Lydgate Matters

Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-53736-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in

light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with

critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the

cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the

heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late

medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging

fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole

explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in

our own.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, L.

Denny-Brown, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper  and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'Markys…Off the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith

Über Autor(innen)

LISA H. COOPER is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
ANDREA DENNY BROWN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, USA.