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Author : Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521768979
The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
Author : Heather Swanson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631161619
Author : Jessica Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495257
Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical history of the medieval ethics of love, centered on the legacy of the Roman de la Rose. The chapters reveal that 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and earthly happiness. Readings of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, Dante, Deguileville and Langland show that poets were often markedly aware of the overlapping ethical languages of philosophy and erotic poetry. The study's conclusion places medieval poetry and philosophy in the context of psychoanalytic ethics, and argues for a re-evaluation of Lacan's ideas about courtly love.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191669217
Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100588
Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.
Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009385954
Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107076228
An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Author : Virginie Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107068742
This book examines the ways in which traditions of philosophy and logic are reflected in major works of medieval literature.
Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108840576
Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.
Author : Harriet Soper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009315128
In the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their staging of entanglements between human life courses and those of the nonhuman or more-than-human. While Old English poetry sometimes suggests that uniform patterns shape each life, paralleling patristic traditions of the ages of man, it also frequently disrupts a sense of steady linearity through the life course in striking ways, foregrounding moments of sudden upheaval over smooth continuity, contingency over predictability, and idiosyncrasy over regularity. Advancing new readings of a diverse range of Old English poems, Soper draws on an array of supporting contexts and theories to illuminate these texts, unearthing their complex and fascinating depictions of ageing through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Jonas Wellendorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424974
This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.
Author : Jane Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495554
Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deaths. Jane Gilbert's original study examines the ways in which certain medieval literary texts, both English and French, use these 'living dead' to think about existential, ethical and political issues. In doing so, she shows powerful connections between works otherwise seen as quite disparate, including Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Legend of Good Women, the Chanson de Roland and the poems of Francois Villon. Written for researchers and advanced students of medieval French and English literature, this book provides original, provocative interpretations of canonical medieval texts in the light of influential modern theories, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, presented in an accessible and lively way.
Author : Hetta Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9781843846123
A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.
Author : Joseph Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009182119
Uncovering the medieval origin of England's North-South divide, Joseph Taylor examines the complex dynamics of regionalism and nationalism.
Author : Jennifer A. Lorden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009390286
Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.