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Author : Joyce Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521673518
This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.
Author : Mary C. Erler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521024579
Narratives of medieval women offer new insights into networks of female book ownership and exchange.
Author : Malcolm Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317323983
Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.
Author : Hollie L. S. Morgan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153710
First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages.
Author : Antony J. Hasler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139496728
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Author : Erin A. McCarthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192573575
When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print publication radically expanded the early modern reading public. These new readers, publishers feared, might not buy or like the books. Worse, their misreadings could put the authors, the publishers, or the readers themselves at risk. Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England focuses on early modern publishers' efforts to identify and accommodate new readers of verse that had previously been restricted to particular social networks in manuscript. Focusing on the period between the maturing of the market for printed English literature in the 1590s and the emergence of the professional poet following the Restoration, this study shows that poetry was shaped by—and itself shaped—strong print publication traditions. By reading printed editions of poems by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, and others, this book shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself. It uses literary, historical, bibliographical, and quantitative evidence to show how publishers' strategies changed over time. Ultimately, Doubtful Readers argues that although—or perhaps because—publishers' interpretive and editorial efforts are often elided in studies of early modern poetry, their interventions have had an enduring impact on our canons, texts, and literary histories.
Author : Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137531162
This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.
Author : Amy Noelle Vines
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842750
A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
Author : Helen Barr
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191540868
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
Author : Sarah Elliott Novacich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177055
Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature.
Author : Maura Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139446815
Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth century Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was historically very small, but that saw itself as dominating the cultural life of the nation. Thus the new literary forms and modes developed by Lydgate and his contemporaries helped shape the development of English public culture in the fifteenth century. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work and of his central role in the developing literary culture of his time. Moreover, she provides a wholly new perspective on Lydgate's relationship to Chaucer, as he followed Chaucerian traditions while creating innovative new ways of addressing the public.
Author : Fiona Somerset,Jill C. Havens,Derrick G. Pitard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780851159959
Who were the Lollards? What did Lollards believe? What can the manuscript record of Lollard works teach us about the textual dissemination of Lollard beliefs and the audience for Lollard writings? What did Lollards have in common with other reformist or dissident thinkers in late medieval England, and how were their views distinctive? These questions have been fundamental to the modern study of Lollardy (also known as Wycliffism). The essays in this book reveal their broader implications for the study of English literature and history through a series of closely focused studies that demonstrate the wide-ranging influence of Lollard writings and ideas on later medieval English culture. Introductions to previous scholarship, and an extensive Bibliography of printed resources for the study of Wyclif and Wycliffites, provide an entry to scholarship for those new to the field.Contributors: DAVID AERS, MARGARET ASTON, HELEN BARR, MISHTOONI BOSE, LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER, ANDREW COLE, RALPH HANNA III, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, ANDREW LARSEN, GEOFFREY H. MARTIN, WENDY SCASE, FIONA SOMERSET, EMILY STEINER. FIONA SOMERSET is at Duke University, Durham NC; JILL C. HAVENS is at Texas Christian University; DERRICK G. PITARD is at Slippery Rock University, PA.
Author : Andrew Kraebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486644
A new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.
Author : Richard Rastall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.
