Materializing Englishness In Early Medieval Texts

Author : Jacqueline Fay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191074844

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Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts by Jacqueline Fay Pdf

The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment—climate, soil, landscape features, plants—and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.

Author : Jacqueline A. Fay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0191959502

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Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts by Jacqueline A. Fay Pdf

This text provides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links between Englishness and the body in the texts and culture of this time.

Author : David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261636

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Readings in Medieval Texts by David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne Pdf

Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.

Author : Elaine M. Treharne,Susan Rosser
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015061160829

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Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations by Elaine M. Treharne,Susan Rosser Pdf

Twenty papers by students of Scragg (U. of Leicester) and other scholars of Anglo-Saxon from across Europe and the US pivot on his particular interests, among them editing and the transmission of texts, source studies, and interpretations of Old and transitional English poetry and prose. Readers are expected to be literate in Old English. Annotatio

Author : Sharon M. Rowley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker,William Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199229123

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker,William Green Pdf

Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Ælfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316608840

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The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature by Clare A. Lees Pdf

Informed by multi-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107058590

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Imagining Medieval English by Tim William Machan Pdf

Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.

Author : W.P Ker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752329681

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Medieval English Literature by W.P Ker Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Medieval English Literature by W.P Ker

Author : Norman Francis Blake
Publisher : London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036914740

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The English Language in Medieval Literature by Norman Francis Blake Pdf

Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521469708

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Reading Old English Texts by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

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 : Margaret Schlauch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Anglo-Saxon literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046340066

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English Medieval Literature and Its Social Foundations by Margaret Schlauch Pdf

Author : Hugh T. Keenan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000080114

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Typology and English Medieval Literature by Hugh T. Keenan Pdf

Author : Emily Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317196891

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Language and Community in Early England by Emily Butler Pdf

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the eighth century to the thirteenth century, and finally to the sixteenth-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this important period in the history of English can only be understood if we loosen our insistence on a sharp divide between Old and Middle English and place the textuality of this period in the framework of a multilingual matrix. The book examines a wide range of materials, including the works of Bede, the Alfredian circle, and Wulfstan, as well as the mid-eleventh-century Encomium Emmae Reginae, the Tremulous Hand of Worcester, the Ancrene Wisse, and Matthew Parker’s study of Old English manuscripts. Engaging foundational theories of textual community and intellectual community, this book provides a crucial link with linguistic distance. Perceptions of distance, whether between English and other languages or between different forms of English, are fundamental to the formation of textual community, since the awareness of shared language that can shape or reinforce a sense of communal identity only has meaning by contrast with other languages or varieties. The book argues that the precocious rise of English as a written vernacular has its basis in precisely these communal negotiations of linguistic distance, the effects of which were still playing out in the religious and political upheavals of the sixteenth century. Ultimately, the book argues that the tension of linguistic distance provides the necessary energy for the community-building activities of annotation and glossing, translation, compilation, and other uses of texts and manuscripts. This will be an important volume for literary scholars of the medieval period, and those working on the early modern period, both on literary topics and on historical studies of English nationalism. It will also appeal to those with interests in sociolinguistics, history of the English language, and medieval religious history.