Court Poetry In Late Medieval England And Scotland

Author : Antony J. Hasler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139496728

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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by Antony J. Hasler Pdf

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

Author : Antony Hasler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139038478

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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by Antony Hasler Pdf

Author : Jane Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495554

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Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature by Jane Gilbert Pdf

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 : Jessica Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495257

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Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry by Jessica Rosenfeld Pdf

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 : Laurie Atkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846925

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Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision by Laurie Atkinson Pdf

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.

Author : William Hepburn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276905

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The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513 by William Hepburn Pdf

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many historians as the most charismatic and politically successful of Scotland's rulers, with his royal court, and the institution of the royal household which underpinned it, at the heart of his reign. This book, the first comprehensive examination of the subject, takes the structures and personnel of the household - from councillors to stable-hands - as the foundation for its study of the court and its role. Beginning by looking at the distinction between household and court and the structures imposed by the household on the court, Hepburn utilises this framework to explore the lives of the people moving within it, both in terms of their duties as royal servants and their broader social and political worlds. The book argues that these people were both audience and performer in the court, receiving and producing messages about the king, royal government and the status of groups and individuals. Association with the household also became a feature of life for people away from the court, through the household-related terms in which they were described and through the lands they held. Overall, it highlights the central role of the court in the effective conduct of royal government for which James IV is renowned.

Author : Katherine H Terrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814214622

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Scripting the Nation by Katherine H Terrell Pdf

Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.

Author : Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521768979

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Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England by Lisa H. Cooper Pdf

The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.

Author : Rhiannon Purdie,Emily Wingfield
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580444101

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Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum by Rhiannon Purdie,Emily Wingfield Pdf

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.

Author : Emily V. Thornbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107051980

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Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England by Emily V. Thornbury Pdf

A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse.

Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009385954

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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature by Anne Schuurman Pdf

Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.

Author : Harriet Soper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009315128

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The Life Course in Old English Poetry by Harriet Soper Pdf

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 : Geoffrey Russom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107148338

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The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry by Geoffrey Russom Pdf

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

Author : Jennifer A. Lorden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009390286

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Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry by Jennifer A. Lorden Pdf

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.

Author : Taylor Cowdery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009223751

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Matter and Making in Early English Poetry by Taylor Cowdery Pdf

What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their word for these materials was 'matter,' while the term they used to describe their labor was 'making,' or the act of reworking this matter into a new – but not entirely new – form. By tracing these ideas through the work of six major early poets, this book offers a revisionist literary history of late- medieval and early modern court poetry. It reconstructs premodern theories of making and contrasts them with more modern theories of literary labor, such as 'authorship.' It studies the textual, historical, and philosophical sources that the court tradition used for its matter. Most of all, it demonstrates that the early English court poets drew attention to their source materials as a literary tactic, one that stressed the process by which a poem had been made.