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Author: Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0521768977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
Author: Jessica Rosenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1139495259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical history of the medieval ethics of love, centered on the legacy of the Roman de la Rose. The chapters reveal that 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and earthly happiness. Readings of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, Dante, Deguileville and Langland show that poets were often markedly aware of the overlapping ethical languages of philosophy and erotic poetry. The study's conclusion places medieval poetry and philosophy in the context of psychoanalytic ethics, and argues for a re-evaluation of Lacan's ideas about courtly love.
Author: Sarah Elliott Novacich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-10
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1107177057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature.
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-06-19
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0191669210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomance 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: Daniel Wakelin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1009100580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.
Author: Anne Schuurman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 100938595X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.
Author: Tim William Machan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-25
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107058597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.
Author: Daniel Wakelin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1316062120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.
Author: Virginie Greene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1316195104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes. This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature. Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction.
Author: Geoffrey Russom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107148332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
