Remembering the Medieval Present

Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39515-2
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion.

Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O’Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gates, Jay Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gates, Jay Paul

O'Camb, Brian T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents

Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb

1 The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan

Nicole Marafioti

2 Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward “the Confessor”

Erin Michelle Goeres

3 Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past

Jay Paul Gates

4 The Hermitic Topos: “Selling” Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English Audiences

Maren Clegg Hyer

5 Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries

Cynthia Turner Camp

6 Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the Dane

Larissa Tracy

7 Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale

Kathleen Smith

8 The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early Middle English Verse

Carla María Thomas

9 The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of Conquest in The Proverbs of Alfred

Brian O’Camb

10 The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy

Eric Weiskott

Afterword

Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley

Bibliography

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jay Paul Gates, Ph.D. (2007), is Associate Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Literature and Languages at John Jay College in the City University of New York. He co-edited, with Nicole Marafioti, Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (2014). He has published on Anglo-Saxon law and literature, the effects of Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact, and post-Conquest historiographical treatments of the Anglo-Saxon period.

Brian O’Camb, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest. He has published articles on the scribal, material, and intellectual contexts of the Exeter Book, and its later reception and editorial transmission by the eighteenth-century antiquarian George Hickes, in journals such as English Literary History, Philological Quarterly, and Review of English Studies.