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Medieval Literature and Social Politics

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100034018X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literature and Social Politics written by Stephen Knight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism (CS 1099).

Medieval Literary Politics

Author : Sheila Delany
Publisher : Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literary Politics written by Sheila Delany and published by Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England

Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844478
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England written by Victoria Flood and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.

Fama

Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488573
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Fama written by Thelma S. Fenster and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.

Authoring the Past

Author : Jaume Aurell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226032345
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Authoring the Past written by Jaume Aurell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinonensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James I’s Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Crònica of Peter the Ceremonious—and outlines the different motivations for the writing of each. For Aurell, these chronicles are not mere archaeological artifacts but rather documents that speak to their writers’ specific contemporary social and political purposes. He argues that these Catalonian counts and Aragonese kings were attempting to use their role as authors to legitimize their monarchical status, their growing political and economic power, and their aggressive expansionist policies in the Mediterranean. By analyzing these texts alongside one another, Aurell demonstrates the shifting contexts in which chronicles were conceived, written, and read throughout the Middle Ages. The first study of its kind to make medieval Catalonian writings available to English-speaking audiences, Authoring the Past will be of interest to scholars of history and comparative literature, students of Hispanic and Romance medieval studies, and medievalists who study the chronicle tradition in other languages.

Medieval English Political Writings

Author : James M Dean
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444687
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Medieval English Political Writings written by James M Dean and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects poems and historical documents relevant to understanding the political climate of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Britain, many of which have been out of print for a century. This new edition, geared towards classroom use with its notes, introductions, gloss, and glossary, opens up the fascinating study of late medieval English history. This volume contains five sections: Poems of Political Prophecy; Anticlerical Poems and Documents; Literature of Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt; Poems against Simony and the Abuse of Money; and Plowman Writings-all tied together by a common attitude of satire and complaint, and a distrust of those who may abuse power. This volume would make an excellent source for a class on English satire or late medieval politics.

Medieval Things

Author : Bettina Bildhauer
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
ISBN 13 : 9780814214251
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Things written by Bettina Bildhauer and published by Interventions: New Studies Med. This book was released on 2020 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613592
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by : Elaine Treharne

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English written by Elaine Treharne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

The Politics of Ecology

Author : Randy P. Schiff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814212950
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Ecology written by Randy P. Schiff and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life in medieval Britain, whether animal or vegetable, was subject to the same legal machine that enabled claims on land, are we not ignoring the ecocritical demand that we counteract human exceptionalism and reframe the past with inhuman eyes? This volume, edited by Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, presents a diverse and stimulating group of interconnected essays that respond to these questions by infusing biopolitical material and theory into ecocentric studies of medieval life. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain pursues the political power of sovereign law as it disciplines and manages various forms of natural life, and discloses the literary biopolitics played out in texts that work out the fraught interactions of life and law, in all its forms. Contributors to this volume explore such issues as legal networks and death, Arthurian bare life, Chaucerian medical biopolitics, the biopolitics of fur, ecologies of sainthood, arboreal political theology, conservation and political ecology, and geographical melancholy. Bringing together both established and rising critical voices, The Politics of Ecology creates a place for cutting-edge medievalist ecocriticism focused on the intersections of land, life, and law in medieval English, French, and Latin literature.

Readings in Medieval Political Theory

Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204881
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Medieval Political Theory written by Cary J. Nederman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful collection of sources, now reprinted, which document and commentate on the formation of medieval political culture between the 12th and 14th centuries. Aimed at a non-specialist readership fifteen texts are presented in English translation and in chronological order supported by suggestions for further reading. These include letters and treatises by Bernard of Clairvaux, Marie de France, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, John of Paris, Dante Alighieri, William of Ockham, John Wyclif and Christine de Pizan.

Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media

Author : Andrew B. R. Elliott
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384463X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media by : Andrew B. R. Elliott

Download or read book Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media written by Andrew B. R. Elliott and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.

The King and Commoner Tradition

Author : Mark Truesdale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367593230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The King and Commoner Tradition written by Mark Truesdale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed study of the late medieval and early modern King and Commoner literature: a tradition whose cultural influence extends from Robin Hood to Shakespearean drama. This book explores the morphing political character of these tales of disguised kings and disgruntled, poaching commoners, amid carnivalesque feasts and anti-nob

Medieval Literature: The Basics

Author : Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317210638
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literature: The Basics written by Angela Jane Weisl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

A New History of Medieval French Literature

Author : Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403323
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Medieval French Literature written by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the time. Cerquiglini-Toulet challenges the standard ways of reading and evaluating literature, considering medieval literature not as separate from that in other eras but as part of the broader tradition of world literature. Her vast and learned readings of both canonical and lesser-known works pose crucial questions about, among other things, the notion of otherness, the meaning of change and stability, and the relationship of medieval literature with theology. Part history of literature, part theoretical criticism, this book reshapes the language and content of medieval works. By weaving together topics such as the origin of epic and lyric poetry, Latin-French bilingualism, women’s writing, grammar, authorship, and more, Cerquiglini-Toulet does nothing less than redefine both philosophical and literary approaches to medieval French literature. Her book is a history of the literary act, a history of words, a history of ideas and works—monuments rather than documents—that calls into question modern concepts of literature.

Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature

Author : Adrian P. Tudor
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057191
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature written by Adrian P. Tudor and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The works analyzed span genres—epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux—and historical periods from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages. Contributors examine the complexity of the notion of self through a wide range of lenses, from marginal characters to gender to questions of voice and naming. Studying a variety of texts—including Conte du Graal, Roman de la Rose, Huon de Bordeaux, and the Oxford Roland—they conceptualize the Other Within as an individual who simultaneously exists within a group while remaining foreign to it. They explore the complex interactions between and among individuals and groups, and demonstrate how identity can be imposed and self-imposed not only by characters but by authors and audiences. Taken together, these essays highlight the fluidity and complexity of identity in medieval French texts, and underscore both the richness of the literature and its engagement with questions that are at once more and less modern than they initially appear. Contributors: Adrian P. Tudor | Kristin L. Burr | William Burgwinkle | Jane Gilbert | Francis Gingras | Sara I. James | Douglas Kelly | Mary Jane Schenck | James R. Simpson | Jane H.M. Taylor

Lust for Liberty

Author : Samuel Kline COHN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029674
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Lust for Liberty written by Samuel Kline COHN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word liberty with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.

Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry

Author : David Aers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915557
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry written by David Aers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historicist readings of the politics and ethics exhibited in a range of medieval texts including Chaucer, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays. Critical historicist readings engage with the politics and ethics of selected medieval texts, addressing a wide range of literature and topics of enquiry: Langland, Chaucer, and the Pearl-poet, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays; chivalric cultures, their forms of identity and mourning; and the politics, ethics and theology of some of the most fascinating writing in late medieval England. Intended as a tribute to Professor Derek Pearsall, andreflecting his major contribution to medieval literary criticism, they are an important addition to the critical and historical study of the period.DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.