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Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the
poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research,
and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a
central literary figure and the leading poet during the first
thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging
and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book aims to
provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works,
setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts.
Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes on to
cover all the major aspects of his poetry, from the literary
traditions in which he wrote and the form of his compositions to
the manuscript contexts and later reception. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the
University of Groningen; JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus)
of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin.
Contributors: Tom Betteridge, Julia Boffey, John Burrow, David
Carlson, Helen Cooper, Elisabeth Dutton,A.S.G. Edwards, Jane
Griffiths, Nadine Kuipers, Carol Meale, John Scattergood, Sebastian
Sobecki, Greg Waite
Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and
later ideas of what it is to be English. Local and imperial,
insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and
culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of
Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of
insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago,
laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's
relationship with English identity in a British context. Ranging
from the beginnings of insular literature to Victorian
medievalisms, the subjects treated include King Arthur's struggle
with muddy banks, the afterlife of Edgar's forged charters, Old
English homilies and narratives of migration, Welsh and English
ideas about Chester, Anglo-Norman views of the sea in the Vie de St
Edmund and Waldef, post-Conquest cartography, The Book of Margery
Kempe, the works of the Irish Stopford Brooke, and the making of an
Anglo-British identity in Victorian Britain. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Contributors: Sebastian Sobecki,
Winfried Rudolf, Fabienne Michelet, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Judith
Weiss, Kathy Lavezzo, Alfred Hiatt, Jonathan Hsy, Chris Jones,
Joanne Parker, David Wallace
A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in
medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography
to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in
medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of
insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's
Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and
pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works
as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the
chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of
Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular
ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place
in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the
idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea
betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their
texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and
culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a
range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of
cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of
a wide range of both insular and continental writings. SEBASTIAN I.
SOBECKI is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual
culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of
Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced
the study of later medieval English book production, particularly
our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her
distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research
on Middle English manuscripts and texts. The thirteen essays
brought together here take a variety of approaches -
palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical
- to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied
environments (professional, administrative, mercantile,
ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the
period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no
respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends
beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west
to Waterford and the Dublin Pale. Contributors explore manuscripts
containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John
Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript
traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of
Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with
a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional
texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and
the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all
receive attention, as does the book production of personal
miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters,
charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and
Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates
Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic
sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
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