Livre de
l'Esperance. PHILIP KNOX Is University Lecturer in English and
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor
of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Maryland;
WENDY SCASE is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English
Literature at the University of Birmingham; LAURA ASHE is Professor
of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at
Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Daisy Delogu, Thomas
Hinton, Thomas O'Donnell, Daniel Remein, Jamie L. Reuland, Zachary
Stone, Christiania Whitehead.
Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature,
emphasising the vibrancy of the 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 investigate a
range of writers from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. They
explore encounters between humans and animals in French romance;
reflect on what contemporary sound studies can offer to
Anglo-French poetry; trace how the reception of Trojan history is
influenced by late medieval military practices; attend to the
complex multilingualism of a devotional poetry that tests the
limits of both language and theology; analyse the ways in which
Christ's sexuality upsets religious typology inlate medieval drama;
document the lines of national and European affinities found in
French poetic manuscripts; and argue for why we should study "ugly"
manuscripts of practical instruction not only for what they teach
us but alsofor their insights into medieval literacy. Texts
discussed include romances such as Chretien de Troyes's Yvain and
Beroul's Tristan; the theologian John of Howden's adaptation of the
Philomela legend in his Rossignos; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
read alongside siege chronicles of the Hundred Years War; Bruder
Hans's quadrilingual Ave Maria; the York Corpus Christi Plays; the
poetry of Charles d'Orleans; and a group oflate medieval
manuscripts which include herbals, account books, and medical
treatises. KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of Maryland; WENDY SCASE is Geoffrey
Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University
of Birmingham; LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University
of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford; PHILIP
KNOX Is University Lecturer inEnglish and Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, Contributors: Lukas Hadrian Ovrom, Terrence
Cullen, Steven Rozenski, Tison Pugh, Rory G. Critten, Daniel
Wakelin.
The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the
multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England,
leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking
readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland
Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on English
literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments
it provoked from writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower,
William Langland, and the author of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight. Linking the English afterlife of the Rose to a host of
ongoing cultural developments in mainland Europe, The Romance of
the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
reveals the deep interconnectedness of English and European
literary culture. Examining courtly, clerical, and classicising
orientations towards the text, it presents new arguments for the
place of the Rose at the centre of fourteenth-century English
literature, and explores its rich manuscript history to reveal new
evidence about the cultural significance of this love allegory from
thirteenth-century France. The chapters avoid an author-centred
approach, arranging readings of the Rose and its relation with
English literature in constellations that reveal complex unfolding
inter-relation of the diverse readings of the Rose that took place
in fourteenth-century England.
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