Writers Editors And Exemplars In Medieval English Texts

Author : Sharon M. Rowley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Michael Johnston,Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501516511

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Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England by Michael Johnston,Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Derek Pearsall Pdf

Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking research on seminal manuscripts (e.g., Harley 2253, the Thornton Manuscripts, John Audley’s autograph manuscript, and the Auchinleck Manuscript). She has written extensively on the more complex and challenging metrical forms the period produced. And she has edited foundational primary texts and collections of essays. A wide range of scholars have been influenced by Fein’s work, many of whom present original research—much of it following trails first laid down by Fein—in this volume.

Author : David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261636

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Readings in Medieval Texts by David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne Pdf

Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.

Author : Joseph St. John
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040077665

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Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry by Joseph St. John Pdf

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.

Author : Jessica Lutkin,J. S. Hamilton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781783276172

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Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II by Jessica Lutkin,J. S. Hamilton Pdf

Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined. The reign of Richard II is well known for its political turmoil as well as its literary and artistic innovations, all areas explored by Professor Nigel Saul during his distinguished career. The present volume interrogates many familiar literary and narrative sources, including works by Froissart, Gower, Chaucer, Clanvow, and the Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum, along with those less well-known, such as coroner's inquests and gaol delivery proceedings. The reign is also notorious for its larger than life personalities - not least Richard himself. But how was he shaped by other personalities? A prosopographical study of Richard's bishops, a comparison of the literary biographies of his father the Black Prince, and Bertrand du Guesclin, and a reconsideration of Plantagenet family politics, all shed light on this question. Meanwhile, Richard II's tomb reflects his desire to shape a new vision of kingship. Commemoration more broadly was changing in the late fourteenth century, and this volume includes several studies of both individual and communal memorials of various types that illustrate this trend: again, appropriately for an area Professor Saul has made his own. Contributors: Mark Arvanigian, Caroline Barron, Michael Bennett, Jerome Bertram, David Carpenter, Chris Given-Wilson, Jill Havens, Claire Kennan, Hannes Kleineke, John Leland, Joel Rosenthal, Christian Steer, George Stow, Jenny Stratford, Kelcey Wilson-Lee.

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525559429

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The Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel Pdf

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691260990

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The Deorhord by Hana Videen Pdf

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a delightful book” Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for “animal” itself, deor (pronounced DAY-or). In The Deorhord, Hana Videen presents a glittering Old English bestiary of animals real and imaginary, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary—the good, the bad, and the downright baffling. From gange-wæfran or walker-weavers (spiders) and hasu-padan or grey-cloaked ones (eagles) to heafdu swelce mona or moon-heads (historians still don’t know!), The Deorhord introduces a world both familiar and strange: where ants could be monsters and panthers could be your friends, where dog-headed men were as real as elephants, and where whales were as sneaky as wolves. The curious stories behind these words provide vivid insights into the language, literature, and lives of those who spoke Old English—the language of Beowulf—more than a thousand years ago. A delightful journey through the weird and wonderful world of Old English, The Deorhord is a magical menagerie of new creatures and new words for the modern englisc reader to discover.

Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Tim William Machan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813915082

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Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts by Tim William Machan Pdf

Textual-Critical studies of medieval English literature have primarily focused on practical matters such as transcription, collation, recension, and the identification of scribal hands. But the theory of editing medieval English works remains largely unexplored. Tim William Machan addresses this void by setting out to articulate the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterize Middle English works as Middle English and to reveal the role these factors play in editing and interpretation of these works. In revealing how the creation of textual criticism affected the transmission of Middle English, this book will be of interest and accessible to readers relatively new to both textual criticism and Middle English. It will also be of vital importance to specialists in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, and textual criticism.

Author : Vincent Gillespie,Anne Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Editing
ISBN : 2503536832

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Probable Truth by Vincent Gillespie,Anne Hudson Pdf

Editing as an academic mode of work has had a variable 'press' - it is often seen as just plumbing. But without editions no historian of whatever critical persuasion could operate. Texts that are not edited are effectively invisible. The advent of electronic means of text production has also raised new possibilities and new problems that need to be openly considered rather than ignored. The papers in this volume reflect those concerns, and explore the ways forward. How do the best editorial procedures of the past get transmitted to the future? A distinguished line-up of experienced editors and younger scholars actively grappling with these issues reflect on their engagement with the challenges of textual theory and editorial practice. No single solution emerges as applicable to all texts and for all editions; the individual characteristics of each text and its transmission, together with the intended audience of each edition, emerge as primary areas for consideration.

Author : Rory G. Critten
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845058

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Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature by Rory G. Critten Pdf

The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book.

Author : Graham D. Caie,Denis Renevey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134238460

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Medieval Texts in Context by Graham D. Caie,Denis Renevey Pdf

This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.

Author : Norman Francis Blake
Publisher : London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036914740

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The English Language in Medieval Literature by Norman Francis Blake Pdf

Author : Sarah Larratt Keefer,Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0859914690

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New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse by Sarah Larratt Keefer,Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Seven original essays on the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse.

Author : Janet Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015054066165

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Medieval Readers and Writers, 1350-1400 by Janet Coleman Pdf