New Medieval Literatures 21 - New Medieval Literatures

New Medieval Literatures 21

New Medieval Literatures 21 - New Medieval Literatures

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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 Chrétien 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781843845867
ISBN10 1843845865
Number Of Pages 229
Item Weight 404 g
Publisher / Reseller Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format hardback
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The seven essays in this collection maintain the high standard of scholarship that typifes the series [...] All the essays in this collection are the fruit of meticulous textual study and intense intellectual engagement. [...] This book will be of equal interest to students of European history, art buffs, textual and literary critics, and manuscript historians. -- PARERGON

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WENDY SCASE is Emeritus 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 Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. LUCY BROOKES is the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Language and Literature at Merton College, University of Oxford.

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