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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: Harriet Soper
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Published: 2023-11-29
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1009315137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their staging of entanglements between human life courses and those of the nonhuman or more-than-human. While Old English poetry sometimes suggests that uniform patterns shape each life, paralleling patristic traditions of the ages of man, it also frequently disrupts a sense of steady linearity through the life course in striking ways, foregrounding moments of sudden upheaval over smooth continuity, contingency over predictability, and idiosyncrasy over regularity. Advancing new readings of a diverse range of Old English poems, Soper draws on an array of supporting contexts and theories to illuminate these texts, unearthing their complex and fascinating depictions of ageing through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author: Orietta Da Rold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108896790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.
Author: Jonas Wellendorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 110842497X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.
Author: Anke Bernau
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0719098165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for information about sanctity, these essays consider the ways in which sanctity - as concept and as theme - allowed writers to articulate and to develop further their 'craft' in specific ways. While scholars in recent years have turned once more to questions of literary form and technique, the kinds of writings considered in this collection - writings that were immensely popular in their own time - have not attracted the same amount of attention as more secular forms. The collection as a whole offers new insights for scholars interested in form, style, poetics, literary history and aesthetics, by considering sanctity first and foremost as literature
Author: Katie L. Walter
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Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108426611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
Author: Joseph Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1009182110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUncovering the medieval origin of England's North-South divide, Joseph Taylor examines the complex dynamics of regionalism and nationalism.
Author: Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108485669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.
Author: Christiania Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1108490352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.
Author: Jennifer A. Lorden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1009390287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJennifer Lorden reveals the importance of affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
