Essays On Medieval English

Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016295

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Simple Forms by Douglas Gray Pdf

Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.

Author : Ralph Hanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789628083

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Patient Reading/Reading Patience by Ralph Hanna Pdf

This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontinuities of medieval manuscript production; drawing conclusions about historical audiences/literary communities on the basis of book-evidence; and finally, the Middle English poem Piers Plowman. In general, although all the essays here arrive at broad conclusions, their point is other. The essays exemplify methods of study, the identification of problems and the recognition of tools appropriate or helpful in addressing them. Perhaps particularly the volume gestures toward a range of skills appropriate for the task; these range from narrow observation of book-production techniques to bringing a local historical record to bear on an individual volume or group of them.

Author : Jill Mann,Christopher Cannon,Maura Nolan
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781843842637

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Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature by Jill Mann,Christopher Cannon,Maura Nolan Pdf

Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann's writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (the relationship of song to affect, the political valence of classical allusion, the Latin background of Middle English devotional texts). Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas most important in Mann's own work (beast fable, the nature of allegory, the nature of "nature", the relationship of economic thought and literature, satire, language as a subject for poetry) in the poets she hasbeen most drawn to (Chaucer, Langland, Henryson). All of the essays involve close readings of the most careful kind, taking as their primary method Professor Mann's repeated injunction to attend, above all, to the"words on the page". Christopher Cannon is Professor of English, New York University; Maura Nolan is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Davis, Peter Dronke, A.S.G. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Edwards, Maura Nolan, Paul J. Patterson, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter, Paul Gerhard Schmidt, James Simpson, Barry Windeatt, Nicolette Zeeman

Author : Larissa Tracy,Geert H. M. Claassens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Dutch literature
ISBN : 9781843846345

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Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context by Larissa Tracy,Geert H. M. Claassens Pdf

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.

Author : Nicola McDonald
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0719063191

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Pulp Fictions of Medieval England by Nicola McDonald Pdf

Pulp fictions of medieval England comprises ten essays on individual popular romances; with a focus on romances that, while enormously popular in the Middle Ages, have been neglected by modern scholarship. Each essay provides valuable introductory material, and there is a sustained argument across the contributions that the romances invite innovative, exacting and theoretically charged analysis. However, the essays do not support a single, homogenous reading of popular romance: the authors work with assumptions and come to conclusions about issues as fundamental as the genre's aesthetic codes, its political and cultural ideologies, and its historical consciousness that are different and sometimes opposed. Nicola McDonald's collection and the romances it investigates, are crucial to our understanding of the aesthetics of medieval narrative and to the ideologies of gender and sexuality, race, religion, political formations, social class, ethics, morality and national identity with which those narratives engage.

Author : Sharon M. Rowley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030557249

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Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts by Sharon M. Rowley Pdf

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays investigate both the production of medieval texts and the people whose hands and minds created, altered and/or published them. The chapters consider the writings of major authors such as Chaucer, Gower and Wyclif in relation to texts, authors and ideals less well-known today, and in light of the translation and interpretive reproduction of the Bible in Middle English. The essays make some texts available for the first time in print, and examine the roles of historical scholars in the construction of medieval English literature and textual cultures. By doing so, this collection investigates what it means to recover, study and represent some of the key medieval English texts that continue to influence us today.

Author : Travis R. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317107767

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Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland by Travis R. Baker Pdf

Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played a prominent role in medieval society, legal history has long been a marginal subject within medieval studies both in Britain and North America. Much good work has been done in this field, but there is much still to do. This volume, a collection of essays in honour of Paul Brand, who has contributed perhaps more than any other historian to our understanding of the legal developments of later medieval England and Ireland, is intended to help fill this gap. The essays collected in this volume, which range from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, offer the latest research on a variety of topics within this field of inquiry. While some consider familiar topics, they do so from new angles, whether by exploring the underlying assumptions behind England’s adoption of trial by jury for crime or by assessing the financial aspects of the General Eyre, a core institution of jurisdiction in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. Most, however, consider topics which have received little attention from scholars, from the significance of judges and lawyers smiling and laughing in the courtroom to the profits and perils of judicial office in English Ireland. The essays provide new insights into how the law developed and functioned within the legal profession and courtroom in late medieval England and Ireland, as well as how it pervaded the society at large.

Author : Vincent Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
ISBN : 0708318584

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Looking in Holy Books by Vincent Gillespie Pdf

This volume suggests new ways of reading and thinking about the religious culture of late-medieval England. It explores an unusually wide spectrum of Latin and vernacular religious texts, from catechetic handbooks to descriptions of mystical experience, and pays particular attention to the transmission and reception of these texts. The book collects together some of Vincent Gillespie's most influential and important articles from the last twenty-five years. In addition, the author offers a substantial introduction and commentary, which looks at changes in the field, as well as suggesting further reading and areas for future research. The first section "What to Read" discusses lay access to devotional materials; the second, "How to Read," looks at vernacular texts and the modes of reading those texts facilitate and encourage, while section three, "Writing the Ineffable," considers mystical writing's affective and imaginative engagement with the ineffable.

Author : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135547899

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Food in the Middle Ages by Melitta Weiss Adamson Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ralph Hanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789628083

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Patient Reading/Reading Patience by Ralph Hanna Pdf

This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontinuities of medieval manuscript production; drawing conclusions about historical audiences/literary communities on the basis of book-evidence; and finally, the Middle English poem Piers Plowman. In general, although all the essays here arrive at broad conclusions, their point is other. The essays exemplify methods of study, the identification of problems and the recognition of tools appropriate or helpful in addressing them. Perhaps particularly the volume gestures toward a range of skills appropriate for the task; these range from narrow observation of book-production techniques to bringing a local historical record to bear on an individual volume or group of them.

Author : Maryanne Kowaleski,John Langdon,Phillipp R. Schofield
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : England
ISBN : 2503551564

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Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy by Maryanne Kowaleski,John Langdon,Phillipp R. Schofield Pdf

Professor Bruce Campbell's career has been devoted to providing systematic and highly influential studies of the medieval economy and society of the British Isles, including his innovative work on the role of the elites in defining medieval agricultural practices. This volume draws together essays from a distinguished group of researchers who have been inspired by Campbell's work and the spirit of collegiality and inclusiveness that he has always demonstrated, and who wish to celebrate his significant contributions to scholarship. Many of the essays collected here engage directly with critical issues raised in Professor Campbell's own research: how medieval society fed itself with reputedly very low levels of technology, the productivity of medieval society as a whole, the impact of external forces (particularly climate), the relationship between lords and peasants, and the importance of non-seigniorial contributions to the medieval economy.

Author : Thelma S. Fenster,Carolyn P. Collette
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781843844594

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The French of Medieval England by Thelma S. Fenster,Carolyn P. Collette Pdf

Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England.

Author : Richard Britnell,John Hatcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522730

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Progress and Problems in Medieval England by Richard Britnell,John Hatcher Pdf

A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

Author : Yoko Iyeiri,Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015061340132

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Essays on Medieval English by Yoko Iyeiri,Margaret Connolly Pdf

Author : Anthony Paul Bale,Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198733782

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Medieval English Travel by Anthony Paul Bale,Sebastian Sobecki Pdf

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'.