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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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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.
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 the relations between humans and nonhumans;
the power of inanimate objects to animate humans and texts;
literary deployments of medical, aesthetic, and economic
discourses; the language of friendship; and the surprising value of
early readers' casual annotations. Texts discussed include Beowulf,
works by Rolle, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Lydgate; lyrics of
the Occitan troubadour Marcabru and the French poet Richard de
Fournival; and the Anglo-Saxon versions of Boethius's De
Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine's Soliloquia. Wendy Scase
is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at
the University of Birmingham; David Lawton is Professor of English
at Washington University, StLouis; Laura Ashe is Associate
Professor of English at Worcester College, Oxford.
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.
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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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R2,185
Discovery Miles 21 850
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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.
Medieval studies is seeing the emergence of a new agenda that aims
to produce 'thick description' of medieval textual cultures rather
than a definitive edition, or a critical interpretation, of a
single text or group of text. With this new agenda, the material
book becomes an important focus of study, and the geographical
region in which it was produced and/or received becomes a crucial
context. The medieval West Midlands has long been associated with
the production of crucially important vernacular books and texts.
This collection revisits some of the most important manuscripts and
texts associated with this region and situates them in broader
cultural contexts, while also considering some of the theoretical
and methodological issues raised by manuscript geography. Both the
series of more theoretical essays (part one) and the case studies
(part two) challenge and revise earlier models of the production
and reception of textual culture in England from 1066 to the
sixteenth century. This collection of essays is the fruit of a
conference on 'Manuscripts of the West Midlands' held at the
University of Birmingham, 4-6 April 2003, and is related to the
production of a major new research reference tool: An Electronic
Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscripts of the Medieval West Midlands.
In association with this AHRB-funded project to produce a major new
research tool for manuscript studies, the conference heard papers
from specialists on Midlands manuscripts. This volume comprises
essays on the topic as developed at the conference plus new invited
contributions.
The medieval English poem Piers Plowman is noted for its attacks on
the clergy. The later fourteenth century, when the poem was
written, is often thought of as an anticlerical age. This book is
an extended investigation of the anticlericalism of the poem. Dr
Scase challenges the usual assumption that long-established
anticlerical traditions continued unchanged in the conflicts of
this period. She describes and analyses important but little-known
medieval polemics and satires (many of them only available in
manuscript), tracing the emergence of a distinctive 'new
anticlericalism' which entailed nothing less than the making of a
new anticlerical literature. With the writing of Piers Plowman, she
argues, this literary challenge was accepted. Always referring
closely to the contemporary controversies, and with constant
attention to the detail of the text, she reveals the significance
of the poem's anticlericalism. Informative and rigorously argued,
this book is intended to convince literary critics and historians
alike.
New Medieval Literatures Volume 7 spotlights methodologies and
practices in medieval textual studies. Ten challenging new essays
together explore contemporary medievalist practices in and beyond
the academy; review and critique disciplinary cultures in medieval
studies past and present; and experiment with new paradigms. As
usual, the volume showcases work by leading scholars together with
work by striking new voices. In this volume's analytical survey
'Actually existing Anglo-Saxon Studies', Clare Lees imagines
alternatives to current disciplinary culture. Other essays are
Wendy Scase, 'The Medievalist's Tale' (introduction); Stephanie
Trigg, 'Walking through Cathedrals: Scholars, Pilgrims, and
Medieval Tourists'; Steve Ellis, 'Framing the Father: Chaucer and
Virginia Woolf'; Daniel Wakelin, 'William Worcester writes a
History of his Reading'; Mishtooni Bose, 'Vernacular Philosophy and
the Making of Orthodoxy in the Fifteenth Century'; Melissa Raine,
'"Fals Flesch": Food and the Embodied Piety of Margery Kempe'; Lisa
H. Cooper, 'Urban Utterances: Merchants, Artisans, and the Alphabet
in Caxton's Dialogues in French and English'; Seeta Chaganti, '"A
Form as Grecian Goldsmiths make": Enshrining Narrative in Chretien
de Troyes's Cliges and the Stavelot Triptych'; and Christopher
Cannon, 'Between the Old and the Middle of English'.
New Medieval Literatures 5 features innovative articles from leading senior scholars. Subjects include the cultural significance of Virgil's Aeneid during the English Peasants' Revolt, images of the pagan past in fourteenth-century London, medieval stage accidents and modern corollaries, and a survey of recent research on medieval women's literacy. Other essays offer original studies of martyrdom and the aesthetics of pain, sainthood and power, and virginity and erotic desire.
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prizewinning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.
New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays in Volume 2 move from the streets of Paris, London, and English market towns to English monasteries, idealized pastoral spaces, Christian-Jewish-Muslim Spain, Rome, and fourteenth-century Oxford. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.
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