New Medieval Literatures 21: (New Medieval Literatures)
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New Medieval Literatures 21: (New Medieval Literatures)

New Medieval Literatures 21: (New Medieval Literatures)

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Wendy Scase (Contributor) Laura Ashe (Contributor) Philip Knox (Contributor) Kellie Robertson (Contributor) Genevieve Young (Contributor) Matthew Aiello (Contributor) Johannes Junge Ruhland (Contributor) Adin Lears (Contributor) Lucy Brookes (Contributor) Casey Ireland (Contributor)  

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New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with a wide range of subject matter, from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD 12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968). They demonstrate that medieval textual cultures is a radically negotiable category and that medieval understandings of the past were equally diverse and unstable.They reflect on relationships between history, texts, and truth from a range of perspectives, from Foucault to "truthiness", a twenty-first-century media coinage. Materiality and the technical crafts with which humans engage withthe natural world are recurrent themes, opening up new insights on mysticism, knighthood, and manuscript production and reception. Analysis of manuscript illuminations offers new understandings of identity and diversity, while a survey of every thirteenth-century manuscript that contains English currently in Oxford libraries yields a challenging new history of script. Particular texts discussed include Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal, Richard Rolle's Incendium amoris and Melos amoris, and the Middle English verse romances Lybeaus Desconus, The Erle of Tolous, Amis and Amiloun, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 30 b/w illus.
WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.
  • Contributor: Wendy Scase
  • Imprint: D.S. Brewer
  • ISBN13: 9781843845867
  • Number of Pages: 229
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x216mm
  • Packaged Weight: 380
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release Date: 2021-03-19
  • Series: New Medieval Literatures
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.

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