Medieval Literature And Social Politics

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000340181

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Medieval Literature and Social Politics by Stephen Knight Pdf

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism (CS 1099).

Author : Frederick Tupper
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020808039

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Types of Society in Medieval Literature by Frederick Tupper Pdf

A comprehensive study of the different types of society depicted in medieval literature. The book explores the social, political, and economic structures of various societies, and offers insights into the beliefs, values, and attitudes of medieval people. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Margaret Schlauch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : James M Dean
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580444682

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Medieval English Political Writings by James M Dean Pdf

This volume collects poems and historical documents relevant to understanding the political climate of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Britain, many of which have been out of print for a century. This new edition, geared towards classroom use with its notes, introductions, gloss, and glossary, opens up the fascinating study of late medieval English history. This volume contains five sections: Poems of Political Prophecy; Anticlerical Poems and Documents; Literature of Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt; Poems against Simony and the Abuse of Money; and Plowman Writings-all tied together by a common attitude of satire and complaint, and a distrust of those who may abuse power. This volume would make an excellent source for a class on English satire or late medieval politics.

Author : Carole Maddern
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781292003825

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York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature by Carole Maddern Pdf

This volume spans five centuries of post-Conquest literature, written at a time in which enormous social, political and linguistic changes transformed life in Britain. Medieval genres such as Arthurian romance, lyrics, dream narratives and mystery plays are brought to life and accompanied by discussions of key debates such as “Gender and Power”, “The Emergent Individual” and “Society and Class”. Bringing together historical contexts and critical theory, this is essential reading for any student of medieval literature.

Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844471

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Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England by Victoria Flood Pdf

A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.

Author : Peter Haidu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804747448

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The Subject Medieval/Modern by Peter Haidu Pdf

This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation.

Author : Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Neofilologiczny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315201716

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English Medieval Literature and Its Social Foundations. Unrevised Reproduction by Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Neofilologiczny Pdf

Author : Piero Boitani,Anna Torti
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991545X

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The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature by Piero Boitani,Anna Torti Pdf

The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems. Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval themes: John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments', seen in relation to the traditional 'acta martyrum', and the medieval revival in Tory Britain exemplified in Douglas Oliver's 'The Infant and the Pearl'. Contributors: PAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN, JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND, ROBERT F. YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN

Author : David Aers,Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0859915557

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Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry by David Aers,Derek Pearsall Pdf

Historicist readings of the politics and ethics exhibited in a range of medieval texts including Chaucer, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays. Critical historicist readings engage with the politics and ethics of selected medieval texts, addressing a wide range of literature and topics of enquiry: Langland, Chaucer, and the Pearl-poet, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays; chivalric cultures, their forms of identity and mourning; and the politics, ethics and theology of some of the most fascinating writing in late medieval England. Intended as a tribute to Professor Derek Pearsall, andreflecting his major contribution to medieval literary criticism, they are an important addition to the critical and historical study of the period.DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.

Author : Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191572593

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

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Author : Jane Gilbert,Simon Gaunt,William Burgwinkle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198832454

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Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad by Jane Gilbert,Simon Gaunt,William Burgwinkle Pdf

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue -- in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science -- but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. The field of medieval francophone literary culture outside France was for many years a minor and peripheral sub-field of medieval French literary studies (or, in the case of Anglo-Norman, of English studies). The past two decades, however, have seen a major reassessment of the use of French in England, in the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the eastern Mediterranean, and this impacts significantly upon the history of literature in French more generally. This book is the first to look at the question overall, rather than just at one region. It also takes a more sustained theorised approach than other studies, drawing particularly on Derrida and on Actor-Network Theory. It discusses a wide range of texts, some of which have hitherto been regarded as marginal to French literary history, and makes the case for this material being more central to the literary history of French than was allowed in more traditional approaches focused narrowly on 'France'. Many of the arguments in Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad are grounded in readings of texts in manuscript (rather than in modern critical editions), and sustained attention is paid throughout to manuscripts that were produced or travelled outside the kingdom of France.

Author : Elliot Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542642

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Lordship and Literature by Elliot Kendall Pdf

In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.

Author : Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198790778

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Last Words by Sebastian Sobecki Pdf

Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.

Author : Holly Crocker,D. Vance Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000948264

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Medieval Literature by Holly Crocker,D. Vance Smith Pdf

Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting vibrant debates on medieval literature that will continue to shape critical conversations for the coming decades. Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith present a fascinating collection of essays from leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature and culture, examining topics including gender, sexuality, politics, belief, language, nationhood, science and desire. The volume sheds light on critical discussions of the medieval period and shows the continuing relevance and vivacity of Medieval English literature in the twenty-first century. Each section is thoroughly introduced and the essays develop various debates in key areas, providing a springboard for readers to establish their own study, arguments and opinions. Further reading sections make this volume an accessible and important resource for those studying literature from the Medieval period and beyond. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Sarah Beckwith, Anke Bernau, Glenn Burger, Ardis Butterfield, Christopher Cannon, Christine Chism, Lisa H. Cooper, Susan Crane, Holly A. Crocker, George Edmondson, Ruth Evans, Sylvia Federico, Laurie Finke, Aranye Fradenburg, Frank Grady, Richard Firth Green, Patricia Clare Ingham , Hannah Johnson, Steven Justice, David Lawton, Robert Mills, J. Allan Mitchell, Nicholas Perkins, Tison Pugh, Elizabeth Robertson, Kellie Robertson, Jessica Rosenfeld, Sarah Salih, Corinne Saunders, Martin Shichtman, D. Vance Smith, Emily Steiner, Jennifer Summit, Stephanie Trigg, Marion Turner, David Wallace, Angela Jane Weisl, Nicolette Zeeman