Medieval Writers And Their Work

Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191037351

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Medieval Writers and their Work by J. A. Burrow Pdf

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.

Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191538544

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Medieval Writers and their Work by J. A. Burrow Pdf

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.

Author : John A. Burrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614639264

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Medieval Writers and Their Work by John A. Burrow Pdf

Author : John Anthony Burrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4937404

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Medieval Writers and Their Work by John Anthony Burrow Pdf

J. A. Burrows places the writers of the Medieval period 1100-1500 in their historical context and explains not only how authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland wrote, but why.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820306414

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Medieval Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.

Author : Matthew Fisher
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0814211984

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Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England by Matthew Fisher Pdf

Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England reconceptualizes medieval scribes as authors, and the texts surviving in medieval manuscripts as authored. Culling evidence from history writing in later medieval England, Matthew Fisher concludes that we must reject the axiomatic division between scribe and author. Using the peculiarities of authority and intertextuality unique to medieval historiography, Fisher exposes the rich ambiguities of what it means for medieval scribes to "write" books. He thus frames the composition, transmission, and reception--indeed, the authorship--of some medieval texts as scribal phenomena. History writing is an inherently intertextual genre: in order to write about the past, texts must draw upon other texts. Scribal Authorship demonstrates that medieval historiography relies upon quotation, translation, and adaptation in such a way that the very idea that there is some line that divides author from scribe is an unsustainable and modern critical imposition. Given the reality that a scribe's work was far more nuanced than the simplistic binary of error and accuracy would suggest, Fisher completely overturns many of our assumptions about the processes through which manuscripts were assembled and texts (both canonical literature and the less obviously literary) were composed.

Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, Medieval
ISBN : 0814213405

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Invention and Authorship in Medieval England by Robert Edwards Pdf

Robert R. Edward's Invention and Authorship in Medieval England examines the ways in which writers established themselves as authors in medieval England. It offers a critical appraisal of authorship in literary culture and shows how the conventions of authorship are used aesthetically by major writers of the period.

Author : Kimberly Fonzo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487563493

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Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship by Kimberly Fonzo Pdf

The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates the creative ways in which William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer engaged with prophecy to cultivate their own identities and to speak to the problems of their age. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship examines the prophetic reputations of these well-known medieval authors whose fame made them especially subject to nationalist appropriation. Kimberly Fonzo explains that retrospectively co-opting the prophetic voices of canonical authors aids those looking to excuse or endorse key events of national history by implying that they were destined to happen. She challenges the reputations of Langland, Gower, and Chaucer as prophets of the Protestant Reformation, Richard II’s deposition, and secular Humanism, respectively. This intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works successfully makes the case that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in medieval authorial self-representations.

Author : Sharon M. Rowley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Ingo Berensmeyer,Gert Buelens,Marysa Demoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316617947

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The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship by Ingo Berensmeyer,Gert Buelens,Marysa Demoor Pdf

This Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I considers the history of authorship from cuneiform writing to contemporary digital publishing; it discusses authorship in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Jewish cultures, medieval, Renaissance, modern, postmodern and Chinese literature. The second part focuses on the place of authorship in literary theory, and on challenges to theorizing literary authorship, such as gender and sexuality, postcolonial and indigenous contexts for writing. Finally, Part III investigates practical perspectives on the topic, with a focus on attribution, anonymity and pseudonymity, plagiarism and forgery, copyright and literary property, censorship, publishing and marketing and institutional contexts.

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521890462

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The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature by David Wallace Pdf

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: After the Norman Conquest ; Writing in the British Isles ; Institutional Productions ; After the Black Death and Before the Reformation . It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316082792

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A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester Pdf

A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134843336

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Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their relation to social and cultural institutions. Each section is contextualised with a brief historical introduction, and the materials span literary, historical, theological and other narrative and imaginative writing. The writings here uncover and confound the stereotype of the medieval woman as lady or virgin by demonstrating the different roles and meanings that the sign of woman occupied in the imaginative space of the medieval period. Larrington's clear and accessible editorial material and the modern English translations of all the extracts mean this work is ideally suited for students. Women and Writing in Early Europe: A Sourcebook also contains an extensive and fully up-to-date bibliography, making it not only essential reading for undergraduates and post graduates but also a valuable tool for scholars.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107658929

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis Pdf

An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.

Author : Glending Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501746758

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Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages by Glending Olson Pdf

This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.