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Author : Susanna Fein,Michael Robert Johnston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781903153512
Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.
Author : John J. Thompson,Robert Thornton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991190X
British Library MS Additional 31042 (the London Thornton manuscript) is one of two miscellaneous collections copied in the middle years of the fifteenth century by Robert Thornton of East Newton in North Yorkshire. It has secured its place in the history of late medieval book production as "Thornton's other book, since it is always seen as smaller, less varied in content, less well organised, and therefore less important than its sister volume at Lincoln. This study re-examines these assumptions and draws attention to the many bibligraphical problems presented by the manuscript in order to assess the evidence the book can provide concerning Thornton's general book-producing effects. JOHN J. THOMPSON is Lecturer in English at The Queen's University of Belfast.
Author : Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913864
11 studies of different types of late-medieval religious literature, in English, French and Latin.
Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844471
A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.
Author : Phillipa Hardman,Marianne Ailes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844723
The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Dr. Ruth Kennedy,Ruth Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0197223249
This new edition presents three odes to saints in alliterative and stanzaic form, composed in the north and east Midlands around 1400. The hymns address St. Katherine of Alexandria (from Bodley Rolls 22), St. John the Evangelist (Lincoln Cathedral Library MS91), and St. John the Baptist (British Library, MS Additional 39574). The edition contains a full account of extensive recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, as well as the hymns' hagiographical and historical context.
Author : W. Mark Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Debate poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : 9781843845812
First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.
Author : Susanna Fein,Elizabeth Melick,David Raybin
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580444125
This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.
Author : John Simons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349222339
The book surveys medieval literature from both a critical and an historical standpoint. Medieval literature is increasingly seen as an area of intense specialism which is to be treated differently from other areas of English Studies. The essays collected here try to overturn this perception in two ways. Firstly, there is a demonstration of the ways in which modern critical approaches and perspectives work with the medieval text. Secondly, the idea of the medieval is shown, historically, to be a discourse which has been given different symbolic values and served different social purposes.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192871770
The Middle English Book analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late medieval England (1350-1500) and argues that most readers looked to scribes in their immediate vicinity to acquire copies of literature. It examines various forms of writing practiced by scribes throughout the late medieval English countryside and shows that the production of documents underscored the wide availability of literary copying. As a result, when a reader acquired a manuscript,they were most often tapping into local networks of document production.
Author : Sian Echard,Robert Rouse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2102 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118396988
Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. A uniquely multilingual and intercultural approach reflecting the latest scholarship, covering the entire medieval period and the full tapestry of literary languages comprises over 600 authoritative yet accessible entries on key figures, texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and isitroical contexts, and related terminology Represents all the literatures of the British Isles including Old and Middle English, Early Scots, Anglo-Norman, the Norse, Latin and French of Britain, and the Celtic Literatures of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall Boasts an impressive chronological scope, covering the period from the Saxon invasions to the fifth century to the transition to the Early Modern Period in the sixteenth Covers the material remains of Medieval British literature, including manuscripts and early prints, literary sites and contexts of production, performance and reception as well as highlighting narrative transformations and intertextual links during the period
Author : J. B. Lethbridge
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640664
This is a collection of wide-ranging papers on Edmund Spenser, including criticism on the Shepheardes Calender, Spenser's rhymes, his impact on Louis MacNeice, the medieval organizations of the Faerie Queene, on the Mutabilite Cantos, Temperance in Book II, and Friendship in Book IV, Written by younger as well as by well-established scholars, the contributors move quietly away from theoretically dominated criticism, and emphasize the importance of historical criticism, both breaking new ground and recuperating neglected insights and approaches. The introduction describes and defends the current trend towards a renewed historical criticism in Spenser criticism. The papers contribute to our knowledge of Spenser's life as well as to our understanding of his poetry. J. B. Lethbridge lectures at the English seminar at Tubingen University.
Author : Rodney M. Thomson,Lincoln Cathedral. Library
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Archives
ISBN : 0859912787
This catalogue describes MSS 1-247 and 298 in the Chapter Library of Lincoln Cathedral, plus ten former Lincoln MSS now elsewhere. About half of the MSS were part of the cathedral's medieval Library; nearly all the rest came therebefore the late seventeenth century. Among the MSS, which date from the eighth to the early sixteenth century, are biblical commentaries and sermons, works of pastoral theology and an important corpus of Middle English texts, including the famous Thornton Romances. A group of MSS written at the Cathedral c.1100 is notable for its distinctive decoration. The Catalogue is preceded by a history of the Cathedral Library, based on the rich documentaryevidence, which includes two medieval catalogues. The plates illustrate bindings, ownership marks, important decoration and noteworthy script, including samples from all signed and dated books.
Author : Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844716
Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.
