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Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:977000851
Author : Nancy M. Bradbury
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252024036
In this study, Nancy Bradbury presents a spectrum of medieval English romances that extends from the fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition to a writerly work that proclaims its own place in the European tradition of canonical poetry. By focusing on works composed at the interface of oral and literary tradition, Bradbury tracks the movement of folkloric patterns from the shared culture of oral storytelling to the realm of elite literature.
Author : Richard Rastall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837650392
A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great occasions (such as Edward I's wedding feast for his daughter Elizabeth in 1296) and in quieter moments in their chambers; town-dwellers heard and saw them in civic processions (when their sound drew attention to the spectacle); and even in the countryside people heard them at weddings, church-ales and other parish celebrations. But who were the minstrels, and what did they do? How did they live, and how easily did they make a living? How did they perform, and in what conditions? The evidence is intriguing but fragmentary, including literary and iconographic sources and, most importantly, the financial records of royal and aristocratic households and of towns. These offer many insights, although they are often hard to fit into any coherent picture of the minstrels' lives and their place in society. It is easy to see the minstrels as peripheral figures, entertainers who had no central place in the medieval world. Yet they were full members of it, interacting with the ordinary people around them, as well as with the ruling classes: carrying letters and important verbal messages, some lending huge sums of money to the king (to finance Henry V's Agincourt campaign in 1415, for instance), some regular and necessary civic servants, some committing crimes or suffering the crimes of others. In this book Rastall and Taylor bring to bear the available evidence to enlarge and enrich our view of the minstrel in late medieval society.
Author : Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521768979
The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843238
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781903153390
A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be flourishing well into the Tudor period. Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from Tamworth, is virtually the only English minstrel whose life story is known to us in any detail. It had been thought that by the sixteenth century minstrels had generally been downgradedto the role of mere jesters. However, through a careful examination of the manuscript which Sheale almost certainly "wrote" (Bodleian Ashmole 48) and other records, the author argues that the oral tradition remained vibrant at this period, contrary to the common idea that print had by this stage destroyed traditional minstrelsy. The author shows that under the patronage of Edward Stanley, earl of Derby, and his son, from one of the most important aristocratic families in England, Sheale recited and collected ballads and travelled to and from London to market them. Amongst his repertoire was the famous Chevy Chase, which Sir Philip Sidney said moved his heart "more than witha trumpet". Sheale also composed his own verse, including a lament on being robbed of 60 on his way to London; the poem is reproduced in this volume. ANDREW TAYLOR lectures in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.
Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914070
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Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191669217
Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.
Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz,Nancy Freeman Regalado,Marilyn Lawrence
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1843840391
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Author : Dean Alan Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCR:31210006878696
Author : E. Scala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107564
Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these absent narratives prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written.
Author : Nicola McDonald
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0719063191
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 : Kathryn A. Duys,Elizabeth Emery,Elizabeth Nicole Emery,Laurie Postlewate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843917
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
Author : Elizabeth Dearnley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844426
An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue.
Author : Jacqueline Jenkins,Julie Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137320117
The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.
