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Author : Orietta Da Rold,Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102460
Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.
Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521856898
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841672
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108840576
Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.
Author : Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107180789
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Author : Louise D'Arcens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107086715
An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
Author : Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107066199
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Author : Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107469211
This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the literature of the period 600 to 1066 in the context of how Anglo-Saxon society functioned. New chapters cover topics including preaching and teaching, Beowulf and literacy, and a further five chapters have been revised and updated, including those on the Old English language, perceptions of eternity and Anglo-Saxon learning. An additional concluding chapter on Old English after 1066 offers an overview of the study and cultural influences of Old English literature to the present day. Finally, the further reading list has been overhauled to incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship in the field and the latest electronic resources for students.
Author : Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Maidie Hilmo,Linda Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501779954
This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex—its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts also explores the function of illustrations in fashioning audience response to particular authors and their texts over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo—scholars at the forefront of the modern study of Middle English manuscripts—focus on the writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe, highlighting the specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. Among the topics they address are the rise of the English language, literacy, social conditions of authorship, early instances of the "Alliterative Revival," women and book production, nuns’ libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at revisionism and censorship. Inspired by the highly successful study of Latin manuscripts by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (also published by Cornell), this book demonstrates how the field of Middle English manuscript studies, with its own unique literary and artistic environment, is changing modern approaches to the culture of the book.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556872
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405195522
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
Author : Scott DeGregorio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825429
As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Companion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductory guide to Bede, his writings, and his world. The first part of the volume focuses on Bede's cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-political contexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and sought to perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, and the foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book then considers Bede's writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and historical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of Bede's influence and reception from the time of his death up to the modern age, the Companion enables the reader to view Bede's writings within a wider cultural context.
Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192843814
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of the book's life from the moment of its production to its use, collection, breaking-up, and digitization--all aspects of what can be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. The ten chapters include detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts' blank spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts' heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best read as 'relics of existence', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood in the context of the book's wholeness. Readers of this study will find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107495128
From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.
Author : Alexandra Gillespie,Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521889797
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.