Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Reihe: New Medieval Literatures
Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Reihe: New Medieval Literatures
ISBN: 978-1-84384-792-2
Verlag: D.S.Brewer
This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field.
Essays in this volume cover a rich and diverse range - in chronological terms, from the ninth to the fifteenth century, and across linguistic traditions from Old and Middle English to medieval Latin and Middle French. Using varied conceptual tools and detailed explorations of social, cultural, and intellectual contexts, they offer new interpretations of key works from the central and late Middle Ages. Contributors explore the educational background of the Middle English "Ricardians" - Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and the Gawain-poet - through the novel perspective of versification; the intellectual context for the poem St Erkenwald, where a poem about the miraculous salvation of a pagan reflects a detailed engagement with contemporary theology that tests the limits of theological orthodoxy; and the social background of the Gawain-poet, via examples of household hierarchy. A form of textual analysis known as "ergodics" is deployed to offer a way of making sense of the unique challenge of the Old English Maxims, and their position in monastic reading cultures. The Middle English Titus and Vespasian, which tells the story of the siege of Jerusalem, is shown to contain a complex and conflicted form of anti-Judaism, traversed in complex ways by anxieties about gender as well religion and race. Finally, in a linked suite of essays, late medieval heraldry is illuminated from a range of unexpected perspectives drawn from the study of literary form, examining heraldic miscellanies, the creativity of the heraldic imaginary, and the community-building work of the late medieval poetic society known as the Cour Amoureuse.
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Part I
1. Hygecræft: The Ergodics of the Old English Maxims Poems. By Michael Matto.
2. The Grammar-School auctores, Latin Verse Form, and Ricardian Poetry. By Eric Weiskott.
3. The Household Outsider: the Gawain Poet. By Nicolette Zeeman
4. Mary's Daughter: Gender and Anti-Judaism in Titus and Vespasian. By Hope Doherty-Harrison
5. St Erkenwald: Orthodoxy on the Edge? By Christophe Grellard.
Part II
6. Late Medieval Heraldry, Literary Studies, and Form: Preface. By Megan L. Cook, J. R. Mattison, and Elizaveta Strakhov.
7. Heraldic Miscellanies and the Making of English Books. By J. R. Mattison.
8. Iterative Form in the Heraldic Imagination. By Megan L. Cook.
9. Building Identity through Heraldry and Poetry in the Cour amoureuse. By Elizaveta Strakhov.
